2015 GRANT RECIPIENTS
For Applications Received in 2014
Shifting Tides: Examining Changing Oceans Governance in Bermuda and the Sargasso Sea
Leslie Acton
Duke University
Department of Marine Science and Conservation
The Economic and Behavioral Effects of a Value-Added Tax (VAT): Evidence from French Firm-level Data
Bibek Adhikari
Tulane University
Department of Economics
How Green Became Good: Urban Greening as Social Improvement in Germany’s Ruhr Valley
Hillary Angelo
New York University
Department of Sociology
History, Memory and Resistance in Northeastern Nigeria: The Transformation of Boko Haram since 1995
Athanasius Atta Barkindo
University of London
School of Oriental and African Studies
Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets and the Production of Racial Inequality
Raphaël Charron-Chénier
Duke University
Department of Sociology
Constraining Government Regulatory Authority: Transnational Tobacco Companies Usage of Trade Agreements to Undermine Cigarette Package Health Warning Labels
Special Recognition: John L. Stanley Award
Eric Crosbie
University of California – Santa Cruz
Department of Politics
Police and the Citizen-State Relationship: Accountability Mechanisms, Democratic Control, and Equal Access to Law in the United States
Special Recognition: Donald R. Cressey Award
Laurel Eckhouse
University of California – Berkeley
Department of Political Science
Integration beyond Numbers: Getting Along and Working Together in a Multiethnic Neighborhood
Denia Garcia
Princeton University
Department of Sociology
Conceptualizing “Productive Use”: Dominant Narratives and Alternative Visions of Land Use in Detroit
Catherine Gillis
Loyola University Chicago
Department of Sociology
The Spatial Dynamics of Vigilante Violence in South African Townships
Mark Gross
University of Maryland – College Park
Department of Sociology
Laboratories of Inequality: The Politics of Economic Development Subsidies and the Distribution of Resources in America
Special Recognition: Robert K. Merton Award
Joshua Jansa
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Political Science
Development Projects, Relative Deprivation, and Insurgent Violence: The Cases of Peru (1980-1992), Colombia (1964-Present), Iraq (2003-2011), and Afghanistan (2001-2011)
Special Recognition Harold D. Lasswell Award
Barnett Koven
The George Washington University
Department of Political Science
“Ebola is the Only Work in Sierra Leone Right now”: An Ethnographic Study of Informal Work, Care, and Family Life in Freetown.
Jonah Lipton
London School of Economics
Department of Anthropology
If You Build It, Will They Export? A Framework for the Allocation of Welfare-maximizing Domestic Transport Infrastructure
Bárbara Oliveira Ramos
Tufts University
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Behind Closed Doors: Inequality, Diversity, and the Rise of Occupational Licensure
Beth Red Bird
Stanford University
Department of Sociology
Going Underground: Tax Credit Housing, Financial Innovation and the Politics of Stealth in Targeted Social Policy
Special Recognition: Irving Louis Horowitz Award
John Robinson
Northwestern University
Department of Sociology
Stemming the Gap: The Puzzle of Missing Female Scientists and Engineers
Special Recognition: Martinus Nijhoff Award
Ying Shi
Duke University
Sanford School of Public Policy
The Effect of Health Information Technology on Hospital Efficiency and Quality of Care
Special Recognition: Eli Ginzberg Award
Ruirui Sun
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Department of Economics
Digital Media Activism and the Movement for Democracy in Hong Kong
Special Recognition Joshua Feigenbaum Award
Tin-Yuet Ting
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Sociology
287(g) Local Immigration Enforcement Policy and Health of Mexican Immigrant Families in the US
Julia Shu-Huah Wang
Columbia University
School of Social work