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 ascending | College | Grant Type |
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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 | |
Quinetta | Roberson | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | Fall | co-pi | Villanova University | CCSS Grant | |
Sean | Rogers | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Judith | Ross-Bernstein | Human Development | Poverty, Equity and State Policy: The Move Toward Universal Pre-kindergarten in New York State Rural School Districts | This grant allowed deep and multi-method exploration of the equity implications of the implementation of Universal PreK in NYS. We also discovered a negative impact of UPK programming on infant and toddler care in rural communities. This led to conference papers, a Hatch grant, and Sipple, Casto & McCabe (2020). Child Care Deserts in New York State: Factors Related to the Community Capacity to Care for Children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. | 2008 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Joseph | Sabia | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | co-pi | American University | CCSS Grant | ||
David | Sahn | Nutritional Sciences | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
David | Sahn | Nutritional Sciences, Economics | 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 | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Tina | Saksida | Business | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | 2016 | Fall | co-pi | University of Prince Edward Island | CCSS Grant | |
Elissa | Sampson | Near Eastern Studies | The Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War | 2020 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Carmen | Sanchez | Psychology | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vilma | Santiago-Irizarry | Anthropology | 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 | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | How Housing and Labor Market Conditions Influence the Progression of Romantic Relationships | One paper from this grant has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming at Journal of Marriage & Family. A second paper, based on restricted data, is delayed as the RDC has been closed since March due to COVID. | 2017 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | "Men at Work" (and Family): Caregiving Responsibilities among the Working Class | 2014 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Kyoko | Sato | 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 | co-pi | Stanford University | Collaborative Project | ||
Moritz | Schularick | "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 | co-pi | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | 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 | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
William D. | Schulze | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Jennifer | Schwade | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sawa | Senzaki | Psychology | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | co-pi | University of Wisconsin Green Bay | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
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 |
Jesse | Shapiro | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | co-pi | University of Chicago | CCSS Grant | ||
Yi | Shen | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | co-pi | University of Waterloo | CCSS Grant | ||
Janet | Sherman | Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Elderly: Stage Two of a Pilot Study | 2009 | Fall | co-pi | MIT | CCSS Grant | ||
Ahmad | Sikainga | 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 | co-pi | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | |
Wesley | Sine | Johnson Graduate School of 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 | |
Ranjit | Singh | Science and Technology Studies | Restoring Credit: How people Understand and Interact with Credit Scoring Systems | Two papers based on 16 months of data collection for this exploratory project are currently being written up and under review, respectively. | 2017 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Sipple | Global Development | Rural Schools: Planning and Decision Making in Times of Fiscal Stress | 2009 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rebecca | Slayton | Science and Technology Studies | Rhythms of the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Thriving | 2021 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Smith | Anthropology | Resilience and Ruination in Mountain Communities: Comparative Regional Settlement Dynamics in the South Caucasus from the Bronze Age to Today | This pilot research led to a multi-year NSF grant to support further archaeological research on settlement dynamics in the South Caucasus. | 2014 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Wendy | Smith | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | co-pi | Alfred Lerner College | CCSS Grant | ||
Jeffery | Sobal | Nutritional Sciences | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Philip | Sol Hart | 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 | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
William | Sonnenstuhl | Organizational Behavior | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Sarah | Soule | 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 | co-pi | Stanford University | Collaborative Project | ||
Susan | Spronk | 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 | co-pi | University of Ottawa | Collaborative Project | ||
William | Starr | Philosophy | Support for Organizing a Conference: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) | 2019 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mary | Still | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | co-pi | University of Massachusetts Boston | Collaborative Project | ||
Rebecca | Stoltzfus | Nutritional Sciences | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Strang | 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 | |
David | Strang | Sociology | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Barbara | Strupp | 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 |
Alex | Susskind | School of Hotel Administration | 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 | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | co-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 | |
Laura | Tach | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Enhancing the Community Impact of School-Based Health Centers in Rural New York | The ISS grant provided the necessary support to secure a data agreement between the Bassett (NY Healthcare system and Cornell’s CRADIC system. We are now analyzing nearly 4 million records over 7 years to measure the impact of SBHCs on the healthcare behavior of residents in five counties. We recently secured a Federal Hatch grant to continue our analyses in partnership with Bassett. | 2016 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Janice | Thies | Crop and Soil Sciences | 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 | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
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