Stephen Charney Vladeck Junior Faculty Fellowship

Overview

The Stephen Charney Vladeck Junior Faculty Fellowship assists junior NYU faculty in launching or completing substantial research in social justice, healthcare, labor law, labor history, and/or individual rights. The major emphasis of the research should be on urban problems. While the Selection Committee is particularly interested in work focused on New York City, it is not a requirement for consideration. The Fellowship is offered in honor of Stephen Charney Vladeck, who devoted his life to issues of labor, healthcare, social justice, and individual rights.

Each Fellow receives a one-time, non-renewable allocation of research funds in the amount of $26,000.  The Fellow must submit a brief final report that outlines the project's status and provides a detailed reconciliation of the spending of the funds one year after the allocation.

The fellowship is awarded in the academic year that follows the application period. 

Eligibility

Applicants must be full-time, tenure-track faculty members with the rank of assistant professor or above who have completed at least one year and no more than four years of full-time teaching (or its equivalent) at NYU.

A faculty member may submit only one proposal in a given academic year.

The Selection Committee notifies the winner by the end of April in the awarding year.

Criteria for Selection

  1. Relationship between the proposal and the Fellowship’s thematic emphasis areas.

  2. Clarity of conceptual definition, sound methodology, and a promise of significant contribution to the applicant’s field.

  3. Evidence of strong scholarly potential and commitment to teaching.

  4. Strength of evaluation letters.

 

The 2025 application will open on January 6, 2025 and will be due at the end of March.

 

2025 Selection Committee - To Be Announced

 

 

2023

Lauren Taylor- NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Urban Public Hospitals and the Creation of Healthcare Rights

2021

Julia Payson- NYU Arts & Science
Do Municipal Residency Requirements Improve Police-Civilian Relations?

2019

Jacob Faber- NYU Wagner
Not just a "Ghetto Tax" any more: Investigating two decades of change in the geography of financial services

2017

Sarah Cowan- NYU Department of Sociology
Assessing Pregnancy Intentions Within the Clinical Visit

2015

Rosalind Fredericks - Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Democratizing Infrastructure: Labor Rights and the Urban Poor in Dakar, Senegal

2014

Salo Coslovsky - NYU Wagner
Public Sector Unions and the Delivery of Public Services to the Poor: Obstacle or Opportunity?

2010

Natasha Iskander – NYU Wagner
Hidden Talent: Latino Immigration and the Politics of Skill

2009

Florencia Torche – Sociology FAS
Is a College Degree Still the Great Equalizer? Intergenerational Mobility across Levels of Schooling in the US

2008

Joe Magee – NYU Wagner
The Lens and Language of Power: Sense-Making and Communication in Times of Crisis

Kimberly Phillips-Fein – Gallatin School of Individualized Study
The New York City Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

2007

Erica Gabrielle Foldy – NYU Wagner
Team Learning and Effectiveness in Child Welfare Practice

2006

Eric Klinenberg – Sociology FAS
City News in an Age of Digital Production

2003

Katherine Fleming – History FAS
When Sephardim Become Romaniote: New York’s Kehlila Kadosha Yanina

2002

Dwight Denison – NYU Wagner
Nonprofit Debt: Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right?

Anna McCarthy – TSOA
Television Commercials and Industrial Relations, 1946-1960

2001

Ingrid Gould Ellen – NYU Wagner
Impact of Housing Investment and Crime on Neighborhood Property Values

2000

David Jacobson – NYU Wagner
Implementing School-to-Career Reform

Andrew Lee – Libraries
La Novela – Ideal and Gender Ideas in 1930’s Spain

1999

Eric Feldman – Institute of Law and Society
Mandatory HIV Testing: The Debate Reconsidered

1998

Jan Blustein – NYU Wagner
Improving End-of-Life Care Among the Elderly

Patricia Robinson – Stern
A Tale of Two Countries: American and Japanese Approaches to Downsizing

1997

Sandra Decker – NYU Wagner
Public Insurance and Health Outcomes for Children in New York

Gerard Ferguson – NYU Wagner
Tales of Criminality: Race, Violence, and Public Policy in Twentieth Century America

1995

Miriam Frank – SCE
General Studies Out in the Union: The Labor Movement and the Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights

1994

Amy Schwartz – NYU Wagner
New Yorkers and the Child Care Tax Credit

1993

Thelma Foote – History FAS
Black and White in Manhattan, 1625-1783: An Interpretation of Identity and Community in Colonial Society

1992

Edwin Amenta – Sociology FAS
Lost Ground: US Public Spending Policies in Depression and War

1991

Jo Dixon – Sociology FAS
The Effects of Sentencing Guidelines on Racial Difference in Pleas Bargaining and Sentencing

1990

Steven Perlmutter – Politics FAS
Intellectuals and Urban Protest: Extraparliamentary Politics in Turin, 1968- 1976