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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steven | Ward | Government | Status and the Politics of National Decline | Research has been delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I plan to complete the funded research by next summer. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
steven | Kyle | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
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 | Alvarado | Sociology | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
steve | Benard | Sociology | Threats to Group Survival, Status, and “Upping the Threat Level” | Our experiments show a correlation between manipulations of perceptions of threat level in order to elicit higher group member contributions and status within a group and analyze the causes of this status effect. These findings were presented at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
steve | Yale-Loehr | Law | 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 Law School | Collaborative Project | |
stephen l. | Morgan | Patronage and Networks & Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences | 2008-2009 | PI | Johns Hopkins University | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
stephen | Emlen | Neurobiology and Behavior | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
stephen | Hilgartner | Science and Technology Studies | A Comparative Study of Expertise for Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic, | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
stephen | Hilgartner | Science and Technology Studies | 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 | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
stephen | Vider | History | LGBTQ Affirmative Psychotherapy and Social Services, 1960 to 1987 | This study, co-directed by Stephen Vider (Cornell University) and David S. Byers (Bryn Mawr College), investigates the role of grassroots clinical activism in the depathologization of LGBTQ people in the United States from 1960 to 1987, through archival research as well as oral history interviews.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
stephen | Morgan | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. | 2008-2011 | Co-PI | Johns Hopkins University | Collaborative Project | ||
stephen | Vider | History | On Our Own: Deinstitutionalization and the Politics of Care | On Our Own traces the impact of deinstitutionalization—the release of people with mental illnesses and disabilities from state-run institutions—to reveal how efforts to repair state systems of mental healthcare were reshaped by the convergence of patient activism and privatization after World War II. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
stephan | Schmidt | City and Regional Planning | Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces | The funding ultimately resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. |
2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
stefan | Pichler | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | ETH Zurich | CCSS Grant | ||
stefan | Klonner | 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 | University of Heidelberg | Collaborative Project | ||
stacey | Langwick | Anthropology | First Conference/Workshop: Ecological Learning Collaboratory for Food, Healing, and Spatial Justice | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
stacey | Langwick | Anthropology | Toward Sustainable Health: Modernizing Traditional Medicine in Tanzania | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
stacey | Langwick | Anthropology | The Power of Skin in East Africa | The research afforded by this grant contributed to two top-tier journal articles and two chapters in edited volumes as well as moved forward a book manuscript. In addition, this grant enabled the development of international partnerships that are resulting in ongoing work, co-publications and grants. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sringagesh | Gavirneni | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Behavioral Tendencies in Newsvendor Decision Making: Capturing the Chinese Perspective | Chinese newsvendor (stocking level while facing random demand) decision makers focused more on salvage value (money that can be recouped from leftover inventory) and more willing to come up with a numerical order quantity that was different from the ones mentioned in the task. |
2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
soo | Kim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Individuals’ Need to Feel “True” to Themselves during Life Transitions and How Charitable Organizations can be Positioned to Fulfill the Need | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
soo | Kim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Psychological Insecurities, Disclosure, and Friend-Avoidance | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
solon | Barocas | Information Science | 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 Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
solon | Barocas | Information Science | Prediction in Practice: Understanding High-Stakes Human Encounters with Artificial Intelligence | This grant supported expenses for an invitational workshop held at Cornell Tech between AI practitioners and scholars researching public sector algorithms. The outcomes of the workshop will be reflected in Stanford University's AI100 report in 2021. | 2018 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | 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 Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | How a Community Teaches Justice: Public Pedagogies and Youth–Adult Civic Learning in Everyday Social Movement | This project contributed to two publications: A chapter in an edited volume, “Latinx cultural programming as public pedagogy: Mobilizing cultura (culture) in Upstate New York,” and a journal article, “Pedagogies of ‘being with:’ Witnessing, testimonio and critical love in everyday social movement.” In addition to multiple paper presentations, it also laid the foundation for a book manuscript-in-progress. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
so-yeon | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Immersive Discrete Choice Experiments for the Analysis of Time Perceptions in Crowded Environments | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
so-yeon | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | The Impact of Noise and Perceived Crowding on Consumer Emotions and Repatronage Intentions in a Food Service Context: An Exploratory Study in a Real and Virtual Restaurant | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
so-yeon | Yoon | Human Centered Design | Fostering Consumer Creativity in Metaverse Virtual Retail Spaces with Psychological Virtuality | At the forefront of retail innovation, the metaverse offers extended brand-consumer experiences that stimulate creative abilities. Grounded in self-expansion theory, this project develops virtual retail spaces infused with psychological virtuality and unveils the mechanisms that amplify consumer creativity in our proposed retail settings. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
simone | Tang | School of Hotel Administration | The Antecedents, Psychological Processes, and Consequences of Perceiving Organizations as Humans | Tang pursued an empirical and theoretical analysis of how organizations are humanized. This project will provide a roadmap for understanding what, how and why organizations are humanized, and under what circumstances. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
simone | Tang | School of Hotel Administration, Organizational Behavior | Anthropomorphization of organizations and its consequences | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
shorna | Allred | Natural Resources | Civic Engagement, Civil Society Organizations, and Urban Environmental Governance: Implications for the New Environmental Politics of Urban Development | This research project utilized a governance framework to examine the civic engagement strategies of civil society organizations involved in urban environmental management, and how those strategies strengthen the influence of civil society organizations in urban regimes for land-use management. |
2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
shorna | Allred | Natural Resources, Global Development | Hearing the Forest Through the Trees: Collaborative Science and Indigenous Sonic Entanglements in East Kalimantan | Working with frontline Indigenous communities, this team of social and natural scientists brings anthropological, bioacoustic, and Indigenous knowledges together to investigate: 1) The impacts of Indonesia's emerging new capital, Nusantara, on surrounding peoples and landscapes, and 2) how collaborative soundscape research can reveal novel multi-species entanglements and advance Indigenous territorial monitoring. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
shooshan | Danagoulian | Economics | Health Insurance Choice and Utilization | This award supported the dissertation research of Shooshan Danagoulian. Her dissertation has led to 2 papers in peer-reviewed journals -- Health Economics 2018, and the International Journal of Health Economics 2018. | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
shirley | Le Penne | Government | Choosing Chains? On the Incarceration of FLN Offspring in French Prisons and Intifada Offspring in Israeli Prisons | To what extent do intergenerational traumas shape and inform experiences of imprisonment? Le Penne delves into the trauma generated by the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) and the Intifadas (1987 and 2000) to examine its impact on the Algerian and Palestinian experiences of incarceration today. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
shirley | Le Penne | Government | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
shirley | Le Penne | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Dissociating the Effects of Attention and Expectation on Visual Conscious Perception | An NSF grant proposal was submitted, but did not receive funding. Papers based on the research are still in the works. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sheryl | Kimes | Johnson Graduate School of Management | 2010 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing conference in 2010 at Cornell University | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
sherry | Marin | Parties, Networks, and the Political Representation of Women | 2008-2009 | PI | U.S. Department of State | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
sheri lynn | Johnson | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Refiguring Village Studies: New Approaches to Agrarian Change in South Asia | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: A Conference on Militarizing Everyday Life | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Precarious Lives, Desired Futures: Reimagining Lives and Livelihoods | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Building a Sociology of Displacement | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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