National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRI) awards are now known as American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRI).

Previous NSF DDRI Grant Recipients:

2019
Laura Adler; Advisor: Frank Dobbin; Project: "Pay-Setting for New Hires"
Kristina Brant; Advisor: Mario L. Small; Project: "Parental Opioid Addiction and Kinship Care"
Jared Schachner; Advisor: Robert J. Sampson; Project: "Skill-Based Sorting into Neighborhoods and Schools"

2018
Blythe George; Advisor: William Julius Wilson; Project: "Employment of Native Americans with Criminal Records"
Barbara Kiviat; Advisor: Frank Dobbin; Project: "The Moral Foundations of the Big Data Economy"
Amy Tsang; Advisor: Michele Lamont; Project: "How People Become Urban"
Linda Zhao; Advisor: Jason Beckfield; Project: "Spatial Inequality in Birth Outcomes - Testing Classes of Proximate Mechanisms"

2017
Nathan Wilmers; Advisor: Bruce Western; Project: "The Role of Employers in Rising Wage Inequality"
Thomas Wooten; Advisor: Mary C. Waters; Project: "The Transition to College Experience of Low-Income Students"

2015
Carly Knight; Advisor: Frank Dobbin; Project: "The Development of Corporate Personhood Law In Comparative Perspective, 1886-2014"
Jasmin Sandelson; Advisor: Matthew Desmond; Project: "Unaccompanied Homeless Youth"
Chi Wang; Advisor: Bart Bonikowski; Project: "The Process and Consequences of the Work of 911 Dispatchers"

2013
Christopher Muller; Advisor: Bruce Western; Project: "Racial Disparity in American Incarceration, 1868-1950"
Kimberly E. Pernell; Advisor: Frank Dobbin; Project: "The Causes of Divergent Banking Regulation, 1988-2006"
Eva Rosen; Advisor: Mary C. Waters; Project: "Post-public Housing Spatial Concentration"

2012
Jovonne Bickerstaff; Advisor: Orlando Patterson; Project: "How Attitudes and Practices Shape Enduring Relationships"

2010
Nathan Fosse; Advisor: Michele Lamont; Project: "Low-Income Youth and Perceptions of Mortality"
Chana Teeger; Advisor: Mary C. Waters; Project: "Apartheid Education and Race Relations"

2009
Christopher Bail; Advisor: Michele Lamont; Project: "A Multi-Level Study of Symbolic Boundaries towards Muslims, 2001-2007"
Jeffrey Denis; Advisor: William Julius Wilson; Project: "Native and Non-Native Group Interactions"
Jiwook Jung; Advisor: Frank Dobbin; Project: "Shareholder Value and the New American Workplace: Investor-Driven Downsizing, 1980-2007"
Laura Tach; Advisor: Christopher Jencks; Project: "The Social Consequences of Neighborhood Economic Diversity"

2008
Simone Ispa-Landa; Advisor: Orlando Patterson; Project: "Urban-to-Suburban Racial Desegregation: A Natural Experiment"
Mark Pachucki; Advisor: Nicholas Christakis; Project: "Health Behaviors and Social Networks"

2007
Lydia Bean; Advisor: Jason Kaufman; Project: "A Comparative Study of Political Socialization in Religious Groups in the United States and Canada"
Maria Rendon; Advisor: Mary C. Waters; Project: "Transition Out of School and Into Young Adulthood:The Role of Neighborhoods in Education and Work Outcomes of Mexican American Youth"
Lauren Rivera; Advisor: Michele Lamont; Project: "Hiring and Inequality in High Prestige Professions"

2006
Elisabeth Jacobs; Advisor: Christopher Jencks; Project: "The Perception and Management of Family Economic Risk"
Zoua Vang; Advisor: Mary C. Waters; Project: "Spatial Assimilation or Residential Segregation? A Comparative Study of Racial and Ethnic Minority Residential Patterns in Ireland and the U.S."

2004
Jal Mehta;  Advisor: Christopher Jencks; Project: "The Transformation of American Educational Policy, 1980-2001"
Natasha Warikoo; Advisor: Mary C. Waters; Project: "Bringing Culture Back In: Cultural Assimilation and the Second Generation in the Global City"

2003
David J. Harding; Advisor: Katherine Newman; Project: "Linking Culture and Structure to Adolescent Outcomes in Poor Neighborhoods"
Dongxiao Liu; Advisor: Theda Skocpol; Project: "How World Conferences Matter: Transnational Influences and Organizational Change in Two National Women's Movements

2002
Tomas Jimenez; Advisor: Mary C. Waters; Project: "The Effects of Mexican Immigration on Mexican American Ethnicity"

2000
Irene Bloemraad; Advisor: Theda Skocpol; Project: "The Political Incorporation of Immigrants: Citizenship and Participation in the United States and Canada"
Ziad Munson;  Advisor: Theda Skocpol; Project: "Mobilization in the American Pro-Life Movement"