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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Molly | Diesing | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
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 |
Zoe | Draga | Linguistics | Support for organizing a Workshop on Grammar Induction | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Mats | Rooth | Linguistics | Collaborative Documentation of the Endangered Language Bororo | 2018 | Spring | 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 | |
Michael | Wagner | Linguistics | Encoding and Retrieving Information with Prosody | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
John | Whitman | 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 |
Sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Draga | Zec | Linguistics | The interaction of syntax, semantics, and prosody in Slovenian | Formed a partial underpinning of several papers, including “Getting in the first word” Glossa 2.1 2017. | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jiwon | Yun | Linguistics | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sam | Tilsen | Linguistics | Visualizing speech: real-time MRI of the vocal tract | Journal publications were produced as a result of this grant, including “Analysis of speech production real-time MRI” (Ramanarayan et al., 2018), and “Anticipatory posturing of the vocal tract reveals dissociation of speech movement plans from linguistic units” (Tilsen et al., 2016). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sam | Tilsen | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Draga | Zec | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Workshop on Grammar Induction | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Devra | Moehler | Government | Tune in to Governance: An Experimental Investigation of Radio Campaigns in Africa | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
Steven | Ward | Government | Status and the Politics of National Decline | Research has been delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I plan to complete the funded research by next summer. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Workshop on the Global Impact of the Financial Crisis | This grant supported an important research workshop on the political implications of the 2008-09 financial crisis around the world, resulting in several peer-reviewed publications. | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Claudine | Gay | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexander | Livingston | Government | James Tully: To Think and Act Differently | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | Risky Politics and Political Participation under Authoritarian Rule | In nondemocracies, protest participation, voting for the opposition, and even abstaining from supporting regime candidates entail risks. This project investigates how risk attitudes shape political participation under authoritarian rule and how ordinary citizens overcome their baseline aversion to taking political risks. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Adrienne | Scott | Government | American Citizenship and the Welfare State | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Yamile | Guibert | Government | The Politics of Accountability: Party Strength, Patronage, and the State in Latin America | This project seeks to understand the conditions under which Latin American politicians at the highest levels of power are held accountable after accusations of corruption arise. By focusing on the Odebrecht scandal, this project emphasizes the role of the strategies of politicians and political parties. |
2022 | 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 | |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Political Science and the New Politics of Authoritarianism | 2020 | Spring | 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 |
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 | |
Jennifer | Hochschild | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
Christopher | Way | Government | Understanding Bioweapons Proliferation | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
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 |
David | Patel | Government | Kin and Kingdom: Using GIS to Understand the Relationship Between Tribes and Elections in Jordan | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. |
2016-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Mass Politics and Policy in Russia and China | The edited volume that emerged from the workshop was published this year by Oxford University Press, titled: Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Russia & China. |
2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shirley | Le Penne | Government | Choosing Chains? On the Incarceration of FLN Offspring in French Prisons and Intifada Offspring in Israeli Prisons | To what extent do intergenerational traumas shape and inform experiences of imprisonment? Le Penne delves into the trauma generated by the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) and the Intifadas (1987 and 2000) to examine its impact on the Algerian and Palestinian experiences of incarceration today. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Lin | Le | Government | Save Socialism in the Name of the People: Factionalism, Ideology and Populism in Authoritarian China | This research seeks to reconstruct the historical process of political struggle and ideological contestation in the late Hu Jintao-era, during which Bo Xilai’s political maneuvering interacted with the dynamics of factional politics in those critical years leading up to Xi Jinping’s strongman rule. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarian Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vincent | Mauro | Government | Party Systems and Democratic Redistribution | Mauro's project seeks to understand why some democracies redistribute more than others. Mauro will utilize archival records of private correspondence among political elites from twentieth century Colombia to understand the inner-world of their traditional two-party system, and why elites were able to resist redistributive factions so effectively. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Oumar | Ba | Government | Against Humanity: Race, Empire, and the Liberal International Order | This project reconstructs the emergence of the current global justice regime and argues that the Liberal International Order is built upon the denial of humanity through a layered racial hierarchy of humanness. Using archival research, it focuses on the drafting and adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights amidst the French campaign of “pacification” in Madagascar; the UN Trusteeship Council as a site of legislation and contestation of nuclear imperialism in the Pacific; and the prosecution of the crimes against peace at the Tokyo Tribunal. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | CoRUS: Coronavirus in Russia and Ukraine Survey | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarin Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Devra | Moehler | Government | Media Effects and Political Knowledge in Africa | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Politics, Economics, and Religion in Indonesia | Pepinsky’s fellowship resulted in a number of publications, including “Colonial Migration and the Origins of Governance” (Comparative Political Studies, 2016) and Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam (New York: Oxford University Press). |
2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Isabel | Perera | Government | The American Political Economy after COVID-19 | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Yiying | Xiong | Government | Weaponizing Nationalism: China’s Economic Coercion and Its Effectiveness | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Kenneth | Roberts | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Begüm | Adalet | Government | Transnational Theories | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
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 |
Alexandra | Cirone | Government | A Citizens’ Assembly in Ithaca: Deliberative Democracy and Local Policymaking | The fellowship allowed for substantial progress on a book for Cambridge Elements in Political Economy, focusing on the use of lotteries and citizens' assemblies in democratic governance, entitled "Lotteries and Democracy". |
2021-2022 | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Alexandra | Blackman | 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 |
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