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 Sort descending | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 | |
Yi | Shen | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | spring | Co-PI | University of Waterloo | 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 | |
Kosali | Simon | Policy Analysis and Management | How Does New Medical Information Affect the Use of High-Risk Procedures? | 2007 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
John | Sipple | Development Sociology | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life 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 | |
John | Sipple | Education | The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation | 2011 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
John | Sipple | Education | 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 | 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 | Eating Network Partners | We developed a conceptual framework and measures incorporating data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). | 2010 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 |
Soo | Kim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Psychological Insecurities, Disclosure, and Friend-Avoidance | 2020 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Presence in Mediated Social Interactions Leads to Absence from the Here and Now | First paper resulting from the research funded by this award is currently undergoing second round of review after revision; part of basis for NSF grant rated highly competitive |
2017 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
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 |
Barbara | Strupp | Nutritional Sciences, Psychology | Reducing the adverse effects of prenatal maternal stress on child neurodevelopment in low-income African-American sample | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 | How to Theorize in Sociology and Social Science | 2011 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Cascades and Fluctuations in an Economy with an Endogenous Production Network | The research supported by this grant has been presented at 25 conferences and seminars. Further publications are pending. | 2018 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Nelson | Tebbe | Law | The Effects on Children of Equality Rules for Religious Placement Agencies | Through triangulating in-depth interviews, original datasets, and national archive data on child placement outcomes, this comprehensive analysis will explore the question, are children harmed when child placement agencies close their doors rather than follow anti-discrimination rules that violate their religious beliefs? |
2021 | spring | PI | Cornell Law School | 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 |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Credit Card Reforms and Consumers' Use of Credit Cards | This research on the impact of CARD Act (2010) billing disclosure regulations on consumers’ debt payment behaviors was presented at multiple policy conferences and is published as “Effects of informational nudges on consumer debt repayment behaviors” in Journal of Economic Psychology, 51, 16-33. | 2011 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Pamela | Tolbert | Organizational Behavior | Law and Social Sciences Conference: Increasing Inclusion/Reducing Discrimination: What Works | 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. | 2014 | spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
William | Tomek | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Secondary Effects of Biofuels Demands: Implications for Feed and Livestock | Led to a publication in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review entitled the Implications of Growing Biofuels Demands on Northeast Livestock Feed Costs, with L. Verteramo and W. Tomek, April 2009. The research was used extensively in numerous Extension presentations in New York State. | 2007 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Robert | Travers | History | An Empire of Complaints: Petitions, Rights, and Justice in Eighteenth Century India | This research has led to the publication of two articles in major journals, including ‘Indian Petitioning and Colonial State-formation in Colonial Bengal, Modern Asian Studies (2019), and a book manuscript (currently being completed) on the role of Indian ideas justice in early colonial India. | 2011 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Fabio | Trecca | Linguistics Cognitive Science and Semiotics | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | spring | Co-PI | Aarhus University | CCSS Grant | |
Maxim | Troshkin | Economics | Designing Optimal Social Insurance Systems | 2013 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Andrey | Ukhov | School of Hotel Administration | Time-Varying Risk Preferences and Asset Prices: Evidence from Lottery Bonds | 2012 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Claudia | Verhoeven | History | Love and Terror: The Meaning of the Manson Murders in American Culture | Archival research in Los Angeles formed the basis of the chapter, “’Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter’: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family,” Time and Power. Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, eds. Stefanos Geroulanos, Dan Edelstein, and Natasha Wheatley. Forthcoming Chicago UP, 2020. | 2015 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kathleen | Vogel | Science and Technology Studies | Imagined and Realized Futures of U.S Bioweapons Threat Assessments | 2007 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Wagner | Linguistics | Encoding and Retrieving Information with Prosody | 2007 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Ward | Government | Status and the Politics of National Decline | Research has been delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I plan to complete the funded research by next summer. | 2018 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | Understanding the Impact of Austerity on New York's Local Governments | This research was presented at state and national conferences and published in 2019 in Environment and Planning A. "Austerity Coalitions or Pragmatic Municipalism? Local Responses to Austerity in New York State,”. | 2016 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Work Hours and Gender Inequality in Earnings Across Countries | 2021 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarin Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2010 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Marina | Welker | Anthropology | An Ethnography of the Sampoerna Clove Cigarette Company | 2014 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development, Sociology | The Second Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: Improving the State of Americans | A book was published based on the conference: Wethington, Elaine and Rachel Dunifon. 2012. Research for the Public Good: Applying the Methods of Translational Research to Improve Human Health and Well Being. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. |
2009 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
John | Whitman | Linguistics | Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement and Social Change | This ISS grant helped fund a major interdisciplinary conference held at Cornell, on the deep history of rice and migrations in Asia, coinciding with a co-taught class. It was partially published as a special double issue of the journal Rice (ISSN 1939-8425), 2011 | 2011 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Andrew | Willford | Anthropology | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Workshop on Projectification, Governance and Sustainability: US-EU Synthesis and Comparison | This funding supported sustained engagement with University of Helsinki around questions of short-term organizational forms in environmental governance. Publications include “Toward projectified environmental governance?” 2017. Environment and Planning A. 49(2):273-292 and “Short-termism and Sustainability: Changing Time-frames in Spatial Policy Interventions” (eds. S. Sjöblom et al.). 2012. Ashgate | 2006 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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