Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI Sort descending | College | Grant Type |
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David | Bateman | Government | The Development of American State Constitution | Bateman’s 2018 fellowship resulted in the compilation of an extensive dataset on state constitutions and drafting conventions, and contributed to the publication of “Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785-1868,” “Transatlantic Anxieties: Democracy and Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Discourse,” and a series of working papers. | 2018-2019 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
David | Bateman | Government | The Politics of American State Constitution-Making | The investigators involved with the American State Constitutions Project collected, digitized, and coded all ratified and proposed state constitutions, as well as state legislative petitions for the 19th century, and all state Bills of Rights from 1788 to the late 20th century. |
2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Fatma | Baytar | Fiber Science and Apparel Design | Decoding tacit knowledge in apparel product development | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Always Available, Always Attached: The Benefits and Risks of Mobile and Social Media Use in Close Relationships | Research findings from this project will advance knowledge of why the integration of mobile phones and social media into everyday life matters for subjective well-being and will have implications for designing systems that encourage subjective well-being. |
2019 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Investigating Constant Social Media Use Among College Students | This project resulted in the publication: Rokito, S., Choi, Y.H., Taylor, S. H., & Bazarova, N. N. "Over-gratified, Under-Gratified, or Just Right? Applying the Gratification Discrepancy Approach to Investigate Recurrent Facebook Use." Computers in Human Behavior, 93, 76-83. (2018). |
2014 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Expertise Recognition in Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Groups: The Impact of Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Communication | This project has resulted in 5 publications examining cross-cultural dynamics in group collaboration, with a focus on expertise recognition, communication accommodation, influence processes, and language proficiency. |
2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Disclosure and Well-Being in the Digital World | This fellowship has resulted in a new line of work on bystander interventions conducted with a novel experimental simulation platform developed in Prof. Bazarova's Social Media Lab. This led to several new publications in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. |
2015 - 2016 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Daniel | Benjamin | Economics | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Benjamin | Understanding and Developing Survey-Based Measures of Well-Being | 2012-2013 | pi | University of Southern California | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Antonio | Bento | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Paying for Climate Change: The Role of Information and Social Preferences on Willingness to Pay | 2008 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Antonio | Bento | On the Costs of Climate Mitigation: A Federal Clean Energy Standard with State-Level Distributional Constraints | 2012-2013 | pi | University of Southern California | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
James | Berry | Economics | Clean Water, Health, and the Market Mechanism: How Effective is the Market at Allocating Health Goods? | 2011 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Marya | Besharov | Organizational Behavior | Creating Change from Within or Building an Alternative? The Role of Intermediaries in Developing Local Food Systems | 2019 | Spring | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Marya | Besharov | Organizational Behavior | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | 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 | |
Lin | Bian | Human Development | A role-model intervention to motivate young girls in science | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jeremy | Birnholtz | Communication | Improving Distributed Collaboration by Understanding Interpersonal Attention | 2008 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kendra | Bischoff | Sociology | Neighborhood Preferences and School Choice | This project examines how residential segregation and school choice conditions influence attitudes about schooling and residential preferences. An article was presented at the 2020 Eastern Sociological Association Conference and is currently in preparation for journal submission. | 2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kendra | Bischoff | Sociology | Choosing Neighborhoods, Choosing Schools: A Pilot Study of the Association between Neighborhood and School Composition | This collaborative demographic analysis resulted in the publication of “The Racial Composition of Neighborhoods and Local Schools: The Role of Diversity, Inequality, and School Choice” in _City and Community_ and “School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods” in _Sociological Science_. | 2013 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Garrick | Blalock | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Leveraging the Commercialization of Animal Bone-Derived Biofertilizers to Create Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Landless Poor in Ethiopia | 2015 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Garrick | Blalock | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Can an Improved Sales Contract Speed Adoption of Improved Stoves? | 2010 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Aaron | Bodoh-Creed | Economics | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | This study examined why subjects fail to play mixed-strategy equilibria in zero-sum games, calling into question prior research which suggests that experimental subjects do not follow the predictions of game theory and cannot bring the skills and heuristics used in real‐life economies into the laboratory. |
2011 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
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, Psychology | The Social Psychology Behind “Always On” Work Culture | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Cynthia | Bowman | Law | Women, Sustainable Development and Food Sovereignty/Security in a Changing World | This grant helped fund an international conference at Cornell Law School of feminist scholars and activists engaged in grassroots work to protect the environment; it resulted in papers published in a symposium issue of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy in 2013. | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jonathan | Boyarin | Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies | The Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Bunce | Government | Democracy Promotion and Electoral Revolutions in Postcommunist Eurasia | 2005 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Diane | Burton | Human Resource 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 | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Judith | Byfield | History | Re-evaluating Africa and World War II | This conference brought together an international group of scholars to present case studies on the impact of WW II on Africa. The papers presented here formed the core of the volume Africa and WW II (Cambridge University Press, 2015). | 2009 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Murillo | Campello | 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 | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Colleen | Carey | Economics | What is the Advantage of Medicare Advantage? Supply and Demand Factors in Medicare Beneficiaries' Enrollment in Private Insurance | 2019 | Fall | pi | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | 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 | |
Daniel | Casasanto | Human Development | Revolutionizing Assessment of Children's Early Numerical Abilities with Portable EEG | 2018 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Casasanto | Human Development, Psychology | Toward Preventing Racial Bias: The Role of Dialect | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Using VR to Explore Young Children's Transfer of Learning | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Cross-linguistic Differences in Infants' Ability to Learn Labels | Led to publications in Developmental Psychology and the Journal of Psychology: General plus funding of an NSF grant. |
2007 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Spatial Language and the Development of Spatial Cognition | This project formed the basis of a NSF grant, funded in 2018, and a major publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2020). | 2012 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Holly | Case | History | Between the Lines: Contested Boundaries and the Fate of the Jews and other Minorities in Eastern Europe during WWII | 2006 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Debra | Castillo | Comparative Literature | Counterstories of Greater Mexico | 2013 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Debra A. | Castillo | Latino Studies | Youth, Identities, and Transnational Flows | The grant supported (1) collaboration with Mexican NGO in Chiapas, (2) creation of educational materials for local farmworkers on rights, on COVID awareness, (3) publication of various professional articles by co-PIs, often in collaboration with students and community members. | 2010 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Marie | Caudill | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Returns to Mechanization through Rental Equipment Markets | We build the first direct measures of capital-embodied technical change (CETC) as well as of the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital at the occupational level, www.capitalbyoccupation.weebly.com. One paper has been submitted for publication and another is forthcoming at the JME. |
2019 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Agricultural Productivity Gaps: Feedbacks from Human Capital and Equipment Embodied Technology Adoption | This project examines the impact of capital-embodied technical change on the labor market. Results were presented at the NBER Summer Institute and various academic institutions. A draft has been submitted for publication. | 2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Capital Obsolescence and Agricultural Productivity | This project constructs the first available cross-country measures of quality-adjusted capital stocks in agriculture. The paper is forthcoming at the Quarterly Journal of Economics. | 2014 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technology | During the 2020-2021 academic year the first draft of Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technical Change was completed and submitted for publication. The paper was presented at various workshops including the NBER SI 2020. A sequel to this paper, Technical Change and the Demand for Talent, has been accepted for publication at the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU series of the Journal of Monetary Economics in 2022. |
2020-2021 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program |
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