Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name Sort descending | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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saida | Hodzic | Anthropology | Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Awkward Endings of Female Genital Cutting | Hodži?’s fellowship resulted in the book The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (University of California Press, 2017) which won two prestigious awards, the Michelle Rosaldo book prize for Feminist Anthropology and the Amaury Talbot Book Prize for African Anthropology. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
saleh | Kalantari | Design and Environmental Analysis | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | We created a platform for immersive VR testing of wayfinding designs, collecting both subjective feedback and biometric data. The project results in a validated virtual design-testing system, along with specific findings about the effectiveness of wayfinding strategies in a hospital design. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
saleh | Kalantari | Human Centered Design | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Support Program | |
sam | Tilsen | Linguistics | LabPhon15-Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation | This conference brought together over 300 international scholars and students to explore experimental approaches to the linguistic analysis of language and speech. The work presented and the interactions that took place at the conference and satellite meetings advanced dozens of research projects. | 2015 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sam | Tilsen | Linguistics | Visualizing speech: real-time MRI of the vocal tract | Journal publications were produced as a result of this grant, including “Analysis of speech production real-time MRI” (Ramanarayan et al., 2018), and “Anticipatory posturing of the vocal tract reveals dissociation of speech movement plans from linguistic units” (Tilsen et al., 2016). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
samuel | Kleiner | Policy Analysis and Management | The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Physician Referral Patterns | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
sang-o | Kim | City and Regional Planning | Mobility Biographies of an Aging Household: Thinking through relational aspects of informal care | This project investigates how mobility biographies emerge within the changing relationships of power, affection, and needs between adult-child caregivers and elderly care-receivers. By doing so, the project aims to present a more grounded way to understand how family caregivers perform the ordinary and nurturing forms of everyday care. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | QuIRI Grant |
sangah | Bae | Organizational Behavior | The Hidden Costs of Intrinsic Motivation | Intrinsic motivation is championed as a benefit that people should aspire to, with little attention paid to the negative consequences. We study an interpersonal cost of high intrinsic motivation: managers are more likely to burden intrinsically motivated employees with extra work tasks.
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2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
sara | Gorman | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Critica | CCSS Grant | ||
sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Fluid Empires: Water Management Across the French Mediterranean | Led to an article in Social Studies of Science (2012) crucial to author’s tenure file; research also reflected in Environment and Planning A special issue, “Knowledge and the Politics of Land” (2016), co-edited with Steven Wolf and Wendy Wolford. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sara | Bronin | City and Regional Planning | A Historic Preservation Local Law Census: Where and Why | People interact with preservation law predominantly at the local level, through historic commissions that opine on proposed rehab projects. Yet there is neither a census of local governments that regulate historic places, nor any scholarship that ties adoption to demographic characteristics, political inclinations, and state enabling authority features. My research will identify where historic districts have been adopted and explore how rates of adoption change from state to state depending on various independent variables. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
sara | Bronin | City and Regional Planning | Building a National Zoning Atlas | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Grant Writing Support Program | |
sara | Bronin | City and Regional Planning | Exploring the National Zoning Atlas (Conference) | Zoning functions mostly the same in jurisdictions across the country, but zoning data have heretofore been scattered and highly heterogeneous. This conference convenes experts engaged in the standardization and publication of cross-jurisdictional zoning data to explore the methodology underlying the production of the National Zoning Atlas. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Bringing STS Into Environmental History | This grant supported an important, international workshop on the contributions of science studies to environmental history, resulting in the edited volume, _New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies_, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2013). | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
sarah | Soule | 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 | Stanford University | Collaborative Project | ||
sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
sarah | Lim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Starbucks Effect: How Consumer Identification Impacts Consumer Preferences | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences (Association of Consumer Research and Society of Consumer Psychology Conferences). Further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | |
sarah | Kreps | Government | Mechanisms of Morality: Why the U.S. Public Supports Humanitarian Interventions | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
sarah e. | Wolfolds | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Employee Incentives in Microfinance Institutions:Examining the Importance of Diversification and Profit Status | The survey was included in a paper awarded the Charles H. Levine Best Conference Paper from the Public and Nonprofit Division, presented at the Academy of Management in Chicago in August 2018. Follow-up grants were awarded to continue this project, and further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
