Her paper uses more than two decades of General Social Survey data to show that workplace gender discrimination is concentrated among women supervisors in large organizations, while race, education, marital status, and parenthood reshape these patterns in distinct ways.
The Russell Sage DRG program supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas.
Jyun-Jie Yang's paper, "Bounded Desirability: How Anti-Blackness Shapes Interracial Intimacy Among and Between Queer Men of Color" has been selected as the winner of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Graduate Student Paper Award in the Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities division.
Jennifer Krebsbach was awarded the Jane Permaul Women in Leadership Scholarship by the University Credit Union for her leadership, academic achievement, and commitment to her community.
Patrick Wade was awarded the Best Research Innovation Award for his presentation, "The Logic(s) of a Dissent: Federal Reserve Decision-Making" at the 2026 Computational Social Science Escape conference.
Yao Lu received the 2025-2026 Provost's Dissertation Year Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for her dissertation titled, "Enumerating Race and Ethnicity: Statecraft, Violence, and Belonging in Post-Colonial Zambia and Zimbabwe."
Jennifer Krebsbach has received the Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award of the Pacific Sociological Association for her paper titled, “Firewomen ‘Promote a Culture of Safety,’ but Firemen ‘Face Hazardous and Unpredictable Situations’: Gendered Job Description Narrative Outputs by Large Language Models.”
Jennifer Krebsbach won Best Research Award for her work "Analyzing Gendered Job Description Narrative Outputs by LLMs: When Computational Methods Analyze the Results, But Miss the Context" at the CSS Escape 2025 hosted by UC Davis' CSS DE, Center for AI and Experimental Futures (CAIEF), and AI Center in Engineering.
