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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Marvi | Ahmed | Global Development | Assembling the Development Frontier: Identity, Climate Vulnerability & Agrarian Politics in the Indus Delta | This project explores the entanglements between modernist donor-funded community development projects, structural inequalities such as caste, intergenerational debt bondage and land ownership with the unevenness of climate vulnerability in the Indus Delta region of Pakistan.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Isha | Bhatnagar | Global Development | Dearest daughters: Women's agency, parental expectations and elderly support in north India | Using interviews with women and focus group discussions with elderly parents in Delhi, I investigate how the gender, birth order and physical proximity of siblings influences women's agency to support elderly parents, spousal decision-making on visiting wife's family, and elderly expectations from their children.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Patricia | Campos Medina | Labor Relations Law and History | Displaced and Uprooted: Stories of Belonging Central American TPS Workers' Defiant Struggle for their Right to Stay Home in US | This project seeks to elevate the stories of workers with TPS (Temporary Protective Status) who despite living in temporality, have engaged in social movement organizing, have participated in non-traditional political mobilization and have become agents for their own struggle for permanency and citizenship rights. It will also explore the engagement of TPS workers in the struggle for immigrant worker justice and union organizing. The survey interview questionnaire covers three dimensions of belonging, or what Campos-Medina 2019 describes as Bounded Integration: (1) Social Economic Status, (2) Civic and Social Movement Engagement, and (3) Collective Group Identity.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Grant |
Monica | Cornejo | Communication | Post COVID-19: The Social, Health, and Educational Experiences of Latina/o/x Undocumented College Students | This project will explore undocumented college students' social, health, and educational experiences post COVID-19. Sixty semi-structured interviews will be conducted with undocumented undergraduates from (1) a west coast community college; (2) a south-central public university; and (3) an east coast ivy league university.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Itamar | Haritan | Anthropology | Foreign Ancestors: Alternative Genealogical Imaginaries in Israeli Society | This study asks whether and how the genealogical imaginaries created by Israeli Family Constellation facilitators and participants and Polish-Israeli hometown association activists create alternative genealogical imaginaries, and how these imaginaries affirm, transform or resist dominant modes of belonging in Israeli society, which are usually nationalized.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 |
Zeynab | Jouzi | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Co-production of knowledge for designing and developing of support services in transitional housing in New York City. | New York City has the largest number of sheltered homelessness in the country. This study will utilize the co-production of knowledge approach to collaborate with the residents of a transitional housing center in NYC, to design the appropriate supportive system to empower and prepare residents for a successful transition to their permanent housing. |
2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Jaleesa | Reed | Human Centered Design | Investigating Store Experiences at the Black Beauty Supply Store | This project investigates two Black beauty supply stores in Syracuse, NY from the perspective of store owners, employees, and customers. Using observation, surveys, and interviews, this study analyzes the relationship between location, Black American beauty culture, and racial/ethnic groups related to the Black beauty supply store.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Stephen | Vider | History | LGBTQ Affirmative Psychotherapy and Social Services, 1960 to 1987 | This study, co-directed by Stephen Vider (Cornell University) and David S. Byers (Bryn Mawr College), investigates the role of grassroots clinical activism in the depathologization of LGBTQ people in the United States from 1960 to 1987, through archival research as well as oral history interviews.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Laura Elizabeth | Smith | Public and Ecosystem Health | Characterizing women empowerment and its influences on infant and young child feeding practices in rural Zimbabwe | 2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Benjamin | Lipp | Science and Technology Studies | The Promise of 'Post-Opioid' Pain Technology | The aim of this project is to understand the convergence of digital and neuro-technology in chronic pain amidst the opioid crisis. It compares pain technologies combining neuro-technological interventions with data-driven techniques. The project will analyse their promise as "post-opioid" technologies as well as associated risks.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Kristie | LeBeau | Global Development | Hitting the $40,000 Threshold: A Rural Critical Policy Analysis of Indiana Competitive Teacher Pay Legislation | Indiana recently implemented a statewide $40,000 minimum salary requirement for public school districts. I aim to understand how this seemingly neutral statewide policy can be more attentive to rural needs and discover what local budget decisions result in the highest net benefit for rural communities.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Aparajita | Bhandari | Communication | Communicative Labor and Community Care in Times of Crisis: The Case of VaxHuntersCanada | This project engages in a multi-method exploration of the hidden labor of building digitally mediated collectives through a case study of VaxHuntersCanada's social media channels, a large volunteer run online community created to help people find vaccine appointments during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Colten | Meisner | Communication | Independent News Production in the Platform Economy: Digital Journalists, Social Media Creators, and the Labor of Subscription Platforms | This project examines how the labor of journalism is being reconfigured through the structures and incentives of the social media economy. Specifically, I consider how subscription platforms like Substack, which successfully serve both digital journalists and social media creators, are shaping future news cultures.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Iggy E-Shien | Chang | Experiences and challenges faced by certified nursing assistants in mitigating resident-to-resident aggression in long-term care facilities: The role of race and ethnicity | The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of the role of race/ethnicity in resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) from the perspective of certified nursing assistants. Insights generated will help inform the design of a novel staff education intervention to mitigate and prevent race/ethnicity-related RRA.
