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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Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | Crafting Model Islam: Mustafa Kemal's Turkey in Southeast Asia (1920's-1940's) | Funds allowed for library and archival research in the UK and Washington, DC. These materials are constitutive part of my ongoing book project Toward Healthy Progress: Body, Soul and Nation in 20th century Indonesia. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | The Status of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia | Amidst growing intolerance, scholars from a range of disciplines convened for the conference ìThe State of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia,î which featured five panels on topics spanning Indonesiaís diverse religious, ethnic, and geographic landscape. An edited volume is under contract with Cornell University Press. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Fontaine | Classics | Travel to Buenos Aires to present work at the "Comedy and Society in Antiquity" Conference (Jornada sobre Comedia y Sociedad en la Antiguedad) | This 2011 keynote presentation in Buenos Aires resulted in a major paper, titled “Who was in the Audience of Roman Comedy?,” that changed the field. Although technically still “forthcoming” in the conference proceedings, the samizdat version is regularly cited and discussed in the relevant literature. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Abigail | Cohn | Linguistics | Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Thinking Big: Workshop on Macro-Development Policy | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jason | Frank | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Debra | Castillo | Comparative Literature | Counterstories of Greater Mexico | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Chris | Garces | Anthropology | Latin American Alternatives to the Security Prison: An Ethnographic Study of Prisoner Self-Governance and Survival | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Felicity | Frinsel | Psychology | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Abigail | Cohn | Linguistics | Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement and Social Change | This ISS grant helped fund a major interdisciplinary conference held at Cornell, on the deep history of rice and migrations in Asia, coinciding with a co-taught class. It was partially published as a special double issue of the journal Rice (ISSN 1939-8425), 2011 | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Dunning | Psychology | 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 | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Abigail | Cohn | Linguistics | LabPhon15-Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation | This conference brought together over 300 international scholars and students to explore experimental approaches to the linguistic analysis of language and speech. The work presented and the interactions that took place at the conference and satellite meetings advanced dozens of research projects. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Easley | 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 | |
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 | |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Dissociating the Effects of Attention and Expectation on Visual Conscious Perception | An NSF grant proposal was submitted, but did not receive funding. Papers based on the research are still in the works. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Gustavo | Flores-Macias | Government | Strengthening the State: Understanding Citizens' Willingness to Pay Taxes for Public Safety | This ISS grant funded research on the link between taxation and public safety, including the publication “Building the Modern State in Developing Countries: Perceptions of Public Safety and (Un)willingness to Pay Taxes in Mexico” in the journal _Politics and Society_. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Gustavo | Flores-Macias | Government | The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America | This conference resulted in the publication of the edited volume _The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America_ published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ziad | Fahmy | Near Eastern Studies | Listening to the Nation: Mass Culture and Identities in Interwar Egypt | This seed grant led to my award of an NEH [FPIRI Program]—American Research Center in Egypt Faculty Research Fellowship. It also supported my research, which led to my recent book: Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020) |
2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Morten | Christiansen | Psychology | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | Intergenerational Trauma: Flint, COVID-19 and Racial Justice | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexandra | Cirone | Government | Pathways to Power: Multi-level Governance and Political Representation in Europe | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Matthew | Evangelista | Government | Humanity's Midlife Crisis: The Existential Deadlock of Liber | This book project submits that humanity's progress towards peace and prosperity increasingly coincides with regress into mass uncertainty and unease, climaxing with the coronavirus crisis. Decoding liberalism's deadlock may help renew hope and improve politics. We examine our propositions comparatively, across cultures and civilizations. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Peter | Enns | Roper Center, Government | Merging Data from the Roper Center Archive to Facilitate Population Subgroup Analysis: Identifying Opportunities and Strategies | This group met regularly, wrote a cross-disciplinary Cornell Migrations research proposal with faculty from Govt, Comm, and PAM to understand the social and political views of Latino Immigrants in the U.S., 2003-2019 and received an NSF grant to evaluate social bias during the COVID-19 crisis. [45] |
2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
Peter | Enns | Government | 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 | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Peter | Enns | Government | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Peter | Enns | Government | Conference on Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion | This conference led to the edited volume, Who Gets Represented? (Enns and Wlezien 2011). | 2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mary | Elson | Psychology | The developmental origins of sensitive parenting | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | Implicit Nationalism and Prejudice: Testing effects on behavior | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Agricultural Productivity Gaps: Feedbacks from Human Capital and Equipment Embodied Technology Adoption | This project examines the impact of capital-embodied technical change on the labor market. Results were presented at the NBER Summer Institute and various academic institutions. A draft has been submitted for publication. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Magnus | Fiskesjo | Anthropology | Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement and Social Change | This ISS grant helped fund a major interdisciplinary conference held at Cornell, on the deep history of rice and migrations in Asia, coinciding with a co-taught class. It was partially published as a special double issue of the journal Rice (ISSN 1939-8425), 2011 | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Magnus | Fiskesjo | Anthropology | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Capital Obsolescence and Agricultural Productivity | This project constructs the first available cross-country measures of quality-adjusted capital stocks in agriculture. The paper is forthcoming at the Quarterly Journal of Economics. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technology | During the 2020-2021 academic year the first draft of Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technical Change was completed and submitted for publication. The paper was presented at various workshops including the NBER SI 2020. A sequel to this paper, Technical Change and the Demand for Talent, has been accepted for publication at the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU series of the Journal of Monetary Economics in 2022. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Andrew | Fieldhouse | Economics | Marginal Tax Rates and Income: New Time Series Evidence | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship | This project garnered over 2 million in funding, produced over 100 publications on topics including entrepreneurial team evolution; creativity evaluation; intellectual property rights; and scholarly originality. It was a catalyst for the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM degree and the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor. | 2013-2016 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | The Implicit Operation of Ideology | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Stephen | Emlen | Neurobiology and Behavior | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Durba | Ghosh | History | Postcolonial Commemorations: How Revolutionaries Became Freedom Fighters in Independent India | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
John | Hale | Linguistics | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | 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 |
Nic | De Walle | Government | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Returns to Mechanization through Rental Equipment Markets | We build the first direct measures of capital-embodied technical change (CETC) as well as of the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital at the occupational level, www.capitalbyoccupation.weebly.com. One paper has been submitted for publication and another is forthcoming at the JME. |
2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John H. | Guckenheimer | Mathematics | Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems | This interdisciplinary collaboration (developmental psychology and mathematics) validated a new brain-based method for measuring infant attention (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:11460) and a novel dynamical model of infant visual foraging behavior (Dev Psychobiol 2014, 56:1129) to uncover early predictors of childhood attention problems. | 2008 | Fall | Co-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 | |
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 |
Gregory | Green | Asian Studies | Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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