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The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy aims to support emerging scholars in the social sciences through small grants for their doctoral research. Meet the Foundation Mary Curtis Horowitz & Dr. Irving Louis Horowitz, Founders The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy was established in 1997 by Irving Louis Horowitz and Mary Curtis Horowitz and has been funded by contributions from them since its inception. The Foundation received approval as a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization in 1998. The Foundation's general purpose is to support the advancement of research and understanding in the major fields of the social sciences. Its specific purpose is to provide small grants to aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project. The idea for the Foundation emerged from Irving Louis Horowitz’s experience working with doctoral students. He found that many faced financial barriers to completing their research. Dr. Horowitz initially provided assistance to these scholars personally, and later through Transaction Publishers’ Grants-in-Publication Program. After the termination of that program, the foundation was established in 1997. The first grants were issued in 1999. Dr. Irving Louis Horowitz, 1968 Board of Trustees Dedication. Expertise. Passion. Irving Louis Horowitz (1929–2012) Founding Chairman Rutgers University Mary Curtis Horowitz Trustee Transaction Publishers (President, 1997-2017) Ayse Akincigil Chairman Rutgers University Ray C. Rist, Vice Chairman The World Bank Richard L. Edwards Trustee Emeritus Rutgers University Hans-Martin Boehmer - Duke University Jonathan D. Breul - Georgetown University Michal Grinstein-Weiss - Washington University in St. Louis Mary M. McKay - Washington University in St. Louis Peter Moskos - John Jay College of New Jersey Nandini Ramanujam - McGill University William M. Rodgers III - Rutgers University Maggie Schneiderman - National Geographic Society William Strong - Kotin Crabtree & Strong Jos Vaessen - Inter-American Development Bank Ryan Watkins - George Washington University Allison Zippay - Rutgers University Aim and Mission To support emerging scholars through small grants; To promote scholarship with a social policy application; and To encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences. Grants Grants are based solely on merit. Each is worth a total of $10,000; $7,500 is awarded initially and $2,500 upon completion of the project. For grant recipients to be entitled to their second installment, they must show evidence of one of the following: Acceptance and approval of their dissertation; Acceptance of an article based on the research by a peer-reviewed journal; or Invitation to write and publish a book chapter based on the research. Grants are non-renewable and recipients have five years from announcement of the award to complete their project and claim their final payment. Eligibility Eligibility Beginning in 2023 you CANNOT apply more than once. If you have applied before 2023 and want to apply again, you are still eligible. Applicants must be current PhD (or DrPH) candidates who are working on their dissertation; Applicants must not have a PhD; those who do, are ineligible; Applicants must have defended their dissertation proposal or had their topic approved by their department; Applicants can be from any country and any university in the world. US citizenship or residency is not required. Criteria Criteria The foundation supports projects with a social policy application on either a global or local level. Applications are evaluated based on the Trustees’ assessment of criteria such as: feasibility, applicability, originality, methodology, theoretically informed or empirically rich research, and recommendation forms. No specific weight is given to any one area. Proposals are evaluated based on overall merit of all aspects of the application. We encourage applicants to look at the kind of projects we have supported in previous years. See Previous Recipients. Conditions Conditions Awards are made to individuals, not institutions. If processed through an institution, a waiver for overhead is required. Recipients are expected to acknowledge assistance provided by the foundation in any publication resulting from their research and should notify the Foundation with publication details. Grants are issued immediately on receipt of an acceptance letter from the recipient. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure the grant does not conflict with other funding they have secured. Grants are usually administered in June of the year they are decided. Grant recipients will be publicized on the foundation's website, in appropriate professional media, and a press release to university media offices. Special Awards Special Awards Each year, the Trustees issue special monetary awards for the two most outstanding projects. These awards cannot be applied for directly, and are only granted at the discretion of the Trustees. Irving Louis Horowitz Award Overall most outstanding project This award carries with it an additional $5,000. Trustees' Award For the most innovative approach in theory and/or methodology This award carries with it an additional $3,000.

