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Follow on Google News |  Horowitz Foundation Awards Grants To 13 Scholars For Social Policy ResearchNow Accepting Grant Applications The deadline for grant applications for the year 2013 is January 31, 2014. Awards will be announced on or about June 30, 2014. Additional information is available on the Horowitz Foundation website www.horowitz- About the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Established in 1998, the Horowitz Foundation approves approximately ten to fifteen grants per year in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $7,500 per grant. The Foundation makes targeted grants for policy-related research in major areas of the social sciences, including anthropology, area studies, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and urban studies, as well as newer areas such as evaluation research. Only doctoral students whose final dissertation project has been approved are eligible to apply. Awards are approved solely on merit, and are not allocated so as to ensure a representative base of disciplines. Research grants are open to scholars in all social science disciplines for projects that deal with contemporary issues in the social sciences, particularly issues of policy relevance. Applicants need not be citizens of the United States, and grants are not restricted to U.S. residents. 2012 Horowitz Foundation Award Winners Gayle Alberda Wayne State University Department of Political Science * Election Reform: How has Early Voting Affected Municipal Elections? [Special Recognition Robert K. Merton Award] Maria Apostolova University of Kentucky Department of Economics * A New Baby Boom? The Fertility Effects of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform [Special Recognition Eli Ginzberg Award] Joseph Matthew Brown Columbia University Department of Political Science * The Bomber Who Calls Ahead: A Theory of Advance Warnings in Terrorism [Special Recognition Donald R. Cressey Award] Madeleine Clare Elish Columbia University Department of Anthropology * Transforming Battle: The Social Logic of Remote Warfare [Special Recognition Horowitz Foundation Trustees Special Award and Martinus Niehoff Award] Michael P. Fisher University of California, San Francisco Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences * Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in the 21st Century: Social Action in the Name of Diagnosis and Disability Compensation Meghan E. Kallman Brown University Department of Sociology * Bureaucratized Morality, Institutional Durability: Organizationally Mediated Idealism and International Relationships in the Peace Corps Seung-Cheol Lee Columbia University Department of Anthropology * The Making of an “Ethical Entrepreneur”: [Special Recognition John L. Stanley Award] Karen E. C. Levy Princeton University Department of Sociology * The Automation of Compliance: Techno-Legal Regulation in the U.S. Trucking Industry Timothy Ken Mackey University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Global Health * Pharmaceutical e-Marketing: Shaun Christopher McGirr University of Michigan Department of Political Science * Deliberate Indiscretion: Molly Elizabeth Reynolds University of Michigan Department of Political Science * The Role of Budget Reconciliation in Reforming Mandatory Spending Programs Mark Alexander Shirk University of Maryland – College Park Department of Government and Politics * Pirates, Anarchists, and Terrorists: Transnational Violence and the Changing Boundaries of Sovereign Authority [Special Recognition Harold Lasswell Award] Ayça Zayim University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Sociology * Unpacking the ‘Black Box’ of Policymaking among Central Bankers End
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