Funding and Awards

RESEARCH GRANTS

External

Principal Investigator. The Policy Foundations of Care Work Penalties. Equitable Growth, $40,000. 2022-2023.

Principal Investigator. Measuring Care Provision in the United States. Hewlett Foundation, (co-PIs: Nancy Folbre and Shawn Fremstad), $50,000, 2021-2022.  

Co-Investigator. Global Family Change. National Science Foundation (PI: Hans-Peter Kohler), $385,000, 2017-2020

Co-Investigator. Trends in Couples’ Work and Patterns after Childbirth and Implications for Inequality: Evidence from the SIPP and Administrative Earnings.” Russell Sage Foundation (PI: Kelly Musick), $149,967, 2016-2018

Principal Investigator. Care and Housework for Sale. Class and Migration in the New Gender Division of Labor. Mellon-Wisconsin Foundation, $8,000, 2014

Principal Investigator. Care and Housework for Sale. Class and Migration in the New Gender Division of Labor. National Sciences Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant, $5,000, 2012-2013

Internal

Principal Investigator. The Impact of Medicaid Policies on Long-term Care Workers’ Economic Outcomes. Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, (co-Is: Norma Coe and Allison Hoffman), $19,500, 2021-2022.

Principal Investigator. The Care Work System. A Care Work Policy Database. Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, $4,600, 2021-2022.

Principal Investigator. The Persistent Feminization and Devaluation of Care Work, National Institute of Aging through Population Aging Research Center, PARC Pilot Award, $20,000, 2019-2021.

Principal Investigator. The Persistent Feminization and Devaluation of Care Work, Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships, $9,000, Summer 2019.

Co-Principal Investigator. The Political Economy of Gender Interdisciplinary Conference, University Research Foundation (co-PI: Dawn Teele), $3,000, 2018-2019.

Principal Investigator. After the Care Crisis: Debating New Policy Frameworks, FELS Policy Research Initiative, $10,000, 2018-2019.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2021    Named Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

2021    Nominee for the 2021 Rosabeth Kanter Award for Excellent Scholarship in Work and Family

2020    Graduate Mentor of the Year Award, Graduate Students Society at the University of Pennsylvania

2019    Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Award

2018    Nominee for the 2018 Rosabeth Kanter Award for Excellent Scholarship in Work and Family

2013    Visiting Scholar Fellowship, European University Institute (Italy), $6,000

2012    European Union Center of Excellence Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, $1,500

2012    Honored Instructor Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2011    Center for German and European Studies Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, $6,000

2011    Obra Social Sa Nostra, Graduate Studies Fellowship, $14,000

2008    Obra Social “La Caixa”, Graduate Studies Fellowship, $60,000

2008    Marie Curie Research Fellowship, $15,000

2007    Ramón Areces Foundation, Master’s Studies Fellowship. $20,000

2007    Bachelor’s Degree Award, University of Barcelona