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