Doctoral Student Fellowship

Each year the CCYP awards competitive fellowships to two UCB graduate students advanced to candidacy whose dissertation focuses on a child or youth policy issue. Reflecting the diversity of the faculty affiliated with the CCYP, the fellowships are designed to attract students from any discipline on campus.

Past recipients of the CCYP Dissertation fellowship are listed below. Instructions for application for the 2011-2012 fellowships are available here. Applications are due by February 29, 2012.

2010-2011

Yolanda Anyon, School of Social Welfare

School-Based Support Services: Reducing or Reproducing Inequality in Education? ABSTRACT

Kenzo Sung, Graduate School of Education

Imperial Eyes on the Prize: American and British Educational Reforms, National Discourses and Legacies of Empire in the Postwar Era ABSTRACT

2009-2010

Emily Putnam-Horstein, School of Social Welfare

Do accidents happen? An examination of injury mortality among maltreated children ABSTRACT

Katie Schmidt Raher, Graduate School of Education

Preschool Teacher Practices and the Prevention of Reading Difficulties ABSTRACT

2008-2009

Sunyoung Jung, School of Social Welfare

The effects of maternal employment on parenting behaviors of low-income mothers: The "parental economic stress" model and the "work-to-family spillover" model ABSTRACT

Erika Weissinger, Goldman School of Public Policy

Reasons for Attrition Among Public Adoption Seekers: Findings from interviews with individuals who did not complete the process ABSTRACT