Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort ascending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Victoria | Beard | City and Regional Planning | Global Survey of City Leaders | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Barbara | Strupp | Nutritional Sciences, Psychology | Reducing the adverse effects of prenatal maternal stress on child neurodevelopment in low-income African-American sample | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Sahn | Nutritional Sciences, Economics | 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 | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Karla | Hanson | Nutritional Sciences | Eating Network Partners | We developed a conceptual framework and measures incorporating data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Hoddinott | Nutritional Sciences | Linking Public & Private Food Assistance Through Admin. Data | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Community Needs Assessment on Facilitators and Inhibitors of Food Security in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS 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 |
Peter | Glick | Nutritional Sciences | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Angela | Odoms-Young | Nutritional Sciences | Examining dietary disparities in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children: Implications for Lowering Cardiovascular Risk in African American Children | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Neural Instantiation of Physical and Social Nutrients | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Richard | Canfield | Nutritional Sciences | Reducing the adverse effects of prenatal maternal stress on child neurodevelopment in low-income African-American sample | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Per | Pinstrup-Andersen | Nutritional Sciences | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Christine | Olson | Nutritional Sciences | 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 | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Reah | Chiong | Nutritional Sciences | Exploring Stigma in NY's Food Assistance Landscape | Through semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study aims to explore perceptions of and experiences with stigma among NY residents who receive or are eligible for SNAP benefits. Findings will be used to develop a survey measure on stigma to examine its association with key nutrition outcomes. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Per | Pinstrup-Andersen | Nutritional Sciences | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ||
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 |
Reah | Chiong | Nutritional Sciences | Community Needs Assessment on Facilitators and Inhibitors of Food Security in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Ru | Liu | Nutritional Sciences | Facilitators and barriers to implementing a food pantry-based produce prescription program in New York City | Through semi-structured interviews, this project aims to understand the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a food pantry-based Produce Prescription program in New York City from stakeholders’ perspectives. The findings will inform the design and implementation of community-clinic-partnered health interventions. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Rebecca | Seguin | Nutritional Sciences | Examining Relationships Between Neighborhood Walkability and Health Behaviors and Outcomes | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Evaluating the Impact of a Modified Community-Supported Agriculture Program at an Urban Food Pantry for low-income parent-child dyads | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Jeffery | Sobal | Nutritional Sciences | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Jeffery | Sobal | Nutritional Sciences | Eating Network Partners | We developed a conceptual framework and measures incorporating data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Pelletier | Nutritional Sciences | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | This research led to the creation of the Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition (SISN) and an associated publication: Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2019). | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Establishing a community advisory board (CAB) of child nutrition policymakers, CACFP stakeholders, ECE staff, Registered Dietitians, and parents of preschoolers to design a multi-level intervention to promote preschoolers' nutrient-dense food consumption in CACFP-participating ECE programs. | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Marie | Caudill | Nutritional Sciences | Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Neurocognitive Development in Infants | We found that a higher maternal choline intake during the last trimester improved infant processing speed across the first year of life. “Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study. FASEB J. 2018;32(4):2172-2180” | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Richard | Canfield | Nutritional Sciences | Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Neurocognitive Development in Infants | We found that a higher maternal choline intake during the last trimester improved infant processing speed across the first year of life. “Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study. FASEB J. 2018;32(4):2172-2180” | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Seguin | Nutritional Sciences | Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Assess the Double Up Food Bucks Farmers’ Market Incentive Program for SNAP Participants | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS 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 | |
Felicia | Setiono | Nutritional Sciences | Facilitators and Barriers of Implementing Healthy Retail Programs Targeting Adolescents' Food/beverage Purchasing Behaviors in New York City: A Qualitative Study | Understanding facilitators/barriers to implementation of healthy retail programs that target adolescent food purchasing behaviors through semi-structured interviews with New York City-based leaders in retail interventions (n=30). The study results can inform policymakers to develop effective retail programs that improve adolescents' purchasing behavior, diet, and health. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Reah Catherine | Chiong | Nutritional Sciences | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Barbara | Strupp | Nutritional Sciences | Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Neurocognitive Development in Infants | We found that a higher maternal choline intake during the last trimester improved infant processing speed across the first year of life. “Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study. FASEB J. 2018;32(4):2172-2180” | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Carol M. | Devine | Nutritional Sciences | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
David | Sahn | Nutritional Sciences | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Laura | Bellows | Nutritional Sciences | Digital platform for mothers of young children to address obesity promoting behaviors | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Rebecca | Stoltzfus | Nutritional Sciences | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Beth | Livingston | Human Resource Studies | "Men at Work" (and Family): Caregiving Responsibilities among the Working Class | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Diane | Burton | Human Resource Studies | 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 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
Lauren | Monroe | Near Eastern Studies | Life on the Frontier: Identify and Exchange at the Ancient Border Town of Abel Bath Maacah, Israel | This grant paved the way to a new book project entitled Becoming Israel: Political Identity in the Song of Deborah, which I am now in the process of finishing thanks to a 2020-21 faculty fellowship from the Cornell Society for the Humanities. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lori | Khatchadourian | Near Eastern Studies | Resilience and Ruination in Mountain Communities: Comparative Regional Settlement Dynamics in the South Caucasus from the Bronze Age to Today | This pilot research led to a multi-year NSF grant to support further archaeological research on settlement dynamics in the South Caucasus. | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ziad | Fahmy | Near Eastern Studies | Listening to the Nation: Mass Culture and Identities in Interwar Egypt | This seed grant led to my award of an NEH [FPIRI Program]—American Research Center in Egypt Faculty Research Fellowship. It also supported my research, which led to my recent book: Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020) |
2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Monroe | Near Eastern Studies | Life on the Frontier: Identify and Exchange at the Ancient Border Town of Abel Bath Maacah, Israel | 2012 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
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 | |
Paul | Nadasdy | Anthropology, American Indian and Indigenous 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 | |
Jonathan | Boyarin | Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies | The Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Paul Steven | Sangren | Anthropology | Application for Funding for Preliminary Research on Local Product (Techan) Specialization in China and Taiwan | Relevant to long-standing linkages in all my research to regional economic and social organization. Most recently, paper on “SPATIAL IMAGINATION: Skinnerian “Human Interaction Systems” and the Roles of Spatial Imagery and “Subjection” in Chinese Rituals. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chloe | Ahmann | Anthropology | After Apocalypse: The Work of Utopia in White Power Activism | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vilma | Santiago-Irizarry | Anthropology | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Alex | Nading | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Matthew | Velasco | Anthropology | Embodying Social Inequality During a Time of War: A Bioarchaeological Study of Childhood Health in the Late Prehispanic Andes | Funding helped support laboratory research on archaeological human remains in Peru, to examine childhood health outcomes and patterns of geographic mobility. To date, this pilot study has yielded two conference posters and an undergraduate thesis. Papers based on this research are in preparation. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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