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 ascending | Grant Type |
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John | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | The Impact of Restaurant Menu Labeling on Food Choice | We conducted a randomized experiment of calorie labels on restaurant menus. Over 5,500 patrons received either the regular menu without calorie counts or the same menu but with calorie information added. We estimate that the calorie labels reduced the number of calories ordered by roughly 3%. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | 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 Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Leighton | Beaman | Human Centered Design | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Geri | Gay | Communication, Information Science | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
Barbara | Strupp | Nutritional Sciences, Psychology | Reducing the adverse effects of prenatal maternal stress on child neurodevelopment in low-income African-American sample | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | 1. Gender Bias in Academic Hiring; 2. Community Engagement in Environmental Hazards Research; 3. How learning Environments Influence Student Mindsets and Performance; and 4. How Health Information Platforms Influence Health Disparities | Lewis’s CCSS Fellowship gave him the time to: publish a textbook and 8 peer-reviewed journal articles, write a federal grant that yielded $200,000 in new research funding, publish 6 public-facing articles about behavioral science, and contribute to COVID-19 policy efforts at multiple levels of government. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development: Debating New Directions in a Time of Crisis | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | The Social Life of Land Workshop | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Ariel | Ortiz-Bobea | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Can public institutions resolve information asymmetries? Historical evidence from the French wine market | This grant led to a paper "How big is the “lemons” problem? Historical evidence from French wines" (European Economic Review, 2021) and the publication of a new historical department-level dataset of French wine production and price data for 1907–1969. |
2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Drew | Margolin | 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 | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | McComas | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Contributions of Undergraduate Team Experiences to Professional Preparedness | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | Improving Vaccination Equity through Identity-Based Motivation | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Linguistic and Emotional Factors in Intergroup Linguistic Bias | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alicia | Orta-Ramirez | Food Science and Technology | Contributions of Undergraduate Team Experiences to Professional Preparedness | 2014 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | Is There Really a 2:1 Hiring Preference for Women on the STEM Tenure Track? Exploring Boundary Conditions of Williams and Ceci (2015) | Lewis's team has conducted four studies that reveal important conditions under which gender bias may emerge in hiring. They have also secured an in principle acceptance for publication of this research at Nature Human Behaviour. |
2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Danielle | Eiseman | Communication | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Susan | McCouch | Plant Breeding and Genetics | Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement and Social Change | This ISS grant helped fund a major interdisciplinary conference held at Cornell, on the deep history of rice and migrations in Asia, coinciding with a co-taught class. It was partially published as a special double issue of the journal Rice (ISSN 1939-8425), 2011 | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Hoffman | Entomology | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. |
2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Mason-D'Croz | Global Development | Mapping US Food Systems: A Stakeholder Database and Pilot Visualization Tool | 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. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Zinda | Development Sociology | Apples, Livelihoods, Landscapes: The Role of Perennial Crops in China’s Rural Transformations | During the course of this fellowship, Zinda advanced ongoing work on livelihoods and landscape change in China as well as analyses of original survey data on risk perceptions and preparedness actions surrounding flooding and COVID-19 in upstate New York. Four articles based on this work are in varying stages of composition and peer review. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Katherine | Sender | Communication | Sexual Mobilities | Katherine Sender spent the year getting IRB approval for a new study of LGBTQ marketing and interviewing 11 participants (with more to follow). She presented her preliminary findings at the International Communication Association's annual conference in Paris, France, in May 2022. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Drew | Margolin | Communication | The Dissemination and Refutation of Rumor | This project initiated Margolin’s research into fake news and fact-checking, resulting in the publication “Get Back! You Don’t Know Me Like That: The Social Mediation of Fact Checking Interventions in Twitter Conversations,” the first of several on this topic. | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Elena | Dominguez Contreras | Natural Resources | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Interagency Cooperation in Social Services for Families and Children: Application of Group Dynamics Theory | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
John | Zinda | Development Sociology | Cross-Cutting Risk Responses: Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | This fellowship facilitated analytical work and advanced methodological training, as of January 2022 yielding one journal article (Different Hazards, Different Responses: Assessments of Flooding and COVID-19 Risks among Upstate New York Residents), two manuscripts in progress, and a grant proposal in preparation. |
2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lindy | Williams | Development Sociology | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Workshop on Projectification, Governance and Sustainability: US-EU Synthesis and Comparison | This funding supported sustained engagement with University of Helsinki around questions of short-term organizational forms in environmental governance. Publications include “Toward projectified environmental governance?” 2017. Environment and Planning A. 49(2):273-292 and “Short-termism and Sustainability: Changing Time-frames in Spatial Policy Interventions” (eds. S. Sjöblom et al.). 2012. Ashgate | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land of No Return: Indonesia’s Development Out of Ruins | Goldstein worked on her book project, titled Land of No Return: Development after Degradation in Indonesia's Peatlands, and submitted three revised article manuscripts. She also received 4 campus funding awards for a Summer 2022 workshop for junior scholars. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Y. Connie | Yuan | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Social Interactions in Virtual Reality as an Intervention for Pain | Work related to this fellowship was put on hold due to pandemic constraints; was restarted in the fall of 2021, and is ongoing. Preliminary results have been used to support an NIH grant application. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Kendra | Kintzi | Development Sociology | Glittering Metropolis: Renewable Energy, Smart Grids, and Life beyond Oil in Jordan | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Emily | Hillenbrand | Development Sociology | Engaging Men in Shifting Masculinities in Burundi | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Jenny | Goldstein | Development Sociology | Pandemics and human-environment interactions: Land use change as a driver of coronavirus and influenza outbreaks in Asia | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI 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 | |
Xue | Zhang | Global Development | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Fouad | Makki | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Mediated Social Interactions to Reduce Distress in Hospitalized Patients | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Anna | Mansfield | Food Science and Technology | Estimating the Impact of Alternative Canopy Management Practices on White Wine Purchase Decisions | Led to a publication in the Journal of Agricultural Economics entitled the Consumer Valuation of Environmentally Friendly Production Practices in Wines considering Asymmetric Information and Sensory Effects, with B. Rickard and J. Taber, 2013. The research results were used extensively in Extension presentations in New York State. | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Conference Proposal: The World Food Crisis: Event of Conjuncture? (April 3-4, 2008) | Assisted on-campus two-day Conference on food crisis in 2008, with keynote from London, and other prominent agrifood scholars. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Schneider | Natural Resources | Landowners, Roadside Ditch Right-of-Ways, and Pollution | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
John | Sipple | Education | Poverty, Equity and State Policy: The Move Toward Universal Pre-kindergarten in New York State Rural School Districts | 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. | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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