The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce 32 awards made in the third round of its Dissertation Research Grants program. Six grants are co-funded with the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and five grants are co-funded with The Policy Academies. This initiative supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas. Applicants can request up to $10,000 in funding. Following is a list of the grant recipients. Please click on each one for a brief description of the research project.
Diva Astinova (New York University) will investigate how the impacts of graduating from university during a recession differ by gender.
Viktor Andre Bensus Talavera (Graduate Center, City University of New York) will examine the role of zoning in reproducing socioeconomic and racial inequalities.
Nicole Cochran (Temple University) will compare the experiences of working class and/or non-white and middle-to-upper class white workers for multi-level marketing companies.
Xavier Durham (University of California, Berkeley) will explore the experiences of formerly incarcerated employees of the quasi-policing organization Urban Alchemy. – This grant is co-funded by The Policy Academies.
Emma Flanagan (University of Wisconsin, Madison) will investigate how grocery store employees make decisions about administering SNAP and WIC benefits.
Anna Fox (University of Chicago) will examine how experiences with gender-based violence by police officers affects civilian relationships with the police.
Hannah Friedrich (University of Arizona) will document disparities in housing recovery outcomes and causes of differential recovery in Calcasieu Parish in southwest Louisiana.
Jack Garigliano (Northwestern University) will examine the relationship between a person’s confidence in their ability to improve their working conditions and their political efficacy and engagement.
Natalia Gonzalez (University of California, Irvine) will explore farmworker identity and identity formation. – This grant is co-funded by The Policy Academies.
Adrian Haws (Cornell University) will compare immigrants’ skills and occupations in their origin country with their post-migration outcomes. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Reyna Hernandez (University of Chicago) will explore the experiences of exonerees as they access reentry resources and reparations after wrongful conviction. – This grant is co-funded by The Policy Academies.
Samantha Kane (Harvard University) will examine the impact of state abortion bans on where prospective female college students choose to apply to college.
Aja Kennedy (Tufts University) will examine the impact of density bonuses and development subsidies on housing supply in Massachusetts. – This grant is co-funded by The Policy Academies.
Tom Lindman (University of Washington, Seattle) will examine the impact of paid family leave on parental wellbeing and the relationship between paid family leave with job quality. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Lizhong Liu (University of Southern California) will examine the effects of HOPE VI Revitalization programs on housing markets and neighborhood demographics.
Kyutaro Matsuzawa (University of Oregon) will examine the impact of the LAPD’s ban of pretextual stops on policing behavior and public welfare.
Clara Mejia Orta (Yale University) will examine how Latinx, immigrant, and refugee meatpacking workers construct community in and outside of meatpacking plants. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Ángel Mendiola Ross (University of California, Berkeley) will examine the relationship between prison location and the persistence of racial and economic inequality.
Jessica Min (Princeton University) will investigate how firms adjust their hiring practices in response to increasing health insurance premiums.
Aleksei Opacic (Harvard University) will estimate the impact of college major choice on adult earnings.
Grace Ortuzar (University of Notre Dame) will examine the impact of an eviction filing record on credit access, homelessness, and other forms of housing insecurity.
Steve Ramos (University of California, Berkeley) will examine how Parent PLUS loan access impacts parent borrowers and their child.
Jozef Robles (University of California, Irvine) will explore how former undocumented or liminal legal status continue to shape an individual’s behavior once they have obtained legal status.
Katharine Sadowski (Cornell University) will examine how the childcare workforce has evolved and how changes in compensation impacts worker wellbeing and the accessibility of quality childcare. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Mari Sanchez (Harvard University) will examine how non-white meta-categories, such as “people of color,” have become increasingly challenged and revised in the U.S. and the U.K.
DeAnna Smith (University of Michigan) will examine the consequences of family-focused reentry practices. – This grant is co-funded by The Policy Academies.
Jiaming Soh (University of Michigan) will investigate the impact of government contracts on the growth of small businesses and minority entrepreneurs over time. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Elena van Stee (University of Pennsylvania) will examine how college graduates and their parents understand and negotiate financial dependence and independence.
Micah Villarreal (University of California, Santa Barbara) will examine the impact of oil discovery on socioeconomic outcomes for Creek Freedman landowners in Oklahoma and their descendants.
Chas Walker (Boston University) will investigate the emergence of the public sector union upsurge of the 1960s. – This grant is co-funded by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Siyue Wang (University of California, Los Angeles) will explore the experiences of undocumented Asian college students.
Victoria Wang (University of California, Los Angeles) will investigate whether and to what extent people are moving after experiencing wildfires in California.