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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Miguel | Gomez | Applied Economics and Management | Impacts of Farmer Cooperatives: The Philippines and Colombia | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Charles | Geisler | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Community Needs Assessment on Facilitators and Inhibitors of Food Security in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Promise of Augmented Reality | This award supported the dissertation research of Tony Liao, including his 2015 paper “Augmented or Admented Reality? The Influence of Marketing on Augmented Reality Technologies” in Information, Communication & Society. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Geri | Gay | Communication | Developing Computational Support for Frame Reflection | This project synthesizes concepts from political science and computational linguistics to guide the development of tools valuable for their capacity to promote critical thinking about how controversial issues are variously framed by different parties. |
2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
T. Bruce | Lauber | Natural Resources | Promoting Conservation of a Risk-Laden Species using One Health Risk Messaging: The Case of White Nose Syndrome in Bats | This grant resulted in one presentation and peer-reviewed publication. | 2017 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Qualitative Methods Working Group | The Qualitative Methods Working Group brought together social science faculty and researchers from around the campus who are teaching, employing, and developing qualitative research methods. The working group has grown to become the Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute under the CCSS. | 2019 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jason | Con | Development Sociology | Refiguring Village Studies: New Approaches to Agrarian Change in South Asia | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Brown | Development Sociology | The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Matthew | Brashears | Sociology | Eating Network Partners | We developed a conceptual framework and measures incorporating data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Karim-Aly | Kassam | Natural Resources, American Indian and Indigenous Studies | Rhythms of the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Thriving | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Bernd | Blossey | Natural Resources | Beyond Diversity: Re-Situating Pluralism | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeremy | Birnholtz | Communication | Improving Distributed Collaboration by Understanding Interpersonal Attention | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sunjung | Kim | Communication | Preventing Deviant Internet Behavior: An Application of Prospect Theory | Data collection completed by 2009. |
2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Karla | Hanson | Nutritional Sciences | Eating Network Partners | We developed a conceptual framework and measures incorporating data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeffrey | Hancock | Communication | Lying Online: The Effects of Communication Technology on Deception | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
John | Hoddinott | Nutritional Sciences | Linking Public & Private Food Assistance Through Admin. Data | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Marine Health Matters: A Risk Communication Workshop | This workshop strengthened the network of social science researchers working on marine health challenges and resulted in at least one peer-reviewed publication. | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Preventing Deviant Internet Behavior: An Application of Prospect Theory | Data collection completed by 2009. |
2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Privacy and Social Media: Dialects of Personal Information Sharing Online | Humphrey’s 2013 fellowship research resulted in the book The Qualified Self : Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2018), as well as journal articles on social media privacy and how extension offices and small businesses use social media. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Mobile Social Networking in Urban Environments | This project identified the ways that people use location-based networks to make claims upon urban public space: “Foursquare & the parochialization of public space”. _First Monday_ (Humphreys & Liao, 2013) | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Mobile Phones in Public | This field study was the replication of an early mobile phone study in the US. We found evidence for positive and negative social effects of phone use. “Mobiles in public: Social interaction in a smartphone era.” _Mobile Media & Communication_ | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rod | Howe | Community and Regional Development Institute | The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Reah | Chiong | Nutritional Sciences | Community Needs Assessment on Facilitators and Inhibitors of Food Security in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Paula | Horrigan | Landscape Architecture | Scripting the Future of a Community: A Participatory Visioning Process for Iowa’s Amana Colonies | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Predicting the Boomerang Effect | With time and resources afforded by a 2018 CCSS Fellowship I was able, along with Jeff Niederdeppe and four additional Cornell social scientists, to write a grant proposal on e-cigarette policy that secured $1.4 million in funding from NIH, NCI, and the FDA. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Smoking Cessation Advertisements and Source Credibility | The project eventually led to two NIH grants and many publications on tobacco warning labels and advertising. | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Liu | Jiawei | Communication | Effects of Prevalence Information in Framing Health Problems | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeffrey | Hancock | Communication | Longitudinal Effects of Computer Mediated Self-Presentations on Scholastic Self-Concept and Achievement | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Algorithms, Big Data, and Inequality | 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. |
2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Marianne | Krasny | Natural Resources | Exploring Trans-disciplinary Research in Environmental Education and Related Fields | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mary Jo | Dudley | Development Sociology | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Zaneta | Hong | Landscape Architecture | The Civic Playground Project | The Civic Playground Project seeks to empower individuals of different backgrounds, languages, and abilities through shared modes of making and collaborative play. The project is anchored in the development and deployment of inclusive frameworks that foster engagement between communities and their built environments. |
2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Douglas | Gurak | Development Sociology | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Parfait | Eloundou-Enyegue | Development Sociology | Cyber-Boosting African Social Science: Exporting the Cornell College of Computing and Information Science Experience | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Bezner Kerr | Development Sociology | First Conference/Workshop: Ecological Learning Collaboratory for Food, Healing, and Spatial Justice | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Parfait | Eloundou-Enyegue | Global Development | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Bezner Kerr | Development Sociology | Food, Agroecology, Justice, and Well-being Conference | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Disclosure and Well-Being in the Digital World | This fellowship has resulted in a new line of work on bystander interventions conducted with a novel experimental simulation platform developed in Prof. Bazarova's Social Media Lab. This led to several new publications in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. |
2015 - 2016 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Heidi | Kretser | Natural Resources | Promoting Conservation of a Risk-Laden Species using One Health Risk Messaging: The Case of White Nose Syndrome in Bats | This grant resulted in one presentation and peer-reviewed publication. | 2017 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Always Available, Always Attached: The Benefits and Risks of Mobile and Social Media Use in Close Relationships | Research findings from this project will advance knowledge of why the integration of mobile phones and social media into everyday life matters for subjective well-being and will have implications for designing systems that encourage subjective well-being. |
2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeffrey | Hancock | Communication | Audience and Self-Concept in Social Media | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Investigating Constant Social Media Use Among College Students | This project resulted in the publication: Rokito, S., Choi, Y.H., Taylor, S. H., & Bazarova, N. N. "Over-gratified, Under-Gratified, or Just Right? Applying the Gratification Discrepancy Approach to Investigate Recurrent Facebook Use." Computers in Human Behavior, 93, 76-83. (2018). |
2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Expertise Recognition in Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Groups: The Impact of Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Communication | This project has resulted in 5 publications examining cross-cultural dynamics in group collaboration, with a focus on expertise recognition, communication accommodation, influence processes, and language proficiency. |
2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Janis | Dickinson | Natural Resources | Exploring Trans-disciplinary Research in Environmental Education and Related Fields | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age | This team has generated over $900,000 in grants and 45 publications thus far, including 1 book. Research topics include the Social Media TestDrive project, fact-checking dynamics on Reddit, diverse participation in online education, underestimating others' willingness to help, and encouraging bystander interventions on social media. | 2018-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Gender Inequalities in Social Media Work: Digital Labor as a New "Pink Ghetto?" | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Drew | Margolin | Communication | The Spread of Misinformation: Motivations and Remedies | With time and collaborative feedback afforded by his 2019 CCSS Fellowship, Drew Margolin developed a functional theory of misinformation. A paper outlining the theory--The Theory of Informative Fictions: A Character-Based Approach to False News and Other Misinformation—is forthcoming in the journal Communication Theory. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program |
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