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Mary Curtis Horowitz 732-445-2280 For immediate release HOROWITZ FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANTS TO 25 SCHOLARS FOR SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH July 1, 2020, New Brunswick, NJ –The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy has selected twenty-five scholars to receive grants for research in the social sciences for the 2019 award year. Those receiving awards, their research topics, and the institutions with which they are affiliated are listed at the end of this announcement. “This year we received 965 applications, the largest number in our history,” said Mary E. Curtis. “The twenty-five applicants who are receiving awards this year represent less than 3 percent of those who applied. The Trustees consider their work on topics of social and political importance to be vibrant examples of how policy research can help us address the challenges of today’s complex society.” About the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Established in 1998, the Horowitz Foundation now approves approximately twenty-five grants each year. Awards are for $7,500; proposals in certain targeted areas receive additional amounts. In addition, the Irving Louis Horowitz Award is given to the overall most outstanding project proposal, and the Trustee’s Award is given to the project proposal that is deemed most innovative in theory and/or methodology. Awards are granted for policy-related research in all major areas of the social sciences. Only doctoral students whose dissertation proposals have been approved by their committees are eligible to apply. Awards are approved solely on merit, and are not allocated so as to ensure a representative base of disciplines. Research grants are open to researchers in all social science disciplines. Projects must deal with contemporary issues in the social sciences, particularly issues of policy relevance. Applicants need not be citizens of the United States, and grants are not restricted to U.S. residents. . Applications for 2020 Awards The Foundation will begin accepting applications for 2020 awards later this month. The deadline for receipt of all materials for proposals for the year 2020 is December 1, 2020. Incomplete applications will not be processed. Awards for 2020 will be announced in June, 2021. Additional information, including a list of previous recipients, is available on the Horowitz Foundation website . 2019 Horowitz Foundation Award Winners (Alphabetical order) David J. Amaral, University of California, Santa Cruz Threatening Local Democracy: the political consequences of urban violence Michele Cadigan, University of Washington Cannabis-Infused Dreams: A Market at the Crossroads between Criminal and Conventional Christina Nefeli Caramanis, The University of Texas at Austin Income, Policy, and Stable Center-Based Childcare: Towards Reducing the Achievement Gap Andreas de Barros, Harvard University Martinus Nijhoff Award Establishment-Level ICE Raids: Causes and Consequences Daniel Driscoll, University of California San Diego A Comparative Analysis of Carbon Price Enactment Benjamin Elbers, Columbia University John L. Stanley Award Understanding changing racial school segregation in the U.S. Natalia Emanuel, Harvard University Smudges: Criminal Records and Employment in the US Michael Evangelist, University of Michigan Crime and Punishment in the Welfare State: How Political, Economic, and Social Factors Condition the Administration of Penalties for Program Violations Shannon Malone Gonzalez, The University of Texas at Austin In Her Place: Black Women Redefining and Resisting Police Violence Hunter Johnson, Claremont Graduate University Does the Presence of Female and Minority Police Reduce the Use of Force? Navin Kumar, Yale University Social interactions and treatment outcomes from medication assisted treatment in opioid addiction Joe LaBriola, University of California, Berkeley Local Housing Policy and Wealth Inequality Sadé Lindsay, The Ohio State University Effects of Contradictory Signals on Post-Prison Labor Market Outcomes Tim McDonald, Pardee RAND Graduate School Developing and Testing a Consumer-Driven Approach to Changing Incentives in American Healthcare Molly Merrill-Francis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Impact of State Minimum Wage Laws on Fatal Occupational Injury Brittany Paige Mihalec-Adkins, Purdue University Explaining Variation in Legal Outcomes and Well-Being Trajectories for Child Welfare-Involved Families in the Era of the Adoption and Safe Families Act Stephanie Casey Pierce, The Ohio State University Locked Out and Locked Up? Investigating the Relationship Between Eviction and Incarceration Daniel Prinz, Harvard University Robert K. Merton Award The Multiethnic Suburb: New Ground for Racial Residential Integration in the United States Owen Schochet, Georgetown University Unpacking the causal effects of two-generation early intervention services on the outcomes of low-income children and their families Jessica C. