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 Sort descending | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Will | Hobbs | Human Development | Training Data for Encoding Social and Political Texts | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Fatma | Baytar | Fiber Science and Apparel Design | Decoding tacit knowledge in apparel product development | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | Exploring and modeling COVID-19 vaccination preferences | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
Will | Cong | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Interpretable AI and Big Data Analytics with Applications in Finance | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Cristian | Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil | Information Science | Improving Online Discourse Through Conversational Modeling | The CCSS fellowship allowed me to assimilate a new qualitative dimension into my (traditionally quantitative) research. This enabled a mixed-methods study of proactive moderation practices and of the potential for algorithmic support in multiple online discussion platforms and has (so far) led to a CSCW publication in the PACM HCI journal. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Seeing ‘Them’ as Less Human: Causes and Consequences of Whites’ Perceptual Dehumanization of Racial Minorities | This grant supported research accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology with one publication in progress and another accepted in principle. Neuroimaging for this project has been delayed due to covid but will resume this semester. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Mara Yue | Du | History | China: From a Nationless State to a Nation Defined by State | The CCSS faculty fellowship enabled Mara Du to wrap up her first book, State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform, and to make significant progress on her second book, China: From a Nationless State and a Nation Defined by State. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technology | During the 2020-2021 academic year the first draft of Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technical Change was completed and submitted for publication. The paper was presented at various workshops including the NBER SI 2020. A sequel to this paper, Technical Change and the Demand for Talent, has been accepted for publication at the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU series of the Journal of Monetary Economics in 2022. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Sabrina | Karim | Government | When Peace Makes States: How International Security Sector Assistance Shapes Post-Conflict State Building | The CCSS fellowship allowed Sabrina Karim to launch her Gender and Security Sector Lab and submit six papers for review---spanning research topics related to electoral violence, health and security, refugees and education, war/crime victimization, and policing. It also allowed Karim to finish a first draft of a co-authored book, "From Gender Equality to the Status of Women: Concepts and Measurement in Conflict and Peace Studies." |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | 1. Gender Bias in Academic Hiring; 2. Community Engagement in Environmental Hazards Research; 3. How learning Environments Influence Student Mindsets and Performance; and 4. How Health Information Platforms Influence Health Disparities | Lewis’s CCSS Fellowship gave him the time to: publish a textbook and 8 peer-reviewed journal articles, write a federal grant that yielded $200,000 in new research funding, publish 6 public-facing articles about behavioral science, and contribute to COVID-19 policy efforts at multiple levels of government. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How Intrinsic Motivation Shapes Resource Allocation | Woolley’s 2020-2021 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and resource allocation, including a publication on how time resources shape intrinsic motivation that was conditionally accepted in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Social Interactions in Virtual Reality as an Intervention for Pain | Work related to this fellowship was put on hold due to pandemic constraints; was restarted in the fall of 2021, and is ongoing. Preliminary results have been used to support an NIH grant application. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Peter | Rich | Policy Analysis and Management | Dividing Lines: School District Boundaries and the Geography of Unequal Opportunity | Rich’s fellowship enabled a major data collection effort to identify barriers to educational opportunity. A detailed block-level analysis reveals how much and where administrative policies create excess opportunity constraints for marginalized populations nationwide. Several research papers and a follow-up external grant proposal are in progress. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Linda | Shi | City and Regional Planning | Taught in America: How an American education affects Mainland Chinese urban planning students | This project interviewed graduates of American urban planning programs from Mainland China on how international education impacts their professional practice after returning home. It will result in two journal article manuscripts, a website, and a briefing to the planning academic association. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Faculty Fellows Program | |
John | Zinda | Development Sociology | Apples, Livelihoods, Landscapes: The Role of Perennial Crops in China’s Rural Transformations | During the course of this fellowship, Zinda advanced ongoing work on livelihoods and landscape change in China as well as analyses of original survey data on risk perceptions and preparedness actions surrounding flooding and COVID-19 in upstate New York. Four articles based on this work are in varying stages of composition and peer review. |
20202021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Randy | Lee | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Leila | Wilmers | Sociology | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Gili | Vidan | Information Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Ernesto | Bassi | History | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Mara Yue | Du | History | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Viranjini | Munasinghe | Anthropology | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Irina R. | Troconis | Romance Studies | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Courtney | McCluney | Organizational Behavior | Corporate Responses to Racial Injustice | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Grant | |
Penny | Stewart | Information Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
A. Feder | Cooper | Computer Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group 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 | |
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 | |
Fernando | Delgado | Information Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Mary | Katzenstein | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Joseph | Lasky | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Shirley | Le Penne | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Uriel | Abulof | Government | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Madiha | Choksi | Information Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group 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 | |
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 | |
Hui Yuan | Neo | Sociology | Revolution from the Ivory Tower?: The Knowledge Economy and Political Destabilization in Authoritarian Regimes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Martin | Abbott | Science and Technology Studies | Organizing Irresponsibility? Redrawing Nature with Magic and Maps | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Trevor | Brown | Government | Democracy Deindustrialized?: The Political Economy of the Fall of Industry and the Rise of the Service Economy, 1960-2019 | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Fernando | Delgado | Information Science | Sociotechnical Design and Governance in Automated Legal Discovery | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant | |
Kate | Dickin | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Proyecto MESA: Exploring the food insecurity experiences of Latino families | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Alex | Dyzenhaus | Government | Conceptions of Justice: Obstacles to Land Restitution in South Africa's Putfontein Community | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Naomi | Egel | Government | Regulating Destruction: the Politics of Multilateral Weapons Governance | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Elizabeth | Fox | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Buy or Brown Bag? School Lunch Program Use in Tompkins County Schools | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Thalia | Gerzso | Government | Judicial Resistance: The Role of Courts in Electoral Disputes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Ashley | Heim | Physics | Measuring critical thinking in ecology and physics: What influences students' abilities to make comparisons? | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Emily | Hillenbrand | Development Sociology | Engaging Men in Shifting Masculinities in Burundi | 2021 | Fall | 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 |
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