Call Description

Introduction: The Russell Sage Foundation's program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration supports innovative investigator-initiated research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status-and their interactions with each other and other social categories-in the social, economic, and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.

General Description: This call encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods that strengthen the data, theory, and methods of social science research. It aims to improve our understanding of how to foster the ideals of a pluralist society. Proposals may focus on any one or more of the issues-race, ethnicity, and/or immigration. RSF prioritizes analyses that make use of newly available data or demonstrate novel uses of existing data. The foundation supports original data collection when a project is focused on important program priorities, including survey or field experiments and qualitative studies.

Objectives:

• Examine the impact of race, ethnicity, and immigration on social, economic, and political outcomes.
• Foster interdisciplinary collaboration and methodological variety.
• Enhance understanding of how to promote a pluralist society.

Other Relevant Aspects:

• Projects must have well-developed conceptual frameworks and rigorous research designs.
• Analytical models must be well-specified, and research methods must be appropriate.
• RSF seldom supports studies focused on health or mental health outcomes or educational processes but prioritizes analyses of inequalities in student achievement or educational attainment.

Project Duration: Up to 2 years.

Funding can be used for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. Trustee Grants are capped at $200,000, including 15% indirect costs, over a two-year period. Presidential Awards are capped at $50,000 (no indirect costs) over a two-year period. However, when research projects have special needs for gathering data (e.g., qualitative research or survey experiments), gaining access to proprietary or restricted-use data, or when the proposal budget includes salary support for multiple assistant professor PIs, applicants may request up to $75,000 (no indirect costs).

A brief letter of inquiry (LOI; four-page maximum excluding references) must precede a full proposal to determine whether the proposed project is in line with the Foundation's program priorities and available funds. All applications must be submitted through the Foundation's online submission system

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