NSF Awarded $8.7 million for Sociological
Research and Education in 2006
The Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces
it awards for basic research support and dissertation improvement grants for
fiscal year 2006, which covers the period of October 2005-September 2006 (see list
below). The Program funded 46 new research projects (including three collaborations)
and 39 doctoral dissertation improvement grants. It also supported a workshop
and a travel grant that allowed ASA to defray travel costs for participants
in the 2006 World Congress of Sociology that took place in Durban, South Africa.
(See March 2006 Footnotes, for details on the 2005 NSF sociology grants.)
NSF is a significant source of funding for basic research in sociology. Of the
nearly $400 million received by the discipline’s researchers from both government
and non-government sources of research support, the federal government—
which includes NSF and other research agencies—provides nearly half,
according to national statistics on R&D expenditures. In addition to the NSF
support that sociologists receive for work in interdisciplinary research, science
and math education research, and special initiatives such as the multi-million-dollar
Human and Social Dynamics initiative (see January 2007 Footnotes), NSF
funding from the Sociology Program supports more narrowly focused sociological
research.
Included in the awards listed below are three CAREER awards (from the
Faculty Early Career Development Program), which is an NSF-wide activity that
offers NSF’s most prestigious awards for junior faculty members to encourage
them to practice, and academic institutions to value, the integration of research
and education. The awards provide five years of support, at a minimum award
amount of $400,000. Also, in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
the Sociology Program used the Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER)
funding option to support four projects that enabled investigators to get in the
field immediately to collect data. Overall, the Sociology Program and other NSF
programs and initiatives (as named in the list of grants below) jointly committed
more than $8 million to new sociology projects in 2006.
The Sociology Program holds two grant competitions annually (Regular
Research proposal deadlines are August 15 and January 15; Dissertation
Improvement proposal deadlines are October 15 and February 15) and is a major
source of sociological research funding as part of NSF’s mission to encourage
theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation
of fundamental social processes and structures. For information about sociology
funding opportunities at NSF contact the Program Officers: Patricia White
pwhite@nsf.gov, Paul Ciccantell pciccant@nsf.gov, and Kevin Gotham kgotham@nsf.gov.
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2006 Regular Grants
Babones, Salvatore, University of
Pittsburgh, Globalization and the World
Economy, $41,143.
Bashi, Vilna, Rugters University,
Strengthening Qualitative Research:
Determining Identity in International
Adoptions, $70,000.
Brint, Steven, University of California-
Riverside, Academic Organization in
American Higher Education, $80,532.
Cheshire, Coye, University of California-
Berkeley, Collaborative Research: Exchange
Network Transition: Uncertainty, Risk and
Shifts in Mode of Exchange, jointly funded
with Decision, Risk and Management
Sciences, $103,559.
Cohn, Ellen, Karen VanGundy &
Cesar Rebellon, University of New
Hampshire, Cognitive Developmental
Factors and Rule-violating Behavior: The
Role of Personal Attributes, Attitudes and
Peers, jointly funded with Law and Social
Sciences, $254,918.
Cook, Karen, Stanford University,
Collaborative Research: Exchange Network
Transition: Uncertainty, Risk and Shifts
in Modes of Transition, jointly funded
with Decision, Risk and Management
Sciences, $103,997.
Correll, Shelley, Cornell University,
Motherhood and Labor Market Outcomes,
$85,108.
Crenshaw, Edward, J. Craig Jenkins, Ohio State University, Ideology and
International Terrorism: Types of Terrorism
and Their Structural Determinants,
$112,102.
Curran, Sara, University of Washington,
Collaborative Research: Migration & Social
Dynamics; Unpacking the Black Box of
Cumulative Causation, $252,600.
Dinovitzer, Ronit, Joyce Sterling,
Robert Nelson & Bryant Garth, American Bar Foundation, After the JD:
Legal Careers in Transition, jointly funded
with Law and Social Sciences, $355,341.
