Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort descending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Mass Politics and Policy in Russia and China | The edited volume that emerged from the workshop was published this year by Oxford University Press, titled: Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Russia & China. |
2015 | 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 | |
Mary | Katzenstein | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. |
2016-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Minqi | Chai | Government | Capital Xenophobia, Trade Rationalization: Two Sides of the "China Shock" | Through archival research, Chai intended to explore Australia’s mixed political responses to Japanese expansive economic influence in the 1980s and 1990s and anti-Americanism in the 1960s and 1970s. The funding enabled her to buy necessary equipment for further archival research and printing services. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant |
Adi | Rao | 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 | |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Devra | Moehler | Government | Media Effects and Political Knowledge in Africa | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Devra | Moehler | Government | Tune in to Governance: An Experimental Investigation of Radio Campaigns in Africa | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Trevor | Brown | 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 | |
Hui Yuan | Neo | 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 | |
Shirley | Le Penne | Government | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Joseph | Lasky | Government | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Outputs to Outcomes: Poverty, Race and Transformative Public Policy | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Jamila | Michener | Government | Medicaid and the Politics of the Poor | This grant supported the research that culminated in a book entitled, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The book won the 2019 Virgina Gray best book award from the American Political Science Association and established the foundation for a current grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (for over $400k) that represents a key extension of this work. Fragmented Democracy has been the basis for more than two dozen invited talks and presentations and has been cited in New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and many other outlets. | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarin Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexandra | Cirone | Government | A Citizens’ Assembly in Ithaca: Deliberative Democracy and Local Policymaking | The fellowship allowed for substantial progress on a book for Cambridge Elements in Political Economy, focusing on the use of lotteries and citizens' assemblies in democratic governance, entitled "Lotteries and Democracy". |
2021-2022 | 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 |
Christopher | Way | Government | Understanding Bioweapons Proliferation | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Steven | Ward | Government | Status and the Politics of National Decline | Research has been delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I plan to complete the funded research by next summer. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
Douglas | Kriner | Government | Presidential Politics in an Era of Democratic Disruption | This conference examines how presidential politics have helped precipitate and in turn been shaped by troubling trends in democratic governance in the United States and around the world. Papers will be published in a special issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeremy | Wallace | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 2016-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Claudine | Gay | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarian Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2008 | Fall | 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 | |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Access Denied: Poverty, Politics, and Civil Legal Representation | This grant supported the research that culminated in an article entitled, “Power from the Margins: Grassroots Mobilization and Urban Expansions of Civil Rights” (Urban Affairs Review, 2019). The work on this project continues and will culminate in a book. I have already given over a dozen invited talks based on this research and collaborated with a national organization (the Justice Collaborative Institute) to write a related policy report. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne | Mettler | Government | How Health Care Policy Shapes Public Opinion: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Over Time | This grant helped fund collection of panel data (now 5 waves over 10 years), and publication of “When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion,” with Lawrence R. Jacobs, Perspectives on Politics. June 2018, Vol. 16 (2). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Andrew | Mertha | Government | Rectification, Thought Reform, and Political Education in Khmer Rouge Liberated Zones (1970-1975) and Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Anne Marie | Smith | Government | “Citizenship Effects”, “Interest Convergence”, and Interest Group Litigants’ Strategy: Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Anna Marie | Smith | Government | Revisiting the Relation Between the Private and the Public “Spheres” After Welfare: A Feminist Legal Studies Project | 2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Andrew | Mertha | Government | Policymaking under the Shadow of Death: The Policymaking Process under the Khmer Rouge in Democratic Kampuchea | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Begüm | Adalet | Government | Transnational Theories | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexander | Livingston | Government | James Tully: To Think and Act Differently | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Robert | Weiner | Government | Strategy and Sincerity in Democratic Party Systems | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jennifer | Hochschild | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Yamile | Guibert | Government | The Politics of Accountability: Party Strength, Patronage, and the State in Latin America | This project seeks to understand the conditions under which Latin American politicians at the highest levels of power are held accountable after accusations of corruption arise. By focusing on the Odebrecht scandal, this project emphasizes the role of the strategies of politicians and political parties. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Lin | Le | Government | Save Socialism in the Name of the People: Factionalism, Ideology and Populism in Authoritarian China | This research seeks to reconstruct the historical process of political struggle and ideological contestation in the late Hu Jintao-era, during which Bo Xilai’s political maneuvering interacted with the dynamics of factional politics in those critical years leading up to Xi Jinping’s strongman rule. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 | |
Kenneth | Roberts | Government | Authoritative and Contentious Knowledge: Democracy in the Era of "Fake News" | This small conference helped build a research network that received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation for a major conference in 2019, leading to an edited volume on polarization and democratic resiliency that is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Politics, Economics, and Religion in Indonesia | Pepinsky’s fellowship resulted in a number of publications, including “Colonial Migration and the Origins of Governance” (Comparative Political Studies, 2016) and Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam (New York: Oxford University Press). |
2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Richard T. | Clark | Government | Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries | When donors extend foreign aid, they often attach requirements on how funds can be spent. Conditions are intended to increase the effectiveness of aid, but recipient governments can perceive them to infringe on sovereignty. How do publics and elites in recipient countries view aid conditionality? |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Vincent | Mauro | Government | Party Systems and Democratic Redistribution | Mauro's project seeks to understand why some democracies redistribute more than others. Mauro will utilize archival records of private correspondence among political elites from twentieth century Colombia to understand the inner-world of their traditional two-party system, and why elites were able to resist redistributive factions so effectively. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Kenneth | Roberts | Government | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
Isabel | Perera | Government | The American Political Economy after COVID-19 | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Isabel | Perera | Government | States of Mind: The development of Norwegian and Swedish mental health policy in comparative perspective | Perera hired a research assistant to support the development of her book manuscript. The monograph documents and explains the varied development of mental health policy in different countries, including Norway and Sweden. With the help of the RA's language skills, the team collected descriptive statistics and translated key texts into English. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Lindsey | Pruett | Government | Soldiers, Shovels and the State: Military Led State-Building and Civic Action in Post-Colonial Senegal | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Adrienne | Scott | Government | American Citizenship and the Welfare State | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | CoRUS: Coronavirus in Russia and Ukraine Survey | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant |
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