Research

Peer-reviewed articles

Shoshana Shapiro. Inequality of the Safety Net: The Rural-Urban Spectrum, County-Level Poverty, and Nonprofit Human Services Expenditures. 2021. Social Service Review.

  • Honorable Mention, Kathryn Luke Best Graduate Paper Award, U-M Department of Sociology

 

Kim Hess, Erin McAuliffe, Miriam Gleckman-Krut, and Shoshana Shapiro. 2021. Learning from 2020: How the Challenges of Remote Teaching Reinforce the Need for Care-Informed Pedagogy. Teaching Sociology. 

 

Nathan Wright, Marylee Scherdt, Michelle Abersoldt, Marjorie McCullagh, Barbara Medvec, Chad Ellimoottil, Minal Patel, Shoshana Shapiro, and Christopher Friese. 2021. Rural Michigan Farmers’ Health Concerns and Experiences: A Focus Group Study. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

 

Samantha Iovan, Paula M. Lantz, and Shoshana Shapiro. 2018. “Pay for Success” Projects: Financing Interventions That Address Social Determinants of Health in 20 Countries. American Journal of Public Health.

Manuscripts under review

Shoshana Shapiro. Racial Inequality in Access to the Safety Net: County-Level Racial and Ethnic Composition and Nonprofit Human Services Expenditures.

  • Honorable Mention, Mark Chesler Graduate Paper Award, U-M Department of Sociology

Shoshana Shapiro and Aayu Jain (student co-author). Human Services Deserts?: Nonprofit Human Services Safety Net Provision in Possible Human Services Desert Counties.

Works in progress

Shoshana Shapiro and Scott Allard. Measuring the Association Between Federal Income Transfer Program Expenditures and Nonprofit Human Services Expenditures.

Shoshana Shapiro. Measuring the Association Between Community Services Block Grant Provider Locations, County-Level Poverty, and Material Hardship. 

Shoshana Shapiro, Jessica Hale, and Bridgette Sullivan. Analyzing Geographic Equity in Discretionary Federal Human Services Programs: Case Studies of the Rural Community Development Grant Program and the Community Economic Development Grant Program.

Shoshana Shapiro and Aayu Jain (student co-author). Large-Scale Mixed-Methods Research Design in Rural Health and Human Services Research.

External Grants and Awards

Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Dissertation Grant

2021

Annie E. Casey Foundation Rural Poverty Research Fellowship

2018

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2016

Harry S. Truman Scholarship

2010