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University Assessing School Safety in the Age of Threat Assessment: A Policy Study Noémie Sportiche, Harvard University Eli Ginzberg Award Does Economic Growth Benefit All? The Health Consequences of Being Poor in a Booming City Economy Arielle W. Tolman, Northwestern University Donald R. Cressey Award Criminal Prosecution of Prisoners with Mental Illness Matthew Unrath, University of California, Berkeley Trustees’ Award Can Nudges Increase Take-up of the Earned Income Tax Credit?: Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments Fabricio Vasselai, University of Michigan Irving Louis Howard Award and Joshua Feigenbaum Award Elections in the AI era: using Machine Learning and Multi-Agent Systems to detect and study menaces to election integrity Chagai M. Weiss, University of Wisconsin – Madison Reducing Prejudice through State Institutions Mary Curtis Horowitz, Chairman Irving Louis Horowitz, Chairman Emeritus Post Office Box 7 Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 08553-0007 www.horowitz-foundation.org

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. 2014 All Previous Recipients 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

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy administers grants to PhD students in the social sciences who are at the dissertation stage. The Horowitz Foundation supports policy research by emerging scholars whose work addresses contemporary issues in the social sciences. The Horowitz Foundation was established in 1997 and its first grants were issued in 1999. Since then it has made 382 awards to students at institutions around the world. About us 2024 Award Recipients 1/1 Join to receive email updates on awards! 2024 Awards Announced For applications submitted in December 2023 Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy See us at APPAM this Fall See us at APPAM this Fall

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. All Previous Recipients 2019 GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. 2011 All Previous Recipients 2012 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2011 Between a Rock and a Gas Place: How Regulatory Policy for Emerging Technologies Is Shaped in the Context of Scientific Uncertainty Special Recognition: Martinus Nijhoff Award David Ciplet Brown University Department of Sociology Cultured Fish and Contested Space: Exploring the Construction of Emerging US Aquaculture Processes Luke Fairbanks Duke University Duke Marine Lab Do Immigrant Outflows Lead to Native Inflows? An Empirical Analysis of the Migratory Responses to U.S. State Immigration Legislation Michael Good Florida International University Department of Economics The Emergence of “Ethical Capitalism” in Contemporary China: The Globalization of Corporate Social Responsibility and Its Social and Economic Policy Impacts Special Recognition: John H. Stanley Award Andrew Chin-Woo Hao University of California, Berkeley Re-control the Market for Strategic Power: China’s Reregulation of Its Rare Earth Industry Yujia He Georgia Institute of Technology Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Post-Authoritarian Political Monitoring in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: Investigating Information Activist Networks in the European Neighborhood Special Recognition: Harold D. Laswell Award Muzammil M. Hussain University of Washington, Seattle Examining Chronic and Transient Poverty Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure Sara E. Kimberlin University of California, Berkeley Privatizing the Golden Years: How American Unions Made Pensions More Risky, 1945-2000 Special Recognition: Robert K. Merton Award Michael Alexander McCarthy New York University Sociology Department Elite Exchanges: The Cultural Politics of Chinese Business in Nigeria Umoloyouvwe Ejiroghene Ovbije Onomake University of Sussex School of Global Studies-Pigeon Holes Precarious Work and the New Economy: An Experimental Approach David S. Pedulla Princeton University Department of Sociology Marijuana in Northern California: Law, Economy and Medicine in a Shifting Policy Environment Special Recognition: Donald R. Cressey Award Michael Polson Graduate Center, City University of New York Restricted Access? Interest Group Participation in Bureaucratic Decisionmaking Rachel Augustine Potter University of Michigan Public Policy and Political Science Crescent, Cross, and Culture: How Politics Shapes Racial and Religious Identity Patrick L. Schoettmer University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science Bluefin Rules: Postcards from the Regulatory and Discursive Fields of Marine Conservation Jennifer Elizabeth Telesca New York University Department of Media The Rise of Public Sector Unionization and its Effect on Organized Labor’s Political Activities in the United States Alexis Nicole Walker Cornell University Department of Government

