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 ascending | Grant Type |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
Adrienne | Scott | Government | American Citizenship and the Welfare State | 2021 | Spring | 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 | |
Jiuheng | He | Science and Technology Studies | The Go Community and AlphaGo: An Ethnographic Study of an Encounter with AI | This work looks at interactions between humans and artificial intelligence (AI), exploring how the capabilities of machine learning are affecting the Go community.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Trevor | Brown | Government | Democracy Deindustrialized?: The Political Economy of the Fall of Industry and the Rise of the Service Economy, 1960-2019 | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Martin | Abbott | Science and Technology Studies | Organizing Irresponsibility? Redrawing Nature with Magic and Maps | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Cameron | Mailhot | Government | The Relationship between International Missions and Post-Conflict Political Trust: Evidence from a Qualitative Analysis of Kosovo’s Newspaper Archives | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
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 |
Elif | Sari | Anthropology | From Competition to Solidarity: Iranian & Syrian LGBTQ Refugee Meetings | Sari conducted 10 follow-up interviews with Iranian LGBTQ refugees in Turkey to complete her dissertation on refugees’ lives and experiences. The funding also allowed her to organize two small group meetings, where Iranian refugees discussed how to establish collaboration and solidarity with Syrian LGBTQ refugees in the country and prepared a community-engaged project plan and a tentative division of labor. Accordingly, the group will organize 3 virtual meetings in Fall 2021 to bring Iranian and Syrian refugees together and develop strategies for transforming prejudices and preconceptions about each other. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Daniel | Ferman-Leon | Anthropology | The Financialization of Racialized Geographies: Real Estate Investment and Housing Insecurity in Kansas City | Fermon-Leon's funding has been used to explore the archives of business journals and local development publications. The remainder of the funds will be used to carryout in-depth interviews and focus groups. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
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 |
Chiara | Galli | Sociology | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-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 | |
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 | |
Stephen | Vider | History | LGBTQ Affirmative Psychotherapy and Social Services, 1960 to 1987 | This study, co-directed by Stephen Vider (Cornell University) and David S. Byers (Bryn Mawr College), investigates the role of grassroots clinical activism in the depathologization of LGBTQ people in the United States from 1960 to 1987, through archival research as well as oral history interviews.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 |
Itamar | Haritan | Anthropology | Foreign Ancestors: Alternative Genealogical Imaginaries in Israeli Society | This study asks whether and how the genealogical imaginaries created by Israeli Family Constellation facilitators and participants and Polish-Israeli hometown association activists create alternative genealogical imaginaries, and how these imaginaries affirm, transform or resist dominant modes of belonging in Israeli society, which are usually nationalized.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 |
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 |
Hui Yuan | Neo | Sociology | Revolution from the Ivory Tower?: The Knowledge Economy and Political Destabilization in Authoritarian Regimes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Juhwan | Seo | Sociology | Queering the American Family: Same-Sex Couples and the Marriage Green Card Process | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Eleanor | Paynter | Einaudi Center for International Studies | The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Migrant Precarity and Decision-Making in Italy | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Mary Beth | Morrissey | Sociology | Situating Friendship in Middle-Class Emerging Adulthood | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Christine | Leuenberger | Science and Technology Studies | From Africa's Great Lake Region to Maine: The experiences of East African immigrants in the Eastern U.S. | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Joseph | Lasky | Government | Shadows and Silence: Identity and Legacies of Cameroon's Hidden War | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Eun A | Jo | Government | Narrating Enemies in World Politics | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 |
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 | |
Ashley | Heim | Physics | Measuring critical thinking in ecology and physics: What influences students' abilities to make comparisons? | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Thalia | Gerzso | Government | Judicial Resistance: The Role of Courts in Electoral Disputes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
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 | |
Naomi | Egel | Government | Regulating Destruction: the Politics of Multilateral Weapons Governance | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 | Price | Economics | How Does New Medical Information Affect the Use of High-Risk Procedures? | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mats | Rooth | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Workshop on Grammar Induction | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Aaron | Sachs | History | Creative Academic Writing: Exploring the Relationship between Artful Prose and Scholarly Production | The experience of this conference helped lead to the publication of _Artful History: A Practical Anthology_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), co-edited by Aaron Sachs and John Demos. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Elissa | Sampson | Near Eastern Studies | The Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Carmen | Sanchez | Psychology | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Paul Steven | Sangren | Anthropology | Application for Funding for Preliminary Research on Local Product (Techan) Specialization in China and Taiwan | Relevant to long-standing linkages in all my research to regional economic and social organization. Most recently, paper on “SPATIAL IMAGINATION: Skinnerian “Human Interaction Systems” and the Roles of Spatial Imagery and “Subjection” in Chinese Rituals. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Vilma | Santiago-Irizarry | Anthropology | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Sharon | Sassler | Sociology | A Mini-Conference on Gender Inequality in Science, Math, Cornell College of Engineering, and Behavioral Science Occupations | This conference at the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting brought together several sociologists studying STEM fields to discuss research directions. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Henry | Schneider | Economics | Explaining Price Dispersion in Online Auctions with Simple Frictions | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jennifer | Schwade | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Victor | Seow | History | Manufacturing Revolutions: The Rise and Decline of a Chinese Automobile City | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mats | Rooth | Linguistics | Collaborative Documentation of the Endangered Language Bororo | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kristin | Roebuck | History | Japan Reborn: Race, Nation, and Foreign Relations from World War to Cold War | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeffrey | Prince | Economics | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project |
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