No grants given out in this year.

COR Grant Recipients
2011 – 2012

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2011-2012 AWARDEES!

Kenneth Cruz — Criminology, Law and Society
A Search for Hopi Ways to End Gender Violence

Erin Evans — Sociology
Organizations, Mass Media and the State: Media Representations of the Anti-Vietnam War and Animal Rights Movement Within Varying Political Contexts

Padma Govindan — Anthropology
On Fire for Justice: The Making of an American Abolitionist Abroad

Laura Huang — Merage School of Business
A Test of the Impact of Gut Feel on Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

Sharmaine Jackson — Sociology
Voluntary Association and Youth Participation: The Role of the Internet in Organizing Urban Youth Across Two Countries

Natalia Milovantseva — Social Ecology
Understanding How the Market for Cell Phones Reuse Emerged to Foster More Sustainable Consumption

Katie Pine — Social Ecology
The Influence of Organizational Context on Routines for Childbirth in the Hospital Setting

David Redmiles — Informatics
Supporting Trust in Distributed Teams: A Single Team with Multiple Perspectives from Multiple-Sites

Kristen Shorette — Sociology
Values in Markets? Explaining the Uneven Rise of Fair Trade Producer Organizations in the Global South

Adam Shniderman — Criminology, Law and Society
Factors Influencing the Impact of Exogenous Scientific Information on Complex Organizations: The Impact of the 2009 NRC Forensic Science Report on Crime Labs and Courts.

Tony Smith — Political Science
The organizational flow of human trafficking in the U.S.

Amy Voida — Informatics
Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Organizations and Local Communities

Lydia Zacher — Anthropology
Midwifery Reborn: Crafting a New Model for Women’s Health in Mexico

 

COR Grant Recipients
2010 – 2011
 

Julka Almquist – PPD
The Orange County Great Park Corporation: Future-Oriented Narratives in Organizational Processes

 Natalie Baker – PPD
Enacting Stability in Instability: Vulnerable Work in Non-Traditional Organizations

James Bany – Sociology
The Role of Ethnic Organizations in the Construction of Identity: The Case of Mexican- and Italian-Origin Americans

Elizabeth Chiarello – Sociology
Pharmacists of Conscience: Ethical Decision-Making Across Legal, Political, and Organizational Environments

Heidi Haddad – Political Science
Participation of Non-Governmental Organizations at International Courts

Kenji Klein – School of Business
Reclaiming Forbidden Medicine: Interest Groups, Collective Identity, and the Emergence of Medical Marijuana as an Organizational Field

Yong Ming Kow – Informatics
Social Systems of Software Production in Online Communities

Dana Nakano – Sociology
The Power and Pervasiveness of Story: The Merging of Personal, Organizational, and Ethnic Narratives

 Daisy Reyes – Sociology
Latino Student Politics: Constructing Ethnic Identities through Organizations.

Kristen Shorette – Sociology
Fair Trade Certified: The Global Institutionalization of Nongovernmental Regulatory Organizations

Amy Voida – Informatics
Understanding and Envisioning Information Systems in Volunteer Management and Coordination

Lydia Zacher – Anthropology
A New Medical Model for Childbirth: Understanding the Role of Mexico’s Emergent Professionalized Midwifery

COR Grant Recipients
2009 – 2010

Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients

• Janet Alexanian – Social Sciences
  Constructing Iran: Transnational Cultural Production and the Politics of Representation in the Digital Age

• Natalie Baker – Social Ecology
  Place-Based Practices of Recovery: Re-Definitions of Role and Task in Mental Healthcare Organizations-New Orleans, LA
  

• Elizabeth Chiarello – Social Sciences
  Doctoral Dissertation Research: A proposal to study organizational and institutional bases of pharmacists’ decision-making about birth control dispensation

•  Nalika Gajaweera – Social Sciences
  Cultivating Goodness: Buddhist Generosity and Development Work in the Aftermath of the Sri Lankan Tsunami 

•  Heather Goldsworthy – Social Ecology
  Compassionate Capitalism? The Institutionalization of Microfinance

•  Phillip Goodman – Social Ecology
  Hero or Inmate, Prison or Camp, Rehabilitation or Labor Extraction? A Multi-Level Study of California’s Prison Fire Camps

•  Alexis Hickman – Social Ecology
  East Asia Regional Seas: The Case of Cities

•  Jasmine Kerrissey – Social Sciences
  Structural Change and the Labor Movement: The Historical and Contemporary Role of Union Mergers

•  Sang-Tae Kim – Social Ecology
  Emergence of a biotech cluster: The socio-cultural development of the San Diego biotech community and the role of research organizations

•  Ben Lind – Social Sciences
  The Formation of Contention Cycles: Strikes and Lockout Waves in the U.S., 1881-1894

•  Silvia Lindtner – Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
  Facing the Crowd: The Role of Voluntary Game Player Organizations in Urban China

•  Dana McDaniel – Merage School of Business
  Energy at Work: An Investigation of Relational Energy in Organizations

•  Diana Pan – Social Sciences
  From Great Expectations to Mainstream Ambitions: the Socialization of Second-Generation Law Students

•  Katie Pine – Social Ecology
  The Influence of Organizational Context on Routines for Childbirth in the Hospital Setting

•  Kathy Quick – Social Ecology
  Boundary Work: Supporting Inclusive Communities of Practice

•  Daisy Reyes – Social Sciences
  Latino Student Politics: Constructing Ethnic Identities through Organizations

•  Aaron Roussell – Social Ecology
  Black, Brown and Blue: Violence, Power, and Subjectivity in Police-Community Relations in South Los Angeles

•  Rita Shah – Social Ecology
  Reemergence of Rehabilitation? Comparing the policies and practices of California parole before 1977 and after 2005

•  Chitvan Trivedi – Social Ecology
  Social enterprises and corporate enterprises: Fundamental differences and defining features

•  Lydia Zacher – Social Sciences
  A New Medical Model for Childbirth: Understanding the Cultural Effects of Mexico’s Emergent Professional Midwifery

•  Shaozeng Zhang – Social Sciences
  Governmental organization as the product and producer of knowledge— The reinvention of Payment for Environmental Services policy in Amazonas, Brazil

Faculty Small Grant Recipient

•  Nina Bandelj (with Elizabeth Sowers) – Social Sciences
  Economy and State: A Sociological Perspective