AWARDS

  • Russell Sage Foundation Fellow. ”How Diversity Programs Affect University Faculty.” 2019-2020.
  • 2017 Harvard Business Review's McKinsey Award for "Why Diversity Programs Fail."
  • 2017 Academy of Management: Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior.
  • Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, 2014-15.
  • American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for Inventing Equal Opportunity, 2012.
  • Max Weber Award for Inventing Equal Opportunity (Americal Sociological Association: Organizations, Occupations and Work Section). 2010.
  • Inventing Equal Opportunity selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice Magazine.
  • Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow, Cambridge, MA. 2006-07.
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. 2006-07.
  • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow, 2002-03.
  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research for "Civil Rights Law at Work" with Erin Kelly. (Boston College Center for Work and Family/Purdue University Center for Families). 2000.
  • Mary Parker Follett Award for "Civil Rights Law at Work" with Erin Kelly. (American Political Science Association, Politics and History Section). 2000.
  • Russell Sage Foundation Resident Scholar, Fall 1998.
  • Max Weber Award for Forging Industrial Policy (American Sociological Association: Organizations, Occupations and Work Section). 1996.
  • Fellow, Danish Social Research Council and Copenhagen Business School, Institute of Organization, fall 1994.
  • Fellow, Institut International de Paris, La Difense, January 1994.
  • National Research Award. NIMH Organizational Research Fellowship, 1983-85.
  • Ph.D. Qualifying Examination. Distinction. Stanford University, 1983.

 

GRANTS

  • U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. “How Do Crises Affect Faculty Diversity?” Co-Principal Investigators A. Kalev and F. Dobbin. 2021-2024.
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. “Synthesizing Findings from Sloan’s Working Longer Program for Academic Leaders.” Co-Principal Investigators F. Dobbin and A. Kalev. 2019-21.
  • U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation.  “Effects of Equal Opportunity Litigation.”  Co-Principal Investigators A. Kalev and F. Dobbin.  2015-2017.
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award.  SES-1519074. “The Development of Corporate Personhood Law In Comparative Perspective, 1886-2014.”  Carly Knight (Ph.D. Candidate) and Frank Dobbin (Advisor). 2015-16.
  • National Science Foundation Grant. DGE-1444586. “Effects of ADVANCE in the STEM Disciplines: Faculty Diversity, Women in Leadership, and Institutional Transformation.”  Co-Principal Investigators F. Dobbin and A. Kalev.  2014-17.
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. “The Retention and Promotion of Women and Minority Faculty in STEM Disciplines: Effects of Institutional Hiring, Promotion, Diversity and Work-Life Initiatives, 1993-2013.” Co-Principal Investigators F. Dobbin and A. Kalev. 2013-15.
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award. SES-1301627. “DDR: The Causes of Divergent Banking Regulation, 1988-2006.” Kimberly Pernell (Ph.D. Candidate) and Frank Dobbin (Advisor).  2013-14.
  • National Science Foundation Grant. SES-1247059. "The Retention and Promotion of Women and Minority Faculty Members: Effects of Institutional Hiring, Promotion, Diversity and Work-Life Initiatives, 1993-2008." Co-Principal Investigators: F. Dobbin and A. Kalev. 2012-13.
  • Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.  Sabbatical Leave Fellowship. 2011.
  • National Science Foundation Grant. SES-1023279 "Workforce Diversity and Corporate Performance.”  Co-Principal Investigators: F. Dobbin and A. Kalev. NSF Innovation and Organizational Sciences, Law and Social Sciences, and Sociology Programs. 2010-12.
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award 0926934. Jiwook Jung (Ph.D. Candidate) and Frank Dobbin (Advisor). “Shareholder Value and the New American Workplace: Investor-Driven Downsizing, 1980-2007”. 2009-10.
  • National Science Foundation Grant. SES-0620534 "Equal Opportunity Innovations at Work: Mechanisms for Reducing Job Segregation." NSF Innovation and Organizational Change, Sociology and Law and Social Science Programs. 2006-10.
  • Russell Sage Foundation Grant. " Diversity Programs at Work: Corporate Activities and Workforce Composition." 2002-04.
  • National Science Foundation Grant, SES-0336642. "Affirmative Action at Work: Corporate Compliance Activities and Workforce Composition." NSF Sociology and Law and Social Science Programs. 2001-04.
  • Russell Sage Foundation Grant. "The New Economic Sociology: Two Conferences to Take Stock of the Field." 2001-02.
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. "Employment Law and Corporate Work-Family Practices." 1999-2001.
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award SBR-9811431. Jason Kaufman (Ph.D. Candidate) and Frank Dobbin (Advisor). "Civic Associationalism and Municipal Social Spending in the Late Nineteenth Century French, English, and American Cities." 1998-99.
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. "The Evolution of Corporate Work-Family Policies in the United States." 1997-99.
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award SBR-9701512. Erin Kelly (Ph.D. Candidate) and Frank Dobbin (Advisor). Work/Family Policies in American Organizations. 1997-98.
  • National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9631604. From the Rights Revolution to Reengineering: The Construction of Corporate Departments. 1996-99.
  • National Science Foundation Grant SES-9011005. "Public policy and Business Strategy: Railway Foundings, Failures, and Firm Structure in Massachusetts, 1825-1925." 1990-94.
  • Boeing Corporation Fund, Center of International Studies. "Transport Policy in the European Community," 1992.
  • Princeton University Committee on Research Grants. 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994.
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Princeton University. Colloquium series fund. "Culture and Public Institutions," 1989-90.
  • University Research Fellowship. Indiana University, 1987-88.
  • Co-investigator. National Science Foundation Grant SES-8511250. "Legalization in Organizations: The Expanding Formalization of the Employment Relation." With J. Meyer, W.R. Scott, and J. Sutton, 1985-88.
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant SES-8506141. "Industrial Policy in Britain, France, and the United States," F. Dobbin (Ph.D. Candidate) and J.W. Meyer (Advisor). 1985-86.
  • Honors Thesis Research Grant. Oberlin College. "New Religious Cults in America," 80.