Past Grants
2011
Advancing Sexuality Education, Health and Policy Using a New ABCD for Adolescent Sexuality
Funding: Ford Foundation
Investigator: Amy Schalet
Since: 2009
The Presence, Prevalance and Impact of Intracellular Chlamydia in Cells from
Breast Milk
Funding: Avon
Foundation
Investigators: Douglas L. Anderton and Kathleen Arcaro (Elizabeth Stuart, PI)
Since: 2009
Innovations in Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of Longitudinal Death
Data in 19th-Century New England
Funding: NSF (UMichigan, Prime)
Investigator: Douglas L.
Anderton
Since: 2010
Work-Family Policy and Poverty
Funding: CSBS
Investigator: Joya
Misra
Since: 2010
Collaborative Research: Work-Family Policy and Property
Funding: NSF
Investigator: Joya Misra
Since: 2010
Travel Support Grant
Funding: CSBS
Investigator: Sanjiv Gupta
Since: 2010
Research Fellowship
Funding: Humboldt Foundation
Investigator: Jennifer Lundquist
Since: 2010
Research Support Grant
Funding: UMass Provost's Office
Investigator: Sanjiv Gupta
Since: 2010
Understanding Women's Performance and Persistence in
Information Technology
Funding: NSF (Research Supplement to BPC-AE: Commonwealth Alliance for Information
Technology
Education (CAITE)
Investigators: Anna Branch and W. Richards Adrion
Since: 2010
Understanding Women's Performance and Persistence in
Information Technology
Funding: NSF (Research Supplement to BPC-AE: Commonwealth Alliance for Information
Technology
Education [(CAITE])
Investigators: Anna Branch and W. Richards Adrion
Since: 2010
Investigation of DNA Methylation in Tamoxifen-Resistant Estrogen Receptor-Positive and Estrogen Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer
Funding: Baystate Health Foundation
Investigators: Kathleen Arcaro and Douglas L. Anderton
Since: 2010
Descriptive Biomarkers for Assessing Breast Cancer Risk
Funding: Department of Defense
Investigators: Kathleen Arcaro and Douglas L. Anderton
Since: 2008
Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty
Funding: Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Investigator: David Cort
Since: 2010
Environmental Impacts on Epigenetics: Bisphenol A and Promoter
Methylation
Funding: Baystate Health Foundation
Investigators: Douglas L. Anderton, Kathleen Arcaro and David
Reckhow
Since: 2009
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Child Custody and Judicial Constructions of
Parenthood
Funding: NSF
Investigators: Joya
Misra and Kristy Thomas
Since: 2009
NSEC:Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (Nanotech)
Funding: NSF
Investigator: Douglas L. Anderton
PIs: Mark Tuominen and Thomas Russell
Since: 2006
Unofficial Flexibility: An Analysis of Actual Day-to-Day
Schedules
Funding: Sloan Foundation
Investigators: Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel
Since: 2009
2010
Strings Attached: International Donor Agencies and Latin American Women's
Movements
Funding: University of Massachusetts - Faculty
Research/CSBS Grant
PI: Millie
Thayer
Since:
2006
Saliendo del Barrio: Documentation Status Differences in Residential Mobility
Decisions
Funding: CSBS
Investigator: David Cort
Since: 2010
Gene and Protein Expression of Paralemmin in Breast Cancer
Funding: Baystate Health Foundation
Investigators: Kathleen Arcaro, Douglas Anderton and Christopher Otis
Since: 2007
Nanoparticle Models and New Analytical Methods to Study the Bioavailability and Toxicity of Nanomaterials
Funding: CHM/NSF
Investigators: Douglas Anderton, Kathleen Arcaro, Richard Vachet, Vincent Rotello and Julian Tyson
Since: 2008
Family Policies and the Wage Penalty: A Cross-National and Multi-Level
Approach
Funding: NSF
Investigators: Michelle Budig and Joya Misra
Since: 2008
Mutual Mentoring Micro Grant
Funding: Andrew Mellon Foundation
Investigator: Melissa Wooten
Since: 2009
M3 Team Grant: CSBS & CPPA Administration Grants Workshop
Funding: Andrew Mellon Foundation
Investigator: Joya
Misra
Since: 2009
Mutual Mentoring Initiative Grant
Funding: Andrew Mellon
Investigators: Anna Branch, David Cort, Andrew Papachristos, Wenona Rymond-Richmond, Amy Schalet and Melissa Wooten
Since: 2008
The Structural and Cultural Dynamics of Neighborhood Violence
Funding: NIJ (UMaryland-Prime)
Investigator: Andrew
Papachristos
Since: 2008
Role of Pregnancy and Lactation in Inhibiting Age-Induced Promoter
Hypermethylation
Funding: Avon Foundation
PI: Kathleen Arcaro Collaborator: Douglas L.
