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 ascending | Grant Type |
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Marvi | Ahmed | Global Development | Assembling the Development Frontier: Identity, Climate Vulnerability & Agrarian Politics in the Indus Delta | This project explores the entanglements between modernist donor-funded community development projects, structural inequalities such as caste, intergenerational debt bondage and land ownership with the unevenness of climate vulnerability in the Indus Delta region of Pakistan.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Isha | Bhatnagar | Global Development | Dearest daughters: Women's agency, parental expectations and elderly support in north India | Using interviews with women and focus group discussions with elderly parents in Delhi, I investigate how the gender, birth order and physical proximity of siblings influences women's agency to support elderly parents, spousal decision-making on visiting wife's family, and elderly expectations from their children.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Andrew | Ofstehage | Development Sociology | The Social Life of Land Workshop | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 | |
Monica | Cornejo | Communication | Post COVID-19: The Social, Health, and Educational Experiences of Latina/o/x Undocumented College Students | This project will explore undocumented college students' social, health, and educational experiences post COVID-19. Sixty semi-structured interviews will be conducted with undocumented undergraduates from (1) a west coast community college; (2) a south-central public university; and (3) an east coast ivy league university.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Michael | Shapiro | Communication | Using Personal Stories to Raise Support for Social Policies to Reduce Obesity | This grant laid the groundwork for a major thread in my research program. This project laid the foundation for at least 30 peer-reviewed research papers and 8 external funded grants totalling over $1 million, largely from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Sipple | Education | The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
John | Sipple | Education | Poverty, Equity and State Policy: The Move Toward Universal Pre-kindergarten in New York State Rural School Districts | This grant allowed deep and multi-method exploration of the equity implications of the implementation of Universal PreK in NYS. We also discovered a negative impact of UPK programming on infant and toddler care in rural communities. This led to conference papers, a Hatch grant, and Sipple, Casto & McCabe (2020). Child Care Deserts in New York State: Factors Related to the Community Capacity to Care for Children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Effects of Prevalence Information in Framing Health Problems | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Philip | Sol Hart | Communication | Smoking Cessation Advertisements and Source Credibility | The project eventually led to two NIH grants and many publications on tobacco warning labels and advertising. | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Chuan | Liao | Global Development | The Sustainability Justice of Socio-Environmental System Transitions in the Drylands | This research aims to investigate how to ensure just transition of socio-environmental systems to achieve food security and rangeland sustainability in the drylands. It focuses on the Kenyan drylands that support hundreds of thousands of pastoralists whose livelihoods are directly tied to the land. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Schneider | Natural Resources | Landowners, Roadside Ditch Right-of-Ways, and Pollution | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Using Personal Stories to Raise Support for Social Policies to Reduce Obesity | This grant laid the groundwork for a major thread in my research program. This project laid the foundation for at least 30 peer-reviewed research papers and 8 external funded grants totalling over $1 million, largely from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Merging Data from the Roper Center Archive to Facilitate Population Subgroup Analysis: Identifying Opportunities and Strategies | This group met regularly, wrote a cross-disciplinary Cornell Migrations research proposal with faculty from Govt, Comm, and PAM to understand the social and political views of Latino Immigrants in the U.S., 2003-2019 and received an NSF grant to evaluate social bias during the COVID-19 crisis. [45] | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Effect of Perceived Economic Inequality on Sustainability and Collective Action | This research contributed to a first-authored publication in Climatic Change for graduate student, Julia Davydova: “Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation” (Davydova, Pearson, Ballew, & Schuldt, 2018) | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Cross-Cultural Public Opinion on Climate Change Amid Global Energy Transition | This grant resulted in a Washington Post article ("Despite what Trump says, most Americans want climate action-even if China doesn't do its part") and prompted a related project and a paper published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Kay | Global Development | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Richard | Stedman | Natural Resources | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shorna | Allred | Natural Resources, Global Development | Hearing the Forest Through the Trees: Collaborative Science and Indigenous Sonic Entanglements in East Kalimantan | Working with frontline Indigenous communities, this team of social and natural scientists brings anthropological, bioacoustic, and Indigenous knowledges together to investigate: 1) The impacts of Indonesia's emerging new capital, Nusantara, on surrounding peoples and landscapes, and 2) how collaborative soundscape research can reveal novel multi-species entanglements and advance Indigenous territorial monitoring. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Wendy | Erb | Lab of Ornithology | Hearing the Forest Through the Trees: Collaborative Science and Indigenous Sonic Entanglements in East Kalimantan | Working with frontline Indigenous communities, this team of social and natural scientists brings anthropological, bioacoustic, and Indigenous knowledges together to investigate: 1) The impacts of Indonesia's emerging new capital, Nusantara, on surrounding peoples and landscapes, and 2) how collaborative soundscape research can reveal novel multi-species entanglements and advance Indigenous territorial monitoring. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Creators, Platforms, and the New Politics of Visibility | Drawing upon in-depth interviews with participants in the digital Creator Economy, this research examines the promises, perils, and paradoxes of the platform-dependent labor. In so doing, this project considers how platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch may enable—or, conversely, thwart—a new politics of visibility. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Troy | Richardson | American Indian and Indigenous Studies | 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 |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | Gist in Criminal Adjudiction: Testing the Effects of Mental Representation on Juror Deliberations and Verdicts | We investigated how juries decide on monetary damages in civil cases through the process of converting gist representations into numerical damage judgments as predicted by Fuzzy-Trace Theory. Since 2016, the project led to an NSF grant as well as 8 peer-reviewed publications and 12 presentations. