Past Grantees and Fellows

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.

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT promise significant productivity improvements, but they may also reduce the importance of human capital and labor, further concentrating power and wealth in the hands of the rich. The authors investigate views on inequality and support for economic policies in an AI dominated economy.

The proposed research will investigate how positive stereotypes impact stereotyped group members’ well-being and motivation. Specifically, I will examine how two factors—cultural models of selfhood and social class—intersect with stereotype content to shape stereotyped group members’ experience of positive stereotypes.

Being accused of copying others’ ideas can have significant financial and reputational costs. Using music copyright infringement case data and controlled experiments, we investigate whether the originality of women’s work is more likely to be questioned, with implications for understanding gender inequities in creative industries.

How should a policy maker use empirical evidence to inform an optimal public policy? I combine the strengths of statistical decision theory and asymptotic approximations to develop credible, easy-to-implement solutions for evidence-based policymaking, and to study the fairness implications of popular methods in program evaluation.

This award supported the research for the following paper: Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Sheri Johnson, Andrew J. Wistrich & Chris Guthrie, Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? 84 Notre Dame L. Rev.1195 (2009).

How do majorities come to imagine themselves as minorities? Conversely, how do minorities come to imagine justice as part of majorities? Focusing on immigration policy in South Asia, my project argues that majority-minority politics exceed state borders, in ways that are not nation bound.

This research examines the history of and contemporary struggles over geothermal energy in Indonesia, which has the most geothermal energy in the world. I illuminate the configurations through which state, society, capital, and science cooperate—and struggle—over energy resources and the value they offer.

At the forefront of retail innovation, the metaverse offers extended brand-consumer experiences that stimulate creative abilities. Grounded in self-expansion theory, this project develops virtual retail spaces infused with psychological virtuality and unveils the mechanisms that amplify consumer creativity in our proposed retail settings.

This project investigates two Black beauty supply stores in Syracuse, NY from the perspective of store owners, employees, and customers. Using observation, surveys, and interviews, this study analyzes the relationship between location, Black American beauty culture, and racial/ethnic groups related to the Black beauty supply store.