Apply RECIPIENT PUBLICATIONS Supported by Horowitz Foundation Grants 20 15 Recipients Koebele, Elizabeth A., "Cross-Coalition Coordination in Collaborative Environmental Governance Processes," Policy Studies Journal, (2019). Grant recipient for "Collaborative Water Governance in the Colorado River Basin: Understanding Coalition Dynamics and Processes of Policy Change." Niker, Fay, Forthcoming Chapter in Putting Virtue into Practice: Theoretical and Practical insights, Routledge. Grant recipient for "Transformative Nudging: A Framework for Designing Policy Ecologies that Support Living Well." 20 13 Recipients Leeuw, H.B.M, Big Data and Evaluation: A Case Study on Digital Piracy, the Copyright Alert System and Big Data , Piscataway, New Jersey, Transaction Publishers 2016. Grant recipient for "Big Data and Digital Piracy: Evaluating the graduated response." Cantor, Alida, "The public trust doctrine and critical legal geographies of water in California, Geoforum , Vol 72, June 2016 49-57. Grant recipient for "Dust storms and dying lakes: Wastefulness, beneficial use, and water transfers in California." Reisenbichler, Alexander “A Rocky Path to Homeownership: Why Germany Eliminated Large-Scale Subsidies for Homeowners.” Cityscape vol. 18 no. 2 (November 2016). Grant recipient for "Safe as Houses: What Explains Government Involvement in Housing Markets in the U.S. and Europe?" 20 12 Recipients Fisher, Michael P., “PTSD in the U.S. Military, and the Politics of Prevalence,” Social Science & Medicine 115 (2014) 1-9. Grant recipient for “Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in the 21st Century: Social Action in the Name of Diagnosis and Disability Compensation." Mackey, Tim, “Global Health Diplomacy and the Governance of Counterfeit Medicines: A Mapping Exercise of Institutional Approaches” Journal of Health Diplomacy, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2013). Grant Recipient for “Pharmaceutical e-Marketing: Illicit Actors and Challenges to Global Patient Safety and Public Health." 20 11 Recipients Ciplet, David, et al., Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2015 (forthcoming), 332 pp. Grant recipient for “Between a Rock and a Gas Place: How Regulatory Policy for Emerging Technologies is Shaped in the Context of Scientific Uncertainty." Good, Michael, “Do Immigrant Outflows Lead to Native Inflows? An Empirical Analysis of the Migratory Responses to US State Immigration Legislation,” Applied Economics, Volume 45, Number 30. pp. 4275–4297. Grant recipient for “Do Immigrant Outflows Lead to Native Inflows? An Empirical Analysis of the Migratory Responses to U.S. State Immigration Legislation." Hussain, Muzammil M., State Power 2.0: Authoritarian Entrenchment and Political Engagement Worldwide. Grant recipient for “Post-Authoritarian Political Monitoring in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: Investigating Information Activist Networks in the European Neighborhood." McCarthy, Michael, “Turning Labor into Capital: Pension Funds and the Corporate Control of Finance,” Politics & Society, Volume 42, No. 4 (2014). Grant Recipient for “Privatizing the Golden Years: How American Unions Made Pensions More Risky, 1945-2000." McCarthy, Michael, “Political Mediation and American Old-Age Security Exceptionalism,” Work and Occupations , Volume 41, No. 2 (2013). Grant Recipient for “Privatizing the Golden Years: How American Unions Made Pensions More Risky, 1945-2000” (2011). Pedulla, David, "Penalized or Protected? Gender and the Consequences of Nonstandard and Mismatched Employment Histories," American Sociological Review, Volume 81, No. 2 (2016). Grant Recipient for "Precarious Work and the New Economy: An Experimental Approach." Polson, Michael “Land and Law in Marijuana Country: Clean Capital, Dirty Money and the Drug War’s Rentier Nexus” Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Vol. 36, No. 2 (November 2013). Grant Recipient for “Marijuana in Northern California: Law, Economy and Medicine in a Shifting Policy Environment." Walker, Alexis N., “Labor’s Enduring Divide: The Distinct Path of Public Sector Unions in the United States,” Studies in American Political Development Volume 28. Issue 2 (October 2014): pp. 175-200. Grant Recipient for “The Rise of Public Sector Unionization and its Effect on Organized Labor’s Political Activities in the United States." Walker, Alexis N., "Divided Unions:The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor", University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Grant Recipient for “The Rise of Public Sector Unionization and its Effect on Organized Labor’s Political Activities in the United States." 2010 Recipients Gest, J (2016) The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality , Oxford University Press: New York. Grant recipient for "The New Minority: Alienation and Identity among White Working Class Americans." 2009 Recipients Hahn, J. W., Aldarondo, E., Silverman, J. G., McCormick, M. C., & Koenen, K. C. (August 2015). Examining the association between post-traumatic stress disorder and intimate partner violence perpetration among adult men. Journal of Family Violence , 30(6), 743-752. Grant recipient for "Understanding the Role of Trauma and Violence in Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration by Males in the General and Incarcerated Populations." Hahn, J. W., McCormick, M. C., Silverman, J. G., Robinson, E. B., & Koenen, K. C. (November 2014). Examining the impact of disability status on intimate partner violence victimization in a population sample. Journal of Interpersonal Violence , 29(17), 3063-3085. Katz, James E., Mobile Communication: Dimensions of Social Policy , New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2011. Grant recipient for “Mobile Communication and Social Policy Conference” held on October 9-11, 2009 at the Heldrich Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ. 