Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College Sort descending | Grant Type |
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Erika | Abbott | Sociology | The Modified Child Tax Credit and Social Recognition among American Families | Using qualitative semi-structured interviews, this project is an investigation into the destigmatization process families may face via monthly cash benefits as a part of the new expanded Child Tax Credit. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Angel | Escamilla García | Einaudi Center for International Studies | Transit Migration in Mexico After the Covid-19 Pandemic: New Policies, New migrants but Same Precarity | This research will investigate the impact that the COVID-19 has had on migrant minors on transit through Mexico to the United States. The researcher will explore how violence and precariousness against children have been exacerbated during the 2020 global pandemic. |
2022 | Spring | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | Rallying Behavior in Response to War: Lessons from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine | This study investigates the dynamics of rally-around-the-flag in a nondemocracy, drawing on evidence from Russia's war against Ukraine. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Amiel | Bize | Anthropology | Indexing Environments: Risk, Value, and Experimentation in the Era of Climate Change | This project examines “index-based insurance” (IBI)—a response to climate-induced risks for farmers and herders in the Global South. Examining IBI as an experimental technology that straddles development and finance, it explores the implications of IBI’s framing of risk, environment, and social life. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Evangelista | Government | Unexplored paths to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | What makes certain conflicts intractable, and how can we resolve them? To attain coexistence, we must understand why and how conflicts, like the Israeli-Palestinian one, become existential – being not merely about “us vs. them,” but about both sides believing “it’s either us or them." |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Prosecutorial Discretion & Perceptions of Place: How Neighborhoods Matter in Juvenile Cases | Through in-depth interviews and participatory mapping, this study investigates the process of prosecutorial discretion, focusing on the influence of spatial stigma on charging offers for juvenile offenders and answering the question: how do attorneys perceive the role of neighborhoods in their approach to prosecuting juvenile cases? |
2022 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | Risky Politics and Political Participation under Authoritarian Rule | In nondemocracies, protest participation, voting for the opposition, and even abstaining from supporting regime candidates entail risks. This project investigates how risk attitudes shape political participation under authoritarian rule and how ordinary citizens overcome their baseline aversion to taking political risks. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Natasha | Raheja | Anthropology | Majority-Minority Politics across the India-Pakistan Border | How do majorities come to imagine themselves as minorities? Conversely, how do minorities come to imagine justice as part of majorities? Focusing on immigration policy in South Asia, my project argues that majority-minority politics exceed state borders, in ways that are not nation bound. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Dynamic Propagation in Production Networks | It takes time to move intermediate inputs along supply chains. The goal of this paper is to integrate this fact in a modern production network macroeconomic model and to evaluate its importance for the dynamic propagation of shocks. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Katherine | Tschida | Psychology | Role of Social Touch in Regulating Susceptibility to Isolation-induced Aggression. | Social isolation increases aggression in men and women, but studies of isolation-induced aggression have historically focused on males. We propose a novel paradigm for isolation-induced aggression in female mice to test the role of social touch in regulating susceptibility and resilience to social isolation. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Tessa | Tessa Evans | Government | To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance | Under what conditions do insurgents challenge local gender norms during conflict? Examining armed groups in South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Sahel, I suggest rebels challenge gender norms to undermine rival elites and empower marginalized sub-sections of the population, reducing the likelihood of population-wide resistance. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Donny | Persaud | Science & Technology Studies | Overcoming place from outer space: Constructing global internet connectivity through low-earth-orbit satellite internet infrastructure | My project examines how the introduction of low-earth-orbit satellite internet infrastructure reshapes relationships between technology, place, and nature. I do so by tracing the challenges in providing satellite internet services, the impacts of satellite constellations on astronomical research, and how this infrastructure challenges existing environmental protections. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Grace | Beals | Government | Debt and Death: Looking at Fringe Credit Use During COVID-19 | Did stimulus checks change low-income consumers' use of predatory financial services? I interview payday loan borrowers in New York and Michigan to ask about their experience using alternative financial products and about their use of the stimulus checks. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Ivy | Gilbert | Psychology | Qualitative analysis of dairy-industry discourse on Instagram | This project analyzes visual and textual features in a small corpus of Instagram posts by dairy farmers to explore the persuasive role of social media in the discursive construction of dairy farming. Implications for moral evaluations of animals and farming practices are discussed. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Peter | Rich | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's license suspensions, legal debt, and the reproduction of inequality | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Maureen | Waller | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's license suspensions, legal debt, and the reproduction of inequality | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Aaron | Childree | American Politics | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Douglas | Kriner | American Institutions | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Nicolas | Bottan | Economics | Redistribution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT promise significant productivity improvements, but they may also reduce the importance of human capital and labor, further concentrating power and wealth in the hands of the rich. The authors investigate views on inequality and support for economic policies in an AI dominated economy. