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 ascending | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Jane | Mendle | Human Development | Physical and Psychological Change Across the Menstrual Cycle | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | School Based Health Centers - An approach to address health disparities among rural youth | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Mediated Social Interactions to Reduce Distress in Hospitalized Patients | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Sasha | Fahme | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Prevalence and predictors of sexually transmitted infections among trauma-exposed Syrian refugee women in Beirut, Lebanon | 2021 | spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Establishing a community advisory board (CAB) of child nutrition policymakers, CACFP stakeholders, ECE staff, Registered Dietitians, and parents of preschoolers to design a multi-level intervention to promote preschoolers' nutrient-dense food consumption in CACFP-participating ECE programs. | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Christopher | Gonzalez | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Leveraging Father-Son Relationships to Optimize Weight-Management Interventions in Hispanic Immigrant Communities | 2021 | spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Tashara | Leak | Nutritional Sciences | Reducing risk factors for type 2 diabetes among adolescent girls from low-income backgrounds | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | Improving Vaccination Equity through Identity-Based Motivation | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Inequality, Religion, and Wellbeing | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Remember COVID-19: Enhancing Post-Pandemic Mental Health in Diverse Populations Through the Lens of Memory | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Jenny | Goldstein | Development Sociology | Pandemics and human-environment interactions: Land use change as a driver of coronavirus and influenza outbreaks in Asia | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Kendra | Kintzi | Development Sociology | Glittering Metropolis: Renewable Energy, Smart Grids, and Life beyond Oil in Jordan | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Cameron | Mailhot | Government | The Relationship between International Missions and Post-Conflict Political Trust: Evidence from a Qualitative Analysis of Kosovo’s Newspaper Archives | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Lindsey | Pruett | Government | Soldiers, Shovels and the State: Military Led State-Building and Civic Action in Post-Colonial Senegal | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Adrienne | Scott | Government | American Citizenship and the Welfare State | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Yiying | Xiong | Government | Weaponizing Nationalism: China’s Economic Coercion and Its Effectiveness | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Barkha Satish | Kagliwal | Science and Technology Studies | Processing in Mega Food Parks: The Trials of a Technological Fix | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | STEM Retention and Job Satisfaction in the COVID-19 Era | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant | |
Courtney | McCluney | Organizational Behavior | Corporate Responses to Racial Injustice | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Grant | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Understanding Use of Wild and Backyard Foods in Response to COVID19 in Upstate New York | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Amelia | Greiner Safi | Public and Ecosystem Health | Developing a tailored approach to reducing cancer screening disparities in Tompkins County: Focus groups that address population-specific concerns | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Karla | Hanson | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Mutual Aid Food Sharing: An exploration of host motivations and relationship building | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Amanda | Domingues | Science and Technology Studies | Body of knowledge and knowledge of bodies: disciplinary reconfigurations of Archaeology | By examining two contrasting ways of doing archaeology, this project examines the connections between recent changes in archaeological practice and the ways interpretations about the past are formulated. The methods include qualitative interviews, archival work, and participant observation in Brazil and the United States. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Michelle | Falkenbach | Public and Ecosystem Health | Austria's Fall from Grace: The Kurz Regime and its Impact on Democracy | This article investigates whether instruments of the state have become instruments of the new ÖVP (Austrian People's Party), much like in Erdogan's Turkey, or Orbán's Hungary. The research question: Is Austria is at risk of democratic backsliding as a direct result of the "Kurz Regime." |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant |
Vincent | Mauro | Government | Party Systems and Democratic Redistribution | Mauro's project seeks to understand why some democracies redistribute more than others. Mauro will utilize archival records of private correspondence among political elites from twentieth century Colombia to understand the inner-world of their traditional two-party system, and why elites were able to resist redistributive factions so effectively. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Yamile | Guibert | Government | The Politics of Accountability: Party Strength, Patronage, and the State in Latin America | This project seeks to understand the conditions under which Latin American politicians at the highest levels of power are held accountable after accusations of corruption arise. By focusing on the Odebrecht scandal, this project emphasizes the role of the strategies of politicians and political parties. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Sang-O | Kim | City and Regional Planning | Mobility Biographies of an Aging Household: Thinking through relational aspects of informal care | This project investigates how mobility biographies emerge within the changing relationships of power, affection, and needs between adult-child caregivers and elderly care-receivers. By doing so, the project aims to present a more grounded way to understand how family caregivers perform the ordinary and nurturing forms of everyday care. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | QuIRI Grant |
