Past Grantees and Fellows

This multidisciplinary conference discussed the role that government plays in generating economic growth in the developing world, bringing together scholars and policy-makers. 

The investigators involved with the American State Constitutions Project collected, digitized, and coded all ratified and proposed state constitutions, as well as state legislative petitions for the 19th century, and all state Bills of Rights from 1788 to the late 20th century. 

We develop a machine-learning prediction model for tax evasion.  The model will be used to produce recommendations improving the targeting of auditing resources. Additionally, the prediction model will be used to construct a novel measure of manager productivity in the government service sector.

We drew specific connections between new statistical methods and established practices for evaluating free-text survey results. This comparison helps survey researchers in adapting new tools, and helps computational researchers in recognizing how tools are actually being used. Results were published in JASIST.

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. 

Research findings from this project will advance knowledge of why the integration of mobile phones and social media into everyday life matters for subjective well-being and will have implications for designing systems that encourage subjective well-being.

This project resulted in the publication: Rokito, S., Choi, Y.H., Taylor, S. H., & Bazarova, N. N. "Over-gratified, Under-Gratified, or Just Right? Applying the Gratification Discrepancy Approach to Investigate Recurrent Facebook Use." Computers in Human Behavior, 93, 76-83. (2018).

This project has resulted in 5 publications examining cross-cultural dynamics in group collaboration, with a focus on expertise recognition, communication accommodation, influence processes, and language proficiency.

This fellowship has resulted in a new line of work on bystander interventions conducted with a novel experimental simulation platform developed in Prof. Bazarova's Social Media Lab. This led to several new publications in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

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.

This project engages in a multi-method exploration of the hidden labor of building digitally mediated collectives through a case study of VaxHuntersCanada's social media channels, a large volunteer run online community created to help people find vaccine appointments during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Using interviews with women and focus group discussions with elderly parents in Delhi, I investigate how the gender, birth order and physical proximity of siblings influences women's agency to support elderly parents, spousal decision-making on visiting wife's family, and elderly expectations from their children.

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.

Bishara conducted research on the effects of subnational resource wealth on protest in Tunisia. Bishara published three peer-reviewed articles in 2021-2022. Her article, “The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics” (Comparative Political Studies, 2021), was awarded “Best Fieldwork” by the Middle East and North Africa Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

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.