Past Grantees and Fellows

By examining two contrasting ways of doing archaeology, this project examines the connections between recent changes in archaeological practice and the ways interpretations about the past are formulated. The methods include qualitative interviews, archival work, and participant observation in Brazil and the United States.

The project explores the ways in which young children can directly engage in restoring nature, or nature stewardship and the learning outcomes of children’s engagement in stewardship. Moreover, I am interested in how children’s participation in stewardship could be a vehicle to fuel purpose among children.

This project investigates the historical origins of the fusion of territorial and non-territorial forms of sovereignty in China, which are critical to our understanding of the implications of China’s citizenship policies on Chinese nationalism, Sino-foreign relations, and the lives of Chinese overseas in a polarizing world centering on China as its epic center.

The CCSS faculty fellowship enabled Mara Du to wrap up her first book, State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform, and to make significant progress on her second book, China: From a Nationless State and a Nation Defined by State.

We intend to build a digital corpus of French-language documents related to indigeneity in the 19th century, and use both computational methods (NLP/CL) and interpretive tools to understand the ideological biases associated with textual representations of “indigeneity”, from its colonial genesis to its post-colonial recuperation.

This project has produced over $927,000 in external grants and 39 publications thus far. Research topics include algorithmic management among cultural workers, agency of data subjects, estimation of causal effects from data for counterfactual fairness and comparing compliance procedures and research proposals for non-discrimination in statistical models.

Drawing upon in-depth interviews with participants in the digital Creator Economy, this research examines the promises, perils, and paradoxes of the platform-dependent labor. In so doing, this project considers how platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch may enable—or, conversely, thwart—a new politics of visibility.

A book was published based on the conference: Wethington, Elaine and Rachel Dunifon. 2012. Research for the Public Good: Applying the Methods of Translational Research to Improve Human Health and Well Being. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

This project aims at unpacking the political and social policy preferences of labor market outsiders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We will conduct a pilot survey in Tunisia, which will serve as the foundation for a larger grant proposal.

This group met regularly, wrote a cross-disciplinary Cornell Migrations research proposal with faculty from Govt, Comm, and PAM to understand the social and political views of Latino Immigrants in the U.S., 2003-2019 and received an NSF grant to evaluate social bias during the COVID-19 crisis. [45]

Working with frontline Indigenous communities, this team of social and natural scientists brings anthropological, bioacoustic, and Indigenous knowledges together to investigate: 1) The impacts of Indonesia's emerging new capital, Nusantara, on surrounding peoples and landscapes, and 2) how collaborative soundscape research can reveal novel multi-species entanglements and advance Indigenous territorial monitoring.

This research will investigate the impact that the COVID-19 has had on migrant minors on transit through Mexico to the United States. The researcher will explore how violence and precariousness against children have been exacerbated during the 2020 global pandemic.

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."

This book project submits that humanity's progress towards peace and prosperity increasingly coincides with regress into mass uncertainty and unease, climaxing with the coronavirus crisis. Decoding liberalism's deadlock may help renew hope and improve politics. We examine our propositions comparatively, across cultures and civilizations.

The Water Justice League is a 4-week culturally tailored intervention and Community-Based Participatory Research Project that will assess and build water and climate change literacy and resilience in Onondaga Nation and generate ideas and pathways for sustainable business development and spiritual reprieve on Lake Onondaga.

This seed grant led to my award of an NEH [FPIRI Program]—American Research Center in Egypt Faculty Research Fellowship. It also supported my research, which led to my recent book: Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020)