Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name Sort ascending | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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john | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | Leveraging the ASHEcon Conference at Cornell to Promote Exchange Across the Social Sciences | This grant contributed funding to support Cornell’s hosting of the national American Society of Health Economists meeting on campus. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
john | Hale | Linguistics | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
john | Doris | Management | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | 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 | |
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 | |
john | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | The Impact of Restaurant Menu Labeling on Food Choice | We conducted a randomized experiment of calorie labels on restaurant menus. Over 5,500 patrons received either the regular menu without calorie counts or the same menu but with calorie information added. We estimate that the calorie labels reduced the number of calories ordered by roughly 3%. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
john | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | Consumer Response to the Withdrawal of Prescription Drugs | This project, which examined how consumers respond when prescription drugs were pulled from the market, resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. It also led to further collaboration, and two subsequent publications on related topics, with the same coauthor. | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
john | Abowd | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
joe | Francis | Development Sociology | Rural Schools: Planning and Decision Making in Times of Fiscal Stress | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 | |
jiwon | Yun | Linguistics | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
jingjin | Li | Information Science | Understanding and designing technologies to support everyday mindfulness for mental wellbeing | This project aims to understand how mindfulness practitioners incorporate mindfulness practice in their daily activities with and without technology, using semi-structured interviews and design workshops. Insights generated from the study will inform the design of mindfulness tools that scaffold novice practitioners' mindfulness journey, adapt and personalize their practice for their mental wellbeing needs. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
jing | Li | Healthcare Research and 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
jillian | Goldfarb | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | AI, Rulemaking, and Threats to Scientific Policymaking | Citizens and experts alike can influence regulatory processes primarily through public notice and comment. Generative AI threatens this democratic expression. Can generative AI skew representation by overwhelming response pools with technically sophisticated comments perceived by regulators to be as informative as those written by experts? |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant |
jill | Frank | Government | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jetson | Leder-Luis | The Actions of State Medical Boards in the Opioid Prescribing Epidemic | A small number of inappropriately-prescribing physicians drove opioid prescribing increases in the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic. This project collects a novel dataset of state medical board actions to determine the nature and extent of investigations and disciplinary actions regarding opioid prescribing. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Boston University | CCSS Grant | |
jessica chen | Weiss | Government | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
jessica chen | Weiss | Government | Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Mass Politics and Policy in Russia and China | The edited volume that emerged from the workshop was published this year by Oxford University Press, titled: Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Russia & China. |
2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarian Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarin Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jesse | Shapiro | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Chicago | CCSS Grant | ||
jess | Hohenstein | Information Science | Developing a Complete Framework for the Social Effects of AI in Communication | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant | |
jeremy | Nemeth | Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces | The funding ultimately resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. |
2009 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Colorado | CCSS Grant | |
jeremy | Wallace | Government | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
jeremy | Foster | Agriculture | Building on the Informalized City: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jeremy | Birnholtz | Communication | Improving Distributed Collaboration by Understanding Interpersonal Attention | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | Intergenerational Trauma: Flint, COVID-19 and Racial Justice | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | Exploring and understanding communities within communities: A mixed methods investigation of rural drug use among Black, Latinx, and Native Americans | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | The Water Justice League: Generating and Sustaining Water and Climate Resilience on Onondaga Lake through Citizen Science | The Water Justice League is a 4-week culturally tailored intervention and Community-Based Participatory Research Project that will assess and build water and climate change literacy and resilience in Onondaga Nation and generate ideas and pathways for sustainable business development and spiritual reprieve on Lake Onondaga. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land of No Return: Indonesia’s Development Out of Ruins | Goldstein worked on her book project, titled Land of No Return: Development after Degradation in Indonesia's Peatlands, and submitted three revised article manuscripts. She also received 4 campus funding awards for a Summer 2022 workshop for junior scholars. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
jenny | Goldstein | Development Sociology | Pandemics and human-environment interactions: Land use change as a driver of coronavirus and influenza outbreaks in Asia | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
jennifer | Hochschild | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jennifer | Schwade | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jen | Liu | Information Science | Understanding the impact of climate change on networked infrastructures in vulnerable coastal communities in south Louisiana | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant | |
jeffrey | Rachlinski | Law | Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? | This award supported the research for the following paper: Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Sheri Johnson, Andrew J. Wistrich & Chris Guthrie, Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? 84 Notre Dame L. Rev.1195 (2009). |
2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
jeffrey | Prince | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Assessing Gender Differences in Time Consistency | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
jeffrey | Rachlinski | 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 | |
jeffrey | Prince | 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 | |
jeffrey | Hancock | Communication | Audience and Self-Concept in Social Media | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jeffrey | Hancock | Communication | Longitudinal Effects of Computer Mediated Self-Presentations on Scholastic Self-Concept and Achievement | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jeffrey | Hancock | Communication | Lying Online: The Effects of Communication Technology on Deception | 2005 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
jeffrey | Hancock | The Practice of Lying in the Digital Age | 2008-2009 | PI | Stanford University | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
jeffery | Sobal | Nutritional Sciences | Eating Network Partners | We developed a conceptual framework and measures incorporating data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
jeffery | Sobal | Nutritional Sciences | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
jeff | Niederdeppe | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Using Personal Stories to Raise Support for Social Policies to Reduce Obesity | This grant laid the groundwork for a major thread in my research program. This project laid the foundation for at least 30 peer-reviewed research papers and 8 external funded grants totalling over $1 million, largely from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
jeff | Niederdeppe | 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 |
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