Sponsored Research - Past Grants

2009
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

2008
Private Sector Workplace Equal Employment Opportunity Progress 1966-2004
Funding: NSF
Investigator: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

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

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
Since: 2005

The Future of Work in Massachusetts
Funding: Labor Center, University of Massachusetts
Investigators: Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
Since: 2005

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
Since: 2007

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

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

2007
Repertoire in Action among Musicians
Funding: NSF
Investigators: Rob Faulkner and Howie Becker
Since: 2006

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

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
Since: 2005

2006
Planning Survey: Wilbraham Public Library
Funding: Wilbraham Public Library
PI: Michael Lewis

EMS Personnel: Work Hours and Schedules
Funding: National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT)
Investigators: Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
Since: 2004

Editorship of the Rose Series in Sociology
Funding: ASA
Investigators: Douglas Anderton, Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel, Joya Misra, Randall Stokes and Robert Zussman
Since: 2000

2005
Race and Gender Differences in the Effects of Education on Earnings: Levels vs. Returns
Funding: University of Massachusetts - CSBS
PI: Michelle Budig

Love and Marriage in Contemporary Urban India
Funding: University of Massachusetts - FRG
PI: Sanjiv Gupta

2004
Work, Family and Time
Funding: Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
Investigators: Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
Since: 2003

Child Care Workers in Context: A Study of Family Day Care Providers in Illinois
Funding: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant
Investigators: Naomi Gerstel and Amy Armenia

Gender, Culture, and the State: Family Policy in Conservative Countries
Funding: NSF
PI: Joya Misra
Since: 2001

Wealth and Health: Nineteenth-Century Mortality in Emergent New England Mill Towns
Funding: NSF
Investigators: Alan Swedlund and Douglas Anderton
Since: 2000

Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center
Funding: Department of Veterans Affairs
PI: Gail Gamache
Since: 2002