Funded Research Projects

2023

Brendan Nyhan and John Carey
Department of Government
"American Political Elites' Commitment to the Norm of Electoral Concessions"

Nathaniel Dminy and Erin Salcone
Departments of Anthropology and Surgery (Ophthalmology) and Pediatrics
"Beyond Island of the Colorblind: Decoding the Functional Advantages of Achromatopsia"

Jesse Casana
Department of Anthropology
"Exploring Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico"

Apoorv Gupta
Department of Economics
"Digitizing bureaucracy and firm performance"

Steven Mello
Department of Economics
"Estimating Police Discrimination in Selected Samples"

Jennifer Miller
Department of History
"Learning to Compete: "Asian" Math and the Transformation of American Educational and Family Life"

Chris Sneddon, Frank Magilligan, and Coleen Fox Departments of Geography and Environmental Science "River Restoration and Environmental Justice"

Jonathan Zinman
Department of Economics
"Heterogeneity in what? Micro facts on behavioral consumers for (behavioral) macroeconomics"

2022

Maron Greenleaf
Department of Anthropology
"Let Nature Be Your Teacher': Planning and Planting a Green Economy in Northern England"

Steven Mello
Department of Economics
"Effects of Marginal Policing Reductions"

Meredith Startz
Department of Economics
"The Role of Public Lenders in Small Enterprise Growth in Nigeria"

Jiajing Wang
Department of Anthropology
"An Archaeological Investigation of Chinese-indigenous Alliances at Agua Mansa, California"

2021

Chelsey Kivland and Alka Dev
Department of Anthropology and Geisel Medical School
"Insecure birth: Framing everyday violence, pregnancy, and birth in Port-au-Prince, Haiti"

Gregory Sharp and Emily Walton
Department of Sociology
"Activity Spaces, Community Resource Brokers, and Adult Health"

2020

David Kraemer
Department of Education
"Examining the Cognitive Basis of Motivated Reasoning"

Justin Mankin
Department of Geography
"Estimating the time of emergence and distribution of climate adaptation benefits for climate decision-making"

Abigail Neely and Patricia Lopez
Department of Geography
"Social and political implications of COVID-19 for care labor in the US"

Na'ama Shenhav
Department of Economics
"Sources of Inequity in Innovation"

2019

Theresa Gildner
Department of Anthropology
"Researching Immigrant Health and Well-being in Contemporary American Society, Navigating the Complex Issues Surrounding Participant Protection and Advocacy in Study Design"

Douglas Haynes
Department of History
"Globalizing Management: American Universities, the Indian Institutes of Management, and the Development of India's Managerial Class, 1955 – 1980"

Jason Houle
Department of Sociology
"A Dream Defaulted: Race, Student Debt, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Credential Society"

Sergei Kan
Department of Anthropology
"Elbridge W Merrill Photographs and the Ethnohistory of Sitka, Alaska"

Sunmin Kim
Department of Sociology
"Defining Foreigners: Symbolic Boundaries of Nation in OECD Countries"

Aparna Parikh
Department of Geography and Leslie Center for the Humanities
"Urban Climates: Power, Development and Environment in South Asia"

Na'ama Shenhav
Department of Economics
"New Evidence on the Short- and Long-term Effects of the EITC using Administrative Data"

2018

Brad Duchaine
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
"Investigating the Developmental Origins of Face Processing with an Extraordinary Participant"

Yusaku Horiuchi
Department of Government
"Opposition to Refugee Resettlement: Comparative Perspectives"

Emily Walton
Department of Sociology
"Belonging and Recognition in Diversifying Small Town Communities"

Jonathan Winter
Department of Geography
"Evaluating the Sustainability of Irrigated Agricultural Production in the United States"

2017

Luke Chang
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
"Improving Healthcare Decisions: Managing Emotions in Social Decision-making with Exogenous Constraints"

Michael Cox
Environmental Studies Program
"Exploring Dynamics of Community-based Fishing in the Dominican Republic"

Udi Greenberg
Department of History
"Dartmouth History Institute, Summer 2017"
The translation of his book: The Weimar Cent

Sadhana Hall
Manuscript Review
Teaching Leadership: Bridging Theory and Practice

Brendan Nyhan
Department of Government
"Governing in the Era of 'Fake News'"

Thalia Wheatley
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
"The Power of Words to Open and Close Minds"

2016

David Bucci
Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences
"Alleviating the Burden of PTSD: A Novel Hypothesis"

Simon Chauchard
Department of Government
"Crowdsourcing Data on Campaign Spending in India"

Jeremy Horowitz
Department of Government
"Urbanization and the Transformation of Ethnic Political Preferences in Africa: An Experimental Study in Kenya"

Janice McCabe
Department of Sociology
"Friendship Networks of Success: How Institutional and Individual Factors Impact Undergraduates' Academic and Social Success"

Brendan Nyhan
Department of Government
"Dartmouth Experiments" Conference

Kim Rogers & Emily Walton
Department of Sociology
"Interacting Across Difference" Conference

2015

Janice McCabe
Department of Sociology
"Friends with Academic Benefits: How Networks Matter During and After College"

Donna Coch
Department of Education
"Pictures Rhyme: An Investigation of Automatic Co-Activation of Spelling and Sound"

Sean Kang
Department of Education
"Examining the Effects of Interleaved Practice on Science Learning"

Brendan Nyhan
Department of Government
"The Causes and Consequences of Historical Misperceptions in Intergroup Conflict"

2014

Deborah Jordan Brooks
Department of Government
"The Publicity Paradox"

John L. Campbell
Department of Sociology
"Small States in Big Trouble"

