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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Peter | Enns | Government | Conference on Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion | This conference led to the edited volume, Who Gets Represented? (Enns and Wlezien 2011). | 2007 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Evangelista | Government | Humanity's Midlife Crisis: The Existential Deadlock of Liber | This book project submits that humanity's progress towards peace and prosperity increasingly coincides with regress into mass uncertainty and unease, climaxing with the coronavirus crisis. Decoding liberalism's deadlock may help renew hope and improve politics. We examine our propositions comparatively, across cultures and civilizations. |
2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Gary W. | Evans | Design and Environmental Analysis, Human Development | Childhood Poverty, Health, and Behavior: Biological and Psychosocial Pathways | 2016 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | Intergenerational Trauma: Flint, COVID-19 and Racial Justice | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Amr | Faharat | 2010 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing conference in 2010 at Cornell University | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | MIT | CCSS Grant | ||
Ximena | Fajardo | Management | Is Colombia Ready for a Sustainable Cocoa Boom? Developing a Baseline Knowledge on the Productive Practices, Biodiversity Conditions and Environmental Performance of Cocoa Production in a Post-Conflict Context | This research examined challenges and opportunities for development of cacao value chains in post-conflict regions in rural Colombia, deriving on a MS Thesis “Using Cacao to Catalyze Development: Productivity Drivers and Technology Adoption amongst Smallholder Farmers in Montes De Maria, Colombia” (Williams 2019) | 2017 | fall | Co-PI | University of the Andes | CCSS Grant |
Sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Testing interventions to encourage self-blinding | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: A Conference on Militarizing Everyday Life | 2008 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | Implicit Nationalism and Prejudice: Testing effects on behavior | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | The Implicit Operation of Ideology | 2008 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Community Needs Assessment on Facilitators and Inhibitors of Food Security in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Public Health | Understanding fish consumption and fishing effort | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Magnus | Fiskesjo | Anthropology | Kings and Dictators: Asia’s New Authoritarianians and the Legacy of Monarchy (Conference) | The conference "Kings & Dictators: The legacy of monarchy and the new authoritarianism in Asia" was held April 13-14, 2018. It included both external invitees and Cornell speakers, and attracted a large Cornell audience, including students in a course timed to coincide with it. | 2017 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Gustavo | Flores-Macias | Government | Strengthening the State: Understanding Citizens' Willingness to Pay Taxes for Public Safety | This ISS grant funded research on the link between taxation and public safety, including the publication “Building the Modern State in Developing Countries: Perceptions of Public Safety and (Un)willingness to Pay Taxes in Mexico” in the journal _Politics and Society_. | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne | Flynn | Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Elderly: Stage Two of a Pilot Study | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | Wellesley College | CCSS Grant | ||
Michael | Fontaine | Classics | Travel to Buenos Aires to present work at the "Comedy and Society in Antiquity" Conference (Jornada sobre Comedia y Sociedad en la Antiguedad) | This 2011 keynote presentation in Buenos Aires resulted in a major paper, titled “Who was in the Audience of Roman Comedy?,” that changed the field. Although technically still “forthcoming” in the conference proceedings, the samizdat version is regularly cited and discussed in the relevant literature. | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | The Status of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia | Amidst growing intolerance, scholars from a range of disciplines convened for the conference ìThe State of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia,î which featured five panels on topics spanning Indonesiaís diverse religious, ethnic, and geographic landscape. An edited volume is under contract with Cornell University Press. | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ann | Forsyth | Urban Planning | Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology, and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Frakes | Law | Project Narratives | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Jason | Frank | Government | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jill | Frank | Government | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Maria Cristina | Garcia | History, Latino Studies | Whose America? U.S Immigration Policy since 1986 | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Charles | Geisler | Development Sociology | Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: A Conference on Militarizing Everyday Life | 2008 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Todd | Gerarden | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Role of Individual Inventors in the Energy Transition | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Durba | Ghosh | History | Postcolonial Commemorations: How Revolutionaries Became Freedom Fighters in Independent India | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Promise of Augmented Reality | This award supported the dissertation research of Tony Liao, including his 2015 paper “Augmented or Admented Reality? The Influence of Marketing on Augmented Reality Technologies” in Information, Communication & Society. | 2012 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | Grounding the Digital Copyright Controversies: Investigating the Intersection of Technology, Law, Politics, and Cultural Practice | This award supported research that became the 2009 paper "Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns" in Communication, Culture, & Critique |
