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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Sherry | Marin | Parties, Networks, and the Political Representation of Women | 2008-2009 | PI | U.S. Department of State | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Catherine | Maclean | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Temple University | CCSS Grant | ||
Jordan | Matsudaira | 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 | Columbia University | Collaborative Project | ||
Stephen L. | Morgan | Patronage and Networks & Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences | 2008-2009 | PI | Johns Hopkins University | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Archie | Luyimbazi | Tune in to Governance. An Experimental Investigation of Radio Campaigns in Africa | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Makerere University | CCSS Grant | ||
Liana | Victorino | A Systematic Assessment of Service Scripts in the Hospitality Industry | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Victoria | CCSS Grant | ||
Joseph | Sabia | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | American University | CCSS Grant | ||
Michael | Neblo | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | ||
Michele | Williams | The Emotions of Embeddedness | 2008-2009 | PI | University of Iowa | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Emily | Owens | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | University of Pennsylvania | Collaborative Project | ||
Caezilia | Loibl | Credit Card Reforms and Consumers' Use of Credit Cards | This research on the impact of CARD Act (2010) billing disclosure regulations on consumers’ debt payment behaviors was presented at multiple policy conferences and is published as “Effects of informational nudges on consumer debt repayment behaviors” in Journal of Economic Psychology, 51, 16-33. | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | |
Kyoko | Sato | 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 | Stanford University | Collaborative Project | ||
Susan | Spronk | 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 | University of Ottawa | Collaborative Project | ||
Christopher | Wlezien | Conference on Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion | This conference led to the edited volume, Who Gets Represented? (Enns and Wlezien 2011). | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Temple University | CCSS Grant | |
Moritz | Schularick | "Too-big-to-fail" and Historical Banking Crises | This grant has led a new publicly-available historical database of global financial crises since 1870 and two papers: ìBanking Crises Without Panicsî (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 2020) and a new working paper. | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
Chris | Zepeda-Millan | Children of the Undocumented: Inclusion versus Exclusion | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Loyola Marymount University | CCSS Grant | ||
Liandong | Zhang | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Hong Kong | CCSS Grant | |
Ahmad | Sikainga | 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 | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | |
Mike | Silver | Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology, and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | ||
Kaspar | Zimmerman | "Too-big-to-fail" and Historical Banking Crises | This grant has led a new publicly-available historical database of global financial crises since 1870 and two papers: ìBanking Crises Without Panicsî (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 2020) and a new working paper. | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
Syd | Van Morgan | Women and the State in Europe: Spring 2007 Brown Bag Speaker Series for the Institute for European Studies | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Johns Hopkins University | CCSS Grant | ||
Karuna | Mantena | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
Rafael | Marquese | International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Sao Paolo | |||
Gregory | Mann | 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 | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | |
Timothy | O'Donnell | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Harvard, McGill University | CCSS Grant | ||
Sarah | Soule | 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 | Stanford University | Collaborative Project | ||
Alexander | Ljungqvist | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | NYU | CCSS Grant | |
Stephen | Morgan | 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 | Johns Hopkins University | Collaborative Project | ||
Quinetta | Roberson | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Villanova University | CCSS Grant | |
Janet | Sherman | Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Elderly: Stage Two of a Pilot Study | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | MIT | CCSS Grant | ||
Karel | Mertens | Escaping the Liquidity Trap | 2012-2013 | PI | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Eva | Pressman | Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Neurocognitive Development in Infants | We found that a higher maternal choline intake during the last trimester improved infant processing speed across the first year of life. “Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study. FASEB J. 2018;32(4):2172-2180” | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Rochester | CCSS Grant | |
Tom | Medvetz | 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 | University of California San Diego | Collaborative Project | ||
Bjoern | Mitzinneck | Creating Change from Within or Building an Alternative? The Role of Intermediaries in Developing Local Food Systems | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Groningen | CCSS Grant | ||
Kathleen | Vogel | Science and Scientific Expertise in the Assessment of and Response to Bioweapons | From her time as a 2008-2009 CCSS Fellow, Vogel was able to complete a manuscript for a journal article that was published: Vogel, Kathleen M., ìNecessary Interventions: Expertise and Experiments in Bioweapons Intelligence Assessments,î _Science, Technology & Innovation Studies_, Vol. 9, No. 2 (October 2013): 61-88. | 2008-2009 | PI | University of Maryland | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Stefan | Pichler | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | ETH Zurich | CCSS Grant | ||
Cary | Reid | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Joseph | Price | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Brigham Young University | CCSS Grant | ||
Justin | Rao | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Yahoo Research | CCSS Grant | ||
Howard | Welser | 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 | Ohio University | Collaborative Project | ||
Brian | Rubineau | Gendered Peer Effects in Cornell College of Engineering | 2012-2013 | PI | McGill University | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Adam | Pearson | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Pomona College | CCSS Grant | ||
Jordan | Matsudaira | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
Morten | Ravn | The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated Tax Policy Changes | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | University of London | CCSS Grant | ||
Mary | Still | 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 | University of Massachusetts Boston | Collaborative Project | ||
Jesse | Shapiro | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Chicago | CCSS Grant | ||
Yi | Shen | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Waterloo | CCSS Grant | ||
Jeremy | Nemeth | Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces | The funding ultimately resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. |
2009 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Colorado | CCSS Grant | |
Wendy | Smith | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Alfred Lerner College | CCSS Grant | ||
David | Levine | Can an Improved Sales Contract Speed Adoption of Improved Stoves? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Berkeley | CCSS Grant |
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