Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name Sort descending | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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peter | Lazes | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | ||
peter | Glick | Nutritional Sciences | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
peter | Enns | Roper Center, Government | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
peter | Enns | Government | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
peter | Enns | Government | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
peter | Enns | Government | Conference on Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion | This conference led to the edited volume, Who Gets Represented? (Enns and Wlezien 2011). | 2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
phoebe | Sengers | Information Science | Intervening in American Families' Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design | This research on new methods to research busyness was published as "Reworking the Gaps between Design and Ethnography" in the CHI 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
phoebe | Sengers | Information Science, Science and Technology Studies | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
pierre | Mérel | Agriculture and Resource Economics | Can public institutions resolve information asymmetries? Historical evidence from the French wine market | 2014 | Fall | Co-PI | UC Davis | CCSS Grant | |
poppy | McLeod | Communication | Interagency Cooperation in Social Services for Families and Children: Application of Group Dynamics Theory | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
poppy | McLeod | Communication | Contributions of Undergraduate Team Experiences to Professional Preparedness | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
poppy | McLeod | Communication | Linguistic and Emotional Factors in Intergroup Linguistic Bias | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
qi | Wang | Human Development | Remember COVID-19: Enhancing Post-Pandemic Mental Health in Diverse Populations Through the Lens of Memory | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
qi | Wang | Human Development | 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 | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
qi | Wang | Psychology | Leveraging Social Media to Facilitate Teens’ Meaning Making and Mental Health | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Support Program | |
qi | Wang | Human Development | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
qi | Wang | Psychology | Leveraging Social Media to Facilitate Meaning Making and Post-Pandemic Mental Health in Teens | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
qingzhong | Ma | School of Hotel Administration | What Drives the Stock Price Runups? Insider Trading vs. Market Anticipation | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
quinetta | Roberson | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Villanova University | CCSS Grant | |
r. nathan | Spreng | Psychology | Neurocognitive Aging and Wisdom | 2015-2016 | PI | McGill University | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
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 | |
rachel | Bezner Kerr | Development Sociology | First Conference/Workshop: Ecological Learning Collaboratory for Food, Healing, and Spatial Justice | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
rachel | Dunifon | Policy Analysis and Management | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
rachel | Dunifon | Policy Analysis and Management | The Second Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: Improving the State of Americans | A book was published based on the conference: Wethington, Elaine and Rachel Dunifon. 2012. Research for the Public Good: Applying the Methods of Translational Research to Improve Human Health and Well Being. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. |
2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
rachel | Aleks | Labor Relations Law and History | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | Using 14 years of longitudinal data from Labor Organization Annual Reports, which all private-sector unions are required to file, this research will be the first quantitative analysis to explore nationally the question of gender (in)equality in union officer positions. |
2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | 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 | |
rafael | Marquese | International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Sao Paolo | |||
rama adithya | Varanasi | Information Science | Digital Technologies in Occupational Wellbeing: Designing for Teachers in Low-Income Indian Schools | Varanasi conducted mixed-methods research to explore low-income teachers’ inhibitions around seeking digital social support. He is conducting virtual interviews with teachers, higher management, and non-profit personnel, to gain insights into the challenges that low-income teachers are facing to seek digital support practices during pandemic. The funding is helping him to recruit 55 participants. The study will be making an important contribution towards inequity issues that impact women teachers’ overall job security and their daily work practices. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
randy | Lee | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
randy | Lee | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
raymond | Craib | History | Libertarian Noir: Unsettled Histories of Exit and Enclosure | The research that this grant enabled is a central part of Craib's book, Libertarian Exit, currently under review with Yale University Press. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
raymond | Craib | History | The Cry of the Renegade: Poetry, Politics and Anarchism in Chile, 1920 | With the fellowship I was able to make very good progress on my book The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press and which was part of my promotion file for full professor. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
raymond | Craib | History | "Exile and Enclosure" International Conference | This international conference has led to continued intellectual exchange and collaboration between various participants. We did not pursue an edited volume but the conference has generated a number of published essays that recognize the event. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
raymond | Craib | History | 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 | |
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 | |
reah | Chiong | Nutritional Sciences | Exploring Stigma in NY's Food Assistance Landscape | Through semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study aims to explore perceptions of and experiences with stigma among NY residents who receive or are eligible for SNAP benefits. Findings will be used to develop a survey measure on stigma to examine its association with key nutrition outcomes. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
reah catherine | Chiong | Nutritional Sciences | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
rebecca | Seguin | Nutritional Sciences | Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Assess the Double Up Food Bucks Farmers’ Market Incentive Program for SNAP Participants | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
rebecca | Seguin | Nutritional Sciences | Examining Relationships Between Neighborhood Walkability and Health Behaviors and Outcomes | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
rebecca | Schneider | Natural Resources | Landowners, Roadside Ditch Right-of-Ways, and Pollution | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
rebecca | Stoltzfus | Nutritional Sciences | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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