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Sponsored Research - Awarded/Active Grants

Self-Employment, Gender and Policy: Do Work-Family Policies Shape Gender Differences in Self-Employment Participation and Earnings?
Funding: UNC/Kauffman Foundation
Investigator: Michelle Budig

Race and Infant Health Outcomes in the U.S. Military
Funding: NSF
Investigator: Jennifer Lundquist

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

Family Policies and the Wage Penalty: A Cross-National and Multi-Level Approach
Funding: NSF
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
Since: 2007

Investigating the Use of Motherhood as Punishment in Correctional Facilities
Funding: NSF (Dissertation Improvement Grant)
Investigators: Naomi Gerstel and Brittnie Aiello
Since: 2007

Private Sector Workplace Equal Employment Opportunity Progress 1966-2004
Funding: NSF
Investigators: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Kevin Stainback and Recai Yucel
Since: 2007

Role of Pregnancy and Lactation in Inhibiting Age-Induced Promoter Hypermethylation
Funding: Avon Foundation
Collaborator: Douglas L. Anderton
PI: Kathleen Arcaro
Since: 2007

Editorship of Social Science History
Funding: Social Science History Association
PI: Douglas L. Anderton
Since: 2006

The Cross-National Effects of Work-Family Policies
Funding: NSF
PI: Joya Misra
Co-PI: Michelle Budig
Since: 2006

Moving Beyond the Stalled Revolution: Building a New Language for Sexuality, Gender, and Family in America
Funding: Ford Foundation
PI: Amy Schalet
Since: 2006

Strings Attached: International Donor Agencies and Latin American Women's Movements
Funding: University of Massachusetts - Faculty Research/CSBS Grant
PI: Millie Thayer
Since: 2006

NSEC: Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (Nanotech)
Funding: NSF
Investigator: Douglas L. Anderton
PIs:
Mark Tuominen and Thomas Russell
Since: 2006

Repertoire in Action among Musicians
Funding: NSF
PI: Rob Faulkner
Co-PI: Howie Becker
Since: 2006

Explaining Job Hours and Schedules: Individual, Familial and Organizational Processes in Four Health Care Occupations
Funding: NSF
PI: Naomi Gerstel
Co-PI: Dan Clawson
Since: 2006

Documenting Desegregation: Equal Opportunity in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Funding: Russell Sage Foundation
Don Tomaskovic-Devey, with Kevin Stainback
Since: 2005

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Teen Childbearing: Isolating the Effects of Community-Level Segregation
Funding: University of Massachusetts - Faculty Research Grant
PI: Jennifer Lundquist
Since: 2005

The Future of Work in Massachusetts
Funding: Labor Center, University of Massachusetts
Co-PI's: Naomi Gerstel; Dan Clawson
Since: 2005