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Sipple | Global Development | 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 | Co-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 |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Chuan | Liao | Global Development | Circular Bionutrient Economy for AgriFood System Transition in Kenya | My project aims to explore agrifood system transitions through enhanced circularity in Kenya. I will synthesize available datasets to examine how, under different policy scenarios and engagement activities, the agrifood system transition can allow us to achieve synergistic outcomes in human and environmental wellbeing. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Kristie | LeBeau | Global Development | Hitting the $40,000 Threshold: A Rural Critical Policy Analysis of Indiana Competitive Teacher Pay Legislation | Indiana recently implemented a statewide $40,000 minimum salary requirement for public school districts. I aim to understand how this seemingly neutral statewide policy can be more attentive to rural needs and discover what local budget decisions result in the highest net benefit for rural communities.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Aparajita | Bhandari | Communication | Communicative Labor and Community Care in Times of Crisis: The Case of VaxHuntersCanada | This project engages in a multi-method exploration of the hidden labor of building digitally mediated collectives through a case study of VaxHuntersCanada's social media channels, a large volunteer run online community created to help people find vaccine appointments during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Colten | Meisner | Communication | Independent News Production in the Platform Economy: Digital Journalists, Social Media Creators, and the Labor of Subscription Platforms | This project examines how the labor of journalism is being reconfigured through the structures and incentives of the social media economy. Specifically, I consider how subscription platforms like Substack, which successfully serve both digital journalists and social media creators, are shaping future news cultures.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI 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 | |
Deni | Ruggeri | Landscape Architecture | Scripting the Future of a Community: A Participatory Visioning Process for Iowa’s Amana Colonies | 2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Catherine | Lambert | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | The Effects of Avatar Appearance and Customization on Embodied Applications | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Conference Proposal: The World Food Crisis: Event of Conjuncture? (April 3-4, 2008) | Assisted on-campus two-day Conference on food crisis in 2008, with keynote from London, and other prominent agrifood scholars. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Troy | Richardson | Communication | Indigenous Seed Reclamation in the Carolina and Virginia Piedmont | Indigenous farmers in the southeastern US have are regularly left out of discussions of land based practices in Indigenous Studies. This research seeks to amplify the personal experiences, motivations and aspirations of these farmers and their work with heritage and other varieties of corn. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Katherine | Sender | Communication | Queer Eye goes global: Understanding local audiences’ reception of transnational LGBTQ television | As Netflix has expanded television streaming around the world, I focus on audiences of Queer Eye to explore the transnational export of LGBTQ content beyond the US. The QuIRI grant will be used to compensate focus group participants in Brazil, China, Spain, and the US. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Gayatri | Menon | 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 | |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Timothy | Ravis | Global Development | The Tectonics of Power: Earth, Energy, and State in Indonesia | This research examines the history of and contemporary struggles over geothermal energy in Indonesia, which has the most geothermal energy in the world. I illuminate the configurations through which state, society, capital, and science cooperate—and struggle—over energy resources and the value they offer. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Embedded Neo-Liberalism in the Gear of Social Change: A Comparative-Historical Analysis | Assisted grad student lab on local manifestations of neoliberalism, resulting in an edited book, Contesting Development. Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, 2010). |
2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Francine | Barchett | Natural Resources | Human Dimensions of Tourism Hunting: An Ethnographic Study of Hunting Camps in Mozambique & Cameroon | This ethnographic case study centers on the operations of 2 tourist hunting camps in Mozambique and Cameroon. Set apart by their high biodiversity, vast acreage, and the small number of wealthy, predominantly American clients they attracts, this work can provide insights on tourist hunting, among the most controversial conservation topics of the 21st century. The tourist hunting industry accounts for 5x more conservation land than national parks in Sub-Saharan Africa, has been an economic incentive for conservation, and is a chosen livelihood tool by some communities through the community-based natural resource management model. Through observations, interviews, and immersion, my research will probe the links between communities, clients, and companies involved in tourist hunting, their relationships to the land, and day-to-day community experiences and perceptions. This informs my broader dissertation, which employs a human dimensions of wildlife lens to probe the sustainability and resilience of the tourist hunting industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Megan | Sawey | Communication | (Re)Defining Deception in Sugar Dating: An Exploration of Digital Scam Culture | This project will expand our understanding of online romance scams and broader internet fraud by investigating a.) the varied ways deception is constructed in sugar relationship discourses and practices, and b.) the varied roles of digital platforms in defining, aiding, and/or preventing interpersonal deception. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Katherine | Miller | Communication | Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age | This team has generated over $900,000 in grants and 45 publications thus far, including 1 book. Research topics include the Social Media TestDrive project, fact-checking dynamics on Reddit, diverse participation in online education, underestimating others' willingness to help, and encouraging bystander interventions on social media. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Jarvis | Fisher | Global Development | Rice Production and Agroecology in Senegal | For years, Senegalese government officials have promoted rice self-sufficiency by intensifying the use of synthetic inputs and irrigation. Recently, a national coalition has rejected this approach, advocating ecologically intensive practices. This project examines the transformative effect of these contrasting approaches in two regions of Senegal. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
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