Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort ascending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Maria Cristina | Garcia | History, Latino Studies | Whose America? U.S Immigration Policy since 1986 | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Edward E. | Baptist | History | Building a modern policing and mass incarceration archive | This project will create two datasets for analysis: (1) digital copies of 20th and 21st-century newspaper stories of police shootings/ violence against African Americans covered by African-American newspapers and newspapers with historical white ownership; (2) digital copies of 20th century US memoirs of incarceration. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Edward E. | Baptist | History | Freedom on the Move: a Database of Fugitives from North American Slavery | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Durba | Ghosh | History | Postcolonial Commemorations: How Revolutionaries Became Freedom Fighters in Independent India | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Raymond | Craib | History | Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground | The 7 project fellows produced over 1.6 million dollars in external funding, a vibrant book series with Cornell University Press, and 77 publications. Research topics included global land deals, the neoliberal agri-food regime, First Nation formation in the Yukon, envirotechnical disasters, and migration and labor. | 2012-2015 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Raymond | Craib | History | "Exile and Enclosure" International Conference | This international conference has led to continued intellectual exchange and collaboration between various participants. We did not pursue an edited volume but the conference has generated a number of published essays that recognize the event. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Raymond | Craib | History | Libertarian Noir: Unsettled Histories of Exit and Enclosure | The research that this grant enabled is a central part of Craib's book, Libertarian Exit, currently under review with Yale University Press. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Duane | Corpis | History | Overseas Charity in Early Modern Europe: Empathy, Obligation, and Global Networks | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Raymond | Craib | History | The Cry of the Renegade: Poetry, Politics and Anarchism in Chile, 1920 | With the fellowship I was able to make very good progress on my book The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press and which was part of my promotion file for full professor. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Holly | Case | History | Between the Lines: Contested Boundaries and the Fate of the Jews and other Minorities in Eastern Europe during WWII | 2006 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Durba | Ghosh | History | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Julilly | Kohler-Hausmann | History | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Derek | Chang | History | 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 | |
Ernesto | Bassi | History | Creating Spaces, Envisioning Futures: Region-Making and Geopolitical Imagination in the Transimperial Greater Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions | Bassi’s fellowship allowed him to conduct research on two different project. While the research is still ongoing, resources from the fellowship contributed to the writing and publication of several articles, including “Much More than the Half Has Never Been Told: Narrating the Rise of Capitalism from New Granada’s Shores,” The Latin Americanist 61, 4 (December 2017): 529-550 and “The Franklins of Colombia: Immigration Schemes and Hemispheric Solidarity in the Making of a Civilised Colombia,” Journal of Latin American Studies 50, 3 (August 2018): 673-701. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Ernesto | Bassi | History | Life Abroad: Spanish-Speaking Communities in Anglophone Cities in the Americas | I finished my article “The Franklins of Colombia” (published by the Journal of Latin American Studies in 2018) and submitted a chapter on foreign interactions during the wars of independence in Spanish America that includes aspects of the lives of the first diplomatic envoys of the emerging republics. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Judith | Byfield | History | Re-evaluating Africa and World War II | This conference brought together an international group of scholars to present case studies on the impact of WW II on Africa. The papers presented here formed the core of the volume Africa and WW II (Cambridge University Press, 2015). | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mara Yue | Du | History | China: From a Nationless State to a Nation Defined by State | The CCSS faculty fellowship enabled Mara Du to wrap up her first book, State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform, and to make significant progress on her second book, China: From a Nationless State and a Nation Defined by State. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Daniel | Magaziner | History | Engaging Images: Artists and the Art of Life in 20th Century South Africa | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Ernesto | Bassi | History | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | 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 |
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 | |
Claudia | Verhoeven | History | Love and Terror: The Meaning of the Manson Murders in American Culture | Archival research in Los Angeles formed the basis of the chapter, “’Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter’: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family,” Time and Power. Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, eds. Stefanos Geroulanos, Dan Edelstein, and Natasha Wheatley. Forthcoming Chicago UP, 2020. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mara Yue | Du | History | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group 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 |
