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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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 | 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 | 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 |
Suzanne Lanyi | Charles | City and Regional Planning | A Social Network Analysis of House Flipping | A pilot study was undertaken during the summer on 2019, focusing on house flipping in the Chicago suburbs. The pilot study yielded compelling preliminary findings, and the research team is preparing to launch a larger scale study. | 2018 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne Lanyi | Charles | City and Regional Planning | Housing Redevelopment and the Evolution of Suburban Immigrant Communities | This project led to the peer-reviewed journal article: Charles, S. L. (2018). A Typology of Mansionization in the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, 2000–2015. Housing Policy Debate, 28(6), 832–853. | 2016 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne | Charles | City and Regional Planning | The Next Wall Street Housing Grab | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Howard | Chong | School of Hotel Administration | Disentangling the building from behavior in residential energy efficiency | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Morten | Christiansen | Psychology | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexandra | Cirone | Government | Pathways to Power: Multi-level Governance and Political Representation in Europe | 2018 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Zachary D. | Clopton | Law | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Moncrieff | Cochran | Human Development | Evaluating an Employer-Supported Child Care Program: An Ecological Approach | The funding from this grant helped to support graduate student research. |
2006 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Abigail | Cohn | Linguistics | Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies | 2019 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Abigail | Cohn | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Will | Cong | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Interpretable AI and Big Data Analytics with Applications in Finance | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Mark | Constas | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Moving Beyond the Census Tract: Activity Space and Social Networks in Later Life | 2013 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Benjamin | Cornwell | Sociology | Social Networks Dynamics and Health in Later Life | With the time and resources provided in his 2013 ISS Fellowship, Ben Cornwell wrote a study on older adults’ social networks as well as a book, Social Sequence Analysis, which was published by Cambridge University Press. | 2012-2013 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Duane | Corpis | History | Overseas Charity in Early Modern Europe: Empathy, Obligation, and Global Networks | 2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Cosley | Information Science | Supporting Communities of Memory and Reminiscence | This was a workshop grant that brought together researchers ranging from gerontology to computer science to probe the impact of social media on self-understanding and life stories, leading to several new collaborations between participants and research directions for future work. | 2009 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Dan | Cosley | Information Science | Identifying, Modeling, and Visualizing Disclosure of Personal Information in Social Media | Cosley's 2013 fellowship contributed to a $1.2 million NSF grant with Natalie Bazarova and Janis Whitlock that produced many well-cited publications around communication, relationships, mental health, design, and privacy in social media, helping several PhD students and postdocs launch successful research careers. | 2012-2013 | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Raymond | Craib | History | Libertarian Noir: Unsettled Histories of Exit and Enclosure | The research that this grant enabled is a central part of Craib's book, Libertarian Exit, currently under review with Yale University Press. | 2018 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Raymond | Craib | History | "Exile and Enclosure" International Conference | This international conference has led to continued intellectual exchange and collaboration between various participants. We did not pursue an edited volume but the conference has generated a number of published essays that recognize the event. | 2016 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Raymond | Craib | History | The Cry of the Renegade: Poetry, Politics and Anarchism in Chile, 1920 | With the fellowship I was able to make very good progress on my book The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press and which was part of my promotion file for full professor. | 2012-2013 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Cristian | Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil | Information Science | Improving Online Discourse Through Conversational Modeling | The CCSS fellowship allowed me to assimilate a new qualitative dimension into my (traditionally quantitative) research. This enabled a mixed-methods study of proactive moderation practices and of the potential for algorithmic support in multiple online discussion platforms and has (so far) led to a CSCW publication in the PACM HCI journal. |
2020-2021 | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
Richard | Depue | Human Development | Psychobiology of the Formation of Social Bonds | 2011 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Eve | DeRosa | Human Development | Influence of Body State on Cognition and Emotion in Shaping Environmental Interactions: Implications for Aging | 2015 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Molly | Diesing | Linguistics | The interaction of syntax, semantics, and prosody in Slovenian | Formed a partial underpinning of several papers, including “Getting in the first word” Glossa 2.1 2017. | 2010 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Brian | Dillon | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Network Expansion and Firm Growth in Tanzania | 2019 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | |
Mara Yue | Du | History | China: From a Nationless State to a Nation Defined by State | The CCSS faculty fellowship enabled Mara Du to wrap up her first book, State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform, and to make significant progress on her second book, China: From a Nationless State and a Nation Defined by State. |
2020-2021 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Gender Inequalities in Social Media Work: Digital Labor as a New "Pink Ghetto?" | 2017 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Dunifon | Policy Analysis and Management | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Dissociating the Effects of Attention and Expectation on Visual Conscious Perception | An NSF grant proposal was submitted, but did not receive funding. Papers based on the research are still in the works. | 2016 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Parfait | Eloundou-Enyegue | Development Sociology | Cyber-Boosting African Social Science: Exporting the Cornell College of Computing and Information Science Experience | 2012 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Parfait | Eloundou-Enyegue | Global Development | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Peter | Enns | Government | Conference on Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion | This conference led to the edited volume, Who Gets Represented? (Enns and Wlezien 2011). | 2007 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Peter | Enns | Government | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Peter | Enns | Roper Center, Government | Merging Data from the Roper Center Archive to Facilitate Population Subgroup Analysis: Identifying Opportunities and Strategies | This group met regularly, wrote a cross-disciplinary Cornell Migrations research proposal with faculty from Govt, Comm, and PAM to understand the social and political views of Latino Immigrants in the U.S., 2003-2019 and received an NSF grant to evaluate social bias during the COVID-19 crisis. [45] |
2019 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Working Group 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 |
Gary | Evans | Design and Environmental Analysis | Chaos and Children's Development: Levels of Analysis and Mechanisms | This SSRC grant in conjunction with additional funding enabled hosting of the International Network for Research on Inequalities in Child Health at Cornell. This is only the second time this Network has met in the United States. Funding also enabled support for several, international graduate students to attend. | 2007 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Gary W. | Evans | Design and Environmental Analysis, Human Development | Childhood Poverty, Health, and Behavior: Biological and Psychosocial Pathways | 2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
Ziad | Fahmy | Near Eastern Studies | Listening to the Nation: Mass Culture and Identities in Interwar Egypt | This seed grant led to my award of an NEH [FPIRI Program]—American Research Center in Egypt Faculty Research Fellowship. It also supported my research, which led to my recent book: Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020) |
2012 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Testing interventions to encourage self-blinding | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Precarious Lives, Desired Futures: Reimagining Lives and Livelihoods | 2014 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Refiguring Village Studies: New Approaches to Agrarian Change in South Asia | 2011 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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