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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nelson | Tebbe | Law | The Effects on Children of Equality Rules for Religious Placement Agencies | Through triangulating in-depth interviews, original datasets, and national archive data on child placement outcomes, this comprehensive analysis will explore the question, are children harmed when child placement agencies close their doors rather than follow anti-discrimination rules that violate their religious beliefs? |
2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | 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 | |
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 | |
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 |
negar | Khojasteh | Information Science | How International Students and Their Spouses use Technology to Communicate with their Families | Negar's thesis is focused on understanding the challenges international students face as they communicate with their families remotely. Her goal is to contribute to theories related to family communication as well as designing new technological tools for this population. The grant also covered expenses of Atlas.ti and otter.ai (analysis and transcription tools). |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
neema | Kudva | City and Regional Planning | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
neema | Kudva | Development Sociology | First Conference/Workshop: Ecological Learning Collaboratory for Food, Healing, and Spatial Justice | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
neema | Kudva | City and Regional Planning | Building on the Informalized City: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
ned | Augenblick | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | This study examined why subjects fail to play mixed-strategy equilibria in zero-sum games, calling into question prior research which suggests that experimental subjects do not follow the predictions of game theory and cannot bring the skills and heuristics used in real‐life economies into the laboratory. |
2011 | Spring | Co-PI | University of California Berkeley | CCSS Grant | |
navika | Gangrade | Nutritional Sciences | A qualitative exploration of factors that influence snacking behaviors among culturally diverse adolescents from New York City | Gangrade recruited research participants for a virtual study exploring factors that influence snacking behaviors among adolescents from low-income, urban environments. The funding enabled her to conduct 30 phone interviews with adolescents from low-income neighborhoods in NYC during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
nathan | Spreng | Human Development | Brain Network Dynamics of Goal-Directed Cognition and Behavior Across the Adult Life Span | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
natasha | Raheja | Anthropology | Majority-Minority Politics across the India-Pakistan Border | How do majorities come to imagine themselves as minorities? Conversely, how do minorities come to imagine justice as part of majorities? Focusing on immigration policy in South Asia, my project argues that majority-minority politics exceed state borders, in ways that are not nation bound. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
natasha | Holmes | Physics | Equity in group work between in-person and remote labs | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
naomi | Egel | Government | Regulating Destruction: the Politics of Multilateral Weapons Governance | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
nancy | Chau | Applied Economics and Management | Distance Learning in the Shadow of COVID19 -- Lessons from Cornell University | This study leverages the natural experimental COVID19 setting at the Cornell campus, constructs a student-specific return-home treatment triplet (geographic distance, internet access, pandemic exposure), and performs an assessment of the impact of the return home treatment on student-assessed academic performance among Cornell undergraduates. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
namrata | Kala | Returns to Mechanization through Rental Equipment Markets | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | MIT Sloan School of Management | CCSS Grant | ||
murillo | Campello | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Unions and the Postwar European "Economic Miracle" | Campello and Baron digitized and translated financial statements for 950 German firms and 300 Swedish firms over the period 1948-1965, building a database similar to Compustat. They also assembled a database on wages, productivity, and patents for German firms by industries and counties. |
2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
muna | Ndulo | Institute for African Development | Elections, Accountability, and Democratic Governance in Africa | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
muna | Ndulo | Law | The Food and Financial Crisis and Their Impact in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals in Africa | The conference brought scholars and practitioners from abroad to explore food security and its impact on Africa. The presentations made possible the book, Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa, which focus on the crises, effects on rural poverty, and recommendations to address the crises. | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
mostafa | Minawi | History | Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Colonialism in East Africa | It allowed me to conduct research in the British Library which went into an article titled International Law and the Precarity of Ottoman Imperialism in Africa at the end of the 19th Century in the International History Review (2020). | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
morten | Ravn | The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated Tax Policy Changes | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | University of London | CCSS Grant | ||
morten | Christiansen | Psychology | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
moritz | Schularick | "Too-big-to-fail" and Historical Banking Crises | This grant has led a new publicly-available historical database of global financial crises since 1870 and two papers: ìBanking Crises Without Panicsî (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 2020) and a new working paper. | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