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Caitie | Barrett | Classics | Modeling Space and Experience at Pompeii | 2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Stephen | Vider | History | On Our Own: Deinstitutionalization and the Politics of Care | On Our Own traces the impact of deinstitutionalization—the release of people with mental illnesses and disabilities from state-run institutions—to reveal how efforts to repair state systems of mental healthcare were reshaped by the convergence of patient activism and privatization after World War II. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Imane | Terhmina | Romance Studies | Semantic Mapping of Indigeneity Through Computational Modeling of Nineteenth-Century French-Language | We intend to build a digital corpus of French-language documents related to indigeneity in the 19th century, and use both computational methods (NLP/CL) and interpretive tools to understand the ideological biases associated with textual representations of “indigeneity”, from its colonial genesis to its post-colonial recuperation. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Helena | Aparicio | Linguistics | Adaptation, Social Coordination & Pragmatic Inference | Linguistic interactions display spontaneous self-organizing behavior, pragmatic inference being the epitome of such coordinative behavior. However not much is known about cognitive mechanisms supporting coordination. The current project argues that adaptation is one of the mechanisms deployed by listeners to resolve pragmatic coordination problems. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Oumar | Ba | Government | Against Humanity: Race, Empire, and the Liberal International Order | This project reconstructs the emergence of the current global justice regime and argues that the Liberal International Order is built upon the denial of humanity through a layered racial hierarchy of humanness. Using archival research, it focuses on the drafting and adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights amidst the French campaign of “pacification” in Madagascar; the UN Trusteeship Council as a site of legislation and contestation of nuclear imperialism in the Pacific; and the prosecution of the crimes against peace at the Tokyo Tribunal. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Hongyuan | Xia | Economics | Dancing with Stars or Crowded out by Stars: Superstar Firms’ Effect on AI Adoption | Does the superstar firms’ adoption of AI foster or deter other firms’ adoption of AI? There are two competing mechanisms: imitation and competition. By using comprehensive job posting data and a novel instrumental variable, this study will examine the empirical salience of these competing effects of superstar firms on the AI adoption process. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life (April 2024 Conference) | This conference explores how women effected change across Asia engaging in everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation and consumption; participants will bring to light how such “domestic” practices had significant impact on “public spaces,” and created spaces for women’s autonomy and agency. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Suyoung | Son | Asian Studies | Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life (April 2024 Conference) | This conference explores how women effected change across Asia engaging in everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation and consumption; participants will bring to light how such “domestic” practices had significant impact on “public spaces,” and created spaces for women’s autonomy and agency. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Adam | Anderson | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Cindy | Hazan | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Randy | Lee | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Wicia | Fang | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Intergroup Loss Aversion | This research uses an economic model of choice behavior and psychophysiological measures of arousal to examine sensitivity to losses for racial ingroup vs. outgroup members, with a discussion of implications for racial disparities at the interpersonal and national level. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Economics, Brooks School of Public Policy | Assessing the Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Healthcare Access in Rural Communities | This project evaluates the effectiveness of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) to address health disparities among underserved rural youth using de-identified individual-level panel data on patient visits to healthcare providers. The study focuses on 4 high-poverty rural counties in New York, comparing healthcare for children in 16 school districts with SBHCs to those in 22 school districts without. We will assess how SBHCs help poor rural communities by bringing health services directly to children to enhance rural community health. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Caitie | Barrett | Classics | Exploring the Domestic Impact of Roman Imperialism at Pompeii | This archaeological excavation examines the impact of the Roman conquest on ancient households at Pompeii, a city originally governed by a non-Roman Italic people. This critical analysis of domestic space intervenes in archaeological and anthropological discourse on imperialism, inequality, and identity in the ancient Mediterranean. |
2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Bateman | Government | Congress & History Conference | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Joseph | Lasky | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Shirley | Le Penne | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Uriel | Abulof | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Leila | Wilmers | Sociology | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Ernesto | Bassi | History | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Mara Yue | Du | History | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Viranjini | Munasinghe | Anthropology | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Irina R. | Troconis | Romance Studies | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Alexandra | Blackman | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Louis-Philippe | Brochu | Government | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant |
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