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2022 | Fall | pi | Weill Cornell Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Prosociality During COVID-19 | 2020 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | CoRUS: Coronavirus in Russia and Ukraine Survey | 2020 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Stephen | Hilgartner | Science and Technology Studies | A Comparative Study of Expertise for Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic, | 2020 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Implications of Course Enrollment Structure for the Potential of Epidemic Spread on a College Campus | This project will use complete student transcript data to map the bipartite (two-mode) network that connects students to each other via their enrollment in college courses, thereby creating social structural conditions for the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. We will evaluate how clusters of course offerings, the timing of courses throughout the week, and mode of class instruction affect the structure of this network. We will also assess how students with different majors, level in school, gender, and race occupy different positions within the network. |
2020 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | 2020 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
John | Doris | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Economic and Environmental Consequences of COVID-19 | 2020 | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Shorna | Allred | Natural Resources, Global Development | Hearing the Forest Through the Trees: Collaborative Science and Indigenous Sonic Entanglements in East Kalimantan | Working with frontline Indigenous communities, this team of social and natural scientists brings anthropological, bioacoustic, and Indigenous knowledges together to investigate: 1) The impacts of Indonesia's emerging new capital, Nusantara, on surrounding peoples and landscapes, and 2) how collaborative soundscape research can reveal novel multi-species entanglements and advance Indigenous territorial monitoring. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Helena | Aparicio | Linguistics | Adaptation, Social Coordination & Pragmatic Inference | Linguistic interactions display spontaneous self-organizing behavior, pragmatic inference being the epitome of such coordinative behavior. However not much is known about cognitive mechanisms supporting coordination. The current project argues that adaptation is one of the mechanisms deployed by listeners to resolve pragmatic coordination problems. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Oumar | Ba | Government | Against Humanity: Race, Empire, and the Liberal International Order | This project reconstructs the emergence of the current global justice regime and argues that the Liberal International Order is built upon the denial of humanity through a layered racial hierarchy of humanness. Using archival research, it focuses on the drafting and adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights amidst the French campaign of “pacification” in Madagascar; the UN Trusteeship Council as a site of legislation and contestation of nuclear imperialism in the Pacific; and the prosecution of the crimes against peace at the Tokyo Tribunal. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Dina | Bishara | International and Comparative Labor | The Politics of Labor Market Outsiders in the Middle East and North Africa: Insights from Tunisia | This project aims at unpacking the political and social policy preferences of labor market outsiders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We will conduct a pilot survey in Tunisia, which will serve as the foundation for a larger grant proposal. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Creators, Platforms, and the New Politics of Visibility | Drawing upon in-depth interviews with participants in the digital Creator Economy, this research examines the promises, perils, and paradoxes of the platform-dependent labor. In so doing, this project considers how platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch may enable—or, conversely, thwart—a new politics of visibility. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chris | Forman | Applied Economics and Management | Dancing with Stars or Crowded out by Stars: Superstar Firms’ Effect on AI Adoption | Does the superstar firms’ adoption of AI foster or deter other firms’ adoption of AI? There are two competing mechanisms: imitation and competition. By using comprehensive job posting data and a novel instrumental variable, this study will examine the empirical salience of these competing effects of superstar firms on the AI adoption process. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life (April 2024 Conference) | This conference explores how women effected change across Asia engaging in everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation and consumption; participants will bring to light how such “domestic” practices had significant impact on “public spaces,” and created spaces for women’s autonomy and agency. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
Cindy | Hazan | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Intergroup Loss Aversion | This research uses an economic model of choice behavior and psychophysiological measures of arousal to examine sensitivity to losses for racial ingroup vs. outgroup members, with a discussion of implications for racial disparities at the interpersonal and national level. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Aija | Leiponen | Applied Economics and Management | Tolerance for Sharing Polarizing Content on Information Platforms | We seek to understand users' preferences for spreading polarizing content on an information platform, which is informative for the design of effective platform governance strategies. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Benjamin | Leyden | Applied Economics and Management | Financial Language, Communication, and Competition Across US Industries | We study whether and how companies use a sanctioned form of public communication—quarterly earnings calls—to communicate strategic information with their competitors to coordinate strategic actions and lower competition, thus circumventing antitrust laws. This work will inform policy regarding firm communication and market competition. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Marie | Ozanne | School of Hotel Administration | How and When Sponsored Ads on Social Media Deter Social Interactions | People are bombarded with ads on social media. This research questions whether the number of ads displayed on newsfeeds impacts passive (vs. active) social media usage. Given that passive usage is negatively associated with well-being, this research offers important implications for marketing researchers and policymakers. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Economics, Brooks School of Public Policy | Assessing the Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Healthcare Access in Rural Communities | This project evaluates the effectiveness of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) to address health disparities among underserved rural youth using de-identified individual-level panel data on patient visits to healthcare providers. The study focuses on 4 high-poverty rural counties in New York, comparing healthcare for children in 16 school districts with SBHCs to those in 22 school districts without. We will assess how SBHCs help poor rural communities by bringing health services directly to children to enhance rural community health. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Imane | Terhmina | Romance Studies | Semantic Mapping of Indigeneity Through Computational Modeling of Nineteenth-Century French-Language | We intend to build a digital corpus of French-language documents related to indigeneity in the 19th century, and use both computational methods (NLP/CL) and interpretive tools to understand the ideological biases associated with textual representations of “indigeneity”, from its colonial genesis to its post-colonial recuperation. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Making AI Explainable to Community Health Workers in Rural India | AI-driven diagnostic applications are increasingly deployed to support low-skilled community health workers (CHWs) in hard-to-reach communities. This work aims to examine how CHWs in rural settings engage with AI explanations and what they need to know to safely operate such systems in high-stakes healthcare contexts. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Stephen | Vider | History | On Our Own: Deinstitutionalization and the Politics of Care | On Our Own traces the impact of deinstitutionalization—the release of people with mental illnesses and disabilities from state-run institutions—to reveal how efforts to repair state systems of mental healthcare were reshaped by the convergence of patient activism and privatization after World War II. |
2023 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Wendong | Zhang | Applied Economics and Management | 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 | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Africa Futures Project: Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth | This project uses cross-national comparative survey and longitudinal interview data to address unresolved questions regarding how resource inequality affects labor market access and immigrant selectivity and the effect of migration on the lives of upwardly mobile Sub-Saharan African youth. |
2023-2024 | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Heeyon | Kim | School of Hotel Administration | Disrupting a Winner-Take-All Market: Pathways for Increasing Status Mobility in the Art World | Increasing number of fields resemble a winner-take-all market with limited pathways of status mobility for lower-status actors. Using both online and field experiments in the art market context, the proposed research will investigate structural and contextual interventions that can increase audience engagement with lesser-known artworks. |
2023 | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Cindy | Kao | Human Centered Design | Understanding the Social Aspects of On-Skin Interface Usage | On-skin interfaces are a fast-growing segment of wearable computing in daily life. However, the social aspects of using these devices remain underexplored. This project examines how on-skin interfaces could enhance and even create new forms of social experience and engage broader populations for inclusive design. |
2023 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Chuan | Liao | Global Development | Circular Bionutrient Economy for AgriFood System Transition in Kenya | My project aims to explore agrifood system transitions through enhanced circularity in Kenya. I will synthesize available datasets to examine how, under different policy scenarios and engagement activities, the agrifood system transition can allow us to achieve synergistic outcomes in human and environmental wellbeing. |
2023 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | An Inductive Study of Creative Idea Elaboration in Improvisational Comedy Groups. | Research finds that brainstorming groups are notoriously inefficient at generating ideas, compared to individuals working alone. This inductive, qualitative interview study aims to understand the group processes of improvisational comedy groups, and develop insights about how groups can successfully develop creative ideas in real time. |
2023-2024 | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Natasha | Raheja | Anthropology | Majority-Minority Politics across the India-Pakistan Border | How do majorities come to imagine themselves as minorities? Conversely, how do minorities come to imagine justice as part of majorities? Focusing on immigration policy in South Asia, my project argues that majority-minority politics exceed state borders, in ways that are not nation bound. |
2023 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Adriana | Reyes | Sociology | Understanding Americans Attitudes towards Caregiving for Older Adults | I will assess the attitudes and policy preferences of Americans toward caregiving for older adults using survey data and in-depth interview data. I will focus on variations across race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and over time. Vignettes will be used to understand when preferences diverge from expectations. |
2023 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Kristin | Roebuck | History | Remember Girl Zero: Trafficked Women, Imperial Men, and the Ends of Abolition | Remember Girl Zero is a book project in feminist global and Asian history, designed to show how patrilineal norms generate a uniquely feminine form of enslavement, largely invisible both to nineteenth-century abolitionists and to current scholars of slavery. |
2023 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | Risky Politics and Political Participation under Authoritarian Rule | In nondemocracies, protest participation, voting for the opposition, and even abstaining from supporting regime candidates entail risks. This project investigates how risk attitudes shape political participation under authoritarian rule and how ordinary citizens overcome their baseline aversion to taking political risks. |
2023 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program |
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