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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Eric | Baumer | Information Science | Developing Computational Support for Frame Reflection | This project synthesizes concepts from political science and computational linguistics to guide the development of tools valuable for their capacity to promote critical thinking about how controversial issues are variously framed by different parties. |
2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Lehigh University | CCSS Grant |
Pierre | Mérel | Agriculture and Resource Economics | Can public institutions resolve information asymmetries? Historical evidence from the French wine market | 2014 | Fall | Co-PI | UC Davis | 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 | |
Chris | Zepeda-Millan | Children of the Undocumented: Inclusion versus Exclusion | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Loyola Marymount University | CCSS Grant | ||
Meltem | Yucel | Psychology | Effect of Gossip on Children's Well-being and Belonging | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Virginia | 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 | ||
Joshua | Linn | The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Maryland | |||
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 | ||
Liana | Victorino | A Systematic Assessment of Service Scripts in the Hospitality Industry | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Victoria | CCSS Grant | ||
Fabio | Trecca | Linguistics Cognitive Science and Semiotics | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Aarhus University | 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 | ||
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 | ||
Wendy | Smith | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Alfred Lerner College | CCSS Grant | ||
Yi | Shen | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Waterloo | CCSS Grant | ||
Jesse | Shapiro | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Chicago | CCSS Grant | ||
Sawa | Senzaki | Psychology | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Wisconsin Green Bay | 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 | |
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 | |
Tina | Saksida | Business | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Prince Edward Island | CCSS Grant | |
Joseph | Sabia | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | American University | CCSS Grant | ||
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 | |
Morten | Ravn | The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated Tax Policy Changes | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | University of London | CCSS Grant | ||
Justin | Rao | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Yahoo Research | CCSS Grant | ||
Victoria | Prowse | Economics | Income Redistribution through Defined Benefit Pension systems when Life Expectancy is Heterogenous | 2015-2016 | PI | Purdue University | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Joseph | Price | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Brigham Young University | CCSS Grant | ||
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 | |
Stefan | Pichler | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | ETH Zurich | CCSS Grant | ||
Krista | Perreira | Social Medicine | Occupational Quality and Health | This group has advanced pilot phase research for a project on the occupational health of Latino workers. The goal is to obtain NIH funding to add a module to the Hispanic Community Health Study that can help shed light on risk factors over time. | 2019 | Co-PI | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Working Group Grant | |
Adam | Pearson | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Pomona College | CCSS Grant | ||
Adam | Pearson | Psychology | Effect of Perceived Economic Inequality on Sustainability and Collective Action | This research contributed to a first-authored publication in Climatic Change for graduate student, Julia Davydova: “Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation” (Davydova, Pearson, Ballew, & Schuldt, 2018) | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Pomona College | CCSS Grant |
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 | ||
Brian | Rubineau | Organizational Behavior | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | Fall | PI | McGill University | CCSS Grant | |
R. Nathan | Spreng | Psychology | Neurocognitive Aging and Wisdom | 2015-2016 | PI | McGill University | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Brian | Rubineau | Gendered Peer Effects in Cornell College of Engineering | 2012-2013 | PI | McGill University | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
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 | |
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 | ||
Karel | Mertens | Escaping the Liquidity Trap | 2012-2013 | PI | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
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 | ||
Sherry | Marin | Parties, Networks, and the Political Representation of Women | 2008-2009 | PI | U.S. Department of State | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Michael | Manville | Luskin School of Public Affairs | American Travel Behavior and the Macroeconomy: A Longer View | Manvilleís 2016 fellowship helped him complete two journal articles, and also led to a productive collaboration with ISS fellow Adam Levine, resulting in an additional journal article. | 2015-2016 | PI | UCLA | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | ||
Karuna | Mantena | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
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 | |
Kamel | Jedid | Leveraging Generative AI for Marketing Research: An Application on Music Album Reviews | The capabilities of Generative AI to extract thematic content from unstructured data make it powerful to understand experiential domains. This research leverages this technology to extract experiential features from expert music reviews to enhance our understanding of album success and aid artists in their designs. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
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 | |
Catherine | Maclean | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Temple University | CCSS Grant | ||
Archie | Luyimbazi | Tune in to Governance. An Experimental Investigation of Radio Campaigns in Africa | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Makerere University | CCSS Grant | ||
Maria Vignau | Loria | Sociology | Occupational Quality and Health | This group has advanced pilot phase research for a project on the occupational health of Latino workers. The goal is to obtain NIH funding to add a module to the Hispanic Community Health Study that can help shed light on risk factors over time. | 2019 | Co-PI | University of Washington | Working Group 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 |
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