Anderton
Since: 2007
Documentation Status Differences in Residential Mobility Decisions
Funding: National Poverty Center
Investigator: David Cort
2009
Future of Work Project: Immigrant and Ethnic White Representation in
Jobs
Funding: UMass Labor Center
Investigator: David Cort
Teaching Writing in Substantive Sociological Courses: Best
Practices
Funding: CSBS Small Grant Program for Instructional Improvement
Investigator: Joya
Misra
The Institutional Origins of the United Negro College Fund
Funding: Rockefeller Archive Center
Investigator: Melissa Wooten
Since: 2009
Characterization of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Human Breast
Milk
Funding: NSF
Investigators: Douglas
Anderton and Kathleen Arcaro
Nanoparticle Models and New Analytical Methods to Study the
Bioavailability and Toxicity of Nanomaterials
Funding: CHM/NSF
Investigators:Douglas
Anderton and Kathleen Arcaro
Survey of Amherst Senior and Midlife Population
Funding: Town of Amherst/Council on Aging
Investigators: Douglas
Anderton and Randall Stokes
2008
Joint MSP-UMass Administration Work-Life Project
Funding: Provost's Office
Investigators: Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist
Network Dynamics and the Evolution of Organized Crime in Chicago, 1918-1998: A Pilot Study
Funding: FRG
Investigator: Andrew Papachristos
The Politics of Inequality: Neoliberalism, Class Power, and Income Inequality
in the Airline Industry
Funding: NSF (Dissertation Improvement
Grant)
Investigators: Donald
Tomaskovic-Devey and Dustin
Avent-Holt
Explaining Job Hours and Schedules: Individual, Familial and Organizational
Processes in Four Health Care Occupations
Funding: NSF
Investigators: Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
Private Sector Workplace Equal Employment Opportunity Progress
1966-2004
Funding: NSF
Investigator: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
Self-Employment, Gender and Policy: Do Work-Family Policies Shape Gender
Differences in Self-Employment Participation and Earnings?
Funding: UNC/Kauffman Foundation
PI: Michelle Budig
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Teen Childbearing: Isolating the Effects of
Community-Level Segregation
Funding: University of Massachusetts - Faculty Research Grant
PI: Jennifer Lundquist
The Future of Work in Massachusetts
Funding: Labor Center, University of Massachusetts
Investigators: Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
Wage Penalties Associated with Working in the Care Sector: A Cross-National
Analysis
Funding: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Investigators: Michelle Budig and
Joya Misra
Emotions at Work: The Organizational Structure of Emotions and Care Work in
Nursing Homes
Funding: NSF (Dissertation Improvement Grant)
Investigators: Naomi Gerstel and
Jason
Rodriquez
Investigating the Use of Motherhood as Punishment in Correctional
Facilities
Funding: NSF (Dissertation Improvement Grant)
Investigators: Naomi Gerstel and
Brittnie Aiello
Moving Beyond the Stalled Revolution: Building a New Language for Sexuality,
Gender, and Family in America
Funding: Ford Foundation
PI: Amy Schalet
2007
Repertoire in Action among Musicians
Funding: NSF
Investigators: Rob Faulkner
and Howie Becker
The Cross-National Effects of Work-Family Policies
Funding: NSF
Investigators: Joya
Misra and Michelle
Budig
Grammars of Death:
Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmus to Germ
Theory
Funding: NIH
Investigators: Douglas Anderton and Alan Swedlund
Documenting Desegregation: Equal Opportunity in Private Sector Employment
Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Funding: Russell Sage Foundation
Investigators: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Kevin Stainback and Recai Yucel