In partnership with the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, CSI has provided seed grants to Cornell University graduate students interested in carrying out research on inequality-relevant topics. Recent recipients include:
2007-2008
Nicolas Eilbaum - Undocumented Immigrants in New York City: Hope and Fear
Jennifer Lauture - Never-Married Black Women: The Roles of Social Distance and Racial Exclusion
Bartolo Ligouri - High Stakes Tests and Teacher Resistance: New York City Schools in an Era of Increased Accountability
Catherine Taylor - Stress, Status, and Gender in Decision-Making Groups
Jennifer Todd - Under Pressure: Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement in the Era of School Accountability
Yujun Wang and Michael Genkin - Understanding Onomastic Mechanisms in Immigrant Assimilation
2006-2007
Youngjoo Cha - The Increase in Gender Earnings Inequality among Professional and Managerial Workers and the Gendered Norm of Overworking
Diana Hernandez - Living in Paradox: Low Income Families, Home and Neighborhood Challenges and (Non)Participation in the Legal System
Li Ma - Social Inequality during the Deinstitutionalization of Hukou in China
Christin Munsch - Campus Climate Survey
Catherine Taylor - Stress, Gender, and Numerical Minority in Goal Oriented Groups
Sarah Thebaud - Institutions, interactions and entrepreneurship: A cross-national study of gender inequality in venture creation
Chris Yenkey - Jeri Grows up Fast: An Ethnographic Account of Emerging Stratification in Rural Brazil