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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Marcel | Preuss | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Dynamics of Luck, Effort, and Redistribution | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Bringing STS Into Environmental History | This grant supported an important, international workshop on the contributions of science studies to environmental history, resulting in the edited volume, _New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies_, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2013). | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Hudson | Reeve | Neurobiology and Behavior | Threats to Group Survival, Status, and “Upping the Threat Level” | Our experiments show a correlation between manipulations of perceptions of threat level in order to elicit higher group member contributions and status within a group and analyze the causes of this status effect. These findings were presented at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.
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2007 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Camille | Robcis | History | Catholics, Gender, and the Gay Marriage Debate in France | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Steven | Robertson | Human Development | Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems | This interdisciplinary collaboration (developmental psychology and mathematics) validated a new brain-based method for measuring infant attention (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:11460) and a novel dynamical model of infant visual foraging behavior (Dev Psychobiol 2014, 56:1129) to uncover early predictors of childhood attention problems. | 2008 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
Mats | Rooth | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Workshop on Grammar Induction | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Rubineau | Organizational Behavior | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | fall | PI | McGill University | CCSS Grant | |
Deni | Ruggeri | Landscape Architecture | Scripting the Future of a Community: A Participatory Visioning Process for Iowa’s Amana Colonies | 2007 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Carmen | Sanchez | Psychology | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Paul Steven | Sangren | Anthropology | Application for Funding for Preliminary Research on Local Product (Techan) Specialization in China and Taiwan | Relevant to long-standing linkages in all my research to regional economic and social organization. Most recently, paper on “SPATIAL IMAGINATION: Skinnerian “Human Interaction Systems” and the Roles of Spatial Imagery and “Subjection” in Chinese Rituals. | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 | Sociology | A Mini-Conference on Gender Inequality in Science, Math, Cornell College of Engineering, and Behavioral Science Occupations | This conference at the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting brought together several sociologists studying STEM fields to discuss research directions. | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Scales | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Stephan | Schmidt | City and Regional Planning | Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces | The funding ultimately resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. |
2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Henry | Schneider | Economics | Explaining Price Dispersion in Online Auctions with Simple Frictions | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS 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 | |
Daniela | Scur | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Capacity to be Aggressive: Structured Management and Tax Behaviors or Firms | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Seeds | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Rebecca | Seguin | Nutritional Sciences | Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Assess the Double Up Food Bucks Farmers’ Market Incentive Program for SNAP Participants | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Phoebe | Sengers | Information Science | Intervening in American Families' Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design | This research on new methods to research busyness was published as "Reworking the Gaps between Design and Ethnography" in the CHI 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Phoebe | Sengers | Information Science, Science and Technology Studies | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 | ||
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 | ||
Linda | Shi | City and Regional Planning | Surging Seas, Rising Fiscal Stress: A Study of U.S. Fiscal Vulnerability and Policy Response to Climate Change | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Mike | Silver | Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology, and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | ||
Kosali | Simon | Policy Analysis and Management | Health Insurance and Changes in Marital Status | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
Rebecca | Slayton | Science and Technology Studies | Balancing Risks: Making Smart Grids Efficient, Reliable, and Secure | This project laid the groundwork for a National Science Foundation Career award (2016), which has produced five published papers, two policy briefs, and 22 presentations. The Career award was also the basis for awarding the PI the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. | 2014 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Anne Marie | Smith | Government | “Citizenship Effects”, “Interest Convergence”, and Interest Group Litigants’ Strategy: Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Anna Marie | Smith | Government | Revisiting the Relation Between the Private and the Public “Spheres” After Welfare: A Feminist Legal Studies Project | 2007 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
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 | |
Nathan | Spreng | Human Development | Brain Network Dynamics of Goal-Directed Cognition and Behavior Across the Adult Life Span | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Eva | Steiner | School of Hotel Administration | How do Firms Respond to Investment Opportunities? The Role of Cities | This research effort led to the study of the characteristics of cities and how they influence investments, including the working paper ìHow Does Property Location Influence Investment Risk and Return?î | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | The Effects of Avatar Appearance and Customization on Embodied Applications | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Political Economy and Public Law Conference | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Reasoning and Trust | 2017 | fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
David | Strang | Sociology | The Celebration of Lives and Collective Valuation: Textual Analysis of Obituaries Featured in the New York Times, 1851 to Present | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Laura | Tach | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Simone | Tang | School of Hotel Administration, Organizational Behavior | Anthropomorphization of organizations and its consequences | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Felix | Thoemmes | Human Development | Causal mediation analysis in the presence of latent heterogeneity | This grant laid some of the foundation for a federal grant application (IES). This grant was submitted, but unfortunately was not funded, and a resubmission was not attempted. Instead a different research line was submitted and funded by IES. | 2012 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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