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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sangah | Bae | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | 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 |
samuel | Kleiner | Policy Analysis and Management | The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Physician Referral Patterns | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
sam | Tilsen | Linguistics | Visualizing speech: real-time MRI of the vocal tract | Journal publications were produced as a result of this grant, including “Analysis of speech production real-time MRI” (Ramanarayan et al., 2018), and “Anticipatory posturing of the vocal tract reveals dissociation of speech movement plans from linguistic units” (Tilsen et al., 2016). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sam | Tilsen | Linguistics | LabPhon15-Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation | This conference brought together over 300 international scholars and students to explore experimental approaches to the linguistic analysis of language and speech. The work presented and the interactions that took place at the conference and satellite meetings advanced dozens of research projects. | 2015 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
saleh | Kalantari | Human Centered Design | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Support Program | |
saleh | Kalantari | Design and Environmental Analysis | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | We created a platform for immersive VR testing of wayfinding designs, collecting both subjective feedback and biometric data. The project results in a validated virtual design-testing system, along with specific findings about the effectiveness of wayfinding strategies in a hospital design. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
saida | Hodzic | Anthropology | Work that Kills: The Social Life of a Bosnian Weapons Factory | The research supported by this grant has been presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists biennial conference; publications and further grant applications are planned. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
saida | Hodzic | Anthropology | Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Awkward Endings of Female Genital Cutting | Hodži?’s fellowship resulted in the book The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (University of California Press, 2017) which won two prestigious awards, the Michelle Rosaldo book prize for Feminist Anthropology and the Amaury Talbot Book Prize for African Anthropology. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
sahara | Byrne | Communication | Preventing Deviant Internet Behavior: An Application of Prospect Theory | Data collection completed by 2009. |
2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sahara | Byrne | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sahara | Byrne | Communication | Predicting the Boomerang Effect | With time and resources afforded by a 2018 CCSS Fellowship I was able, along with Jeff Niederdeppe and four additional Cornell social scientists, to write a grant proposal on e-cigarette policy that secured $1.4 million in funding from NIH, NCI, and the FDA. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
sahara | Byrne | Communication | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sahara | Byrne | Communication | Marine Health Matters: A Risk Communication Workshop | This workshop strengthened the network of social science researchers working on marine health challenges and resulted in at least one peer-reviewed publication. | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
sahara | Byrne | 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 | |
sachin | Gupta | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Altruism Pays: How Marketing Exclusively to Free Patients at Aravind Eye Hospitals Supports the Enterprise | Gupta, Sachin, Omkar D. Palsule-Desai, C. Gnanasekaran, and Thulasiraj Ravilla, “Spillover Effects of Mission-Activities on Revenues in Nonprofit Healthcare: The Case of Aravind Eye Hospitals, India,” Journal of Marketing Research, December 2018. Also received the 2020 AMA-EBSCO Annual Award for Responsible Research in Marketing. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
sabrina | Karim | Government | When Peace Makes States: How International Security Sector Assistance Shapes Post-Conflict State Building | The CCSS fellowship allowed Sabrina Karim to launch her Gender and Security Sector Lab and submit six papers for review---spanning research topics related to electoral violence, health and security, refugees and education, war/crime victimization, and policing. It also allowed Karim to finish a first draft of a co-authored book, "From Gender Equality to the Status of Women: Concepts and Measurement in Conflict and Peace Studies." |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
sabrina | Karim | Government | Endline Survey for Election Violence Project in Liberia | The research afforded by this grant produced the paper, "Election Violence Prevention During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Police and Youth in Liberia," which finds that experiences with successful elections enhances perceptions of democracy among police officers. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
ryan | Guggenmos | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Novel Statistical Methods for Experimental Research Learning Group | This group brought Andrew Hayes to campus for a conditional process analysis workshop attended by faculty and PhD students. The methods from the workshop have been utilized in at least 3 publications, thus far. | 2019 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Working Group 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 |
ru | Liu | Nutritional Sciences | Facilitators and barriers to implementing a food pantry-based produce prescription program in New York City | Through semi-structured interviews, this project aims to understand the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a food pantry-based Produce Prescription program in New York City from stakeholders’ perspectives. The findings will inform the design and implementation of community-clinic-partnered health interventions. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
rosemary | Avery | Policy Analysis and Management | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | CCSS funds went towards purchasing advertising data used for pilot analyses included in an NIH/AHRQ grant proposal, “Direct and Indirect Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,” Avery (Cornell PI), Eisenberg (JHU), Sood (USC), Alpert (UPenn), and Niederdeppe (Cornell), which received four years of funding May 2018. |
2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
rosemary | Avery | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
ronald | Herring | Government | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
rohit | Verma | Johnson Graduate School of Management | A Systematic Assessment of Service Scripts in the Hospitality Industry | 2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Establishing a community advisory board (CAB) of child nutrition policymakers, CACFP stakeholders, ECE staff, Registered Dietitians, and parents of preschoolers to design a multi-level intervention to promote preschoolers' nutrient-dense food consumption in CACFP-participating ECE programs. | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Evaluating the Impact of a Modified Community-Supported Agriculture Program at an Urban Food Pantry for low-income parent-child dyads | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Community Needs Assessment on Facilitators and Inhibitors of Food Security in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Neural Instantiation of Physical and Social Nutrients | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
robert | Frank | Johnson Graduate School of Management | 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 SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
robert | Weiner | Government | Strategy and Sincerity in Democratic Party Systems | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
robert | Travers | History | An Empire of Complaints: Petitions, Rights, and Justice in Eighteenth Century India | This research has led to the publication of two articles in major journals, including ‘Indian Petitioning and Colonial State-formation in Colonial Bengal, Modern Asian Studies (2019), and a book manuscript (currently being completed) on the role of Indian ideas justice in early colonial India. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
richard t. | Clark | Government | Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries | When donors extend foreign aid, they often attach requirements on how funds can be spent. Conditions are intended to increase the effectiveness of aid, but recipient governments can perceive them to infringe on sovereignty. How do publics and elites in recipient countries view aid conditionality? |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
richard | Swedberg | Sociology | 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 | |
richard | Swedberg | Sociology | How to Theorize in Sociology and Social Science | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
richard | Stedman | Natural Resources | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
richard | Patterson | Policy Analysis and Management | Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
richard | Canfield | Nutritional Sciences | Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Neurocognitive Development in Infants | We found that a higher maternal choline intake during the last trimester improved infant processing speed across the first year of life. “Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study. FASEB J. 2018;32(4):2172-2180” | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
richard | Depue | Human Development | Psychobiology of the Formation of Social Bonds | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
richard | Canfield | Nutritional Sciences | Reducing the adverse effects of prenatal maternal stress on child neurodevelopment in low-income African-American sample | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
richard | Bensel | Government | 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 | |
ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | Immersive Discrete Choice Experiments for the Analysis of Time Perceptions in Crowded Environments | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | What is the subjective cost of carbon? Exploring the economic evaluation of environmental information from a cognitive, decision-based approach | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | Exploring and modeling COVID-19 vaccination preferences | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | MCA: Modeling Social Interaction Effects on Economic Choices via Graph Convolutional Networks | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | Grant Writing Support Program | |
reut | Shachnai | Human Development | A role-model intervention to motivate young girls in science | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Learning at Scale Conference at Cornell Tech | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | How University Status Impacts the Stigma Attached to Online Degrees | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
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