Grantees

Dissertation Fellows

The Center’s Dissertation Fellowships support outstanding doctoral students from any discipline at the University of Washington whose dissertations address poverty, poverty related issues, and anti-poverty policy in the U.S. Recipients receive one quarter of support at the doctoral Graduate Research Assistant level and a tuition waiver.

2008-2009 Dissertation Fellow

• Kelly P. McCarrier, MPH, Ph.C, Department of Health Services
  Examining the health-related effects of state-level minimum wage policies


• Deborah Warnock, Department of Sociology
  When Does Money Matter? Examining the Effect of Parents’ Perceptions of Financial Aid on Students’ College Expectations, Preparedness, and Enrollment

2007-2008 Dissertation Fellow

• Robin Anderson, Department of Economics
  Indian Gaming: Impacts on Poverty and the Income Distribution.

2006-2007 Dissertation Fellows

• Ronald Caldwell, Department of Economics
  The Effects of Affirmative Action Policies in University Admissions on Human Capital Development of Minority Children: A Test of the Expectations
  
  
• Alex Morrow, Department of History
  Laboring for the Day: Casual and Migrant Workers, Urban Politics, and the Shaping of the Pacific Coast in the Mid-Twentieth Century
  
  

2005-2006 Dissertation Fellows

• Amy Bailey, Department of Sociology
  Measuring the Impact of Military Service on Residential and Socioeconomic Mobility
  
  
• Anne Bonds, Department of Geography
  Examining the Politics and Economics of Siting Prisons in Rural Communities
  
  
• Nicki Bush, Department of Psychology
  Identifying Factors that Protect Poor Children from Neighborhood Risk
  
  
• Raine Dozier, Department of Sociology
  Examining the Widening Black-White Gap in Women’s Earnings
  
  

Emerging Scholars

The Emerging Scholar Small Grants Program is intended to encourage newer faculty at the University of Washington to focus their research on poverty issues. The Emerging Scholars receive up to $15,000 to support work that addresses the causes and consequences of poverty and/or policy responses to it.

2006-2007 Emerging Scholars

• Jennifer Romich, Assistant Professor of Social Work
  Financial Asset-Building Strategies and the Well-Being of Children and Youth in Poverty
  
  
• Anna Haley-Lock, Assistant Professor of Social Work
  "Investigating State Minimum Wage Policy and Private Employer Influences on the Employment Experiences of Tipped Restaurant Workers"
  
  

2005-2006 Emerging Scholars

• Alexes Harris, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
  Understanding the Role of Payday Loans in the Lives of Low-Income Workers
  
  
• Rachel Kleit, Assistant Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
  Improving Low-Income Housing Policy Through Local Innovation
  
  
• Steve Page, Assistant Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
  Improving Low-Income Housing Policy Through Local Innovation
  
  

Western Poverty & Policy Small Grants

The small grants program distributes awards of up to $15,000 for new research efforts and pilot projects that address issues of poverty and public policy on the west coast. Each funded researcher or team is expected to produce at least one publishable paper relating to the Center’s broad research priorities and annual substantive theme.

2006-2007 Small Grants Recipients

• Scott W. Allard, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University
  Out of Place: The Geography of the Safety Net in the West
  
  
• Mark Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Oregon State University
  State Agency and NGO Impacts on Well Being of Vulnerable Populations in West Coast States: The Case of Food Insecurity and Hunger
  
  
• Colleen Heflin, Assistant Professor Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri-Columbia
  State-Level Variation in Material Hardship Among Households with Children
  
  
• Anita Alves Pena, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
  Poverty, Legal Status, and Pay Basis in U.S. Agriculture