Grantee: Mary Ellen Brown, Louisiana State University
Grant Amount: $25,000
Dissertation Title: Investing in the Civic Economy: Social Capital and Choice Neighborhoods

Grantee: Bell Clement, The George Washington University
Grant Amount: $25,000
Dissertation Title: Creative Federalism, Empowered Citizens: Shaping the Great Society City

Grantee: Michael Gedal, New York University
Grant Amount: $25,000
Dissertation Title: Housing Affordability, the Holdout Problem, and Land Use Regulations

Grantee: Hye-Sung Han, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Grant Amount: $24,964
Dissertation Title: The Impacts Abandoned Properties Impose Upon Neighborhoods

Grantee: Megan Heckert, Temple University
Grant Amount: $25,000
Dissertation Title: The Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice Impacts of Greening Vacant Lots: An Integrated Spatial Assessment of Urban Revitalization and Sustainability Outcomes

Grantee: Julie Hilvers, Loyola University Chicago
Grant Amount: $25,000
Dissertation Title: Neighborhood Satisfaction and Mobility Patterns Among the Currently and Formerly Homeless: A Study of Chicago's Residential Homelessness System

Grantee: Nancy Hood, The Ohio State University
Grant Amount: $24,949
Dissertation Title: Smoke-Free Policies in Subsidized Housing

Grantee: Tanja Kubas-Meyer, Brandeis University
Grant Amount: $25,000
Dissertation Title: Impact of Rental Housing on Asset Development: Low-Income Female-Headed Households

Grantee: Carrie Makarewicz, University of California
Grant Amount: $24,907
Dissertation Title: Examining the Influence of the Urban Environment on Parent's Time and Resources for Engagement in Their Children's Learning

Grantee: Carrie E. Menendez, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Grant Amount: $24,115
Dissertation Title: Assessing the Role of Universities as Agents of Urban Change: Measuring and Classifying Inter-Institutional Urban Development Collaborations and Engagement

Grantee: Reuben Miller, Loyola University Chicago
Grant Amount: $25,000
Dissertation Title: Halfway Home: An Ethnographic Study of Ex-Offender Community Reintegration

Grantee: Kelly Owens, University of New Orleans
Grant Amount: $17,075
Dissertation Title: Examining Social Relations in Mixed-Income Communities: An Examination of Individual Processes and Social Mechanisms that Shape Neighbor Interaction

Grantee: Kathleen Powell, University of Maryland Baltimore
Grant Amount: $20,386
Dissertation Title: In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: Neighborhood Relations in a College Town

Grantee: Darrel Ramsey-Musolf, University of Wisconsin
Grant Amount: $24,865
Dissertation Title: An Evaluation of Municipal Effort to Provide Low-Income Housing

Grantee: Eva Rosen, Harvard University
Grant Amount: $25,000
Dissertation Title: The End of Poverty, or the Emergence of the Horizontal Ghetto? Post-Public Housing, Spatial Concentration and Young Adult Transition in Baltimore

Grantee: Amy Starecheski, Research Foundation of City University of New York
Grant Amount: $13,742
Dissertation Title: From Squatters to Homeowners: Civic Engagement, Property, and Social Networks in a Time of Crisis

Grantee: Karen G. Williams, City University of New York
Grant Amount: $24,997
Dissertation Title: From Coercion to Consent?: Governing the Formerly Incarcerated in the 21st Century United States