Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name Sort descending | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Chris | Forman | Applied Economics and Management | Dancing with Stars or Crowded out by Stars: Superstar Firms’ Effect on AI Adoption | Does the superstar firms’ adoption of AI foster or deter other firms’ adoption of AI? There are two competing mechanisms: imitation and competition. By using comprehensive job posting data and a novel instrumental variable, this study will examine the empirical salience of these competing effects of superstar firms on the AI adoption process. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Chiara | Formichi | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | The Status of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia | Amidst growing intolerance, scholars from a range of disciplines convened for the conference ìThe State of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia,î which featured five panels on topics spanning Indonesiaís diverse religious, ethnic, and geographic landscape. An edited volume is under contract with Cornell University Press. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | Crafting Model Islam: Mustafa Kemal's Turkey in Southeast Asia (1920's-1940's) | Funds allowed for library and archival research in the UK and Washington, DC. These materials are constitutive part of my ongoing book project Toward Healthy Progress: Body, Soul and Nation in 20th century Indonesia. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ann | Forsyth | Urban Planning | Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology, and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Jeremy | Foster | Agriculture | Building on the Informalized City: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Elizabeth | Fox | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Buy or Brown Bag? School Lunch Program Use in Tompkins County Schools | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Michael | Frakes | Law | Project Narratives | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Joe | Francis | Development Sociology | Rural Schools: Planning and Decision Making in Times of Fiscal Stress | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jill | Frank | Government | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jason | Frank | Government | 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 | |
Robert | Frank | Johnson Graduate School of Management | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Jason | Frank | Government | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Matthew | Freedman | 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 | University of Southern California Irvine | Collaborative Project | ||
Matthew | Freedman | Labor Economics | Agglomeration Effects: The Role of Selection | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Megan | French | Communication | Audience and Self-Concept in Social Media | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 2016-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | Urbanization, Education, and Citizenship in China | This fellowship, along with being a part of the CCSS China’s Cities: Divisions and Plan (2016-2019) project team, allowed me to work on the analysis of my data and to begin writing. In addition to two peer-review publications, I made significant progress on a new book manuscript, The Urbanization of People: Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Education in China. I am now nearly finished with that manuscript, and intend to send it out to publishers later this year. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | Education Work in China: A Comparative Study of Beijing's Separate School Systems | This support allowed me to conduct fieldwork that helped advance my book project. Most directly, it led to the publication of an article, “Teachers’ Work in China’s Migrant Schools” in Modern China. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Hannah | Friedrich | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | CCSS Grant | ||
Felicity | Frinsel | Psychology | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexander | Fulmer | Marketing | The Biography of Discovery: How Discovery of Resources by Humans versus Machines Shapes Preference | This research builds upon recent work illuminating that biographical elements of a resource’s discovery can influence consumer preference for otherwise identical resources. Specifically, this project explores how consumer preference for resources is influenced by awareness of whether the discoverer was a human or a machine. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Chiara | Galli | Sociology | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group 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 |
Chris | Garces | Anthropology | Latin American Alternatives to the Security Prison: An Ethnographic Study of Prisoner Self-Governance and Survival | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Maria Cristina | Garcia | History, Latino Studies | Whose America? U.S Immigration Policy since 1986 | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sergio | Garcia-Rios | Government | Beyond Pan Ethnicity: A Survey Experiment to Understand the Role of National Identity, Xenophobic Attacks, and Public Policy Positions | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Nikhil | Garg | Operations Research and Information Engineering | NYC School Match: How Do Design Details Drive Inequity | NYC matches students to public high schools through an algorithm. We study the process’s design details: what drives educational inequity? What is the role of students’ ranked lists or school policies in prioritizing grades or geography? Our analyses will inform student-side interventions and policy recommendations. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | 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 |
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 | |
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 |
Claudine | Gay | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Charles | Geisler | Development Sociology | Building a Sociology of Displacement | 2005 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Charles | Geisler | 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 | |
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 | |
Charles | Geisler | Development Sociology | Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: A Conference on Militarizing Everyday Life | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Thalia | Gerzso | Government | Judicial Resistance: The Role of Courts in Electoral Disputes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Durba | Ghosh | History | 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 | |
Durba | Ghosh | History | Postcolonial Commemorations: How Revolutionaries Became Freedom Fighters in Independent India | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Ivy | Gilbert | Psychology | Qualitative analysis of dairy-industry discourse on Instagram | This project analyzes visual and textual features in a small corpus of Instagram posts by dairy farmers to explore the persuasive role of social media in the discursive construction of dairy farming. Implications for moral evaluations of animals and farming practices are discussed. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Sarah | Giroux | Development Sociology | Cyber-Boosting African Social Science: Exporting the Cornell College of Computing and Information Science Experience | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Laura | Giurge | Organizational Behavior | The Social Psychology Behind “Always On” Work Culture | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | London Business School | CCSS Grant | |
Rebecca | Givan | Labor Studies and Employment Relations | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | PI | Rutgers University | CCSS Grant | |
Rebecca | Givan | 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 | Rutgers University | Collaborative Project |
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