"The Mexican Maid's Daughter," Faculty Grant-in-Aid, Arizona State University, Summer, 1997.

"Exploring Intergroup Relations: A Multidisciplinary Initiative Pre-Proposal," with Marjorie S. Zatz, Lisa Flores, Michael Hecht, Steven Neuberg, Eric Margolis, Flavio Marsiglia, Felipe Castro, Thomas Davis, Anthony Hernandez; Office of the Provost, Arizona State University. (1996)

Research Grant, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University (1995-96)

Summer Stipend, University of Oregon. "A Life Story of a Mexican Maid's Daughter: The Modern Version of Race, Class and Gender Issues Represented in 'Imitation of Life'." (1993)

Center for the Study on Women in Society, University of Oregon, Large Grants Program. "Women's Lives and Accounts of the Western Coal Mines" (with Eric Margolis). (July, 1991 - June, 1992)

Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Small Grants Program. "Status of Graduate Student Women of Color in Sociology." (April, 1991)

United States Census Bureau, Center for Survey Methods Research. "Ethnographic Evaluation of Behavioral Causes of Census Undercounts of Undocumented Immigrant and Salvadorean in the Mission District, San Francisco, CA." (1989-1991)

Spencer Foundation Grant. "The Career Paths and Social Mobility of Chicano Faculty in Academia." (September, 1989)

California Policy Seminar, Policy Research Program, Faculty Research Collaborator, "The Social Organization of New Immigrant Households: Implications for State Policy." (June, 1989-91)

Business and Professional Women's Foundation. Sally Butler Memorial Fund for Latina Research Grant. Chicana Domestic workers Study. (1983)

University of Wisconsin-Parkside Committee on Research and Creative Activity (CRCA) Grant to analyze pilot study on youth participation in the labor force (with Anne Statham, 1983)

University of Wisconsin-Parkside CRCA. Summer stipend awarded for study on The Oral History of Las Gorras Blancas and their Successors," (1982)

University of Wisconsin-Parkside CRCA. Grant to develop a proposal to study the U.S. Army Purgatory River Project Impact on Native Americans and Hispanic Ethnographic Resources (with Richard Stoffle) (1981).

Provost Office, University of Oregon, Grant for Lecture Series "Race Theory: Women's Voices and New Paradigms." (Winter, 1994)

Council on Minority Education, University of Oregon, "Empowerment Workshops for Students of Color in a Predominately White Institution." (Winter, 1992)

Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Curriculum Grant Program. "Women's Narratives: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives" (with Joanne Taylor). (Fall, 1990)

Pew Teaching Leadership Award, National Conference on the Teaching and Employment of Teaching Assistants, University of Washington, Seattle (1989)

National Association for Chicano Studies. Grant to develop "Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Latino Studies Courses in Sociology" (1989)

Ford Foundation Project on Women and Gender in the Curriculum in Newly Coeducational Institutions. Lecture Series on Gender Studies and Latin American, Yale University (with Nick Shumway and Micaela di Leonardo). (1987)

Ford Foundation Project on Women and Gender in the Curriculum in Newly/Coeducational Institutions. Multi-Ethnic Women's Studies, Yale University: Interpersonal Dynamics, Research Dilemmas, Pedagogy, and Feminism (With Mahzaarin Banaji, Ella Bell, Kim Blankenship, Nancy Cott, and Kathryn Daly) (1987)

National Association for Chicano Studies. Grant to develop "Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Chicano Studies Courses in Sociology." (1985)

University of Wisconsin-Parkside Grant to develop "Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Chicano Studies Courses in Sociology." (1984)

American Sociological Association Teaching Resource Center. Grant to develop "Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Chicano Studies Courses in Sociology." (1984)

University of Wisconsin-Parkside Exxon Grant. Proposal to develop a series of research Colloquia on Race and Ethnicity (with Marvin Dawkins, Lionel Maldonado, Ronald Pavalko). (1981)

University of Wisconsin-Parkside, CRCA. Grant to develop Classroom Audio Visual Aids, (1982)