Past Grantees and Fellows

Do technology clusters of firms affect the direction of local university researchers’ academic research and inspire more applied, commercializable research? By taking advantage of the announcement of previously-unanticipated entry of high-tech firms, we will identify the causal effect of technology clusters on scientists’ research direction.

Food systems actors are fundamental for transformation, yet exhibit diverse priorities, preferred pathways, and power. We intend to build a stakeholder database and pilot visualization tool of several thousand actors across US food systems, serving as a rich resource to support future research and outreach.

The project eventually led to two NIH grants and many publications on tobacco warning labels and advertising.

Mauro's project seeks to understand why some democracies redistribute more than others. Mauro will utilize archival records of private correspondence among political elites from twentieth century Colombia to understand the inner-world of their traditional two-party system, and why elites were able to resist redistributive factions so effectively.

This grant allowed deep and multi-method exploration of the equity implications of the  implementation of Universal PreK in NYS. We also discovered a negative impact of UPK programming on infant and toddler care in rural communities. This led to conference papers, a Hatch grant, and Sipple, Casto & McCabe (2020). Child Care Deserts in New York State: Factors Related to the Community Capacity to Care for Children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration.

Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded.

The conference "Kings & Dictators: The legacy of monarchy and the new authoritarianism in Asia" was held April 13-14, 2018. It included both external invitees and Cornell speakers, and attracted a large Cornell audience, including students in a course timed to coincide with it.

Assisted grad student lab on local manifestations of neoliberalism, resulting in an edited book, Contesting Development. Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, 2010).

This project examines how the labor of journalism is being reconfigured through the structures and incentives of the social media economy. Specifically, I consider how subscription platforms like Substack, which successfully serve both digital journalists and social media creators, are shaping future news cultures.

Jane Mendle's time at ISS helped her complete two journal articles, write a grant proposal funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child and Human Development, and submit a proposal for a textbook on Developmental Psychopathology that will be published by Macmillan.

Mendoza used semi-structured interviews to uncover the experiences, responses to, and consequences of housing precarity among mixed-status Latinx immigrant families in southern California. The funding helped with a transcription service. Preliminary findings demonstrate that a lack of legal status restricts individuals’ access to and participation in various social and economic benefits, which in turn inhibit their ability to find adequate housing.

Mass shootings have steadily increased in the United States, where more than 600 of such incidents now occur each year (Gun Violence Archive 2023). A majority of both Democrats and Republicans in fact support a number of gun reform policies. But at the elite level, Republican lawmakers are reluctant to pursue gun reform legislation, often offering condolences or shifting attention away from firearm policy toward other, more distant policy areas, such as mental health or unchecked criminal activity. To what extent does exposure to such rhetoric by Republican lawmakers re-shape public support for gun reform policies? We propose a survey experiment to examine how exposure to alternative rhetorics by Republican lawmakers about a mass shooting incident shapes public support toward several gun reform policies.

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.