Social Sciences Award Recipients
2023 - 2024
| Name | Department, School/College | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Catalina Kopetz | Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The unintended consequences of using electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) as healthier alternative to cigarettes |
| Young-Ro Yoon | Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Debt Buybacks as Signaling Mechanism: Promoting Sovereign Debt Relief Program Participation under Asymmetric Information |
| Athena Kheibari | Social Work, School of Social Work | Experiences with Suicide Exposure Among Criminal Defense Practitioners and Opportunities to Mitigate Client Suicide Risk |
| Siying Guo | Criminology and Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Online Harassment across Social Media Platforms: Examinations of Harassment-related Posts using Deep Learning Methods |
| Olivenne Skinner | Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute | Can skin-deep resilience be found in the Detroit Intergenerational Adversity & Development Study? |
| Ewa Golebiowska | Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The intersection of gender, race or ethnicity, and age in voters’ responses to candidates for elective office |
| Julie Wargo Aikins | Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, School of Medicine and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute | Stability and change in mother's disrupted representations of their child over the pre- to post-natal time period: Predictive factors and their impact on maternal caregiving and child adaptation |
2021 - 2022
Total Awards - 9 Awards @ $10,000 each totaling $90,000
| Name | Department/School/College | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Stoycheff | Communication, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts | A Large-scale Test of Third-Person Effects for Fake News: Navigating Public Attitudes toward Disinformation and Content Regulation on Social Media |
| Lisa Panisch | School of Social Work | Beyond the Baby Blues: A Pilot Intervention to Enhance Parenting and Mental Health in Trauma-Exposed New Mothers |
| Francesca Pernice | Theoretical and Behavioral Foundations, College of Education | Cortisol Response to Psychosocial Stress Following Trauma Exposure: The Role of Subjective Perceptions of Trauma |
| Tim Bogg | Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Experimental tests of message frames, message sources, and financial incentives on preventive pandemic behaviors |
| Stephanie Tong | Communication, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts | Increasing Students' Emergency Preparedness in Urban Universities |
| Christine Hancock | Teacher Education, College of Education | Collaboratively Co-designed Literacy Experiences |
| Zachary Brewster | Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Waiting Tables While Black: The Trials and Tribulations of Black Restaurant Servers |
| David Goldberg | African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Organizational Emergence: A Case Study of Detroit Will Breathe |
| Yulya Truskinovsky | Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Accessing Education in Detroit: Neighborhood Safety, School Choice, and Attendance |