2008 Recipients Desmond, Matthew, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the America City. New York: Crown, 2016. Grant recipient for "Eviction and the Reproduction of Inner-City Poverty." Skarbeck, David Benjamin, “Governance and Prison Gangs,” American Political Science Review (forthcoming). Grant recipient for “Problems of Organized Crime: How to Combat Thieves, Thugs, Terrorists, and Traffickers." 2007 Recipients Cross-Barnet, Caitlin and Katrina Bell McDonald , Marriage in Black: The Pursuit of Married Life among American-born and Immigrant Blacks, Routledge, 2018. Grant recipient for "The Successful Black Marriage Study." 2006 Recipients Gao, Qin, “The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition: Reforms and Impacts on Income Inequality,” Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences special volume “Reducing the Impact of Poverty on Health and Human Development: Scientific Approaches,” 2008. Grant recipient for “The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition." 2005 Recipients Guzzo, Karen, “Competing Obligations, Child Support, and Men’s Visitation with Nonresidential Children,” presented at the National Survey of Family Growth Research Conference, October 19-20, 2006, pending publication at Journal of Family Issues. Grant recipient for, "Men's Multi-Partnered Fertility: Implications for Paternal Involvement." 2004 Recipients Garay, Maria Candelaria, “Social Policy and Collective Action: Unemployed Workers, Community Associations and Protest in Argentina,” Politics & Society 35, June 2007. Grant recipient for “Social Policy Regimes in Newly Liberalized Economics." 2003 Recipients Lin, Fen, “Dancing Beautifully but with Hands Cuffed? A Historical Review of Journalism Formation during Media Commercialization in China,” Perspectives, 7(2): 79–98 pp., 2006. Grant recipient for “Dancing with Hands Cuffed: Media Commercialization and Political Development in China." Whelan, Christal K., “Agonsho: A Japanese New Religion.” Completion of dissertation at Boston University on topic of the same title, December 22, 2003. 2002 Recipients Davis, Joseph E., “Suffering, Pharmaceutical Advertising, and the Face of Mental Illness,” The Hedgehog Review, Fall 2006.pp. 62–67. Grant recipient for "Paxil and Anxiety: Social and Ethical Implications of the New Pharmacology." Haffmann, Drew, Jesse Rude, and Kim Ebert, “The Biomedical Legacy in Minority Health Policy-Making, 1975–2002,” Research in the Sociology of Healthcare, Volume 23, 245–275 pp., 2005. Grant recipient for “Closing the Gap: Explaining the Content, Heterogeneity, and Survival of Minority Health Policy Proposals." 2001 Recipients Germani, Ana Alejandra, Gino Germani: Del Antifascismo a la Sociolgía, Buenos Aires: Taurus Ediciones, 2004. 412 pp.; and Gino Germani: Antifascism and Sociology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2008. 248 pp. Grant recipient for, "From Antifascism to the Institutionalization of Sociology in Argentina." Leoussi, Athena S., “The Ethno-Cultural Roots of National Art,” Nations and Nationalism (2004). Grant recipient for “Cultural Policies and the Development of Czech National Art." 2000 Recipients Handley, Antoinette, Business, Government, and the Privatization of the Ashanti Goldmine Company in Ghana. Prepared for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. Grant recipient for “Business and Economic Policymaking in Africa: Four African Cases." Pollack, Sheldon D., Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda, Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2003. Grant recipient for “The Politics of Wealth Transfer Taxation." Wong, Joseph, Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea, Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2004. 232 pp. (Paperback, 2006) Grant recipient for “Political Transaction and Welfare Reform in Taiwan and South Korea." 1999 Recipients Bard, Mitchell G., From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry, Westport, CT and London: Preager Publishers, 2002, 217 pp. Grant recipient for “Israeli Policy toward Ethiopian Jews." Renshon, Stanley A., The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005. 273 pp. Grant recipient for “One America?: Presidential Leadership and the Dilemma of Diversity." Strolovitch, Dara Z., Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 284 pp. Grant recipient for “Closer to a Pluralist Heaven: Advocacy Groups and the Politics of Representation." 