monica | Cornejo | Communication | Post COVID-19: The Social, Health, and Educational Experiences of Latina/o/x Undocumented College Students | This project will explore undocumented college students' social, health, and educational experiences post COVID-19. Sixty semi-structured interviews will be conducted with undocumented undergraduates from (1) a west coast community college; (2) a south-central public university; and (3) an east coast ivy league university.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
moncrieff | Cochran | Human Development | Evaluating an Employer-Supported Child Care Program: An Ecological Approach | The funding from this grant helped to support graduate student research. |
2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
molly | Diesing | Linguistics | The interaction of syntax, semantics, and prosody in Slovenian | Formed a partial underpinning of several papers, including “Getting in the first word” Glossa 2.1 2017. | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
molly | Diesing | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
misha | Inniss-Thompson | Psychology | Exploring Black Girl Literacies: A Qualitative Study of Book Clubs & Identity Development | This phenomenological qualitative study explores how Black adolescent girls enact Black Girl Literacies (ways of knowing, doing, and creating to affirm themselves; (Price-Dennis et al., 2017) in a monthly book club focused on Black girl-centered young adult literature. This study will leverage focus group discussions, participant observation, and sociodemographic surveys to examine the following inquiry: what role can a book club space play in fostering the development of self-definition and critical consciousness among Black girls? |
2022 | Fall | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
minqi | Chai | Government | Capital Xenophobia, Trade Rationalization: Two Sides of the "China Shock" | Through archival research, Chai intended to explore Australia’s mixed political responses to Japanese expansive economic influence in the 1980s and 1990s and anti-Americanism in the 1960s and 1970s. The funding enabled her to buy necessary equipment for further archival research and printing services. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant |
minawi | Minawi | History | The Geopolitics of Ottoman Imperialism in the Horn of Africa | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | School Based Health Centers - An approach to address health disparities among rural youth | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | Understanding the Impact of Austerity on New York's Local Governments | This research was presented at state and national conferences and published in 2019 in Environment and Planning A. "Austerity Coalitions or Pragmatic Municipalism? Local Responses to Austerity in New York State,”. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
mike | Silver | Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology, and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | ||
miguel i. | Gomez | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Is Colombia Ready for a Sustainable Cocoa Boom? Developing a Baseline Knowledge on the Productive Practices, Biodiversity Conditions and Environmental Performance of Cocoa Production in a Post-Conflict Context | This research examined challenges and opportunities for development of cacao value chains in post-conflict regions in rural Colombia, deriving on a MS Thesis “Using Cacao to Catalyze Development: Productivity Drivers and Technology Adoption amongst Smallholder Farmers in Montes De Maria, Colombia” (Williams 2019) | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
miguel | Gomez | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Welfare Impacts of Participation in the Relationship Coffee Model among Colombian Smallholder Growers | This collaborative effort across multiple Cornell units examined economic, social and environmental impacts of specialty coffee value chains, titled “Quality as a driver of sustainable agricultural value chains: The case of the relationship coffee model” in Business Strategy and the Environment (Hernandez et al. 2018) | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
miguel | Gomez | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Developing a Longitudinal Database of Smallholder Coffee Growers to Assess Impacts of Participation in Specialty Markets | This multidisciplinary project allowed to rigorously measure levels of shade in sustainable coffee systems that allow growers to maximize profits, published as “Thee Economics and Ecology of Shade-grown Coffee: A Model to Incentivize Shade and Bird Conservation” in Ecological Economics (Hernandez et al. 2019) | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
michelle | Falkenbach | Public and Ecosystem Health | Austria's Fall from Grace: The Kurz Regime and its Impact on Democracy | This article investigates whether instruments of the state have become instruments of the new ÖVP (Austrian People's Party), much like in Erdogan's Turkey, or Orbán's Hungary. The research question: Is Austria is at risk of democratic backsliding as a direct result of the "Kurz Regime." |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant |
michele | Williams | The Emotions of Embeddedness | 2008-2009 | PI | University of Iowa | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
michael t. | Paz | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Goldstein | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
michael | Roach | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship | This project garnered over 2 million in funding, produced over 100 publications on topics including entrepreneurial team evolution; creativity evaluation; intellectual property rights; and scholarly originality. It was a catalyst for the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM degree and the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor. | 2013-2016 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
michael | Hoffman | Entomology | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Lovenheim | Policy Analysis and Management | School Quality Information and the Choice Environment: Evidence from Online School Search Behavior | This project led to a peer-reviewed publication in the Economics of Education Review. The paper has garnered attention and is having an impact on the literature. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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