2006 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Thomas | Gilovich | Psychology | Why So Many People Find Informal Conversation So Stressful Despite Its Many Benefits | A write-up of 9 surveys and laboratory studies supported by this award has been submitted for publication in one of the top journals in social psychology. The most logistically challenging study was put on hold because of the pandemic, but it will be rebooted as a zoom-based study in two weeks. | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Givan | Labor Studies and Employment Relations | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | fall | PI | Rutgers University | CCSS Grant | |
Rebecca | Givan | Women and the State in Europe: Spring 2007 Brown Bag Speaker Series for the Institute for European Studies | 2006 | fall | PI | Rutgers University | CCSS Grant | ||
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Precarity and Migrant Labor: Consular Protection as a Case of Transnational Labor Advocacy | With coauthor Xóchitl Bada (University of Illinois, Chicago), this book project uses the case of Mexico and the United States to assess the portability of worker rights across borders and the key role that the sending state and transnational civil society can play. | 2014 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Learning to talk, learning to sing: A comparative approach to discovering mechanisms of infant learning from social interaction | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Miguel | Gomez | Applied Economics and Management | Impacts of Farmer Cooperatives: The Philippines and Colombia | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Miguel I. | Gomez | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Is Colombia Ready for a Sustainable Cocoa Boom? Developing a Baseline Knowledge on the Productive Practices, Biodiversity Conditions and Environmental Performance of Cocoa Production in a Post-Conflict Context | This research examined challenges and opportunities for development of cacao value chains in post-conflict regions in rural Colombia, deriving on a MS Thesis “Using Cacao to Catalyze Development: Productivity Drivers and Technology Adoption amongst Smallholder Farmers in Montes De Maria, Colombia” (Williams 2019) | 2017 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Miguel | Gomez | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Developing a Longitudinal Database of Smallholder Coffee Growers to Assess Impacts of Participation in Specialty Markets | This multidisciplinary project allowed to rigorously measure levels of shade in sustainable coffee systems that allow growers to maximize profits, published as “Thee Economics and Ecology of Shade-grown Coffee: A Model to Incentivize Shade and Bird Conservation” in Ecological Economics (Hernandez et al. 2019) | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Sara | Gorman | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | fall | Co-PI | Critica | CCSS Grant | ||
Kati | Griffith | Labor Relations Law and History | Immigration Status at Work | The grant contributed to data collection and several publications including, Gleeson, Shannon and Kati L. Griffith. 2020. ìEmployers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workersî Law & Social Inquiry. 2020.17 | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
John H. | Guckenheimer | Mathematics | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | The Foreclosure Crisis and Racial Residential Stratification | Led to publication of a paper in the American Sociological Review and another in the ANNALS. | 2012 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Hans | Law | A New Jury System at Work | Our team examined the jury trial’s introduction in Neuquén, Argentina, by collecting data (questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups) from judges, lawyers, and jurors. From legal actors’ experiences, we are learning how citizens’ participation in jury trials has led to fundamental changes in trial procedures. |
2018 | fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jorgen | Harris | Economics | Polarized Beliefs and Discrimination | The grant led to the paper “Professional Interactions and Hiring Decisions: Evidence from the Federal Judiciary (NBER Working Paper 26726). This is a highly influential paper, as proved by the fact that it was profiled by the NBER Digest (May 2020 issue). | 2017 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ori | Heffetz | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Closing the Gap between COVID-19 Information and Beliefs | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Ori | Heffetz | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Limited Rationality and the Strategic Environment: An Experimental Study | 2010 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Claudia | Henschke | Radiology | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. | 2007 | fall | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant |
James | Hesford | Business | The Effects of Incentive Framing and Probabilistic Management Audits on Fraudulent Behavior | 2009 | fall | PI | University of Lethbridge | CCSS Grant | |
Benjamin | Ho | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Paying for Climate Change: The Role of Information and Social Preferences on Willingness to Pay | 2008 | fall | Co-PI | Vassar College | CCSS Grant | |
Will | Hobbs | Human Development | Training Data for Encoding Social and Political Texts | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
John | Hoddinott | Nutritional Sciences | Linking Public & Private Food Assistance Through Admin. Data | 2020 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Natasha | Holmes | Physics | Equity in group work between in-person and remote labs | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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