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Social sciences recognizes outstanding faculty researchers Awards carry $5,000 prize to support continued research
Surviving success Robnett-Olsen studies relevancy of political organizations following social movement success
Neumark receives grant to study age discrimination Findings may help policy makers develop laws to help older workers reenter the job market
Goodman receives 2013 Hellman Fellowship Award recognizes junior faculty member for research excellence
Pullum receives National Science Foundation fellowship Honor supports grad student's research on decision making processes of teachers' unions
Tang receives competitive York Fellowship Award supports research on Chinese politics
Norman receives fellowship to study citizenship policies in Middle East and Africa Two-year funding begins in September
Reddy receives grant from American Institute of Physics Funding will support the anthropology grad student's research on seismic science
Wan receives fellowship to study in Japan Fellowship supports the recent grad's research on nuclear proliferation
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Two UCI political scientists and an economist have been named 2012-13 recipients of research awards from the School of Social Sciences. Each honor carries a
$5,000 prize.
Sara Wallace Goodman, political science assistant professor, is this year's recipient of the Social Sciences Assistant Professor Research Award. Established in 2005, the honor
recognizes research excellence accompanied by a strong project proposal from a junior faculty member in social sciences. Goodman joined the UCI faculty in 2009, following a
six month post doctoral fellowship at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She specializes in citizenship politics of Western European countries and the U.S., focusing on
immigrant integration, national identity and immigration policy making. Her 2012-13 winning research proposal focuses on politics of citizenship in Israel. 
Belinda Robnett-Olsen, sociology professor, has received a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to analyze and chronicle the history of black political
organizations in the U.S. from 1970-present. Using archival materials from the NAACP and Southern Christian Leadership Conference and news reports from the Los Angeles Times,
New York Times and African-American newspapers, she will detail how organizations have restructured and refocused in the 40 years following the peak of the civil rights
movement. Findings will contribute to her book on how political organizations regroup to stay relevant in the wake of social movement success.
David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to
study age discrimination in employer hiring practices. As the U.S. population continues to age, the dependency ratio rises. Extending the work life of older workers could help
lower this ratio by increasing tax revenues and decreasing public expenditures on insurance and retirement. Age discrimination in employer hiring practices, however, may limit
this trajectory. Findings from this study will help policy makers understand if discrimination is a factor and if so, identify areas in which policies could be created to
combat it.
Sara Wallace Goodman, political science assistant professor, has been awarded a 2013-14 Hellman Fellowship. Awarded by UCI's Office of the Provost and Executive
Vice Chancellor, the honor recognizes outstanding assistant professors for research excellence. The $10,000 award will support Goodman's research on the effects of citizenship
education on a naturalizing immigrant's perception of belonging and American identity. Goodman is an expert on citizenship politics. She received her bachelor's in political science from Miami
University (Ohio) and her doctorate in government from Georgetown University.
Amanda Pullum, sociology graduate student, has received a $12,000 National Science Foundation fellowship to study the strategic decision making processes
teachers' unions use when responding to legislative threats. Her research will help to shed light upon factors that have the most influence on strategic choices and subsequent
decisions. Funding for her study will run through June 2014. Pullum received her master's in sociology and bachelor's in biology and interdisciplinary studies from Virginia
Tech.
Beijie Tang, political science graduate student, is the recipient of a Herbert F. York Global Security Dissertation Fellowship from the UC Institute on Global
Conflict and Cooperation. The award supports her research on interactions between domestic politics and international behavior in China, an interest that stems from her lived
experiences. A Chinese native, Tang grew up in Shanghai before the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She spent her adolescence and early adult life experiencing the
growing pains of a changing nation under Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Open-Door program. A member of the so-called "post-70s generation," she participated in the Shanghai pro-
Tiananmen mass protest in 1989. The experience led her to pursue a major in political science after she immigrated to the U.S. in 2004.
Kelsey Norman, political science graduate student, has received a Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship to study factors that cause
Middle Eastern and North African states to liberalize their citizenship policies to allow outsiders to become members. Funding for the two-year, $40,000 study begins in
September and runs through August 2015. Norman is currently living with a host family in the historic city of Meknes, Morocco where she has been studying Arabic as part of the
U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship Program.
Elizabeth Reddy, anthropology graduate student, has received a grant from the American Institute of Physics to support her dissertation research on seismic
science and public policy in Mexico City. With the institute's funding, she will travel to the Niels Bohr Library and Archive in College Park, Maryland to study a collection
of oral history interviews conducted with geophysicists in Mexico. Reddy is a fourth year graduate student with a master's in social science from the University of Chicago,
where she studied Mexican public policy. She has previously conducted research at Northwestern University's Institute for Healthcare Studies on the health care and self-care
systems of kidney patients and their families.
Wilfred Wan, '13 political science Ph.D., is one of a select group of U.S. graduate students to be named a 2013-14 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
fellow. Awarded by the Social Science Research Council, the fellowship will allow Wan to spend the next year in Japan studying alongside leading nuclear proliferation
researchers. Wan is a past Harvard University Stanton Nuclear Security Predoctoral fellow. His research on nuclear proliferation has also been funded by the University of
California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and the UCI Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. |
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