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 Sort descending | Grant Type |
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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 | |
Aaron | Bodoh-Creed | Economics | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | This study examined why subjects fail to play mixed-strategy equilibria in zero-sum games, calling into question prior research which suggests that experimental subjects do not follow the predictions of game theory and cannot bring the skills and heuristics used in real‐life economies into the laboratory. |
2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Bunce | Government | Democracy Promotion and Electoral Revolutions in Postcommunist Eurasia | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Alvarado | Sociology | Multigenerational Neighborhood Effects | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Dorit | Abusch | Linguistics | Applying discourse semantics and pragmatics to narrative images: a study of stone reliefs, miniatures, cave paintings, and temple sculpture | Natural language and pictorial narratives convey information about a sequence of events. This project applies technical frameworks from natural language semantics and pragmatics to Indian pictorial narratives, focusing on temporal relations and issues of co-reference. |
2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Uriel | Abulof | Government | Humanity's Midlife Crisis: The Existential Deadlock of Liberalism | This book project submits that humanity's progress towards peace and prosperity increasingly coincides with regress into mass uncertainty and unease, climaxing with the coronavirus crisis. Decoding liberalism's deadlock may help renew hope and improve politics. We examine our propositions comparatively, across cultures and civilizations. |
2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Children of the Undocumented: Inclusion versus Exclusion | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kurt | Jordan | Anthropology | Beyond Diversity: Re-Situating Pluralism | This workshop added and integrated perspectives drawn from ecological systems into the socio-cultural context that defines pluralism, the objectives being: articulation of an enriched concept of pluralism; identification of new and integrated areas of research; and development of a strategy for further research. |
2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
James | Berry | Economics | Clean Water, Health, and the Market Mechanism: How Effective is the Market at Allocating Health Goods? | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Elizabeth | Adkins-Regan | Psychology | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Kendra | Bischoff | Sociology | Participation in Local Governance Before and After the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Case of School Boards | The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of school governance in local communities as districts’ independent decisions not only affected children’s education, but also adults’ labor force participation. This project examines how the pandemic, and its interaction with community demographics, affected school board election turnout rates. |
2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Adam Seth | Levine | Government | News Evidence and Political Behavior | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Jones-Correa | Government | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Judith | Byfield | History | Re-evaluating Africa and World War II | This conference brought together an international group of scholars to present case studies on the impact of WW II on Africa. The papers presented here formed the core of the volume Africa and WW II (Cambridge University Press, 2015). | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Panle | Barwick | Economics | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Sabrina | Karim | Government | Endline Survey for Election Violence Project in Liberia | The research afforded by this grant produced the paper, "Election Violence Prevention During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Police and Youth in Liberia," which finds that experiences with successful elections enhances perceptions of democracy among police officers. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Yasemin Z. | Kalender | Physics | Equity in group work between in-person and remote labs | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
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 | |
Holly | Case | History | Between the Lines: Contested Boundaries and the Fate of the Jews and other Minorities in Eastern Europe during WWII | 2006 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Anderson | Government | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Steven | Alvarado | Sociology | 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. | 2015-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
Billie | Isbell | Anthropology | Rethinking Sustainability and Development: A Return to Vicos, Peru | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Jaume | Economics | Agricultural Productivity Gaps: Feedbacks from Human Capital and Equipment Embodied Technology Adoption | This project examines the impact of capital-embodied technical change on the labor market. Results were presented at the NBER Summer Institute and various academic institutions. A draft has been submitted for publication. | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Refiguring Village Studies: New Approaches to Agrarian Change in South Asia | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Colleen | Barry | Communication | Narrative, Metaphor and Inoculation: Communication Theory to Promote Multi-Sector Approaches to Improving Health | This project laid the groundwork for three subsequent successful grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (from 2018-2020) totaling over $600,000 in funding. Combined, these have supported three PhD students and produced three published papers (and 5 others in process) | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | Grounding the Digital Copyright Controversies: Investigating the Intersection of Technology, Law, Politics, and Cultural Practice | This award supported research that became the 2009 paper "Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns" in Communication, Culture, & Critique |
2006 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Building a Sociology of Displacement | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: A Conference on Militarizing Everyday Life | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Gesture of Publication in an Information Society | With the support of this award, Gillespie laid the groundwork for his widely-cited 2010 article ìThe Politics of ëPlatformsíî published in _New Media & Society_. | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Precarious Lives, Desired Futures: Reimagining Lives and Livelihoods | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 | |
Dmitry | Epstein | Communication | The Duality of Telecom Policymaking: The Case of Internet Governance Debates | This award supported the dissertation research of Dima Epsitein, and the 2011 publication of “Who’s Responsible for the Digital Divide? Public Perceptions and Policy Implications” (co-authored by Gillespie, Epstein, and Erik Nisbet) in The Information Society. | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Duality of Telecom Policymaking: The Case of Internet Governance Debates | This award supported the dissertation research of Dima Epsitein, and the 2011 publication of “Who’s Responsible for the Digital Divide? Public Perceptions and Policy Implications” (co-authored by Gillespie, Epstein, and Erik Nisbet) in The Information Society. | 2010 | Spring | 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 |
Shorna | Allred | Natural Resources | Civic Engagement, Civil Society Organizations, and Urban Environmental Governance: Implications for the New Environmental Politics of Urban Development | This research project utilized a governance framework to examine the civic engagement strategies of civil society organizations involved in urban environmental management, and how those strategies strengthen the influence of civil society organizations in urban regimes for land-use management. |
2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Karim-Aly | Kassam | Natural Resources | Beyond Diversity: Re-Situating Pluralism | This workshop added and integrated perspectives drawn from ecological systems into the socio-cultural context that defines pluralism, the objectives being: articulation of an enriched concept of pluralism; identification of new and integrated areas of research; and development of a strategy for further research. |
2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Megan | French | Communication | Audience and Self-Concept in Social Media | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Joe | Francis | Development Sociology | Rural Schools: Planning and Decision Making in Times of Fiscal Stress | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeremy | Foster | Agriculture | Building on the Informalized City: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Andronicos | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | Beyond Diversity: Re-Situating Pluralism | This workshop added and integrated perspectives drawn from ecological systems into the socio-cultural context that defines pluralism, the objectives being: articulation of an enriched concept of pluralism; identification of new and integrated areas of research; and development of a strategy for further research. |
2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Charles | Geisler | Development Sociology | Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: A Conference on Militarizing Everyday Life | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Charles | Geisler | Development Sociology | Building a Sociology of Displacement | 2005 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 | |
Charles | Geisler | Development Sociology | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project |
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