The Russell Sage Foundation, in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has given several sociologists awards as part of the Pipeline Grants Competition. The RSF-Gates Pipeline Grants initiative is designed to support early- and mid-career tenure-track scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences and to promote diversity broadly, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity:
- Daniel Auguste, Florida Atlantic University, will examine the consequences of student debt burden for business ownership and success and how such consequences vary by race.
- Tomeka Davis, Georgia State University, will examine the arc of high-achieving Black and Latinx students from high school through college and into early adulthood.
- Jelani Ince, University of Washington, and Fabio Rojas, Indiana University-Bloomington, will explore how Black Lives Matter protests helped shift public discourse toward the movement’s agenda and reframed how people understand systemic, racialized police violence.
- Anne-Kathrin Kronberg, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, will examine how policies and features of digital platforms affect inclusion among online content creators.
- Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois-Chicago, will examine evictions from subsidized housing programs in Chicago, the role of carceral policies and practices in evictions, and how tenants and legal aid organizations resist these forces.
- Yader Lanuza, University of California-Santa Barbara, will examine how social class and immigration status interact to influence undocumented students’ transition from high school to college.
- Tony Cheng, University of California-Irvine, and Shelley Liu, University of California-Berkeley, will examine how online media shapes polarized attitudes toward the police.
- Francis Prior and Steven Farough, from Assumption University, will examine how debt among formerly incarcerated fathers affects both their broader economic lives and their identification with the social roles of fatherhood.
- Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California, will explore how social disasters such as COVID-19 reshape how Black and Brown student activists mobilize and perceive the possibilities of systemic change in unsettling times.
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University, delivered the keynote remarks at the 38th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation organized by the University of California-Santa Cruz on February 23, 2022.
RAND posted a short video of Chloe Bird’s work in which she talks about the positive ROI of increasing funding for research on women’s health: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Women’s Health Research.
Bridget Goosby, University of Texas-Austin, was elected a lifetime Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her distinguished contributions to the scientific study of the effects of racism, discrimination, marginalization, and inequities on mental and physical health and physiological risks.