1998 Recipients Castiglioni, Rossana, “The Politics of Retrenchment: The Quandaries of Social Protection Under Military Rule in Chile, 1973-1990,” Latin Americans Politics and Society, Volume 43, No. 4, Winter 2001. Grant recipient for “Retrenchment versus Maintenance: The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Chile and Uruguay." Castiglioni, Rossana, The Politics of Social Policy Change in Chile and Uruguay, New York, NY : Routledge, 2005, 168 pp. Grant recipient for “Retrenchment versus Maintenance: The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Chile and Uruguay." Drumble, Mark A., “Poverty, Wealth, and Obligation in International Environmental Law,” Tulane Law Review, Volume 76, No. 4, March 2002. Grant recipient for “Selfish Altruism or Shared Compact, Mechanisms to Promote Developing Nation Participation in Environmental Agreements." Peabody, Bruce Garen, “Recovering the Political Constitution: Nonjudicial Interpretation, Judicial Supremacy, and the Separation of Powers,” dissertation at the University of Texas, faculty of the graduate school, 2001 (Ph.D.) 307 pp. Grant recipient for “Recovering the Political Constitution: Changing Regimes Nonjudicial Interpretation." Williams, Kim, Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. 208 pp. Grant recipient for “Boxed In: The United States Multiracial Movement."

All Previous Recipients 2004 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2003 A Guinea Pig’s Wage: Risk and Commodization in Pharmaceutical Research in America Roberto Abadie Graduate Center of the City University of New York Department of Anthropology From State Houses to Congress: Latino Representation in the United States Jason Paul Casellas Princeton University Department of Politics Special Recognition: John Stanley Award (Re)Imagining the Post-Soviet Nation: Analyzing Anti-trafficking Campaigns in Russia and the Ukraine Nadejda Chapkina Georgia State University Department of Sociology Federal Control and Social Justice: The Crime Bill and the USA Patriot Act in Action Howard Lee Cheek, Jr. Lee University and The United Methodist Church, Department of Political Science Dancing with Hands Cuffed: Media Commercialization and Political Development in China Fen Lin The University of Chicago Department of Sociology Human Smuggling: Everyday Crime in Southeast Europe Dejan Lukic Columbia University in the City of New York Department of Anthropology Origins of Financial Liberalization in Emerging Markets Sawa Omori University of Pittsburgh Department of Political Science Decisions in Scientific Agencies: How Do the NIH and the FDA Balance Expert Opinions, Changing Agendas, and Political Pressure? Nicole C. Quon Yale University Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine Special Recognition: Eli Ginzberg Award The Politics of Religious Promise: State Implementation of Charitable Choice Practices Rebecca Elizabeth Sager University of Arizona Department of Sociology Mediating the European Union: Making of the EU News in Turkey Erkan Saka Rice University Department of Anthropology Consumption and Urban Neighborhoods: Leading Social Indicators of Neighborhood Health, Stability and Transition Marc M. Sanford The University of Chicago Department of Sociology

All Previous Recipients 2007 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2006 Upkeep Decisions of Homeowners: Psychology of Home Investment Katrin B. Anacker Virginia Tech City and Regional Planning Media Shortcuts: The Supply and Demand of Political Information Special Recognition: Feigenbaum Award Blake C. Andrew McGill University Political Science Demobilization Process of Paramilitary in Medellin (Colombia) Aldo Civico Columbia University in the City of New York Anthropology The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition Qin Gao Fordham University Social Economics Housing the Urban Poor: Community Development Corporations Margaret Garb Washington University in St. Louis History Governance Reform in Africa’s Oil Sector Alexandra Gillies University of Cambridge Social and Political Sciences Undemocratic Regimes after Democratization: Argentina and Mexico Maria Agustina Giraudy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Political Science Fighting Corruption in Africa: Ghana and Beyond Jennifer E.M. Hasty University of Pennsylvania Cultural Anthropology Community and Violence after Peace Accords in North Ireland Molly J. Hurley-Depret Graduate Center of the City University of New York Anthropology Prosecuting Medicare Providers under the False Claims Act Special Recognition: Ginzberg Award Joy L. Kraybill The George Washington University Health Policy Medical Debt, Legal Access, and Citizenship in the United States Special Recognition: Martinus Nijhoff Award Serena Laws University of Minnesota at Minneapolis Political Science Representation of Undocumented Immigrants in Democracies Jennifer F. Lieb Princeton University Politics In the Shadows of Violence: Islamism, Democratization and the State Special Recognition: Stanley Award Avi M. Spiegel University of Oxford Near and Middle Eastern Studies County, Government, and Community Survival in Era of Globalization Special Recognition: Merton Award Lori Wiebold University of Kansas Sociology

