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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Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Fluid Empires: Water Management Across the French Mediterranean | Led to an article in Social Studies of Science (2012) crucial to author’s tenure file; research also reflected in Environment and Planning A special issue, “Knowledge and the Politics of Land” (2016), co-edited with Steven Wolf and Wendy Wolford. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Bringing STS Into Environmental History | This grant supported an important, international workshop on the contributions of science studies to environmental history, resulting in the edited volume, _New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies_, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2013). | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | 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 | |
Pedro | Rabelo Erber | Romance Studies | Collaborative Documentation of the Endangered Language Bororo | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Anneliese | Riles | Anthropology | Meridian 180 Inter-Disciplinary Conference: Rethinking the "Comfort Women" Problem | 2013 | 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 | |
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 | |
Kenneth | Roberts | Government | Authoritative and Contentious Knowledge: Democracy in the Era of "Fake News" | This small conference helped build a research network that received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation for a major conference in 2019, leading to an edited volume on polarization and democratic resiliency that is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Hudson | Reeve | Neurobiology and Behavior | Threats to Group Survival, Status, and “Upping the Threat Level” | Our experiments show a correlation between manipulations of perceptions of threat level in order to elicit higher group member contributions and status within a group and analyze the causes of this status effect. These findings were presented at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.
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2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ranjit | Singh | Science and Technology Studies | Restoring Credit: How people Understand and Interact with Credit Scoring Systems | Two papers based on 16 months of data collection for this exploratory project are currently being written up and under review, respectively. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Slayton | Science and Technology Studies | Balancing Risks: Making Smart Grids Efficient, Reliable, and Secure | This project laid the groundwork for a National Science Foundation Career award (2016), which has produced five published papers, two policy briefs, and 22 presentations. The Career award was also the basis for awarding the PI the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Cascades and Fluctuations in an Economy with an Endogenous Production Network | The research supported by this grant has been presented at 25 conferences and seminars. Further publications are pending. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | Spring | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Maxim | Troshkin | Economics | Designing Optimal Social Insurance Systems | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Katherine | Tschida | Psychology | Effects of social isolation on vocal communication | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Matthew | Velasco | Anthropology | Embodying Social Inequality During a Time of War: A Bioarchaeological Study of Childhood Health in the Late Prehispanic Andes | Funding helped support laboratory research on archaeological human remains in Peru, to examine childhood health outcomes and patterns of geographic mobility. To date, this pilot study has yielded two conference posters and an undergraduate thesis. Papers based on this research are in preparation. | 2017 | Fall | 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 |
Lars | Vilhuber | Economics | The Cornell Criminal Records Panel Survey (CCRPS): Sample Expansion and Linkage to Administrative Records | This grant supported participant recruitment for the CCRPS, as well as coding of administrative data. This helped us to gain funding from the Department of Labor for the development and fielding of the Wave 2 survey (EO-30278-17-60-5-36; $244,603). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Richard | Swedberg | Sociology | 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 | |
Richard | Swedberg | Sociology | How to Theorize in Sociology and Social Science | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rebecca | Slayton | Science and Technology Studies | Rhythms of the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Thriving | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Smith | Anthropology | Resilience and Ruination in Mountain Communities: Comparative Regional Settlement Dynamics in the South Caucasus from the Bronze Age to Today | This pilot research led to a multi-year NSF grant to support further archaeological research on settlement dynamics in the South Caucasus. | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Anne Marie | Smith | Government | “Citizenship Effects”, “Interest Convergence”, and Interest Group Litigants’ Strategy: Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Anna Marie | Smith | Government | Revisiting the Relation Between the Private and the Public “Spheres” After Welfare: A Feminist Legal Studies Project | 2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
William | Starr | Philosophy | Support for Organizing a Conference: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Strang | Sociology | The Celebration of Lives and Collective Valuation: Textual Analysis of Obituaries Featured in the New York Times, 1851 to Present | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Strang | Sociology | 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 | |
David | Strang | Sociology | 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 | |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | How a Community Teaches Justice: Public Pedagogies and Youth–Adult Civic Learning in Everyday Social Movement | This project contributed to two publications: A chapter in an edited volume, “Latinx cultural programming as public pedagogy: Mobilizing cultura (culture) in Upstate New York,” and a journal article, “Pedagogies of ‘being with:’ Witnessing, testimonio and critical love in everyday social movement.” In addition to multiple paper presentations, it also laid the foundation for a book manuscript-in-progress. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Bruce | Lewenstein | Science and Technology Studies | A Conference to be held at Cornell University in Spring 2016 | This conference brought together the leading STS researchers in the world to celebrate 40 years of STS at Cornell. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne | Mettler | Government | How Health Care Policy Shapes Public Opinion: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Over Time | This grant helped fund collection of panel data (now 5 waves over 10 years), and publication of “When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion,” with Lawrence R. Jacobs, Perspectives on Politics. June 2018, Vol. 16 (2). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Access Denied: Poverty, Politics, and Civil Legal Representation | This grant supported the research that culminated in an article entitled, “Power from the Margins: Grassroots Mobilization and Urban Expansions of Civil Rights” (Urban Affairs Review, 2019). The work on this project continues and will culminate in a book. I have already given over a dozen invited talks based on this research and collaborated with a national organization (the Justice Collaborative Institute) to write a related policy report. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Medicaid and the Politics of the Poor | This grant supported the research that culminated in a book entitled, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The book won the 2019 Virgina Gray best book award from the American Political Science Association and established the foundation for a current grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (for over $400k) that represents a key extension of this work. Fragmented Democracy has been the basis for more than two dozen invited talks and presentations and has been cited in New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and many other outlets. | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Outputs to Outcomes: Poverty, Race and Transformative Public Policy | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
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 |
Bineet | Mishra | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Hirokazu | Miyazaki | Anthropology | The Socal Distribution of Hope | 2005 | Fall | 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 | |
Devra | Moehler | Government | Media Effects and Political Knowledge in Africa | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Francesca | Molinari | Economics | Estimating Risk Preferences with Limited Consideration | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Andrew | Mertha | Government | Rectification, Thought Reform, and Political Education in Khmer Rouge Liberated Zones (1970-1975) and Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Andrew | Mertha | Government | Policymaking under the Shadow of Death: The Policymaking Process under the Khmer Rouge in Democratic Kampuchea | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Bohan | Li | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Claire | Lim | Economics | The Political Economy of the Energy Industry in U.S States | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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