Funding

Grants & Fellowships

Three decades of externally funded research — from the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, W.T. Grant Foundation, and the University of Chicago — supporting work on nonprofit governance, internet innovation, and AI.

$3M+
in research funding
29
grants & fellowships
4
National Science Foundation awards

AI, Markets & Governance

2025
$225,000
AI Innovation in Markets and Governance Project
University of Chicago AI Initiative · Project Co-Lead with Feamster, Bueno de Mesquita, Strahilevitz & Leshno
2026
$15,000
Navigating the Housing Market with Human and Artificial Intelligence
Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago · with Phil Garboden & Robin Bartram

Internet Innovation

2022
$1,000,000
Internet Innovation Initiative
Data Science Institute, University of Chicago · with Nick Feamster
2023
$750,000
The Legitimacy of Data-Driven Governance for Broadband Infrastructure
National Science Foundation, Strengthening American Infrastructure · with Feamster & Schachner
2023
$500,000
Measuring Internet Access Networks Across Space and Time
National Science Foundation, Internet Measurement Research · with Feamster & Schachner
2019
$180,000
Data Science, Social Science, and Public Policy
Public Interest Technology University Network, Network Challenge Grant · with Christopher Berry

Nonprofit Organizations & Urban Governance

2020
$50,000
The Negotiation and Operationalization of Evidence in the Implementation of Child Welfare Policy
W.T. Grant Foundation, Program on Improving the Use of Research Evidence · with Jennifer E. Mosley
2019
$115,848
Emerging Directions in the Study of the Data-Society Interface
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
2017
$139,821
Next-Generation Health and Human Service Infrastructure Platform
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Health National Center for Innovations · with Julia Koschinsky
2014
$239,522
Collaborative Research: Patronage and Political Exchange Networks in a Municipal Legislature
National Science Foundation, Science of Organizations (SES-1359677) · with Delia Baldassarri
2012
$20,000
The Financial Health of Child Welfare Organizations in New York State
Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies · with Thad Calabrese & James Krauskopf
2011
$5,800
The Road to Collaborative Governing: Organizational Legacies of "Maximum Feasible Participation"
Columbia University Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy · with Debra Minkoff
2010
$67,275
The Financial Health of Child Welfare Organizations in New York State
Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies · with Thad Calabrese & James Krauskopf
2007
$104,452
The Spatial Allocation of Social Provision: Government Contracting, Material Resources and Urban Poverty
National Science Foundation, Sociology Program (SES-0648320) · with Aaron Gullickson
2009–10
$6,741
The Spatial Allocation of Social Provision (pilot studies)
PSC CUNY Research Award Program (40 & 41) · with Aaron Gullickson
2018
$8,000
Rethinking Randomized Controlled Trials for Social Intervention
Office of the Provost & Mansueto Institute, University of Chicago · with Mosley & Ybarra
2001
$8,880
Effectiveness of Nonprofit Community Based Organizations
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University

Fellowships & Earlier Awards

2015
Fellowship
Advanced Research Collaborative Fellowship
Graduate Center, City University of New York
2004
Fellowship
Junior Faculty Development Fellowship (Alternate)
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
2003
$7,988
"Making It" Isn't Enough: Strategies for Intergenerational Class Transmission Among U.S. Latinos
Columbia University ISERP · with Rodolfo O. de la Garza
2011
$5,998
After Economic Assimilation: Are U.S. Latinos Maintaining their Grip on the Middle Class?
PSC CUNY 42 Research Award · with Sanders Korenman
2002–03
$6,000
Faculty Development Grants
Council for Research in the Social Sciences, Columbia University
1998
$15,000
Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (national competition)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
1997
$15,000
Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Dissertation Fellowship (national competition)
The Aspen Institute
1997
$10,000
Research Design Competition — Winner (national competition)
National Community Development Policy Analysis Network, Brookings Institution / Kennedy School, Harvard