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 | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type Sort descending |
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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 | |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Privacy and Social Media: Dialects of Personal Information Sharing Online | Humphrey’s 2013 fellowship research resulted in the book The Qualified Self : Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2018), as well as journal articles on social media privacy and how extension offices and small businesses use social media. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Kurt | Jordan | Anthropology | An Archaeology of Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca Iroquois) Autonomy, circa 1688-1715 | Jordan’s 2016 fellowship facilitated the final season of fieldwork at the White Springs archaeological site near Geneva, New York, and four journal articles and book chapters related to the excavations. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Arturs | Kalnins | Information Exchange in Revenue Management Industries | After many rounds of revision, this work was finally published in the RAND Journal of Economics in 2017 under the title: Can mergers increase output? Evidence from the lodging industry | 2008-2009 | PI | University of Iowa | faculty fellows program | ||
Sabrina | Karim | Government | When Peace Makes States: How International Security Sector Assistance Shapes Post-Conflict State Building | The CCSS fellowship allowed Sabrina Karim to launch her Gender and Security Sector Lab and submit six papers for review---spanning research topics related to electoral violence, health and security, refugees and education, war/crime victimization, and policing. It also allowed Karim to finish a first draft of a co-authored book, "From Gender Equality to the Status of Women: Concepts and Measurement in Conflict and Peace Studies." |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Adam Seth | Levine | Government | How Citizens Become Advocates | Thanks to the generous time and resources from my ISS fellowship, along with the wonderfully supportive and engaging community of fellows, I completed four new projects examining when ordinary citizens become political advocates in response to social and economic challenges, including unaffordable health care, climate change, and traffic congestion. These papers have been published in top political science, climate change, and transportation journals. One of these projects was a collaboration with ISS fellow Mike Manville. |
2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Karen | Levy | Information Science | Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance | The time and resources of the CCSS Fellowship enabled me to make significant progress on a book manuscript (Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance). I also became a New America National Fellow and worked on several journal articles related to technology, automation, and social life. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | faculty fellows program | |
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 | |
Michael | Manville | Luskin School of Public Affairs | American Travel Behavior and the Macroeconomy: A Longer View | Manvilleís 2016 fellowship helped him complete two journal articles, and also led to a productive collaboration with ISS fellow Adam Levine, resulting in an additional journal article. | 2015-2016 | PI | UCLA | faculty fellows program | |
Drew | Margolin | Communication | The Spread of Misinformation: Motivations and Remedies | With time and collaborative feedback afforded by his 2019 CCSS Fellowship, Drew Margolin developed a functional theory of misinformation. A paper outlining the theory--The Theory of Informative Fictions: A Character-Based Approach to False News and Other Misinformation—is forthcoming in the journal Communication Theory. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Sherry | Marin | Parties, Networks, and the Political Representation of Women | 2008-2009 | PI | U.S. Department of State | faculty fellows program | |||
Jane | Mendle | Human Development | Secular Trends in Puberty and Mental Health | Jane Mendleís time at ISS helped her complete two journal articles, write a grant proposal funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child and Human Development, and submit a proposal for a textbook on Developmental Psychopathology that will be published by Macmillan. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | faculty fellows program | |
Karel | Mertens | Escaping the Liquidity Trap | 2012-2013 | PI | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | faculty fellows program | |||
Jamila | Michener | Government | Outputs to Outcomes: Poverty, Race and Transformative Public Policy | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | ||
Stephen L. | Morgan | Patronage and Networks & Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences | 2008-2009 | PI | Johns Hopkins University | faculty fellows program | |||
Zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Graphical Representation and Visual Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs | The 2018 fellowship allowed Zhuan Pei to start the project, and he has recently completed a working paper with coauthors. Through the fellowship, Zhuan met Prof. Sahara Byrne, who generously gave him access to her eyetracking lab for the project. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | faculty fellows program | |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Politics, Economics, and Religion in Indonesia | Pepinsky’s fellowship resulted in a number of publications, including “Colonial Migration and the Origins of Governance” (Comparative Political Studies, 2016) and Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam (New York: Oxford University Press). |
