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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Parfait | Eloundou-Enyegue | Development Sociology | Cyber-Boosting African Social Science: Exporting the Cornell College of Computing and Information Science Experience | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Parfait | Eloundou-Enyegue | Global Development | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Algorithms, Big Data, and Inequality | This project has produced over $927,000 in external grants and 39 publications thus far. Research topics include algorithmic management among cultural workers, agency of data subjects, estimation of causal effects from data for counterfactual fairness and comparing compliance procedures and research proposals for non-discrimination in statistical models. |
2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Gender Inequalities in Social Media Work: Digital Labor as a New "Pink Ghetto?" | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mary Jo | Dudley | Development Sociology | Youth, Identities, and Transnational Flows | The grant supported (1) collaboration with Mexican NGO in Chiapas, (2) creation of educational materials for local farmworkers on rights, on COVID awareness, (3) publication of various professional articles by co-PIs, often in collaboration with students and community members. | 2010 | Fall | Co-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 |
Bernd | Blossey | Natural Resources | Beyond Diversity: Re-Situating Pluralism | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
T. Bruce | Lauber | Natural Resources | Promoting Conservation of a Risk-Laden Species using One Health Risk Messaging: The Case of White Nose Syndrome in Bats | This grant resulted in one presentation and peer-reviewed publication. | 2017 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
Janis | Dickinson | Natural Resources | Exploring Trans-disciplinary Research in Environmental Education and Related Fields | 2010 | Spring | Co-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 |
Matthew | Brashears | Sociology | 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 |
David | Brown | Development Sociology | The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation | 2011 | 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 | |
Sahara | Byrne | 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 | |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Precarious Lives, Desired Futures: Reimagining Lives and Livelihoods | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life 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 | |
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 | |
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 | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Bezner Kerr | Development Sociology | Food, Agroecology, Justice, and Well-being Conference | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Paula | Horrigan | Landscape Architecture | Scripting the Future of a Community: A Participatory Visioning Process for Iowa’s Amana Colonies | 2007 | Fall | Co-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 |
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 | |
Marianne | Krasny | Natural Resources | Exploring Trans-disciplinary Research in Environmental Education and Related Fields | 2010 | Spring | 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 |
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 |
Douglas | Gurak | Development Sociology | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Marine Health Matters: A Risk Communication Workshop | This workshop strengthened the network of social science researchers working on marine health challenges and resulted in at least one peer-reviewed publication. | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Heidi | Kretser | Natural Resources | Promoting Conservation of a Risk-Laden Species using One Health Risk Messaging: The Case of White Nose Syndrome in Bats | This grant resulted in one presentation and peer-reviewed publication. | 2017 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Larry | Blume | Economics | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Natasha | Holmes | Physics | Equity in group work between in-person and remote labs | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Saida | Hodzic | Anthropology | Work that Kills: The Social Life of a Bosnian Weapons Factory | The research supported by this grant has been presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists biennial conference; publications and further grant applications are planned. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ronald | Herring | Government | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
Michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Children of the Undocumented: Inclusion versus Exclusion | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Billie | Isbell | Anthropology | Rethinking Sustainability and Development: A Return to Vicos, Peru | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Daniel | Benjamin | Economics | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Richard | Bensel | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Kendra | Bischoff | Sociology | Choosing Neighborhoods, Choosing Schools: A Pilot Study of the Association between Neighborhood and School Composition | This collaborative demographic analysis resulted in the publication of “The Racial Composition of Neighborhoods and Local Schools: The Role of Diversity, Inequality, and School Choice” in _City and Community_ and “School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods” in _Sociological Science_. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kendra | Bischoff | Sociology | Neighborhood Preferences and School Choice | This project examines how residential segregation and school choice conditions influence attitudes about schooling and residential preferences. An article was presented at the 2020 Eastern Sociological Association Conference and is currently in preparation for journal submission. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Huckfeldt | Economics | The Scarring Effect of Recessions: A Quantitative Analysis | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Stephen | Hilgartner | Science and Technology Studies | 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 | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Steven | Alvarado | Sociology | Multigenerational Neighborhood Effects | 2019 | Fall | 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 | |
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 |
Michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
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 |
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