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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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 | |
Janice | Thies | Crop and Soil Sciences | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Lily | Chi | Architecture | Building on the Informalized City: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Kent | Kleinman | Architecture | Unpacking the Nano: The Price of the World's Most Affordable Car | 2010 | Fall | PI | Rhode Island School of Design | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Eric | Baumer | Computer Science | Developing Methods for Joint Analysis of Close-Ended and Open-Ended Survey Data | We drew specific connections between new statistical methods and established practices for evaluating free-text survey results. This comparison helps survey researchers in adapting new tools, and helps computational researchers in recognizing how tools are actually being used. Results were published in JASIST. |
2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Lehigh University | CCSS Grant |
A. Feder | Cooper | Computer Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Lillian | Lee | Computer Science | The Verbal End: Interactions Between Computational Textual Analysis and the Social Sciences | Lee has received multiple society honors (AAAI Fellow, 2013, ACL Fellow, 2017, ACM Fellow 2018) citing contributions to computational social science; the 2008 ISS Fellowship was the first formal encouragement for her to start along this path. | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Jon | Kleinberg | Computer Science | 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 Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
Catalina | Iricinschi | Liberal Arts | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | Fall | Co-PI | University of the Arts in Philadelphia | CCSS Grant |
Rod | Howe | Community and Regional Development Institute | The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Zaneta | Hong | Landscape Architecture | The Civic Playground Project | The Civic Playground Project seeks to empower individuals of different backgrounds, languages, and abilities through shared modes of making and collaborative play. The project is anchored in the development and deployment of inclusive frameworks that foster engagement between communities and their built environments. |
2024 | Spring | Co-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 | |
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 | |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Inscrutable Algorithms: Decoding the Paradox of Computational Authority | His time as a 2018 CCSS Faculty Fellow helped Malte Ziewitz advance his research on due process in automated scoring systems, leading to an NSF CAREER award as well as a journal article. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Rebecca | Harrison | Science and Technology Studies | "Safe sex for insects" and other stories: How land-grant scientists configure and enact their roles in working with controversial biotechnologies | The funding enabled Harrison to (1) subscribe to a Zoom-compatible transcription service, and (2) will assist with future expenses associated with primary resource and document acquisition, by mail and in-person. This research will be presented at the 2021 Society for Social Studies of Science meeting and in Ms. Harrison’s forthcoming dissertation. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Michael | Lynch | Science and Technology Studies | A Conference to be held at Cornell University in Spring 2016 | This conference brought together the leading STS researchers in the world to celebrate 40 years of STS at Cornell. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chris | Hesselbein | Science and Technology Studies | Rejecting 5G: Alternative Arti/facts | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Jiuheng | He | Science and Technology Studies | The Go Community and AlphaGo: An Ethnographic Study of an Encounter with AI | This work looks at interactions between humans and artificial intelligence (AI), exploring how the capabilities of machine learning are affecting the Go community.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Ranjit | Singh | Science and Technology Studies | Restoring Credit: How people Understand and Interact with Credit Scoring Systems | Two papers based on 16 months of data collection for this exploratory project are currently being written up and under review, respectively. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Benjamin | Lipp | Science and Technology Studies | The Promise of 'Post-Opioid' Pain Technology | The aim of this project is to understand the convergence of digital and neuro-technology in chronic pain amidst the opioid crisis. It compares pain technologies combining neuro-technological interventions with data-driven techniques. The project will analyse their promise as "post-opioid" technologies as well as associated risks.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology 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 | |
Rebecca | Slayton | Science and Technology Studies | Balancing Risks: Making Smart Grids Efficient, Reliable, and Secure | This project laid the groundwork for a National Science Foundation Career award (2016), which has produced five published papers, two policy briefs, and 22 presentations. The Career award was also the basis for awarding the PI the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Christine | Leuenberger | Science and Technology Studies | From Africa's Great Lake Region to Maine: The experiences of East African immigrants in the Eastern U.S. | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Amanda | Domingues | Science and Technology Studies | Body of knowledge and knowledge of bodies: disciplinary reconfigurations of Archaeology | By examining two contrasting ways of doing archaeology, this project examines the connections between recent changes in archaeological practice and the ways interpretations about the past are formulated. The methods include qualitative interviews, archival work, and participant observation in Brazil and the United States. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Trevor | Pinch | Science and Technology 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Trevor | Pinch | Science and Technology Studies | Qualitative Methods Working Group | The Qualitative Methods Working Group brought together social science faculty and researchers from around the campus who are teaching, employing, and developing qualitative research methods. The working group has grown to become the Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute under the CCSS. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Fluid Empires: Water Management Across the French Mediterranean | Led to an article in Social Studies of Science (2012) crucial to author’s tenure file; research also reflected in Environment and Planning A special issue, “Knowledge and the Politics of Land” (2016), co-edited with Steven Wolf and Wendy Wolford. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Restoring Credit: How people Understand and Interact with Credit Scoring Systems | Two papers based on 16 months of data collection for this exploratory project are currently being written up and under review, respectively. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Barkha Satish | Kagliwal | Science and Technology Studies | Processing in Mega Food Parks: The Trials of a Technological Fix | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Kathleen | Vogel | Science and Technology Studies | Imagined and Realized Futures of U.S Bioweapons Threat Assessments | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Martin | Abbott | Science and Technology Studies | Organizing Irresponsibility? Redrawing Nature with Magic and Maps | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Bringing STS Into Environmental History | This grant supported an important, international workshop on the contributions of science studies to environmental history, resulting in the edited volume, _New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies_, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2013). | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Slayton | Science and Technology Studies | Rhythms of the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Thriving | 2021 | Spring | Co-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 | |
Trevor | Pinch | Science and Technology Studies | A Conference to be held at Cornell University in Spring 2016 | This conference brought together the leading STS researchers in the world to celebrate 40 years of STS at Cornell. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Stephen | Hilgartner | Science and Technology Studies | A Comparative Study of Expertise for Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic, | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Wanheng | Hu | Science and Technology Studies | Uncovering the Face Mask: Mundane Governance, Ontology, and the Construction of Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Hu intends to recruit interview participants for a study exploring the role of masks in constructing risks and governing social loves. He anticipates conducting 30 virtual interviews and multi-sited ethnography. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Bruce | Lewenstein | Science and Technology Studies | A Conference to be held at Cornell University in Spring 2016 | This conference brought together the leading STS researchers in the world to celebrate 40 years of STS at Cornell. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rachel | Prentice | Science and Technology Studies | Teamwork and Technology in the Operating Room | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Prentice | Science and Technology Studies | The Surgeon's Body: Surgical Practice in an Age of Digital Medicine | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tina | Saksida | Business | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Prince Edward Island | CCSS Grant | |
Heffetz | Ori | Business | What’s a Price Worth? An Experimental Study of Prices and Preferences | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ||
James | Hesford | Business | The Effects of Incentive Framing and Probabilistic Management Audits on Fraudulent Behavior | 2009 | Fall | PI | University of Lethbridge | CCSS Grant | |
David | Yankelevitz | Radiology | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant |
Claudia | Henschke | Radiology | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant |
John H. | Guckenheimer | Mathematics | Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems | This interdisciplinary collaboration (developmental psychology and mathematics) validated a new brain-based method for measuring infant attention (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:11460) and a novel dynamical model of infant visual foraging behavior (Dev Psychobiol 2014, 56:1129) to uncover early predictors of childhood attention problems. | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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