2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Jamie | Perry | School of Hotel Administration | Meta-Analytic Evidence and Critica Contingencies of Resource-Based Subgroup | The fellowship allowed Jamie Perry the resources to develop a theoretical framework for understanding cooperation and competition within groups. She has recently completed a working paper with coauthors, and subsequently, started empirical investigation of the phenomenon. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | faculty fellows program | |
Victoria | Prowse | Economics | Income Redistribution through Defined Benefit Pension systems when Life Expectancy is Heterogenous | 2015-2016 | PI | Purdue University | faculty fellows program | ||
Peter | Rich | Policy Analysis and Management | Dividing Lines: School District Boundaries and the Geography of Unequal Opportunity | Rich’s fellowship enabled a major data collection effort to identify barriers to educational opportunity. A detailed block-level analysis reveals how much and where administrative policies create excess opportunity constraints for marginalized populations nationwide. Several research papers and a follow-up external grant proposal are in progress. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | faculty fellows program | |
Ben | Rissing | Organizational Behavior | Immigrant Work Authorizations and Presidential Discourse | Rissing's 2018-19 fellowship contributed to the co-authored article "Strength from Within: Internal Mobility and the Retention of High Performers" (Organization Science), and development of two working papers relating to the government adjudication of work visas for skilled U.S. immigrants. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | faculty fellows program | |
Brian | Rubineau | Gendered Peer Effects in Cornell College of Engineering | 2012-2013 | PI | McGill University | faculty fellows program | |||
Sunita | Sah | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Potential and Pitfalls of Conflict of Interest Disclosure; and The Professionalism Paradox | Sunita's 2018-2019 fellowship resulted in several journal articles including a solo paper Conflict of interest disclosure as a reminder of professional norms. Clients First! published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | faculty fellows program | |
Linda | Shi | City and Regional Planning | Taught in America: How an American education affects Mainland Chinese urban planning students | This project interviewed graduates of American urban planning programs from Mainland China on how international education impacts their professional practice after returning home. It will result in two journal article manuscripts, a website, and a briefing to the planning academic association. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | faculty fellows program | |
Wesley | Sine | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Political Turbulence, Entrepreneurial Processes, and Outcomes | Published in organization Science | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | faculty fellows program | |
R. Nathan | Spreng | Psychology | Neurocognitive Aging and Wisdom | 2015-2016 | PI | McGill University | faculty fellows program | ||
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | The Reasoning State | With time and resources from the ISS fellowship, Stiglitz conducted additional experiments and completed his book manuscript, The Reasoning State, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell Law School | faculty fellows program | |
Laura | Tach | Policy Analysis and Management | Assessing the Consequences of Place-Based Policies for Communities and Individuals | Tach’s 2016 fellowship resulted in a $500,000 grant from the Gates Foundation, on which she is co-investigator, titled “Assessing the Impact of Place-Based and Place-Conscious Interventions on Economic Mobility.” Tach’s fellowship research also resulted in the publication of “Public Housing Redevelopment, Neighborhood Change, and the Restructuring of Urban Inequality” in the American Journal of Sociology. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | faculty fellows program | |
Kathleen | Vogel | Science and Scientific Expertise in the Assessment of and Response to Bioweapons | From her time as a 2008-2009 CCSS Fellow, Vogel was able to complete a manuscript for a journal article that was published: Vogel, Kathleen M., ìNecessary Interventions: Expertise and Experiments in Bioweapons Intelligence Assessments,î _Science, Technology & Innovation Studies_, Vol. 9, No. 2 (October 2013): 61-88. | 2008-2009 | PI | University of Maryland | faculty fellows program | ||
Christopher | Way | Government | Understanding Bioweapons Proliferation | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | ||
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Social Mobility and Immobility in an Age of Inequality | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | ||
Michele | Williams | The Emotions of Embeddedness | 2008-2009 | PI | University of Iowa | faculty fellows program | |||
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Social Interactions in Virtual Reality as an Intervention for Pain | Work related to this fellowship was put on hold due to pandemic constraints; was restarted in the fall of 2021, and is ongoing. Preliminary results have been used to support an NIH grant application. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How Intrinsic Motivation Shapes Resource Allocation | Woolley’s 2020-2021 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and resource allocation, including a publication on how time resources shape intrinsic motivation that was conditionally accepted in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | faculty fellows program | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Moving Beyond the Census Tract: Real-Time Assessment of Neighborhoods, Social Connectedness, and Health | York Cornwell’s 2015-2016 Fellowship resulted in journal articles in the American Journal of Public Health and the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, as well as collaborative development of the proposal for a $3 million grant funded by the National Institute on Aging. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Y. Connie | Yuan | Communication | Knowledge Management in Organizations | My 2015 fellowship gave me the time and space to think about bigger questions about my research interests. Two book-chapter review articles were produced that summarize how expertise and communication technologies can be more effectively used in collaborative work in organizations. |
