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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Yun-chien | Chang | Law | Empirical Legal Studies in the Sinophone Region | This conference, titled Empirical Legal Studies in the Sinophone Region, brings together legal scholars doing quantitative works from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The data used in the 20 presentations describe the functioning of the legal systems in the Chinese-speaking region. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
John H. | Blume | Law | Prosecutorial Discretion & Perceptions of Place: How Neighborhoods Matter in Juvenile Cases | Through in-depth interviews and participatory mapping, this study investigates the process of prosecutorial discretion, focusing on the influence of spatial stigma on charging offers for juvenile offenders and answering the question: how do attorneys perceive the role of neighborhoods in their approach to prosecuting juvenile cases? |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jeffrey | Rachlinski | Law | Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? | This award supported the research for the following paper: Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Sheri Johnson, Andrew J. Wistrich & Chris Guthrie, Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? 84 Notre Dame L. Rev.1195 (2009). |
2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jeffrey | Rachlinski | Law | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | Collaborative Project | |
Annelise | Riles | Anthropology | Law Markets and Social Equity Conference | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Keith | Porter | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Eleanor | Wilking | Law | Worker Classification and Misclassification: Evidence from Employer Insurance Mandates | Over the fellowship year, significant progress was made in cleaning and linking administrative datasets. Initial descriptive findings found increasing convergence between workers classified as employees and those classified as independent contractors, accepted for publication in Northwestern University Law Review [Nov. 2022]. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell Law School | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Christopher | Seeds | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Claudia | Boneu | Community Needs Assessment on Facilitators and Inhibitors of Food Security in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus | CCSS Grant | ||
Sebastian | Brown | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Harvard | CCSS Grant | ||
Timothy | O'Donnell | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Harvard, McGill University | CCSS Grant | ||
Rebecca | Givan | Labor Studies and Employment Relations | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | PI | Rutgers University | CCSS Grant | |
Rebecca | Givan | Women and the State in Europe: Spring 2007 Brown Bag Speaker Series for the Institute for European Studies | 2006 | Fall | PI | Rutgers University | CCSS Grant | ||
Rebecca | Givan | 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 | Rutgers University | Collaborative Project | ||
Carolyn | Brown | 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 | Co-PI | Rutgers University | CCSS Grant | |
Marika | Cabral | What is the Advantage of Medicare Advantage? Supply and Demand Factors in Medicare Beneficiaries' Enrollment in Private Insurance | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Texas | CCSS Grant | ||
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 | |
John | Carruthers | City and Regional Planning, Regional Science | Growing Denser and Greener: Lessons From the Emerald City� | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
John | Forester | City and Regional Planning | Exploring Conflict, Improvisation, and Governance through Practice-Focused Oral Histories: Advancing an International Network of Applied Research | This research contributed to “How Urban Managers Improvise in Practice: Rethinking the Exercise of Discretion,” with D. Laws and N. Verloo, under review for publication. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Ann | Forsyth | Urban Planning | Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology, and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Suzanne Lanyi | Charles | City and Regional Planning | A Social Network Analysis of House Flipping | A pilot study was undertaken during the summer on 2019, focusing on house flipping in the Chicago suburbs. The pilot study yielded compelling preliminary findings, and the research team is preparing to launch a larger scale study. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne Lanyi | Charles | City and Regional Planning | Housing Redevelopment and the Evolution of Suburban Immigrant Communities | This project led to the peer-reviewed journal article: Charles, S. L. (2018). A Typology of Mansionization in the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, 2000–2015. Housing Policy Debate, 28(6), 832–853. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Nicholas | Klein | City and Regional Planning | How Car Donation Programs Change the Lives of Poor Families | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences and published in an article - ìSubsidizing Car Ownership for Low-Income Individuals and Householdsî in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne | Charles | City and Regional Planning | The Next Wall Street Housing Grab | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Lily | Chi | Architecture | Building on the Informalized City: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | 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 | |
Wenfei | Xu | City and Regional Planning | A New Picture of Segregation | In an era of increasingly granular location data, quantitative measures of segregation in the social sciences remain reliant on the residential Census. This project collects observed social context using mobile phone location data across the United States to create a dynamic “new” picture of segregation. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | Understanding the Impact of Austerity on New York's Local Governments | This research was presented at state and national conferences and published in 2019 in Environment and Planning A. "Austerity Coalitions or Pragmatic Municipalism? Local Responses to Austerity in New York State,”. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Nicholas | Klein | City and Regional Planning | Car Ownership Transitions Among Low-Income Households | Nicholas Klein conducted interviews and fieldwork for an ongoing research project on low-income households’ precarious grasp on car ownership. He also used the time to publish several journal and magazine articles. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | 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 |
Jocelyn | Poe | City and Regional Planning | Black Femininity Placed: An Exploration of Beauty and Placemaking in L.A. | This interdisciplinary project integrates fashion studies and city planning knowledge to investigate Black femininity and place in Los Angeles, California. In city planning, Black femininity is often ignored, yet beauty culture is tied to how Black women engage in mobility and place-making. Using a mixed methods approach, we explore Black femininity’s connections and implications on policies and place-making. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Collaborative Project | |
Mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | School Based Health Centers - An approach to address health disparities among rural youth | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Ryan | Thomas | City and Regional Planning | Expanding Access to Qualitative Data for: "The Social Construction of Flood Risk: The case of Dar es Salaam" | This project supports focus groups, participatory mapping, and transcription and translation of open-ended survey responses. All of this effort will help understand the relationship between flood exposure and trust in political institutions. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | QuIRI Grant |
Michael | Manville | City and Regional Planning | Congestion Pricing: Equity and Environmental Justice Implications | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Victoria | Beard | City and Regional Planning | Global Survey of City Leaders | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Wenfei | Xu | City and Regional Planning | A New Picture of Segregation | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Mary N. | Woods | Architecture | Unpacking the Nano: The Price of the World's Most Affordable Car | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Nicholas | Klein | City and Regional Planning | The effects of decreasing access to a car | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | QuIRI Grant | |
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 |
Stephan | Schmidt | City and Regional Planning | Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces | The funding ultimately resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. |
2009 | Fall | 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 | |
John | Forester | City and Regional Planning | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | ||
Linda | Shi | City and Regional Planning | Surging Seas, Rising Fiscal Stress: A Study of U.S. Fiscal Vulnerability and Policy Response to Climate Change | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Carlos | Lopez-Ortiz | City and Regional Planning | Moving up or down the ladder? Disentangling the effects of slum upgrading on social mobility in Global South cities | How do adult residents’ experiences of intergenerational social mobility differ between upgraded and non-upgraded slums in Global South cities? Using semi-structured interviews, I will explore how physical transformations in upgraded and non-upgraded slums in Bogota and Nairobi relate to their residents’ social mobility experiences. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | QuIRI 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 |
Mike | Silver | Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology, and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | ||
Chi-Nien | Chung | The Take-off of the Korean Wave: Antecedents and Consequences of the Globalization of Korean Pop Culture | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | National University of Singapore | CCSS Grant | ||
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | Exploring and modeling COVID-19 vaccination preferences | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant |
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