id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-005705 Sociologist receives NSF grant to study change over time in U.S. protest events | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 1028 29 42 Are there more protests for women’s rights relative to nearly a decade ago?” The data from Beyerlein and his colleagues’ National Study of Protest Events (NSPE) gave researchers the first nationally representative data of protest events and more complete information on a range of characteristics of protests. University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Sociologist receives NSF grant to study change over time in U.S. protest events Sociologist receives NSF grant to study change over time in U.S. protest events Published: January 14, 2020 Author: Tom Coyne Kraig Beyerlein Feature Kraig Beyerlein, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a $290,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study change over time in characteristics of protests in the United States, such as size, demographic composition, presence of counterdemonstrators and the use of disruptive tactics. cache/news-005705.html txt/news-005705.txt