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 Sort descending | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 | |
Itamar | Haritan | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Daniel | Ferman-Leon | Anthropology | The Financialization of Racialized Geographies: Real Estate Investment and Housing Insecurity in Kansas City | Fermon-Leon's funding has been used to explore the archives of business journals and local development publications. The remainder of the funds will be used to carryout in-depth interviews and focus groups. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Peter | Rich | Policy Analysis and Management | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Working Group 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 |
Elif | Sari | Anthropology | From Competition to Solidarity: Iranian & Syrian LGBTQ Refugee Meetings | Sari conducted 10 follow-up interviews with Iranian LGBTQ refugees in Turkey to complete her dissertation on refugees’ lives and experiences. The funding also allowed her to organize two small group meetings, where Iranian refugees discussed how to establish collaboration and solidarity with Syrian LGBTQ refugees in the country and prepared a community-engaged project plan and a tentative division of labor. Accordingly, the group will organize 3 virtual meetings in Fall 2021 to bring Iranian and Syrian refugees together and develop strategies for transforming prejudices and preconceptions about each other. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 | |
Chiara | Galli | Sociology | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Adi | Rao | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group 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 | |
Louis-Philippe | Brochu | Government | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Trevor | Brown | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Alexandra | Blackman | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Eleanor | Paynter | Einaudi Center for International Studies | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Panle Jia | Barwick | Economics | Measuring the Economic and Environmental Consequences of COVID-19 | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Ben | Leyden | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | A Platform-wide Analysis of Firm Responses to Platform-owner | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Eun A | Jo | Government | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Shirley | Le Penne | Government | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Hui Yuan | Neo | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Rebecca | Harrison | Science and Technology Studies | "Safe sex for insects" and other stories: How land-grant scientists configure and enact their roles in working with controversial biotechnologies | The funding enabled Harrison to (1) subscribe to a Zoom-compatible transcription service, and (2) will assist with future expenses associated with primary resource and document acquisition, by mail and in-person. This research will be presented at the 2021 Society for Social Studies of Science meeting and in Ms. Harrison’s forthcoming dissertation. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Catherine | Maclean | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Temple University | CCSS Grant | ||
Nicholas | Klein | City and Regional Planning | The effects of decreasing access to a car | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | QuIRI Grant | |
Jaimie | Luria | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Isabel | Perera | Government | States of Mind: The development of Norwegian and Swedish mental health policy in comparative perspective | Perera hired a research assistant to support the development of her book manuscript. The monograph documents and explains the varied development of mental health policy in different countries, including Norway and Sweden. With the help of the RA's language skills, the team collected descriptive statistics and translated key texts into English. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Joseph | Lasky | Government | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
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 | |
Stefan | Pichler | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | ETH Zurich | CCSS Grant | ||
David | Scales | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | Fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | 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 | |
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | CoRUS: Coronavirus in Russia and Ukraine Survey | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Reut | Shachnai | Human Development | A role-model intervention to motivate young girls in science | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local | The QuIRI grant enabled ILR Professor Shannon Gleeson to defray publication costs for her book manuscript "Portable Rights: Bringing the Sending State Back into the Local" (with Xóchitl Bada, under contract with the University of California Press). During this funding period, the research team prepared demographic tables and other figures for the introductory chapters, consolidated a database for the methodological appendix, and submitted chapter drafts to convenings hosted by the American Sociological Association, Texas A&M and the University of Colorado. The book will be under full review by Fall 2021, with an expected publication date of late 2022. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Grant |
Yoselinda | Mendoza | Sociology | Latinx immigrant families and housing instability | Mendoza used semi-structured interviews to uncover the experiences, responses to, and consequences of housing precarity among mixed-status Latinx immigrant families in southern California. The funding helped with a transcription service. Preliminary findings demonstrate that a lack of legal status restricts individuals’ access to and participation in various social and economic benefits, which in turn inhibit their ability to find adequate housing. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
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 | ||
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 |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Political Science and the New Politics of Authoritarianism | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rama Adithya | Varanasi | Information Science | Digital Technologies in Occupational Wellbeing: Designing for Teachers in Low-Income Indian Schools | Varanasi conducted mixed-methods research to explore low-income teachers’ inhibitions around seeking digital social support. He is conducting virtual interviews with teachers, higher management, and non-profit personnel, to gain insights into the challenges that low-income teachers are facing to seek digital support practices during pandemic. The funding is helping him to recruit 55 participants. The study will be making an important contribution towards inequity issues that impact women teachers’ overall job security and their daily work practices. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI 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 |
Marcel | Preuss | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Dynamics of Luck, Effort, and Redistribution | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Meaghan | Mingo | Sociology | Prepare and Punish: Schooling and Discipline in the Black Belt | Mingo conducted interviews with 22 junior high school students and 11 educators as part of her ethnographic study on schooling and discipline in the rural US South. This research will be presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in August 2021, and is included in manuscripts in progress. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 | |
Elissa | Sampson | Near Eastern Studies | The Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Katherine | Tschida | Psychology | Effects of social isolation on vocal communication | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Prosociality During COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Implications of Course Enrollment Structure for the Potential of Epidemic Spread on a College Campus | This project will use complete student transcript data to map the bipartite (two-mode) network that connects students to each other via their enrollment in college courses, thereby creating social structural conditions for the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. We will evaluate how clusters of course offerings, the timing of courses throughout the week, and mode of class instruction affect the structure of this network. We will also assess how students with different majors, level in school, gender, and race occupy different positions within the network. |
2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Effects of Prevalence Information in Framing Health Problems | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kevin | Kniffin | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Wanheng | Hu | Science and Technology Studies | Uncovering the Face Mask: Mundane Governance, Ontology, and the Construction of Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Hu intends to recruit interview participants for a study exploring the role of masks in constructing risks and governing social loves. He anticipates conducting 30 virtual interviews and multi-sited ethnography. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Jay | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Roles of Positive Emotions in Human-Product Interactions | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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