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 |
sasha | Fahme | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Prevalence and predictors of sexually transmitted infections among trauma-exposed Syrian refugee women in Beirut, Lebanon | 2021 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
sawa | Senzaki | Psychology | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Wisconsin Green Bay | CCSS Grant | |
sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Insurance Competition and Network Offerings | This grant supported the development of a paper, “Narrow Physician Networks, Switching Costs, and Product Variety in Employer Markets,” which received a revise and resubmit request at the American Economic Review, one of the top journals in economics. | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Black Employees’ Allyship Needs | In general, fulfilling relationships with coworkers can foster positive work outcomes for employees. Expanding on this broad framework, we demonstrate that when Black employees’ allyship needs are met by their white coworkers, they experience higher attachment to coworkers, higher organizational commitment, and lower turnover intentions.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Health and Early Childhood Television and Video Viewing | This exploratory effort led to the creation of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper “Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching,” which is under review at a peer-reviewed economics journal. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
sean | Rogers | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Testing interventions to encourage self-blinding | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
sebastian | Brown | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Harvard | 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 | |
shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Economic and Environmental Consequences of COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Precarity and Migrant Labor: Consular Protection as a Case of Transnational Labor Advocacy | With coauthor Xóchitl Bada (University of Illinois, Chicago), this book project uses the case of Mexico and the United States to assess the portability of worker rights across borders and the key role that the sending state and transnational civil society can play. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | The Role of Local Governments and Civil Society in Advancing Equity and Justice for Immigrant Communities | Gleeson's Fall 2018 fellowship helped advance research with Kate Griffith on immigrant worker precarity funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, and a co-authored book with Xóchitl Bada entitled Accountability across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (University of Texas Press, 2019). | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Immigrant Worker Precarity, Race and the Dual Pandemic | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Occupational Quality and Health | This group has advanced pilot phase research for a project on the occupational health of Latino workers. The goal is to obtain NIH funding to add a module to the Hispanic Community Health Study that can help shed light on risk factors over time. | 2019 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Working Group Grant | |
shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local | As international migration continues to rise, countries of origin have played an increasing role in engaging their emigrants; however, we know little about how they are being held accountable for the services offered to their diasporas. To fill the gap, this book analyzes on-the-ground, transnational defense of migrant labor rights.
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2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | 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. | 2015-2018 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | How Housing and Labor Market Conditions Influence the Progression of Romantic Relationships | One paper from this grant has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming at Journal of Marriage & Family. A second paper, based on restricted data, is delayed as the RDC has been closed since March due to COVID. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
sharon | Tennyson | Economics, Brooks School of Public Policy | Assessing the Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Healthcare Access in Rural Communities | This project evaluates the effectiveness of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) to address health disparities among underserved rural youth using de-identified individual-level panel data on patient visits to healthcare providers. The study focuses on 4 high-poverty rural counties in New York, comparing healthcare for children in 16 school districts with SBHCs to those in 22 school districts without. We will assess how SBHCs help poor rural communities by bringing health services directly to children to enhance rural community health. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sharon | Poctzer | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Impact of Firm's Resource Misallocation on Growth in Developing Economies: Evidence from Indonesia | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | STEM Retention and Job Satisfaction in the COVID-19 Era | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant | |
sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | Pre-Marital Cohabitation and Diverging Destinies, Gender and Class Differences in Life Trajectories and Family Formation | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Enhancing the Community Impact of School-Based Health Centers in Rural New York | The ISS grant provided the necessary support to secure a data agreement between the Bassett (NY Healthcare system and Cornell’s CRADIC system. We are now analyzing nearly 4 million records over 7 years to measure the impact of SBHCs on the healthcare behavior of residents in five counties. We recently secured a Federal Hatch grant to continue our analyses in partnership with Bassett. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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