Edward E. | Baptist | History | International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Kristin | Roebuck | History | Remember Girl Zero: Trafficked Women, Imperial Men, and the Ends of Abolition | Remember Girl Zero is a book project in feminist global and Asian history, designed to show how patrilineal norms generate a uniquely feminine form of enslavement, largely invisible both to nineteenth-century abolitionists and to current scholars of slavery. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Robert | Travers | History | An Empire of Complaints: Petitions, Rights, and Justice in Eighteenth Century India | This research has led to the publication of two articles in major journals, including ‘Indian Petitioning and Colonial State-formation in Colonial Bengal, Modern Asian Studies (2019), and a book manuscript (currently being completed) on the role of Indian ideas justice in early colonial India. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mara Yue | Du | History | Citizenship, Nationalism, and Non-Territorial Sovereignty in Modern China | This project investigates the historical origins of the fusion of territorial and non-territorial forms of sovereignty in China, which are critical to our understanding of the implications of China’s citizenship policies on Chinese nationalism, Sino-foreign relations, and the lives of Chinese overseas in a polarizing world centering on China as its epic center. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mostafa | Minawi | History | The Geopolitics of Ottoman Imperialism in the Horn of Africa | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mostafa | Minawi | History | Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Colonialism in East Africa | It allowed me to conduct research in the British Library which went into an article titled International Law and the Precarity of Ottoman Imperialism in Africa at the end of the 19th Century in the International History Review (2020). | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Camille | Robcis | History | Catholics, Gender, and the Gay Marriage Debate in France | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kaja | McGowan | History | Kings and Dictators: Asia’s New Authoritarianians and the Legacy of Monarchy (Conference) | The conference "Kings & Dictators: The legacy of monarchy and the new authoritarianism in Asia" was held April 13-14, 2018. It included both external invitees and Cornell speakers, and attracted a large Cornell audience, including students in a course timed to coincide with it. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
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 | |
Camille | Robcis | History | The Catholic Origins of French Dignity | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Camille | Robcis | History | Institutional Psychotherapy and the Reaction Against "Concentrationism" | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Cristina | Florea | History | Crossroads of Empire: Revolutions and Encounters at the Frontiers of Europe | Cristina Florea completed a full draft of her book manuscript, 'Crossroads of Empire: Revolutions and Encounters at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe.' The book reveals how crucial interactions between states and local societies in the East European borderlands have been to the evolution and development of the modern state in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Xóchitl | Bada | Latin American and Latino Studies | Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local | As international migration continues to rise, countries of origin have played an increasing role in engaging their emigrants; however, we know little about how they are being held accountable for the services offered to their diasporas. To fill the gap, this book analyzes on-the-ground, transnational defense of migrant labor rights.
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2021 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Illinois | CCSS Grant |
Daniel | Lichter | Policy Analysis and Management, Sociology | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. | 2008-2011 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Qualitative Methods Working Group | The Qualitative Methods Working Group brought together social science faculty and researchers from around the campus who are teaching, employing, and developing qualitative research methods. The working group has grown to become the Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute under the CCSS. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Working Group Grant | |
Peter | Rich | Policy Analysis and Management | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | The Value of Mandated Sick-Pay for the U.S. | This research resulted in two peer-reviewed publications in Health Service Research and the Journal of Public Economics as well as two follow-up grants from RWJF and the Center for Equitable Growth. The findings from the JPubE publication were featured in the Healthy Families Act. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | STEM Retention and Job Satisfaction in the COVID-19 Era | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant | |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications for Climate Change | The research resulted in a journal publication in the top field environmental economics Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2018): "Population Health Effects and Health-Related Costs of Extreme Temperatures: Comprehensive Evidence from Germany," Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 91: 93–117. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Do Policies Affect Father Involvement, and How Much Does Involvement Reduce Inequality in Child Outcomes? | The ISS small grant helped us secure funding for a 3-year project from the WT Grant Foundation. Research from this project has been presented at several conferences and has resulted in five journal articles to date. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | Paternal Incarceration and Teachers’ Expectations of Students | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
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