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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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 | |
tobias | Kretschmer | Munich School of Management | Tolerance for Sharing Polarizing Content on Information Platforms | We seek to understand users' preferences for spreading polarizing content on an information platform, which is informative for the design of effective platform governance strategies. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | CCSS Grant |
todd | Schmit | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Secondary Effects of Biofuels Demands: Implications for Feed and Livestock | Led to a publication in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review entitled the Implications of Growing Biofuels Demands on Northeast Livestock Feed Costs, with L. Verteramo and W. Tomek, April 2009. The research was used extensively in numerous Extension presentations in New York State. | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
todd | Schmit | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Estimating the Impact of Alternative Canopy Management Practices on White Wine Purchase Decisions | Led to a publication in the Journal of Agricultural Economics entitled the Consumer Valuation of Environmentally Friendly Production Practices in Wines considering Asymmetric Information and Sensory Effects, with B. Rickard and J. Taber, 2013. The research results were used extensively in Extension presentations in New York State. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
todd | Gerarden | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Role of Individual Inventors in the Energy Transition | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
tom | Medvetz | 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 | University of California San Diego | Collaborative Project | ||
tony | Liao | The Promise of Augmented Reality | 2012 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Houston | |||
tracy | Nichols | Public Health | Adolescent Health and Community Service: Building Bridges and Planting Seeds | 2005 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
trevor | Brown | Government | Democracy Deindustrialized?: The Political Economy of the Fall of Industry and the Rise of the Service Economy, 1960-2019 | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
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 |
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 | |
trevor | Brown | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
uriel | Abulof | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
uriel | Abulof | Government | Humanity's Midlife Crisis: The Existential Deadlock of Liberalism | This book project submits that humanity's progress towards peace and prosperity increasingly coincides with regress into mass uncertainty and unease, climaxing with the coronavirus crisis. Decoding liberalism's deadlock may help renew hope and improve politics. We examine our propositions comparatively, across cultures and civilizations. |
2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
vaghlea | Palashi | Information Science | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | 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 |
valerie | Reyna | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
valerie | Reyna | Human Development | How Does New Medical Information Affect the Use of High-Risk Procedures? | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
valerie | Reyna | Human Development | 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 Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
valerie | Reyna | Human Development | Fuzzy-Trace Theory and the Law: Testing a Theoretical Model of Juror Damage Awards | Investigations spanned the psychology of commission of crimes to jury deliberation and sentencing including criminal and non-criminal risky decisions in adolescents and adults, risk taking and crime in the brain, and decision processes in psychopathy, ultimately leading to 17 publications and 19 presentations. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
valerie | Hans | Law | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
valerie | Hans | Law | A New Jury System at Work | Our team examined the jury trial’s introduction in Neuquén, Argentina, by collecting data (questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups) from judges, lawyers, and jurors. From legal actors’ experiences, we are learning how citizens’ participation in jury trials has led to fundamental changes in trial procedures. |
2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
valerie | Bunce | Government | Democracy Promotion and Electoral Revolutions in Postcommunist Eurasia | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
valerie | Hans | Law | 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 Law School | Collaborative Project | |
valerie | Hans | Law | Fuzzy-Trace Theory and the Law: Testing a Theoretical Model of Juror Damage Awards | Investigations spanned the psychology of commission of crimes to jury deliberation and sentencing including criminal and non-criminal risky decisions in adolescents and adults, risk taking and crime in the brain, and decision processes in psychopathy, ultimately leading to 17 publications and 19 presentations. | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | The Hidden Costs of Intrinsic Motivation | Intrinsic motivation is championed as a benefit that people should aspire to, with little attention paid to the negative consequences. We study an interpersonal cost of high intrinsic motivation: managers are more likely to burden intrinsically motivated employees with extra work tasks.
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2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | Understanding Our Influence Over Others’ Moral Decisions | Studies conducted as part of this research project were published in, "With a little help from my friends (and strangers): closeness as a moderator of the underestimation-of-compliance effect," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior, Psychology | The Social Psychology Behind “Always On” Work Culture | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
vicki | Bogan | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Team Diversity and Financial Decision Making | This project lead to a publication in the Review of Behavioral Finance. Bogan et al. (2013) _Team Gender Diversity and Investment Decision Making Behavior_ Review of Behavioral Finance. 5 (2), 134-152. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
victor | Seow | History | Manufacturing Revolutions: The Rise and Decline of a Chinese Automobile City | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
victoria | Prowse | Economics | Income Redistribution through Defined Benefit Pension systems when Life Expectancy is Heterogenous | 2015-2016 | PI | Purdue University | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
victoria | Beard | City and Regional Planning | Global Survey of City Leaders | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
vida | Maralani | Sociology | Child investments and Women's Employment across the Life Course | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
vida | Maralani | Sociology | Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
vilma | Santiago-Irizarry | Anthropology | 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 | |
vincent | Slaugh | Operations, Technology, and Information Management | Child Welfare Operations Research Symposium | This symposium aims to connect operations academics with child welfare leaders and facilitate conversations about how operations research approaches can help improve child welfare. Approximately 30 attendees will meet at Cornell on November 9 practitioner panels, brief research presentations, and roundtable discussions. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
vincent | Mauro | Government | Party Systems and Democratic Redistribution | Mauro's project seeks to understand why some democracies redistribute more than others. Mauro will utilize archival records of private correspondence among political elites from twentieth century Colombia to understand the inner-world of their traditional two-party system, and why elites were able to resist redistributive factions so effectively. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
viranjini | Munasinghe | Anthropology | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Effect of Gossip on Children's Well-being and Belonging | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Adult Attachment: Integrating Social, Cognitive, and Neurophysiological Approaches | Prior support led to an edited book, 8 papers, 3 pop press pieces, 9 chaired symposia, and 1 NSF grant. | 2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
vivian | Zayas | Psychology | 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 |
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