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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Cindy | Hazan | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Alex | Nading | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Jaimie | Luria | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group 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 |
Randy | Lee | 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 |
Wicia | Fang | 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 |
Caitie | Barrett | Classics | Exploring the Domestic Impact of Roman Imperialism at Pompeii | This archaeological excavation examines the impact of the Roman conquest on ancient households at Pompeii, a city originally governed by a non-Roman Italic people. This critical analysis of domestic space intervenes in archaeological and anthropological discourse on imperialism, inequality, and identity in the ancient Mediterranean. |
2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Itamar | Haritan | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Intergroup Loss Aversion | This research uses an economic model of choice behavior and psychophysiological measures of arousal to examine sensitivity to losses for racial ingroup vs. outgroup members, with a discussion of implications for racial disparities at the interpersonal and national level. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Tao Leigh | Goffe | Africana Studies and Research Center | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Laurent | Dubreuil | Comparative Literature | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Adam | Anderson | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Helena | Aparicio | Linguistics | Adaptation, Social Coordination & Pragmatic Inference | Linguistic interactions display spontaneous self-organizing behavior, pragmatic inference being the epitome of such coordinative behavior. However not much is known about cognitive mechanisms supporting coordination. The current project argues that adaptation is one of the mechanisms deployed by listeners to resolve pragmatic coordination problems. |
2023 | Spring | 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 |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Xuewen | Yan | Sociology | English hegemony from below: How Chinese scholars navigate academic production in an Anglicized world | This project explores how non-native English-speaking academics from periphery nations use and evaluate Anglophone scholarship against the general backdrop of Anglo-American dominance in global academia. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Hongyuan | Xia | Economics | Dancing with Stars or Crowded out by Stars: Superstar Firms’ Effect on AI Adoption | Does the superstar firms’ adoption of AI foster or deter other firms’ adoption of AI? There are two competing mechanisms: imitation and competition. By using comprehensive job posting data and a novel instrumental variable, this study will examine the empirical salience of these competing effects of superstar firms on the AI adoption process. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Erika | Abbott | Sociology | The Modified Child Tax Credit and Social Recognition among American Families | Using qualitative semi-structured interviews, this project is an investigation into the destigmatization process families may face via monthly cash benefits as a part of the new expanded Child Tax Credit. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life (April 2024 Conference) | This conference explores how women effected change across Asia engaging in everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation and consumption; participants will bring to light how such “domestic” practices had significant impact on “public spaces,” and created spaces for women’s autonomy and agency. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Uriel | Abulof | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group 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 |
Suyoung | Son | Asian Studies | Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life (April 2024 Conference) | This conference explores how women effected change across Asia engaging in everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation and consumption; participants will bring to light how such “domestic” practices had significant impact on “public spaces,” and created spaces for women’s autonomy and agency. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shirley | Le Penne | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Joseph | Lasky | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Randy | Lee | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | Co-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 | |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
Eun A | Jo | Government | Narrating Enemies in World Politics | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
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 |
Aaron | Childree | American Politics | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | Fall | Co-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 | |
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 |
Amiel | Bize | Anthropology | Indexing Environments: Risk, Value, and Experimentation in the Era of Climate Change | This project examines “index-based insurance” (IBI)—a response to climate-induced risks for farmers and herders in the Global South. Examining IBI as an experimental technology that straddles development and finance, it explores the implications of IBI’s framing of risk, environment, and social life. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
Douglas | Kriner | American Institutions | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
Katherine | Tschida | Psychology | Developmental emergence of social communication | Infant mammals produce reflexive distress vocalizations and later produce social vocalizations in response to social partners. We will characterize the emergence of social vocalizations in wild-type and autism spectrum disorder model mice, which will help identify brain mechanisms that underlie the emergence of social communication. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Meaghan | Mingo | Sociology | Prepare and Punish: Schooling and Discipline in the Black Belt | Mingo conducted interviews with 22 junior high school students and 11 educators as part of her ethnographic study on schooling and discipline in the rural US South. This research will be presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in August 2021, and is included in manuscripts in progress. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Prosecutorial Discretion & Perceptions of Place: How Neighborhoods Matter in Juvenile Cases | Through in-depth interviews and participatory mapping, this study investigates the process of prosecutorial discretion, focusing on the influence of spatial stigma on charging offers for juvenile offenders and answering the question: how do attorneys perceive the role of neighborhoods in their approach to prosecuting juvenile cases? |
2022 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Yoselinda | Mendoza | Sociology | Latinx immigrant families and housing instability | Mendoza used semi-structured interviews to uncover the experiences, responses to, and consequences of housing precarity among mixed-status Latinx immigrant families in southern California. The funding helped with a transcription service. Preliminary findings demonstrate that a lack of legal status restricts individuals’ access to and participation in various social and economic benefits, which in turn inhibit their ability to find adequate housing. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Barkha Satish | Kagliwal | Science and Technology Studies | Processing in Mega Food Parks: The Trials of a Technological Fix | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
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