Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name Sort ascending | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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tom | Medvetz | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | Co-PI | University of California San Diego | Collaborative Project | ||
todd | Gerarden | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Role of Individual Inventors in the Energy Transition | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
todd | Schmit | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
todd | Schmit | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Secondary Effects of Biofuels Demands: Implications for Feed and Livestock | Led to a publication in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review entitled the Implications of Growing Biofuels Demands on Northeast Livestock Feed Costs, with L. Verteramo and W. Tomek, April 2009. The research was used extensively in numerous Extension presentations in New York State. | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
tobias | Kretschmer | Munich School of Management | Tolerance for Sharing Polarizing Content on Information Platforms | We seek to understand users' preferences for spreading polarizing content on an information platform, which is informative for the design of effective platform governance strategies. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | CCSS Grant |
tina | Saksida | Business | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Prince Edward Island | CCSS Grant | |
timothy | DeVoogd | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
timothy | O'Donnell | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Harvard, McGill University | CCSS Grant | ||
timothy | DeVoogd | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
timothy | Ravis | Global Development | The Tectonics of Power: Earth, Energy, and State in Indonesia | This research examines the history of and contemporary struggles over geothermal energy in Indonesia, which has the most geothermal energy in the world. I illuminate the configurations through which state, society, capital, and science cooperate—and struggle—over energy resources and the value they offer. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Politics, Economics, and Religion in Indonesia | Pepinsky’s fellowship resulted in a number of publications, including “Colonial Migration and the Origins of Governance” (Comparative Political Studies, 2016) and Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam (New York: Oxford University Press). |
2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Political Science and the New Politics of Authoritarianism | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
thomas | Gilovich | Psychology | Why So Many People Find Informal Conversation So Stressful Despite Its Many Benefits | A write-up of 9 surveys and laboratory studies supported by this award has been submitted for publication in one of the top journals in social psychology. The most logistically challenging study was put on hold because of the pandemic, but it will be rebooted as a zoom-based study in two weeks. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Workshop on the Global Impact of the Financial Crisis | This grant supported an important research workshop on the political implications of the 2008-09 financial crisis around the world, resulting in several peer-reviewed publications. | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
thalia | Gerzso | Government | Judicial Resistance: The Role of Courts in Electoral Disputes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
tessa | Tessa Evans | Government | To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance | Under what conditions do insurgents challenge local gender norms during conflict? Examining armed groups in South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Sahel, I suggest rebels challenge gender norms to undermine rival elites and empower marginalized sub-sections of the population, reducing the likelihood of population-wide resistance. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
ted | O'Donoghue | Economics | Age and Intertemporal Choice Among Aversive Experiences | This pilot study resulted in an external grant (R21 AG043741 NIH/NIA. “Age Differences in Preferences for and Responses to Temporal Sequences” and multiple journal publications. | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
ted | O'Donoghue | Economics | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
tatiana | Homonoff | Policy Analysis and Management | The Nth of the Month Effect: Consumer and Retailer Response to SNAP Benefit | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
tashara | Leak | Nutritional Sciences | Reducing risk factors for type 2 diabetes among adolescent girls from low-income backgrounds | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
tashara | Leak | Nutritional Sciences | A Critical Examination of After School Programming at Racially Diverse, Title I Middle Schools in Urban Communities | Interviews with staff from Title I-funded middle schools in New York City led to the development of the Advanced Cooking Education program, a nutrition and culinary focused afterschool activity for students from diverse backgrounds. Program implementation and relevant manuscripts are in progress. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Duality of Telecom Policymaking: The Case of Internet Governance Debates | This award supported the dissertation research of Dima Epsitein, and the 2011 publication of “Who’s Responsible for the Digital Divide? Public Perceptions and Policy Implications” (co-authored by Gillespie, Epstein, and Erik Nisbet) in The Information Society. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Gesture of Publication in an Information Society | With the support of this award, Gillespie laid the groundwork for his widely-cited 2010 article ìThe Politics of ëPlatformsíî published in _New Media & Society_. | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 |
tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | Grounding the Digital Copyright Controversies: Investigating the Intersection of Technology, Law, Politics, and Cultural Practice | This award supported research that became the 2009 paper "Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns" in Communication, Culture, & Critique |
2006 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
tao leigh | Goffe | Africana Studies and Research Center | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Effect of Gossip on Children's Well-being and Belonging | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Developing a Concept of Choice | Tamar Kushnir spent her 2013 Fellowship discovering how young children learn about the social world. Her fellowship resulted in three empirical papers and a book chapter on children's social learning and moral cognition, and two theoretical reviews on rational learning in childhood. The papers from her 2013 year are some of her most impactful and cited works. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Who knows best: Preschoolers’ causal learning from experts in light of their own play experience | NSF award resulting from pilot data and subsequently 5 high impact publications, 10 conference presentations, trained undergraduate/graduate researchers. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Revising Anti-Vaccination Beliefs During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
syd | Van Morgan | Women and the State in Europe: Spring 2007 Brown Bag Speaker Series for the Institute for European Studies | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Johns Hopkins University | CCSS Grant | ||
suzanne lanyi | Charles | City and Regional Planning | A Social Network Analysis of House Flipping | A pilot study was undertaken during the summer on 2019, focusing on house flipping in the Chicago suburbs. The pilot study yielded compelling preliminary findings, and the research team is preparing to launch a larger scale study. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
suzanne lanyi | Charles | City and Regional Planning | Housing Redevelopment and the Evolution of Suburban Immigrant Communities | This project led to the peer-reviewed journal article: Charles, S. L. (2018). A Typology of Mansionization in the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, 2000–2015. Housing Policy Debate, 28(6), 832–853. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
suzanne | Flynn | Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Elderly: Stage Two of a Pilot Study | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Wellesley College | CCSS Grant | ||
suzanne | Charles | City and Regional Planning | The Next Wall Street Housing Grab | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
suzanne | Mettler | Government | How Health Care Policy Shapes Public Opinion: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Over Time | This grant helped fund collection of panel data (now 5 waves over 10 years), and publication of “When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion,” with Lawrence R. Jacobs, Perspectives on Politics. June 2018, Vol. 16 (2). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
suyoung | Son | Asian Studies | Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life (April 2024 Conference) | This conference explores how women effected change across Asia engaging in everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation and consumption; participants will bring to light how such “domestic” practices had significant impact on “public spaces,” and created spaces for women’s autonomy and agency. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 |
susan | Spronk | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | Co-PI | University of Ottawa | Collaborative Project | ||
susan | Riha | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | Beyond Diversity: Re-Situating Pluralism | This workshop added and integrated perspectives drawn from ecological systems into the socio-cultural context that defines pluralism, the objectives being: articulation of an enriched concept of pluralism; identification of new and integrated areas of research; and development of a strategy for further research. |
2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Engineering | 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 |
sunita | Sah | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Potential and Pitfalls of Conflict of Interest Disclosure; and The Professionalism Paradox | Sunita's 2018-2019 fellowship resulted in several journal articles including a solo paper Conflict of interest disclosure as a reminder of professional norms. Clients First! published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
sunita | Sah | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Organizational Interventions to Alleviate Burnout and Promote Well-Being | Can organizational interventions reduce employee burnout and promote well-being? We are planning to investigate these questions using a randomized field experiment in the setting of veterinarian clinics in the United States. |
2024 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
stijn m. j. | Van Osselaer | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Starbucks Effect: How Consumer Identification Impacts Consumer Preferences | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences (Association of Consumer Research and Society of Consumer Psychology Conferences). Further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
steven | Robertson | Human Development | Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems | This interdisciplinary collaboration (developmental psychology and mathematics) validated a new brain-based method for measuring infant attention (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:11460) and a novel dynamical model of infant visual foraging behavior (Dev Psychobiol 2014, 56:1129) to uncover early predictors of childhood attention problems. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
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 |
steven | Alvarado | Sociology | Multigenerational Neighborhood Effects | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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