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SADRI

Social and Demographic Research Institute

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