Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name Sort descending | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Paula | Horrigan | Landscape Architecture | Scripting the Future of a Community: A Participatory Visioning Process for Iowa’s Amana Colonies | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rod | Howe | Community and Regional Development Institute | The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Wanheng | Hu | Science and Technology Studies | Uncovering the Face Mask: Mundane Governance, Ontology, and the Construction of Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Hu intends to recruit interview participants for a study exploring the role of masks in constructing risks and governing social loves. He anticipates conducting 30 virtual interviews and multi-sited ethnography. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Ying | Hua | Design and Environmental Analysis | An Exploration of the Effect of Design Interventions on Reducing Sedentary Behavior in Workplace | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Huckfeldt | Economics | The Scarring Effect of Recessions: A Quantitative Analysis | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Privacy and Social Media: Dialects of Personal Information Sharing Online | Humphrey’s 2013 fellowship research resulted in the book The Qualified Self : Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2018), as well as journal articles on social media privacy and how extension offices and small businesses use social media. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Mobile Phones in Public | This field study was the replication of an early mobile phone study in the US. We found evidence for positive and negative social effects of phone use. “Mobiles in public: Social interaction in a smartphone era.” _Mobile Media & Communication_ | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Mobile Social Networking in Urban Environments | This project identified the ways that people use location-based networks to make claims upon urban public space: “Foursquare & the parochialization of public space”. _First Monday_ (Humphreys & Liao, 2013) | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Qualitative Methods Working Group | The Qualitative Methods Working Group brought together social science faculty and researchers from around the campus who are teaching, employing, and developing qualitative research methods. The working group has grown to become the Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute under the CCSS. | 2019 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
Daniel | Huttenlocher | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell Tech | Collaborative Project | ||
Louis | Hyman | Labor Relations Law and History | Economic Methods for Historians Workshop (aka History of Capitalism Summer Camp) | Supported the growth of a cross-generational scholarly community in asking new questions about the history of capitalism. The camp transformed the many books and articles published by those graduate students and faculty. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Louis | Hyman | Labor Relations Law and History | Economic Methods for Historians Workshop (aka History of Capitalism Summer Camp) | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Misha | Inniss-Thompson | Psychology | Exploring Black Girl Literacies: A Qualitative Study of Book Clubs & Identity Development | This phenomenological qualitative study explores how Black adolescent girls enact Black Girl Literacies (ways of knowing, doing, and creating to affirm themselves; (Price-Dennis et al., 2017) in a monthly book club focused on Black girl-centered young adult literature. This study will leverage focus group discussions, participant observation, and sociodemographic surveys to examine the following inquiry: what role can a book club space play in fostering the development of self-definition and critical consciousness among Black girls? |
2022 | Fall | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Catalina | Iricinschi | Liberal Arts | 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 | Co-PI | University of the Arts in Philadelphia | CCSS Grant |
Billie | Isbell | Anthropology | Rethinking Sustainability and Development: A Return to Vicos, Peru | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Sub-Saharan African Migration Project (S-SMAP) (African Futures Project) | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Africa Futures Project: Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | African Futures Project (Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth) | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Africa Futures Project: Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth | This project uses cross-national comparative survey and longitudinal interview data to address unresolved questions regarding how resource inequality affects labor market access and immigrant selectivity and the effect of migration on the lives of upwardly mobile Sub-Saharan African youth. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
C. Kirabo | Jackson | Labor Economics | A Stitch in Time: Evaluating the Effects of an AP Incentive Program on College Outcomes | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Jackson | Information Science | Comparative Assessment of Intra-Personal and Inter-Personal Emotion Regulation in Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Surgery | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
David | Jaume | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kamel | Jedid | Leveraging Generative AI for Marketing Research: An Application on Music Album Reviews | The capabilities of Generative AI to extract thematic content from unstructured data make it powerful to understand experiential domains. This research leverages this technology to extract experiential features from expert music reviews to enhance our understanding of album success and aid artists in their designs. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | |
Liu | Jiawei | Communication | Effects of Prevalence Information in Framing Health Problems | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Eun A | Jo | Government | Narrating Enemies in World Politics | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Eun A | Jo | Government | Studying Identities through a Creative Qualitative Lens | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Sheri Lynn | Johnson | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Lauren | Jones | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Children of the Undocumented: Inclusion versus Exclusion | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kurt | Jordan | Anthropology | Beyond Diversity: Re-Situating Pluralism | This workshop added and integrated perspectives drawn from ecological systems into the socio-cultural context that defines pluralism, the objectives being: articulation of an enriched concept of pluralism; identification of new and integrated areas of research; and development of a strategy for further research. |
2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kurt | Jordan | Anthropology | An Archaeology of Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca Iroquois) Autonomy, circa 1688-1715 | Jordan’s 2016 fellowship facilitated the final season of fieldwork at the White Springs archaeological site near Geneva, New York, and four journal articles and book chapters related to the excavations. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Finn | Jorgenson | 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 | Co-PI | Norwegian University | CCSS Grant | |
Dolly | Jorgenson | 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 | Co-PI | Norwegian University | CCSS Grant | |
Zeynab | Jouzi | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Co-production of knowledge for designing and developing of support services in transitional housing in New York City. | New York City has the largest number of sheltered homelessness in the country. This study will utilize the co-production of knowledge approach to collaborate with the residents of a transitional housing center in NYC, to design the appropriate supportive system to empower and prepare residents for a successful transition to their permanent housing. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Malte | Jung | Information Science | Social Onboarding for LLMs: Examining Communication and Social Support Around Generative AI Use. | Generative AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT) require skill to use effectively. We consider how social learning (human-human interaction) can shape how people approach Generative AI. Through interviews and observation of chatbot use in social conditions, we explore how people learn to prompt and apply AI tools.
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2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Malte | Jung | Information Science | Comparative Assessment of Intra-Personal and Inter-Personal Emotion Regulation in Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Surgery | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
David | Just | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Team Diversity and Financial Decision Making | This project lead to a publication in the Review of Behavioral Finance. Bogan et al. (2013) _Team Gender Diversity and Investment Decision Making Behavior_ Review of Behavioral Finance. 5 (2), 134-152. | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS 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 | |
Namrata | Kala | Returns to Mechanization through Rental Equipment Markets | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | MIT Sloan School of Management | CCSS Grant | ||
Saleh | Kalantari | Design and Environmental Analysis | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | We created a platform for immersive VR testing of wayfinding designs, collecting both subjective feedback and biometric data. The project results in a validated virtual design-testing system, along with specific findings about the effectiveness of wayfinding strategies in a hospital design. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Saleh | Kalantari | Human Centered Design | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Yasemin Z. | Kalender | Physics | Equity in group work between in-person and remote labs | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Arturs | Kalnins | Information Exchange in Revenue Management Industries | After many rounds of revision, this work was finally published in the RAND Journal of Economics in 2017 under the title: Can mergers increase output? Evidence from the lodging industry | 2008-2009 | PI | University of Iowa | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Arturs | Kalnins | School of Hotel Administration | The Diversification of Small Business Entrepreneurs: Form and Effects | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Yoon | Kang | Racial Disparities in Patient Care and the Role of Medical Training: An audit study | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | ||
Cindy | Kao | Human Centered Design | Understanding the Social Aspects of On-Skin Interface Usage | On-skin interfaces are a fast-growing segment of wearable computing in daily life. However, the social aspects of using these devices remain underexplored. This project examines how on-skin interfaces could enhance and even create new forms of social experience and engage broader populations for inclusive design. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Sabrina | Karim | Government | Endline Survey for Election Violence Project in Liberia | The research afforded by this grant produced the paper, "Election Violence Prevention During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Police and Youth in Liberia," which finds that experiences with successful elections enhances perceptions of democracy among police officers. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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