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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Cynthia | Bowman | Law | Women, Sustainable Development and Food Sovereignty/Security in a Changing World | This grant helped fund an international conference at Cornell Law School of feminist scholars and activists engaged in grassroots work to protect the environment; it resulted in papers published in a symposium issue of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy in 2013. | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jonathan | Boyarin | Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies | The Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Bunce | Government | Democracy Promotion and Electoral Revolutions in Postcommunist Eurasia | 2005 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Diane | Burton | Human Resource Studies | 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 | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Judith | Byfield | History | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Preventing Deviant Internet Behavior: An Application of Prospect Theory | Data collection completed by 2009. |
2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Predicting the Boomerang Effect | With time and resources afforded by a 2018 CCSS Fellowship I was able, along with Jeff Niederdeppe and four additional Cornell social scientists, to write a grant proposal on e-cigarette policy that secured $1.4 million in funding from NIH, NCI, and the FDA. | 2018-2019 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Murillo | Campello | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Unions and the Postwar European "Economic Miracle" | Campello and Baron digitized and translated financial statements for 950 German firms and 300 Swedish firms over the period 1948-1965, building a database similar to Compustat. They also assembled a database on wages, productivity, and patents for German firms by industries and counties. |
2017 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Colleen | Carey | Economics | What is the Advantage of Medicare Advantage? Supply and Demand Factors in Medicare Beneficiaries' Enrollment in Private Insurance | 2019 | Fall | pi | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant | |
John | Carruthers | City and Regional Planning, Regional Science | Growing Denser and Greener: Lessons From the Emerald City� | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Casasanto | Human Development | Revolutionizing Assessment of Children's Early Numerical Abilities with Portable EEG | 2018 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Casasanto | Human Development, Psychology | Toward Preventing Racial Bias: The Role of Dialect | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Using VR to Explore Young Children's Transfer of Learning | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Cross-linguistic Differences in Infants' Ability to Learn Labels | Led to publications in Developmental Psychology and the Journal of Psychology: General plus funding of an NSF grant. |
2007 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Spatial Language and the Development of Spatial Cognition | This project formed the basis of a NSF grant, funded in 2018, and a major publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2020). | 2012 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Holly | Case | History | Between the Lines: Contested Boundaries and the Fate of the Jews and other Minorities in Eastern Europe during WWII | 2006 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Debra | Castillo | Comparative Literature | Counterstories of Greater Mexico | 2013 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Debra A. | Castillo | Latino Studies | Youth, Identities, and Transnational Flows | The grant supported (1) collaboration with Mexican NGO in Chiapas, (2) creation of educational materials for local farmworkers on rights, on COVID awareness, (3) publication of various professional articles by co-PIs, often in collaboration with students and community members. | 2010 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Marie | Caudill | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Returns to Mechanization through Rental Equipment Markets | We build the first direct measures of capital-embodied technical change (CETC) as well as of the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital at the occupational level, www.capitalbyoccupation.weebly.com. One paper has been submitted for publication and another is forthcoming at the JME. |
2019 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Agricultural Productivity Gaps: Feedbacks from Human Capital and Equipment Embodied Technology Adoption | This project examines the impact of capital-embodied technical change on the labor market. Results were presented at the NBER Summer Institute and various academic institutions. A draft has been submitted for publication. | 2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Capital Obsolescence and Agricultural Productivity | This project constructs the first available cross-country measures of quality-adjusted capital stocks in agriculture. The paper is forthcoming at the Quarterly Journal of Economics. | 2014 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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. |
2020-2021 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
John | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
John | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | Leveraging the ASHEcon Conference at Cornell to Promote Exchange Across the Social Sciences | This grant contributed funding to support Cornell’s hosting of the national American Society of Health Economists meeting on campus. | 2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
John | Cawley | Policy Analysis and Management | Consumer Response to the Withdrawal of Prescription Drugs | This project, which examined how consumers respond when prescription drugs were pulled from the market, resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. It also led to further collaboration, and two subsequent publications on related topics, with the same coauthor. | 2005 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne Lanyi | Charles | City and Regional Planning | A Social Network Analysis of House Flipping | A pilot study was undertaken during the summer on 2019, focusing on house flipping in the Chicago suburbs. The pilot study yielded compelling preliminary findings, and the research team is preparing to launch a larger scale study. | 2018 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne Lanyi | Charles | City and Regional Planning | Housing Redevelopment and the Evolution of Suburban Immigrant Communities | This project led to the peer-reviewed journal article: Charles, S. L. (2018). A Typology of Mansionization in the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, 2000–2015. Housing Policy Debate, 28(6), 832–853. | 2016 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne | Charles | City and Regional Planning | The Next Wall Street Housing Grab | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Howard | Chong | School of Hotel Administration | Disentangling the building from behavior in residential energy efficiency | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Morten | Christiansen | Psychology | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexandra | Cirone | Government | Pathways to Power: Multi-level Governance and Political Representation in Europe | 2018 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Zachary D. | Clopton | Law | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Moncrieff | Cochran | Human Development | Evaluating an Employer-Supported Child Care Program: An Ecological Approach | The funding from this grant helped to support graduate student research. |
2006 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Abigail | Cohn | Linguistics | Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies | 2019 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Abigail | Cohn | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 | |
Mark | Constas | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Moving Beyond the Census Tract: Activity Space and Social Networks in Later Life | 2013 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Benjamin | Cornwell | Sociology | Social Networks Dynamics and Health in Later Life | With the time and resources provided in his 2013 ISS Fellowship, Ben Cornwell wrote a study on older adults’ social networks as well as a book, Social Sequence Analysis, which was published by Cambridge University Press. | 2012-2013 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Duane | Corpis | History | Overseas Charity in Early Modern Europe: Empathy, Obligation, and Global Networks | 2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Cosley | Information Science | Supporting Communities of Memory and Reminiscence | This was a workshop grant that brought together researchers ranging from gerontology to computer science to probe the impact of social media on self-understanding and life stories, leading to several new collaborations between participants and research directions for future work. | 2009 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Dan | Cosley | Information Science | Identifying, Modeling, and Visualizing Disclosure of Personal Information in Social Media | Cosley's 2013 fellowship contributed to a $1.2 million NSF grant with Natalie Bazarova and Janis Whitlock that produced many well-cited publications around communication, relationships, mental health, design, and privacy in social media, helping several PhD students and postdocs launch successful research careers. | 2012-2013 | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Raymond | Craib | History | Libertarian Noir: Unsettled Histories of Exit and Enclosure | The research that this grant enabled is a central part of Craib's book, Libertarian Exit, currently under review with Yale University Press. | 2018 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Raymond | Craib | History | "Exile and Enclosure" International Conference | This international conference has led to continued intellectual exchange and collaboration between various participants. We did not pursue an edited volume but the conference has generated a number of published essays that recognize the event. | 2016 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Raymond | Craib | History | The Cry of the Renegade: Poetry, Politics and Anarchism in Chile, 1920 | With the fellowship I was able to make very good progress on my book The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press and which was part of my promotion file for full professor. | 2012-2013 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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. |
2020-2021 | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | Immersive Discrete Choice Experiments for the Analysis of Time Perceptions in Crowded Environments | 2019 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | What is the subjective cost of carbon? Exploring the economic evaluation of environmental information from a cognitive, decision-based approach | 2014 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant |
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