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Cora Fernandez-Anderson: "The Impact of Social Movements and State Policy: Argentinean Movements in Comparative Perspective" Under what conditions do social movements have an impact on state policy? The goal of this project was to answer this question by exploring two different social movements (women's and human rights') in three countries: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The award given by the Center allowed Ms. Fernandez-Anderson to advance her research on this larger project by financing a trip to Chile in November 2007 in order to conduct interviews with movement members, local academics and government officials. |
Marcia Diaz: "A Multilevel Analysis of Asian American Voting in Presidential Elections, 1996 – 2004" Ms. Diaz used her grant to attend a Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) workshop. She is using HLM in her dissertation to study racial differences in individual voting behavior, with the goal of explaining Asian American voting behavior. HLM uniquely allows me to compare racial differences in voting within and across counties. |
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Shannon Drysdale Walsh: "A Woman Never Walks Alone: State Response to Violence Against Women in Latin America"This project compares state responsiveness to violence against women in Latin American countries, with focused case studies on Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. In the 1990's all Latin American countries signed international conventions and created domestic laws addressing violence against women. However, there is wide variation in the implementation of these laws. This project aims to understand why some countries have developed or failed to develop specialized institutions and improved practices to address this problem. |
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick: "Comparative Eradication Strategies in Contemporary Social Movements against Human Trafficking"Mr. Choi-Fitzpatrick received funding from the Center to participate in a conference on slavery and trafficking at the United Nation's in Vienna. There he had the opportunity to meet with a broad array of actors and extend several research projects, including an ongoing analysis of contemporary anti-slavery efforts within each of the world's major religions. |
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Bob Brenneman: "From 'Homie' to 'Hermano': Religious Conversion Among Central American Gang Members" With tattoos, secret hand signals and a penchant for violence, street gangs have grabbed headlines across Central America as violent crime rates have soared. Early research has focused on the social factors driving gang affiliation among youth from impoverished barrios, but little is known about what happens to aging gang members and why a minority abandon the gang in spite of serious risks for doing so. Mr. Brenneman’s CSSMSC grant financed a fourth and final trip to the region in late March and early April to interview additional ex-gang members and experts on the social-psychological processes involved in gang exit. |
Stephen Armet: "Whatever Happened to Liberation Theology" Mr. Armet received funding to support his research for a paper that uses liberation theology as a vehicle for analyzing social movement demobilization. Building on social movement organizational literature, a case history was developed of Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones in order to explore the consequences of formalization and professionalization on movement outcomes. |
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Christopher M. Sullivan: "Civil War and Civil Peace in Northern Ireland" How do situations of insecurity shape collective action? In 2009, Mr. Sullivan will conduct archival research on state repression in Northern Ireland. This project seeks to collect data on human rights abuses from unique NGO archives, which are currently being managed by the Radical Information Project. The disaggregated state repression data will then be used to estimate how conditions of security and insecurity shaped the ensuing distributions of violent and non-violent contentious events. |
Elizabeth E. Martinez: "Paths of Legitimacy" Ms. Martinez received funding from the Center in 2009, to conduct archival research in New York City regarding protest permitting disputes related to the 2003 anti-war protests and the street protests around the 2004 Republican National Convention. Martinez is continuing her analysis of how an increasingly narrow freedom of assembly is legitimated in the courts and the media, looking at testimony and evidence produced in the ongoing civil liberties lawsuits about the mass arrests and detainments that took place duringthe 2004 presidential convention. |
Notre Dame Social Movement Research Grant
A grant up to $500 is available to support research related activities for Notre Dame students. To be considered for the grant, fill in the information below and submit the following along with this form:
1. A one page maximum single spaced research proposal. Your research must be clearly related to the study of social movements. In your proposal, you must state how you expect your research to contribute to social movement scholarship.
2. Detailed expenses with justification for costs. The grant helps to cover the cost of research related materials, such as statistical software, books, databases, etc.
Submission Deadlines: None – applications are accepted throughout the academic year until funds are depleted.
Application
Notre Dame Social Movement Travel Grant
A grant up to $1500 is available to support research related travel for Notre Dame students. To be considered for the grant, fill in the information below and submit the following along with this form:
1. A two page maximum single spaced research proposal. Your research must be clearly related to the study of social movements. In your proposal, you must state how you expect your research to contribute to social movement scholarship.
2. Detailed budget with justification for costs. The grant covers travel to field sites for ethnographic research as well as to libraries, other archives, and training centers.
Submission Deadlines: March 15th and October 15th
Application
The Center has been able to support the research work of several graduate students at the University of Notre Dame with small grants throughout this past year. Below is a brief reporting from those students on their specific projects.