Dobbin, Frank, Harvard University,
Equal Opportunity Innovations at Work:
Mechanisms for Reducing Job Segregation,
jointly funded with Innovation and
Organizational Change, and Law and
Social Sciences, $366,863.
Donato, Katherine & Melissa
Marschall, Vanderbilt University,
Immigrant Parent Involvement in Schools,
Communities and Politics, $300,898.
Faulkner, Robert & Howard Becker,University of Massachusetts-Amherst,
Repertoire in Action among Musicians,
$115,000.
Firebaugh, Glenn, Pennsylvania State
University-University Park, How Much
Satisfaction Does Income Buy? Cross-
Country Comparisons, $60,271.
Fitch, Catherine, Steven Ruggles, & J. Michael Oakes, University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities, Marriage and
Economic Opportunity in the United States,
$158,707.
Gerstel, Naomi & Dan Clawson,University of Massachusetts-Amherst,
Explaining Job Hours and Schedules:
Individual, Familial and Organizational
Processes in Four Health Care Occupations,
$195,000.
Galaskiewicz, Joseph, University of
Arizona, Organizational Demography of
Youth Service Providers, $66,466.
Hagan, John, Holly Foster, American
Bar Foundation, Parental Incarceration and
Intergenerational Social Exclusion, jointly
funded with Law and Social Sciences,
$292,928.
Hillmann, Henning, Stanford University,
Commerce and Crime: States, Property Rights,
and the War on Trade, 1700-1815, $118,209.
Inglehart, Ronald, Jon Miller, University
of Michigan, The Human Component of Social
Change, jointly funded with Science and
Society, $198,900.
Kohn, Melvin, Johns Hopkins University,
Social Structure and Personality during the
Transformation of Urban China, $200,000.
Leicht, Kevin, University of Iowa, State
Investments in Successful Transitions to
Adulthood, $127,819.
Maume, David & Sarah Estes, University
of Cincinnati, Nonstandard Schedules, Work
and Family Life, $194,990.
Massey, Douglas, Princeton University,
Collaborative Research: Migration & Social
Dynamics; Unpacking the Black Box of
Cumulative Causation, $47,400.
Maynard, Douglas, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Recruiting Respondents
to the Survey Interview, jointly funded with
Methodology, Measurement and Statistics,
$360,000.
McCarthy, John, Pennsylvania State
University-University Park, Understanding
the Likelihood of Occurrence and Dynamics
of Campus Community Public Order
Disturbances, $100,243.
Misra, Joya & Michelle Budig, University
of Massachusetts-Amherst, The Cross-
National Effects of Work-Family Policies on the
Wage Penalty for Motherhood, $95,000.
Molotch, Harvey, New York University,
Strategic Observers in the City: How They See
and What They Do, $150,000.
Moore, Kesha, Drew University,
Research Planning Grant:
Urban Neighborhood
Development and
Community Well-being,
$44,964.
Obach, Brian, SUNY
New Paltz, Research
in Undergraduate
Institutions (RUI):
Coalition Dynamics and
Strategic Innovation in
the Organic Movement,
$85,000.
Olzak, Susan, Stanford
University, Collaborative Research
on Advocacy Group Activity and Legislative
Change Concerning the Environment,
$164,053.
Orum, Anthony & Maritsa Poros, University of Illinois-Chicago, Immigrant
Communities: A Study of Their Formation and
Influence, $338,170.
Paxton, Pamela, The Ohio State University,
How Women Attain Political Power:
Understanding Women’s Representation in
Parliaments, 1893-2003, $115,000.
Raymo, James & Robert Hauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Life
Course Trajectories and the Retirement
Process, $150,004.
Simpson, Brent & Barry Markovsky, University of South Carolina, Power and
Perception in Networks, jointly funded
with the Experimental Program to
Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR),
$228,440.
Spalter-Roth, Roberta, American
Sociological Association, What Can I Do
with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology? Phase
II, $79,200.
Soule, Sarah, Cornell University,
Collaborative Research on Advocacy Group
Activity and Legislative Change Concerning
the Environment, $180,000.
