AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS

2014. Social Science Research Institute, Penn State, Research Grant, Title: "A Longitudinal Exploration of the Role of Neighborhoods and Inter-Neighborhood Connectivity on Teenage Risk and Violence”

2012. American Sociological Association's  Graduate Student Paper Award, runner-up from the Children and Youth Section.

2012-2013. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program,  Research Seed Grant for project on "Housing, Jobs, and Health."

2011-2013. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

2010-2011. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant.

2010-2011. Taubman Center Urban Dissertation Fellowship, from the Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

2010. American Sociological Association's Student Paper Award, honorable mention from the Community and Urban Sociology Section.

2010. Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences Travel Award, Harvard University 

2010. Center for American Political Studies Summer Award

2009-2010. Center for American Political Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard University

2009-2010. GSAS Eliot Fellowship, Harvard University.

2009. Travel award for presentation of dissertation chapter at Capturing Context:   Bridging Spatial and Network Analyses Conference, Columbia University, New York City, June 12 – 13, organized by Gina Lovasi, jimi adams, and   Peter Bearman. Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson's Health and Society Scholars Program .

2009. Project for Justice, Welfare, and Economics Summer Grant, at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

2008-2009. Project for Justice, Welfare, and Economics Dissertation Research Fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

2008. Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative Research Grant.

2008. Urban Policy and Governance Summer Award at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

2008. Hauser Center Research Grant for "The Role of Nonprofits in the Lives of Urban Dwellers: A Qualitative Exploration" (with Van Tran), Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

2007. Howard T. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Geographic Information Science (GIS)

2007. Travel Award to the Immigration Workshop in Manchester UK, from the Center  for European Studies, Harvard University.

2005. Certificate in GIS and Population Science and Travel Award, from the Population Research, Institute and Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.

2004, 2005. Summer Research Award, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

2003-2005. Graduate Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

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