All Previous Recipients 2005 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2004 Public Housing in Chicago: Emplacing Welfare and Well Being in Urban America Catherine K. Fennell University of Chicago Department of Sociology The New Cosmopolitans: Educational Segregation in the United States Thurston Domina City University of New York Department of Anthropology Social Policy Regimes in Newly Liberalized Economies Maria Candelaria Garay University of California at Berkeley Department of Political Science Membership, Friendship and Social Context: Interracial Contact and Public Opinion toward Immigrants and Immigration Control Shang E. Ha University of Chicago Political Science What Happens When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: Big Retailers Competition Effects on Small Retailers Panle Jia Yale University Department of Economics Trade Union Support for European Integration and the European Social Agenda Kristine Eileen Mitchell Princeton University Department of Politics Utilizing Religious Law as a Means of Progressing Human Rights in Illiberal Politics Yuksel Sezgin University of Washington Political Science Department After the “Last Resort”: Investigating the Effects of Payday Loans Paige Skiba University of California at Berkeley Department of Economics Jeremy Tobacman Harvard University Department of Economics Economic Inequality: Its Spatial Concentration and Voter Participation Amy Melissa Widestrom Syracuse University Political Science Department Authoritative Churches and Racial Interaction Joseph Eugene Yi University of Chicago Department of Political Science

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. 2016 All Previous Recipients 2017 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2016 Burcu Baykurt, Columbia University The City as Data Machine: Local Governance in the Age of Big Data Burcu Baykurt, a PhD candidate in communications at Columbia University, studies the social and cultural implications of digital technology, particularly the use of big data in urban development and local governance. Her work draws on and contributes to cultural sociology, public policy, and social studies of science. Andrew Breck, New York University The Effect of Participation in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Health and Healthcare Expenditure Andrew Breck is a PhD candidate at New York University’s Graduate School of Public Service and a pre-doctoral fellow at the School of Medicine. His research interests are at the intersection of social policy and health behavior, with the goal of understanding how policies can influence nutrition and nutrition related diseases. Vicki Chen, University of Pennsylvania Paying to Stay: Why Medicare's Payment System for Home Health Care leads to Inefficiency and Waste Special Award: Eli Ginzberg Award Vicki Chen is a PhD candidate in University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Health Care Management and Economics. Her research concentrates on health care provider competition and organization and its influence on social welfare. Formerly, she worked at the Urban Institute and holds a BA from Princeton University. Elizabeth Clark, Duke University Policy Demand and the Rights to Organize: Emergence of Cooperative Fishery Governance As an interdisciplinary social scientist at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, Elizabeth Clark studies cooperation to confront challenges in natural resource use and conservation. She integrates approaches from economics, political ecology, and institutional scholarship. Ellen Dinsmore, University of Wisconsin Blurring the Thin Blue Line: The Rise of the "Military Model" in American Policing Special Award: Donald R. Cressey Award Ellen Dinsmore is a PhD candidate in sociology at the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her research explores how criminal justice systems both reflect and exacerbate inequalities within populations. She has worked at the Vera Institute of Justice and collaborated with the Madison Police Department. Philip Garboden, Johns Hopkins University The Geography of Profit: How Landlord Decisions Impact the Supply and Location of Subsidized Housing Philip Garboden is a doctoral student in sociology and applied math at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a Master of Public Policy from the same institution. His work focuses on the ways housing policies intersect with the decisions of private landlords, developers, and tenants to impact low-income communities. Ausmita Ghosh, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Maternal and Infant Health Impacts of Public Health Insurance Expansions Special Award: Martinus Nijhoff Award Ausmita Ghosh is a PhD candidate in economics with a concentration in health economics and public economics. Her research focuses on the role of government programs and economic conditions on health, healthcare use, and the economic well-being of vulnerable populations. Sebastian Lemire, University of California, Los Angeles Meta-Modeling Assertive Community Treatment Sebastian Lemire has over ten years of experience managing research and evaluation in the fields of education, market development, and social welfare. His professional areas of interest revolve around alternative approaches to impact evaluation and research syntheses. Erik Lin-Greenberg, Columbia University Game of Drones: The Effect of Technology on Conflict Onset