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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michael | Lynch | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
michael | Roach | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
michael | Manville | Luskin School of Public Affairs | American Travel Behavior and the Macroeconomy: A Longer View | Manvilleís 2016 fellowship helped him complete two journal articles, and also led to a productive collaboration with ISS fellow Adam Levine, resulting in an additional journal article. | 2015-2016 | PI | UCLA | Faculty Fellows Program | |
michael | Neblo | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | ||
michael | Cary | Global Development | Rural Livelihoods and Authoritarian Legacies Along Southern Paraguay’s Rice Frontier | This project examines Paraguay’s history of authoritarian politics and their implications for rural development. More specifically, I employ participatory mapping projects and semi-structured interviews to explore the ways in which clientelist networks mediate responses to socioecological change along southern Paraguay’s emergent rice frontier. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
michael | Lovenheim | Policy Analysis and Management | School Quality Information and the Choice Environment: Evidence from Online School Search Behavior | This project led to a peer-reviewed publication in the Economics of Education Review. The paper has garnered attention and is having an impact on the literature. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
michael | Waldman | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Health and Early Childhood Television and Video Viewing | This exploratory effort led to the creation of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper “Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching,” which is under review at a peer-reviewed economics journal. | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
michael | Shapiro | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
michael | Waldman | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Limited Rationality and the Strategic Environment: An Experimental Study | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Goldstein | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
michael | Hoffman | Entomology | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Wagner | Linguistics | Encoding and Retrieving Information with Prosody | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Jones-Correa | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Fontaine | Classics | Travel to Buenos Aires to present work at the "Comedy and Society in Antiquity" Conference (Jornada sobre Comedia y Sociedad en la Antiguedad) | This 2011 keynote presentation in Buenos Aires resulted in a major paper, titled “Who was in the Audience of Roman Comedy?,” that changed the field. Although technically still “forthcoming” in the conference proceedings, the samizdat version is regularly cited and discussed in the relevant literature. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
michael | Frakes | Law | Project Narratives | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Learning to talk, learning to sing: A comparative approach to discovering mechanisms of infant learning from social interaction | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Goldstein | Psychology | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Children of the Undocumented: Inclusion versus Exclusion | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Socially Guided Learning in the Transition from Babbling to Words | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
michael | Goldstein | Psychology | The developmental origins of sensitive parenting | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
meltem | Yucel | Psychology | Effect of Gossip on Children's Well-being and Belonging | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Virginia | CCSS Grant | |
melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | 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 | |
melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | The Implicit Operation of Ideology | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | Implicit Nationalism and Prejudice: Testing effects on behavior | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
megan | French | Communication | Audience and Self-Concept in Social Media | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
megan | Sawey | Communication | (Re)Defining Deception in Sugar Dating: An Exploration of Digital Scam Culture | This project will expand our understanding of online romance scams and broader internet fraud by investigating a.) the varied ways deception is constructed in sugar relationship discourses and practices, and b.) the varied roles of digital platforms in defining, aiding, and/or preventing interpersonal deception. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
meaghan | Mingo | Sociology | Prepare and Punish: Schooling and Discipline in the Black Belt | Mingo conducted interviews with 22 junior high school students and 11 educators as part of her ethnographic study on schooling and discipline in the rural US South. This research will be presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in August 2021, and is included in manuscripts in progress. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
maxim | Troshkin | Economics | Designing Optimal Social Insurance Systems | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
maureen | Waller | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's license suspensions, legal debt, and the reproduction of inequality | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 Human Ecology | Working Group Grant | |
maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Do Policies Affect Father Involvement, and How Much Does Involvement Reduce Inequality in Child Outcomes? | The ISS small grant helped us secure funding for a 3-year project from the WT Grant Foundation. Research from this project has been presented at several conferences and has resulted in five journal articles to date. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Child Custody Decisions in Disadvantaged Families: A Pilot Study | This small grant contributed to a larger USDA (NIFA) grant and several journal articles. The grant supported qualitative data collection and the analysis of survey data to examine why some disadvantaged families establish legal orders in court while others avoid the family court system. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
maureen | Waller | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's License Suspensions, Legal Debt, and the Reproduction of Inequality | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
matthew | Wilkens | Information Science | Machine learning for online medical support communities | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
matthew | Velasco | Anthropology | Embodying Social Inequality During a Time of War: A Bioarchaeological Study of Childhood Health in the Late Prehispanic Andes | Funding helped support laboratory research on archaeological human remains in Peru, to examine childhood health outcomes and patterns of geographic mobility. To date, this pilot study has yielded two conference posters and an undergraduate thesis. Papers based on this research are in preparation. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
matthew | Evangelista | Government | Unexplored paths to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | What makes certain conflicts intractable, and how can we resolve them? To attain coexistence, we must understand why and how conflicts, like the Israeli-Palestinian one, become existential – being not merely about “us vs. them,” but about both sides believing “it’s either us or them." |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Real Estate Cycles and Banking Crises | This project aims to analyze the role of real estate cycles in causing banking crises by creating a new historical database of the stock returns of real estate-related firms and investment vehicles since 1870 across 17 economies. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | The Foreclosure Crisis and Racial Residential Stratification | Led to publication of a paper in the American Sociological Review and another in the ANNALS. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
matthew | Evangelista | Government | Humanity's Midlife Crisis: The Existential Deadlock of Liber | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
matthew | Freedman | Labor Economics | Agglomeration Effects: The Role of Selection | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
matthew | Freedman | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. | 2008-2011 | Co-PI | University of Southern California Irvine | Collaborative Project | ||
matthew | Eisenberg | Public Health | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Johns Hopkins University | CCSS Grant | |
matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | "Too-big-to-fail" and Historical Banking Crises | This grant has led a new publicly-available historical database of global financial crises since 1870 and two papers: ìBanking Crises Without Panicsî (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 2020) and a new working paper. |
2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Unions and the Postwar European "Economic Miracle" | Campello and Baron digitized and translated financial statements for 950 German firms and 300 Swedish firms over the period 1948-1965, building a database similar to Compustat. They also assembled a database on wages, productivity, and patents for German firms by industries and counties. |
2017 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
matthew | Brashears | Sociology | Eating Network Partners | We developed a conceptual framework and measures incorporating data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Causes and Consequences of Financial Crises Evidence from New Historical Data, 1900-2015 | Research supported by this grant resulted in two publications: “Credit Expansion and Neglected Crash Risk.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017 (with Wei Xiong), and “Banking Crises Without Panics.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020 (with Emil Verner and Wei Xiong). | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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