Nathaniel Dominy
Department of Anthropology
"Deep Indigeneity: Contributions of Archaic DNA to Indigenous Identity and Public Policy Among the Mamanwa of the Phillipines"

Jason Houle
Department of Sociology
"Household Debt, Social Inequality, and Family Wellbeing"

David Kraemer
Department of Education
"The Neural Representation of Conceptual Learning"

Jennifer Lind
Department of Government
"The Rise of Nationalism in Japan"

Won Mok Shim
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
"Seeing the World Through Target-Tinted Glasses: The Effect of Positive Mood on Visual Perception"

2013

Reena Goldthree
African and African-American Studies Program
"Democracy Shall Be No Empty Romance"

Jonathan Freeman
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
"Integrating Facial and Vocal Cues in Emotion Perception"

Brian Greenhill
Department of Government
"Norm Transmission in Networks of Intergovernmental Organizations"

Deborah L. Nichols
Department of Anthropology
"Early Ceramic Obsidian Production and Exchange in the Basin of Mexico"

Catherine J. Norris
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
"Imitation as Social Glue: A Social Neuroscience Investigation of the Causes, Mechanisms, and Consequences of Social Mimicry"

2012

John Campbell
Sociology
"Small States in Trouble"

Sienna Craig
Anthropology
"Genes and the Fertility of Tibetan Women at High Altitude in Nepal: Biocultural Perspectives on Reproduction and Social Change"

Brad Duchaine
Psychological and Brain Sciences
"Face Perception in Developmental Prosopagnosia"

Thalia Wheatley
Psychological and Brain Sciences
"How Thought Maps onto Space"

Douglas Irwin
Economics
"Dartmouth International History Group"

Udi Greenberg
History
"German Emigres and the Weimer Origins of the Cold War"

Xun Shi
Geography
"How Much Water Can We Give to Nature: The Water Resource Problem of Tarim River, Xinjiang, China"

Douglas Haynes
History
"R.D. Karve, Global Sexology and the Making of 'Modern' Sexuality in Western India, 1920-1925"

Robert Johnson
Economics
"The Evolution of Production Fragmentation and Trade in Value Added over Four Decades"

Brendan Nyhan
Government
"Political Influence on Public Corruption Prosecutions"

2011

Andreas Moxnes
Economics
"The Customer Margin in International Trade and the Role of Trade Costs"

Russell Rickford
History
"A Struggle in the Arena of Ideas: Black Independent Schools and the Quest for Nationhood, 1968-1980"

Christopher Sneddon
Geography
"The Social, Biophysical, and Policy Dimensions of Dam Removal"

Sharlene Mollett
Geography
"Tourism Troubles: Struggles for Land on the Panamanian Atlantic Coast"

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
History
"Crusade, Liturgy, Ideology, and Devotion: 1095-1400"

Marc Dixon
Sociology
"The Expanding Tactical Repertoire and Influence of Social Movements: Social Protest and Corporate Change"

Lucas Swaine
Government
"Personal Autonomy, Political Philosophy, and Democracy"

Michele Tine
Education
"Working Memory Differences Between Children of Rural and Urban Poverty"

Xun Shi
Geography
"Assessing the Association Between Metropolitan Gentrification and Urban Health Policy"

Denise Anthony
Sociology
"Exploring the Relationship Between Health Information Technology and Hospital Quality"

2010

Richard Howarth
Environmental Studies Program
"Environmental Values, Beliefs, and Behavior"

2009

Robert Bonner
History
"Slaveownians Abroad: Proslavery Confederates on the Global Stage"

Michelle Clarke
Government
"The Ethics of Patriotism" - a fall conference

Sienna Craig
Anthropology
"Cultivating the Wilds: Considering Potency, Protection, and Profit in the Use of Materia Medica in Transnational Asian Medicines"

Thalia Wheatley
Psychological and Brain Sciences
"Cross-Modal Emotional Dynamics"

Richard Winters
Government
"Conference on Politics and Policy in the United States"- Conference will be held in 2011

2008

David Bucci
Psychology & Brain Science
"Physical Exercise: Effects on Brain Function and Behavior"

Sienna Craig
Anthropology
"Himalayan Healers in Transition: Social and medical Change Among Tibetan Medicine Practitioners in Nepal"

Joseph Cullon
History
"The Balance of Industry: Colonial Maritime Manufacturing and the Reformulation of British Mercantilism in the Eighteenth Century"

Martin Dimitrov
Government
"The Role of the Secret Police in Suppressing Dissent in Communist Bulgaria: Evidence from the Newly Opened Communist Party and State Security Archives"

Pascaline Dupas
Economics
"Consumption Smoothing, Microfinancing, and Business development: Theory and Evidence from Informal Retail Businesses in Western Kenya"

Jennifer Fluri
Geography and Women's and Gender Studies
"Gender and Development Policy: The Spatial Impacts of the International Community on Gender Relations and Economic Reform in Kabul, Afghanistan"

Douglas Irwin
Economics
"Origins of the GATT"

Sharlene Mollett
Geography
"Contested Spaces: the Politics of Natural Resource Access in Central America"

Catherine Norris
Psychology & Brain Science
"The Effect of Video Game Play on Stereotype Activation and Applications"

Tanalis Padilla
History
"The Intended Lessons of Revolution: School Teachers in the Mexican Countryside, 1940-1975"

Peter Tse
Psychology & Brain Science
"How Our Expectations Can Cause Us to Misperceive Reality"

Thalia Wheatley
Psychology & Brain Science
"The Uncanny Valley: The Neural Correlates of Perceived Distortions of Human Form"