and Initiation Special Award: Irving Louis Horowitz Award Erik Lin-Greenberg is a PhD candidate in political science at Columbia University where he studies international relations. His current research examines the effect of technology on armed conflict. Prior to attending Columbia, he served as an officer in the United States Air Force. Timothy Passmore, University of Colorado Pacifying the Peacekeepers: How Involvement in UN Peacekeeping Reduces the Domestic Threat of the Military Special Award: Harold D. Lasswell Award Timothy Passmore is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Colorado - Boulder. His research focuses on conflict and peace studies. His research interests include peacekeeping, terrorism and political violence, religion and conflict, and the politics of Africa and the Middle East. Rebecca Perlman, Stanford University When Regulations Fail: Setting Standards Under Asymmetric Information Rebecca Perlman is a PhD candidate in political science at Stanford University. Her research focuses on how governments regulate risk in a globalized economy. She received her BA from Princeton University and also holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Davin Reed, New York University Distributional and Welfare Effects of Gentrification Davin Reed is a PhD candidate in public policy at New York University. His research addresses questions in urban and labor economics. He is currently studying the effects of eviction and the causes and consequences of gentrification. Manuel Rosaldo, University of California - Berkeley From Informal Work to Decent Work? Integrating Waste Pickers into Formal Waste Management in Brazil and Colombia Manuel Rosaldo is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California - Berkeley. His work analyzes efforts to improve the incomes, conditions, and political voice of informal recyclers in Brazil and Colombia. Shiran Shen, Stanford University The Inconvenient Truth of the Political Pollution Cycle: Theory and Evidence from China Shiran is a PhD candidate in political science at Stanford University. Her research explores the influence of local political tenure cycles on air pollution control in China, the US, and Mexico. She holds an MS in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College. Benjamin Shestakofsky, University of California - Berkeley Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work Benjamin Shestakofsky is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley. His research examines how innovations in computing are changing work and employment, organizations, and economic exchange. He is also a 2016-2017 Scholars Strategy Network Graduate Fellow. Talia Shiff, Northwestern University "Framing the Case": Bureaucratic Efficiency Pressures in the Humanitarian Politicization, Legitimation, and Adjudication of Refugee Claims Talia Shiff is a JD-PhD candidate in law and sociology at Northwestern University. Her research examines the processes through which norms and institutions inform legal categories. Her dissertation focuses on questions of categorization and evaluation through an examination of the ways adjudicators translate applicant testimonies into cognizable narratives for asylum. Sujeong Shim, University of Wisconsin Catalytic Politics: When do International Monetary Fund (IMF) Programs Trigger Private Capital into the Borrowing Country?” Sujeong Shim is a PhD candidate in political science at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her research interests include international finance, international organizations, economic crisis, and public opinion. Her latest work examines how public opinion affects the IMF program’s design and efficacy. Jamie Sommer, Stony Brook University Is Bilateral Environmental Aid Effective? A Cross-National Analysis of Forest Loss Jamie Sommer is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY). She received her Master’s in sociology from Stony Brook University and BA from Montclair State University. Her research interests include global political economy, environmental sociology, and development and health. Andreas Wiedemann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Borrowed Dreams: Household Debt and the Social Policy Mismatch in Germany, Denmark, and the United States Andreas Wiedemann is a PhD candidate in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying political economy, comparative politics, and political behavior. His research explores how and in what ways families across advanced democracies borrow money to address the mismatch between their financial needs and social policies’ financial support. Alon Yakter, University of Michigan Circles of Solidarity: Diversity and Welfare Policies in Developed Democracies Special Award: Robert K. Merton Award Alon Yakter is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. His research interests include comparative political economy, social policy, identity politics, and political parties. His work examines how the economic and geographic contexts of ethnic, linguistic, and religious cleavages shape solidarity and welfare policies. Please reload

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