Stark, David & Balazs Vedres, Columbia
University, Network Dynamics in an
Emerging Democracy, jointly funded with
the Office of International Science and
Engineering, $189,346.
Stets, Jan, University of California-
Riverside, Advancing Identity Control
Theory, $179,798.
Swain, Carol, Vanderbilt University,
Small Grant for Exploratory Research
(SGER): Exploring Citizen Reactions to
Immigration, jointly funded with Political
Science, $30,661.
Treiman, Donald, William Mason &
Shige Song, University of California-Los
Angeles, Internal Migration in China: Data
Collection and Analysis, jointly funded
with Methodology, Measurement and
Statistics, and Geography and Regional
Studies, $238,249.
Yamaguchi, Kazuo, National Opinion
Research Center, Multi-level Risk-interdependence
Models for Competing Events
and their Applications to Social and
Demographic Research, jointly funded
with Methodology, Measurement and
Statistics, $170,000.
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2006 CAREER Awards
Earl, Jennifer, University of California-
Santa Barbara, CAREER: The Internet,
Activism and Social Movements,
jointly funded with Science and Society,
$404,999.
Owen-Smith, Jason, University of
Michigan, CAREER: The Emergence
and Ramifications of the United States
Knowledge Economy, jointly funded with
Science and Society, and Innovation and
Organizational Change, $402,004.
Pager, Devah, Princeton University,
CAREER: Toward Improving the
Conceptualization and Measurement of
Discrimination, jointly funded with
Law and Social Sciences,
and Methodology,
Measurement and
Statistics, $400,103.
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2006 Hurricane SGER
Grants
Weil, Frederick,Edward Shihadeh
& Matthew Lee,
Louisiana State
University, A&M, Small
Grant for Exploratory
Research: The Social
Fabric Under Stress: Baton
Rouge’s Explosive Growth after
Hurricane Katrina, jointly supported
by the Division of Social and Economic
Sciences, $59,942.
Beggs, John, Jeanne Hurlbert, Wesley
Shrum, Valerie Haines & Susan
Dumais, Louisiana State University,
A&M, Small Grant for Exploratory
Research: Social Networks and Displacement
After Hurricane Katrina, jointly supported
by the Division of Social and Economic
Sciences, $162,302.
Johnson, James H, Jr., University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Small
Grant for Exploratory Research: Tracking
Migratory Behavior of Hurricane Katrina
Evacuees, Phase I: Sample Identification,
Data Collection & Analysis, jointly supported
by the Division of Social and
Economic Sciences, $93,080.
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Group Travel
Hillsman, Sally, American Sociological
Association, Group Travel for U.S.
Participants in the XVI World Congress of
Sociology, Durban, South Africa, jointly
funded with the Office of International
Science and Engineering, $69,500.
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Workshop Grants
Cozzens, Susan, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Workshop: Social Organization of
Science and Science Policy, $67,699
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Dissertation Grants
Angel, Ronald & Javier Pereira Bruno,
University of Texas-Austin, A Cross-
National Comparison of Non-Governmental
Organizations, $6,296.
Arrighi, Giovanni & Jake Lowinger, Johns
Hopkins University, A Sociological Analysis
of Labor Unrest, Natural Dissolution, and
Civil War, $7,500.
Blee, Kathleen & Ashley Currier, University of Pittsburgh, The Visibility of
Minority Movement Organizations in South
Africa and Namibia, $7,500.
Breiger, Ronald & Tiffiny McKeon, University of Arizona, A Sociological
Analysis of Affect and Language Use in Ethnic
Subcultures, $7,098.
Conrad, Peter & Betina Freidin, Brandeis
University, A Sociological Analysis of
Unconventional Forms of Healing in
Argentina, $7,500.
DiMaggio, Paul & Nicole Esparza,Princeton University, A Sociological Analysis
of Organizational Competition and Survival
among Homeless, $2,785.
Elliot, James & Jeannie Haubert, Tulane
University, Discrimination in the Rental
Market: A Focus on Latinos, $7,500.
