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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Sacha | Darke | Latin American Studies | Latin American Alternatives to the Security Prison: An Ethnographic Study of Prisoner Self-Governance and Survival | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Africa Futures Project: Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Dina | Bishara | International and Comparative Labor | The Politics of Labor Market Outsiders in the Middle East and North Africa: Insights from Tunisia | This project aims at unpacking the political and social policy preferences of labor market outsiders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We will conduct a pilot survey in Tunisia, which will serve as the foundation for a larger grant proposal. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Sarosh | Kuruvilla | International and Comparative Labor | Employment Practices of Multinationals in Comparative Context | This grant resulted in a special issue of the journal Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations Review on employment practices in multinationals. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | Education Work in China: A Comparative Study of Beijing's Separate School Systems | This support allowed me to conduct fieldwork that helped advance my book project. Most directly, it led to the publication of an article, “Teachers’ Work in China’s Migrant Schools” in Modern China. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | African Futures Project (Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth) | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Maria | Cook | International and Comparative Labor | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Sarosh | Kuruvilla | International and Comparative Labor | Development of Collective Bargaining in China: A Multidisciplinary Conference and Research Project | This award resulted in the publication of two articles and the development of a network of scholars studying collective bargaining in China. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Africa Futures Project: Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth | This project uses cross-national comparative survey and longitudinal interview data to address unresolved questions regarding how resource inequality affects labor market access and immigrant selectivity and the effect of migration on the lives of upwardly mobile Sub-Saharan African youth. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Dina | Bishara | International and Comparative Labor | The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics | Bishara conducted research on the effects of subnational resource wealth on protest in Tunisia. Bishara published three peer-reviewed articles in 2021-2022. Her article, “The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics” (Comparative Political Studies, 2021), was awarded “Best Fieldwork” by the Middle East and North Africa Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. |
2021-2022 | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Sub-Saharan African Migration Project (S-SMAP) (African Futures Project) | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | Urbanization, Education, and Citizenship in China | This fellowship, along with being a part of the CCSS China’s Cities: Divisions and Plan (2016-2019) project team, allowed me to work on the analysis of my data and to begin writing. In addition to two peer-review publications, I made significant progress on a new book manuscript, The Urbanization of People: Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Education in China. I am now nearly finished with that manuscript, and intend to send it out to publishers later this year. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Maria | Cook | International and Comparative Labor | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Janis | Whitlock | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | 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 Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Rebekka | Christopoulou | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational Socio-Economic Mobility | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Zeynab | Jouzi | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Co-production of knowledge for designing and developing of support services in transitional housing in New York City. | New York City has the largest number of sheltered homelessness in the country. This study will utilize the co-production of knowledge approach to collaborate with the residents of a transitional housing center in NYC, to design the appropriate supportive system to empower and prepare residents for a successful transition to their permanent housing. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Jeremy | Foster | Agriculture | Building on the Informalized City: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alice | Chen | Price School of Public Policy | The Impact of the 2008-2009 Economic Recession on Service Intensity in Physician Offices | This project led to the peer-reviewed publication: Li et al. “County-level unemployment rates and service intensity in primary care physician offices for Medicare patients.” Medical Care Research and Review. 2019 Aug 31:1077558719872864. It also led to a presentation at the International Health Economics Association congress. | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Southern California | CCSS Grant |
Debra A. | Castillo | Latino Studies | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Laurent | Dubreuil | Comparative Literature | Semantic Mapping of Indigeneity Through Computational Modeling of Nineteenth-Century French-Language | We intend to build a digital corpus of French-language documents related to indigeneity in the 19th century, and use both computational methods (NLP/CL) and interpretive tools to understand the ideological biases associated with textual representations of “indigeneity”, from its colonial genesis to its post-colonial recuperation. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Debra | Castillo | Comparative Literature | Counterstories of Greater Mexico | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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 | ||
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 | |
Victoria | Beard | City and Regional Planning | Global Survey of City Leaders | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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