Institute for the Social Sciences awards grants

The Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) has announced the recipients of its biannual small-grant award for interdisciplinary research and conference support.

The fall 2011 recipients and their projects are:

• Dorit Abusch, linguistics, "Applying Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics to Narrative Images: A Study of Stone Reliefs, Miniatures, Cave Paintings and Temple Sculpture";
• Howard Chong, hotel administration, "Disentangling the Building From Behavior in Residential Energy Efficiency";
• Mark Constas, applied economics and management, and Per Pinstrup-Andersen, nutritional sciences, "Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism";
• Melissa Ferguson, psychology, "Implicit Nationalism and Prejudice: Testing Effects on Behavior";
• Gustavo Flores-Macias, government, "Strengthening the State: Understanding Citizens’ Willingness to Pay Taxes for Public Safety";
• Michael Fontaine, classics, "Comedy and Society in Antiquity";
• Adam Seth Levine, government, "News Evidence and Political Behavior";
• Shanjun Li, applied economics and management, "The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation";
• Francesca Molinari and Jörg Stoye, economics, "Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference";
• Sarah Murray, linguistics, "Support for Organizing a Conference: ’Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7’";
• David Pelletier, nutritional sciences, "Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell";
• Henry Schneider, economics, "Explaining Price Dispersion in Online Auctions with Simple Frictions";
• Phoebe Sengers, information science and science and technology studies, "Intervening in American Families’ Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design"; and
• Wendy Wolford, development sociology, "Rethinking Development: Debating New Directions in a Time of Crisis."