2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Implicit Ambivalence | With time and resources from the ISS fellowship, Zayas was awarded a fellowship from Stanfordís Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS, 20-21), and completed the write up of two empirical papers, which are currently under review. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Inscrutable Algorithms: Decoding the Paradox of Computational Authority | His time as a 2018 CCSS Faculty Fellow helped Malte Ziewitz advance his research on due process in automated scoring systems, leading to an NSF CAREER award as well as a journal article. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
John | Zinda | Development Sociology | Apples, Livelihoods, Landscapes: The Role of Perennial Crops in China’s Rural Transformations | During the course of this fellowship, Zinda advanced ongoing work on livelihoods and landscape change in China as well as analyses of original survey data on risk perceptions and preparedness actions surrounding flooding and COVID-19 in upstate New York. Four articles based on this work are in varying stages of composition and peer review. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | The Water Justice League: Generating and Sustaining Water and Climate Resilience on Onondaga Lake through Citizen Science | The Water Justice League is a 4-week culturally tailored intervention and Community-Based Participatory Research Project that will assess and build water and climate change literacy and resilience in Onondaga Nation and generate ideas and pathways for sustainable business development and spiritual reprieve on Lake Onondaga. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | The Psychological Science of Morality | This research program uses the methods of psychological science to develop a multilevel model of moral judgment and decision-making, and applies moral psychology findings to address challenging social issues. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Does Elite Philanthropy Legitimate Plutocracy? | This project examines whether, how, and the extent to which elite philanthropy legitimates rising inequality and plutocracy. It (1) develops measures of support for plutocracy, (2) establishes overall support for plutocracy, (3) determines effects of philanthropy on support for plutocracy, (4) tests mechanisms, and (5) identifies implications. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Will | Hobbs | Human Development | The Effects of Changes in Personal, Societal, and Political Contexts on Well-Being and Everyday Activities: Design and analysis of open-ended surveys | This project will study open-ended survey data for tracking and explaining well-being before and after major personal and societal changes. It will construct and validate measures of well-being using replicable artificial intelligence and create multiple measures from a single open-ended response to increase cost-effectiveness. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | faculty fellows program | |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | Designing developmentally-supportive play environments: Testing and refinement of an outdoor playspace audit tool | The proposed work will contribute to the development of a validated outdoor playspace audit tool. Through this initial mixed-methods testing and preliminary validation of a draft tool at 6-8 pilot sites the work will support the final refinement, testing, and publication of this valuable research and design tool. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | faculty fellows program | |
Devon | Proudfoot | Human Resource Studies | Culture, Social Class, and Experience of Positive Stereotypes | The proposed research will investigate how positive stereotypes impact stereotyped group members’ well-being and motivation. Specifically, I will examine how two factors—cultural models of selfhood and social class—intersect with stereotype content to shape stereotyped group members’ experience of positive stereotypes. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | faculty fellows program | |
Pauline | Leung | Brooks School of Public Policy | The Effects of Work and Financial Assistance Policies on Child Outcomes: Long-Term Evidence from Welfare Reform Experiments | We examine the long-term effects of welfare-to-work policies by following up on five randomized experiments conducted in the nineties. We link the experimental data to a rich array of datasets held at the U.S. Census Bureau to understand the comprehensive economic and demographic impacts on welfare recipients and their children over a time horizon spanning more than 20 years. |
2022-2023 | PI | faculty fellows program | ||
Ivan | Rudik | Applied Economics and Management | Spatial and Sectoral Targeting of Climate Policy | Efficient real world climate policy must be heterogeneous across countries and industries. I will quantify the efficient distribution of carbon taxes and adaptation finance subsidies across the world. These estimates will inform policymakers where financing and capital should be directed to combat climate change. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | faculty fellows program |
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