# National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRI) ## expand\_more [National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRI) awards](https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505118) are now known as American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRI). #### **Previous NSF DDRI Grant Recipients:** ##### 2019 [Laura Adler](/people/laura-adler); Advisor: [Frank Dobbin](/people/frank-dobbin); Project: "Pay-Setting for New Hires" [Kristina Brant](/people/kristina-brant); Advisor: [Mario L. Small](/people/mario-l-small); Project: "Parental Opioid Addiction and Kinship Care" [Jared Schachner](/people/jared-schachner); Advisor: [Robert J. Sampson](/people/robert-j-sampson); Project: "**Skill-Based Sorting into Neighborhoods and Schools"** ##### 2018 [Blythe George](/people/blythe-george-0); Advisor: [William Julius Wilson](/people/william-julius-wilson); Project: "**Employment of Native Americans with Criminal Records"** [Barbara Kiviat](/people/barbara-kiviat-0); Advisor: [Frank Dobbin](/people/frank-dobbin); Project: "**The Moral Foundations of the Big Data Economy"** [Amy Tsang](/people/amy-tsang); Advisor: [Michele Lamont](/people/mich%C3%A8le-lamont); Project: "**How People Become Urban"** [Linda Zhao](/people/linda-zhao)**; Advisor:** [Jason Beckfield](/people/jason-beckfield)**; Project: "**Spatial Inequality in Birth Outcomes - Testing Classes of Proximate Mechanisms" ##### 2017 [Nathan Wilmers](/people/nathan-eric-wilmers); Advisor: [Bruce Western](https://sociology.columbia.edu/content/bruce-western); Project: "The Role of Employers in Rising Wage Inequality" [Thomas Wooten](/people/tom-wooten); Advisor: [Mary C. Waters](/people/mary-c-waters); Project: "The Transition to College Experience of Low-Income Students" ##### 2015 [Carly Knight](/people/carly-r-knight); Advisor: [Frank Dobbin](/people/frank-dobbin); Project: "The Development of Corporate Personhood Law In Comparative Perspective, 1886-2014" [Jasmin Sandelson](/people/jasmin-sandelson-0); Advisor: [Matthew Desmond](https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/matthew-desmond); Project: "Unaccompanied Homeless Youth" [Chi Wang](/people/phoenix-chi-wang); Advisor: [Bart Bonikowski](/people/bart-bonikowski); Project: "The Process and Consequences of the Work of 911 Dispatchers" ##### 2013 [Christopher Muller](/people/christopher-muller); Advisor: [Bruce Western](https://sociology.columbia.edu/content/bruce-western); Project: "Racial Disparity in American Incarceration, 1868-1950" [Kimberly E. Pernell](/people/kim-pernell-gallagher); Advisor: [Frank Dobbin](/people/frank-dobbin); Project: "The Causes of Divergent Banking Regulation, 1988-2006" [Eva Rosen](/people/eva-rosen); Advisor: [Mary C. Waters](/people/mary-c-waters); Project: "Post-public Housing Spatial Concentration" ##### 2012 [Jovonne Bickerstaff](/people/jovonne-j-bickerstaff); Advisor: [Orlando Patterson](/people/orlando-patterson); Project: "How Attitudes and Practices Shape Enduring Relationships" ##### 2010 [Nathan Fosse](/people/nathan-edward-fosse); Advisor: [Michele Lamont](/people/mich%C3%A8le-lamont); Project: "Low-Income Youth and Perceptions of Mortality" [Chana Teeger](/na-teeger-0); Advisor: [Mary C. Waters](/people/mary-c-waters); Project: "Apartheid Education and Race Relations" ##### 2009 [Christopher Bail](/people/christopher-andrew-bail); Advisor: [Michele Lamont](/people/mich%C3%A8le-lamont); Project: "A Multi-Level Study of Symbolic Boundaries towards Muslims, 2001-2007" [Jeffrey Denis](/people/jeffrey-steven-denis); Advisor: [William Julius Wilson](/people/william-julius-wilson); Project: "Native and Non-Native Group Interactions" [Jiwook Jung](/people/karen-jung-won-chai); Advisor: [Frank Dobbin](/people/frank-dobbin); Project: "Shareholder Value and the New American Workplace: Investor-Driven Downsizing, 1980-2007" [Laura Tach](/people/laura-tach); Advisor: [Christopher Jencks](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/christopher-jencks); Project: "The Social Consequences of Neighborhood Economic Diversity" ##### 2008 [Simone Ispa-Landa](/people/simone-ispa-landa); Advisor: [Orlando Patterson](/people/orlando-patterson); Project: "Urban-to-Suburban Racial Desegregation: A Natural Experiment" [Mark Pachucki](/people/mark-pachucki); Advisor: [Nicholas Christakis](https://sociology.yale.edu/people/nicholas-christakis); Project: "Health Behaviors and Social Networks" ##### 2007 [Lydia Bean](/people/lydia-n-bean); Advisor: [Jason Kaufman](https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/jason-kaufman-99); Project: "A Comparative Study of Political Socialization in Religious Groups in the United States and Canada" [Maria Rendon](/people/maria-guadalupe-rendon); Advisor: [Mary C. Waters](/people/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](/people/lauren-audrie-rivera); Advisor: [Michele Lamont](/people/mich%C3%A8le-lamont); Project: "Hiring and Inequality in High Prestige Professions" ##### 2006 [Elisabeth Jacobs](/people/elisabeth-jacobs); Advisor: [Christopher Jencks](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/christopher-jencks); Project: "The Perception and Management of Family Economic Risk" [Zoua Vang](/people/zoua-m-vang); Advisor: [Mary C. Waters](/people/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](/people/jal-mehta); Advisor: [Christopher Jencks](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/christopher-jencks); Project: "The Transformation of American Educational Policy, 1980-2001" [Natasha Warikoo](/people/natasha-kumar-warikoo); Advisor: [Mary C. Waters](/people/mary-c-waters); Project: "Bringing Culture Back In: Cultural Assimilation and the Second Generation in the Global City" ##### 2003 [David J. Harding](/people/david-harding); Advisor: [Katherine Newman](https://www.umassp.edu/administration/executive-leadership/katherine-newman); Project: "Linking Culture and Structure to Adolescent Outcomes in Poor Neighborhoods" [Dongxiao Liu](/people/dongxiao-liu); Advisor: [Theda Skocpol](/people/theda-skocpol); Project: "How World Conferences Matter: Transnational Influences and Organizational Change in Two National Women's Movements ##### 2002 [Tomas Jimenez](/people/thomas-r-jimenez); Advisor: [Mary C. Waters](/people/mary-c-waters); Project: "The Effects of Mexican Immigration on Mexican American Ethnicity" ##### 2000 [Irene Bloemraad](/people/irene-bloemraad); Advisor: [Theda Skocpol](/people/theda-skocpol); Project: "The Political Incorporation of Immigrants: Citizenship and Participation in the United States and Canada" [Ziad Munson](/people/ziad-wael-munson); Advisor: [Theda Skocpol](/people/theda-skocpol); Project: "Mobilization in the American Pro-Life Movement"