Lin | Le | Government | Save Socialism in the Name of the People: Factionalism, Ideology and Populism in Authoritarian China | This research seeks to reconstruct the historical process of political struggle and ideological contestation in the late Hu Jintao-era, during which Bo Xilai’s political maneuvering interacted with the dynamics of factional politics in those critical years leading up to Xi Jinping’s strongman rule. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Jingjin | Li | Information Science | Understanding and designing technologies to support everyday mindfulness for mental wellbeing | This project aims to understand how mindfulness practitioners incorporate mindfulness practice in their daily activities with and without technology, using semi-structured interviews and design workshops. Insights generated from the study will inform the design of mindfulness tools that scaffold novice practitioners' mindfulness journey, adapt and personalize their practice for their mental wellbeing needs. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Shirley | Le Penne | Government | Choosing Chains? On the Incarceration of FLN Offspring in French Prisons and Intifada Offspring in Israeli Prisons | To what extent do intergenerational traumas shape and inform experiences of imprisonment? Le Penne delves into the trauma generated by the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) and the Intifadas (1987 and 2000) to examine its impact on the Algerian and Palestinian experiences of incarceration today. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Xuewen | Yan | Sociology | English hegemony from below: How Chinese scholars navigate academic production in an Anglicized world | This project explores how non-native English-speaking academics from periphery nations use and evaluate Anglophone scholarship against the general backdrop of Anglo-American dominance in global academia. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Ryan | Thomas | City and Regional Planning | Expanding Access to Qualitative Data for: "The Social Construction of Flood Risk: The case of Dar es Salaam" | This project supports focus groups, participatory mapping, and transcription and translation of open-ended survey responses. All of this effort will help understand the relationship between flood exposure and trust in political institutions. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | QuIRI Grant |
Felicia | Setiono | Nutritional Sciences | Facilitators and Barriers of Implementing Healthy Retail Programs Targeting Adolescents' Food/beverage Purchasing Behaviors in New York City: A Qualitative Study | Understanding facilitators/barriers to implementation of healthy retail programs that target adolescent food purchasing behaviors through semi-structured interviews with New York City-based leaders in retail interventions (n=30). The study results can inform policymakers to develop effective retail programs that improve adolescents' purchasing behavior, diet, and health. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Reah | Chiong | Nutritional Sciences | Exploring Stigma in NY's Food Assistance Landscape | Through semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study aims to explore perceptions of and experiences with stigma among NY residents who receive or are eligible for SNAP benefits. Findings will be used to develop a survey measure on stigma to examine its association with key nutrition outcomes. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Carolina | Osorio Gil | Development Sociology | Story-Based Theater and Decolonial Participatory Methodologies as Capability Approach in Praxis: A Case Study with Communities Affected by Hydroelectric Dam Projects in Chiapas, Mexico and Antioquia, Colombia | Fieldwork in Antioquia, Colombia for: 1) implementing story-based participatory theater workshops for communities affected by the Hidroituango dam project in Antioquia, Colombia; and 2) conducting interviews with Colombian university faculty and PhD students in public universities in the region of affected communities. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Erika | Abbott | Sociology | The Modified Child Tax Credit and Social Recognition among American Families | Using qualitative semi-structured interviews, this project is an investigation into the destigmatization process families may face via monthly cash benefits as a part of the new expanded Child Tax Credit. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Jeanne | Coffin-Schmitt | Natural Resources | Self-provisioning fishing in the urban Great Lakes | How do urban and immigrant fishers and anglers in upstate New York use fish from the Great Lakes? By understanding fish uses and perceived risks and benefits of consumption among urban immigrants, I will illuminate the needs of groups under-represented in fishery management and fish consumption policies. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Megan | Sawey | Communication | (Re)Defining Deception in Sugar Dating: An Exploration of Digital Scam Culture | This project will expand our understanding of online romance scams and broader internet fraud by investigating a.) the varied ways deception is constructed in sugar relationship discourses and practices, and b.) the varied roles of digital platforms in defining, aiding, and/or preventing interpersonal deception. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Amelia | Greiner Safi | Public and Ecosystem Health | Expanding the Understanding of Black Experiences with Gynecologic Cancer | Gynecologic cancers are understudied in general, especially Black experiences of such cancers. This engaged research brings together oncologists, researchers, survivors, quality improvement entities. Our focus groups with Black gynecologic cancer survivors aim to identify possible factors at various stages (i.e., diagnosis, treatment) that might inform future interventions to address disparities in survival. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant |
Angel | Escamilla García | Einaudi Center for International Studies | Transit Migration in Mexico After the Covid-19 Pandemic: New Policies, New migrants but Same Precarity | This research will investigate the impact that the COVID-19 has had on migrant minors on transit through Mexico to the United States. The researcher will explore how violence and precariousness against children have been exacerbated during the 2020 global pandemic. |
2022 | spring | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Angela | Odoms-Young | Nutritional Sciences | Examining dietary disparities in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children: Implications for Lowering Cardiovascular Risk in African American Children | 2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Qi | Wang | Psychology | Leveraging Social Media to Facilitate Meaning Making and Post-Pandemic Mental Health in Teens | 2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Laura | Pinheiro | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Short and long-term influences of structural racism on cardiovascular outcomes among cancer survivors. | 2022 | spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Matthew | Wilkens | Information Science | Machine learning for online medical support communities | 2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Peter | Rich | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Hidden Black-White Disparities in the Pursuit of Educational Opportunity | 2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Maureen | Waller | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's License Suspensions, Legal Debt, and the Reproduction of Inequality | 2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Madeline | Sterling | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Improving the Mental Health of Home Health Aides | 2022 | spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Public and Ecosystem Health | Health and Environment | 2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot 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 |
Walker | DePuy | Southeast Asia Program, Einaudi Center for International Studies | 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 | Co-PI | Southeast Asia Program | CCSS Grant |
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