Goodwin, Jeffrey & Mikaila Arthur, New
York University, A Sociological Analysis
of Competing Explanations for Curricular
Change, $6,170.
Guillot, Michel & Keera Allendorf, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Family
Relationships, Decision Making, and Health
Care Use, $6,635.
Jencks, Christopher & Elisabeth Jacobs, Harvard University, The Perception and
Management of Family Economic Risk, $7,500.
Kenworthy, Lane & Keith Bentele, University of Arizona, Income Inequality in
the United States: Determinants, Trends and
Paths, $6,770.
Kimeldorf, Howard & David Dobbie, University of Michigan, A Sociological
Analysis of Labor-Community Coalitions,
$7,500.
Klingman, Gail & Rene Almeling, University of California-Los Angeles, The
Development of the Medical Market in Genetic
Material: A Historical and Contemporary
Analysis, $7,500.
Knoke, David & Xinxiang Chen, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, State
Intervention, Interfirm Relations and Firm
Performance, $7,500.
Korzeniewicz, Roberto & Natasha
Sacouman, University of Maryland-
College Park, The Impact of Associational
Structure on Democratization in Poor
Communities, $5,430.
Larson, Ulla & Megan Klein, University
of Maryland-College Park, A Sociological
Analysis of Trust, Commitment, and Health
Risk Among Young Adults, $7,500.
Lee, Jennifer & Jody Agius, University
of California-Irvine, Immigration and
Trajectories to the Middle Class, $7,040.
Macy, Michael & Ko Kuwabara, Cornell
University, Uncertainty, Reputation
Effects and Relational Formation, $7,190.
McGammon, Holly & Teresa Terrell, Vanderbilt University, Community
Participation in Neighborhood
Organizations: An Investigation of
Local Participation in Two Inner City
Neighborhoods, $7,500.
Nee, Victor & John Scott, Cornell
University, Cooperation and Collusion: The
Ambiguous Role of Lobbying in America,
$7,448.
Persell, Caroline & Kathryn Pfeiffer,New York University, Intergenerational
Wealth and Educational Resources, $2,503.
Potter, Joseph & Sara Yeatman,University of Texas-Austin, Childbearing
Preferences in Times of Crisis: Economic
and Sociocultural Processes and
Explanations, $7,495.
Reskin, Barbara & Elizabeth
Hirsh, University of Washington,
Organizational Response to Discrimination
Charges, $6,269.
Roscigno, Vincent & Lisa Garoutte, The
Ohio State University, Lynching in the
U.S. South: Incorporating the Historical
Record on Race, Class, and Gender, $6,850.
Roth, Louise & Samantha Kwan, University of Arizona, Family Obesity:
Cultural Consumers, Researchers, Activists,
and Industry Frames, $7,500.
Rothman, Barbara Katz & Tracy Chu, CUNY Graduate School, Mental Health
and Well-being among Refugees, $7,500.
Schneider, Barbara & Elizabeth
McGhee Hassrick, University of
Chicago, The Invisible Hand: Parent
Accountability Pressures in Urban Schools,
$7,500.
Simpson, Brent & Susan Sutphin, University of South Carolina, The Role of
Self-evaluations in Legitimizing Inequality,
$6,300.
Soule, Sarah & Jeff Larson, University
of Arizona, Institutional Environments
and Forms of Institutional Challenges,
$7,500.
Treas, Judith & Christin Hilgeman, University of California-Irvine, Work
Hour Regulations and Family Policies in
Cross-national Perspective, $7,500.
Weakliem, David & Casey Borch, University of Connecticut, Whose
Opinion Counts? An Analysis of the
Opinion–Policy Linkage in the United
States, $4,672.
Western, Bruce & Jake Rosenfeld, Princeton University, Social and Political
Consequences of Union Decline, $2,691.
Wiley, David & Kimberly Perez, Michigan State University,
Decentralization and Representation in
Nigerian Local Government, $7,425.
Wright, Erik O. & Amy Lang, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Agenda Setting and Framing in Citizen
Deliberation, $7,440.
