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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Douglas | Kriner | American Institutions | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Douglas | Kriner | Government | Presidential Politics in an Era of Democratic Disruption | This conference examines how presidential politics have helped precipitate and in turn been shaped by troubling trends in democratic governance in the United States and around the world. Papers will be published in a special issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Intergroup Loss Aversion | This research uses an economic model of choice behavior and psychophysiological measures of arousal to examine sensitivity to losses for racial ingroup vs. outgroup members, with a discussion of implications for racial disparities at the interpersonal and national level. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Social Influence and Reward Learning in Discriminatory Decision Making | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Seeing ‘Them’ as Less Human: Causes and Consequences of Whites’ Perceptual Dehumanization of Racial Minorities | This grant supported research accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology with one publication in progress and another accepted in principle. Neuroimaging for this project has been delayed due to covid but will resume this semester. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Taking a Computational Approach to Implicit Social Cognition | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Carol Lynne | Krumhansl | Psychology | Social Affiliation and Music-Induced Synchrony in Dance | Prior support led to 1 paper and two papers in preparation, 2 pop press pieces, 2 chaired symposia, and 3 posters (awarded the SPSP Student Poster Award (1st place). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Yanna | Krupnikov | News Evidence and Political Behavior | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Indiana University | |||
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 | |
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 | 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 | |
Alexander | Kuo | Government | Preferences of Firms During Economic Crists: Evidence from Spain | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexander | Kuo | Government | Economic Harship, Citizen Policy Preferences, and Political Participation in the Eurozone Periphery: Evidence from Spain | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Benedek | Kurdi | Psychology | Taking a Computational Approach to Implicit Social Cognition | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sarosh | Kuruvilla | International and Comparative Labor | Employment Practices of Multinationals in Comparative Context | This grant resulted in a special issue of the journal Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations Review on employment practices in multinationals. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Sarosh | Kuruvilla | International and Comparative Labor | Development of Collective Bargaining in China: A Multidisciplinary Conference and Research Project | This award resulted in the publication of two articles and the development of a network of scholars studying collective bargaining in China. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS 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 | Revising Anti-Vaccination Beliefs During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
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 | 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 | |
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 | |
Catherine | Lambert | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life 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 |
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 | First Conference/Workshop: Ecological Learning Collaboratory for Food, Healing, and Spatial Justice | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 | |
Joseph | Lasky | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Joseph | Lasky | Government | Shadows and Silence: Identity and Legacies of Cameroon's Hidden War | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 |
Cynthia | Lawell | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Water Conservation and Management: Agricultural Water Use, Climate Change, and Government Policy | The research funded by this grant has resulted in several papers, presentations, and publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles published in Sustainability, in its Special Issue on ìSustainable Agriculture: The State of the Great Debatesî; and in Resource and Energy Economics. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
David | Lazer | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Northeastern University | CCSS Grant | ||
Peter | Lazes | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | ||
Lin | Le | Government | Save Socialism in the Name of the People: Factionalism, Ideology and Populism in Authoritarian China | This research seeks to reconstruct the historical process of political struggle and ideological contestation in the late Hu Jintao-era, during which Bo Xilai’s political maneuvering interacted with the dynamics of factional politics in those critical years leading up to Xi Jinping’s strongman rule. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Shirley | Le Penne | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group 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 | |
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 |
Kristie | Lebeau | Global Development | Hitting the $40,000 Threshold: A Rural Critical Policy Analysis of Indiana Competitive Teacher Pay Legislation | Indiana recently implemented a statewide $40,000 minimum salary requirement for public school districts. I aim to understand how this seemingly neutral statewide policy can be more attentive to rural needs and discover what local budget decisions result in the highest net benefit for rural communities.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Jetson | Leder-Luis | The Actions of State Medical Boards in the Opioid Prescribing Epidemic | A small number of inappropriately-prescribing physicians drove opioid prescribing increases in the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic. This project collects a novel dataset of state medical board actions to determine the nature and extent of investigations and disciplinary actions regarding opioid prescribing. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Boston University | CCSS Grant | |
Randy | Lee | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Randy | Lee | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Lee | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Lillian | Lee | Computer Science | The Verbal End: Interactions Between Computational Textual Analysis and the Social Sciences | Lee has received multiple society honors (AAAI Fellow, 2013, ACL Fellow, 2017, ACM Fellow 2018) citing contributions to computational social science; the 2008 ISS Fellowship was the first formal encouragement for her to start along this path. | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Johannes | Lehmann | Crop and Soil Sciences | Leveraging the Commercialization of Animal Bone-Derived Biofertilizers to Create Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Landless Poor in Ethiopia | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Paying for Privacy, Selling Your Information, and Finding Safety in Numbers | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Aija | Leiponen | 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 | |
Aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | (When) Should Knowledge Be Controlled? Knowledge Spillovers and Firms’ Innovation Behavior | This project led to several publications (Leiponen 2006a, 2006b, 2008, and with Byma 2009) on organizational arrangements to protect knowledge assets in cooperative innovation. It showed how knowledge-based services can be commercialized while protecting core knowledge, and innovation can be encouraged by appropriate control rights. | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Innovating the Smart Grid: Organization of R&D, Standards, and the Electricity Industry | This exploratory project merged with a broader effort to analyze firms’ innovation efforts and contributions to industry standards in network markets. Two articles were published in 2014 (with Delcamp and Bar, respectively) that illustrate firms’ cooperative strategies and knowledge sharing in standard setting. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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