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 descending | Grant Type |
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Paul | Nadasdy | Anthropology, American Indian and Indigenous 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 | |
Lauren | Monroe | Near Eastern Studies | Life on the Frontier: Identify and Exchange at the Ancient Border Town of Abel Bath Maacah, Israel | This grant paved the way to a new book project entitled Becoming Israel: Political Identity in the Song of Deborah, which I am now in the process of finishing thanks to a 2020-21 faculty fellowship from the Cornell Society for the Humanities. | 2012 | 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 | |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | Revising Anti-Vaccination Beliefs During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | 2020 | Fall | Co-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 | 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 | |
Bohan | Li | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | 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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
Camille | Robcis | History | Catholics, Gender, and the Gay Marriage Debate in France | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) | 2019 | Fall | 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 | |
Sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mostafa | Minawi | History | The Geopolitics of Ottoman Imperialism in the Horn of Africa | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Francesca | Molinari | Economics | Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference | Most presenters at this conference were junior scholars at the time. All went on to be granted tenure, and build a successful research agenda around the themes of this conference. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kristoffer | Nimark | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | Spring | Co-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 |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | 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 | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | Co-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 |
Bineet | Mishra | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | 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 |
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 | |
Karel | Mertens | Economics | The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated Tax Policy Changes | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Ted | O'Donoghue | Economics | Age and Intertemporal Choice Among Aversive Experiences | This pilot study resulted in an external grant (R21 AG043741 NIH/NIA. “Age Differences in Preferences for and Responses to Temporal Sequences” and multiple journal publications. | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
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 | |
Raymond | Craib | History | "Exile and Enclosure" International Conference | This international conference has led to continued intellectual exchange and collaboration between various participants. We did not pursue an edited volume but the conference has generated a number of published essays that recognize the event. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Nic | De Walle | Government | 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 | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Anna | Haskins | Sociology | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Debra A. | Castillo | Latino Studies | Youth, Identities, and Transnational Flows | The grant supported (1) collaboration with Mexican NGO in Chiapas, (2) creation of educational materials for local farmworkers on rights, on COVID awareness, (3) publication of various professional articles by co-PIs, often in collaboration with students and community members. | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Raymond | Craib | History | The Cry of the Renegade: Poetry, Politics and Anarchism in Chile, 1920 | With the fellowship I was able to make very good progress on my book The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press and which was part of my promotion file for full professor. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Raymond | Craib | History | 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 | |
Anna | Haskins | Sociology | School Engagement and Avoidance among Criminal Justice-Involved Families with School-Aged Children | With time and resources afforded by her 2018 CCSS Fellowship, Anna Haskins received a $350,000 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program for her research on “School Engagement and Avoidance among System-Involved Parents with Young Children. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Sacha | Darke | Latin American Studies | Latin American Alternatives to the Security Prison: An Ethnographic Study of Prisoner Self-Governance and Survival | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Anna | Haskins | Sociology | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Maria | Cristina Garcia | History, Latino Studies | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Elizabeth | Hirsh | Sociology | Human Resources Policies and Discrimination Charges | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Ori | Heffetz | Economics | What's a Price Worth? An Experimental Study of Prices and Preferences | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shooshan | Danagoulian | Economics | Health Insurance Choice and Utilization | This award supported the dissertation research of Shooshan Danagoulian. Her dissertation has led to 2 papers in peer-reviewed journals -- Health Economics 2018, and the International Journal of Health Economics 2018. | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Duane | Corpis | History | Overseas Charity in Early Modern Europe: Empathy, Obligation, and Global Networks | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Thinking Big: Workshop on Macro-Development Policy | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Abigail | Cohn | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Abigail | Cohn | Linguistics | Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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