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 ascending | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Thinking Big: Workshop on Macro-Development Policy | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
T. Bruce | Lauber | Natural Resources | Promoting Conservation of a Risk-Laden Species using One Health Risk Messaging: The Case of White Nose Syndrome in Bats | This grant resulted in one presentation and peer-reviewed publication. | 2017 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
Christopher | Boone | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Presence in Mediated Social Interactions Leads to Absence from the Here and Now | First paper resulting from the research funded by this award is currently undergoing second round of review after revision; part of basis for NSF grant rated highly competitive |
2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Emily | Zitek | Organizational Behavior | When Do People Perceive Their Positive Outcomes as Unfair? | A paper describing a series of studies funded by this grant will soon be under review. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Sean | Rogers | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Kaja | McGowan | History | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ranjit | Singh | Science and Technology Studies | Restoring Credit: How people Understand and Interact with Credit Scoring Systems | Two papers based on 16 months of data collection for this exploratory project are currently being written up and under review, respectively. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Promoting Conservation of a Risk-Laden Species using One Health Risk Messaging: The Case of White Nose Syndrome in Bats | This grant resulted in one presentation and peer-reviewed publication. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Bohan | Li | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Access Denied: Poverty, Politics, and Civil Legal Representation | This grant supported the research that culminated in an article entitled, “Power from the Margins: Grassroots Mobilization and Urban Expansions of Civil Rights” (Urban Affairs Review, 2019). The work on this project continues and will culminate in a book. I have already given over a dozen invited talks based on this research and collaborated with a national organization (the Justice Collaborative Institute) to write a related policy report. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Phoebe | Sengers | Information Science, Science and Technology Studies | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Velasco | Anthropology | Embodying Social Inequality During a Time of War: A Bioarchaeological Study of Childhood Health in the Late Prehispanic Andes | Funding helped support laboratory research on archaeological human remains in Peru, to examine childhood health outcomes and patterns of geographic mobility. To date, this pilot study has yielded two conference posters and an undergraduate thesis. Papers based on this research are in preparation. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Michael T. | Paz | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Further Education During Unemployment | Produced an eponymous working paper (Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper #642, May 2020) currently under peer review. Results from the project presented at more than ten seminars and conferences. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Sassler | Policy Analysis and Management | How Housing and Labor Market Conditions Influence the Progression of Romantic Relationships | One paper from this grant has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming at Journal of Marriage & Family. A second paper, based on restricted data, is delayed as the RDC has been closed since March due to COVID. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Eleonora | Patacchini | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Vaghlea | Palashi | Information Science | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Laura | Tach | Policy Analysis and Management | How Housing and Labor Market Conditions Influence the Progression of Romantic Relationships | One paper from this grant has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming at Journal of Marriage & Family. A second paper, based on restricted data, is delayed as the RDC has been closed since March due to COVID. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Mostafa | Minawi | History | Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Colonialism in East Africa | It allowed me to conduct research in the British Library which went into an article titled International Law and the Precarity of Ottoman Imperialism in Africa at the end of the 19th Century in the International History Review (2020). | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Restoring Credit: How people Understand and Interact with Credit Scoring Systems | Two papers based on 16 months of data collection for this exploratory project are currently being written up and under review, respectively. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Reasoning and Trust | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. |
20162019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Jeremy | Wallace | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 20162019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 20162019 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 20162019 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Panle | Barwick | Economics | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 20162019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Dissociating the Effects of Attention and Expectation on Visual Conscious Perception | An NSF grant proposal was submitted, but did not receive funding. Papers based on the research are still in the works. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Elisa | Keller | 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 | University of Exeter Business School | CCSS Grant |
David | Bateman | Government | The Politics of American State Constitution-Making | The investigators involved with the American State Constitutions Project collected, digitized, and coded all ratified and proposed state constitutions, as well as state legislative petitions for the 19th century, and all state Bills of Rights from 1788 to the late 20th century. |
2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Hyunseob | Kim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Why Is There a Valuation Discount for Dual-Class Firms? | This project led to collaboration between my faculty colleagues at the Johnson School of Management, producing a working paper that has been presented at numerous seminars and conferences. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Anna | Haskins | Sociology | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
Ernesto | Bassi | History | Life Abroad: Spanish-Speaking Communities in Anglophone Cities in the Americas | I finished my article “The Franklins of Colombia” (published by the Journal of Latin American Studies in 2018) and submitted a chapter on foreign interactions during the wars of independence in Spanish America that includes aspects of the lives of the first diplomatic envoys of the emerging republics. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Stacey | Langwick | Anthropology | The Power of Skin in East Africa | The research afforded by this grant contributed to two top-tier journal articles and two chapters in edited volumes as well as moved forward a book manuscript. In addition, this grant enabled the development of international partnerships that are resulting in ongoing work, co-publications and grants. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sacha | Darke | Latin American Studies | Latin American Alternatives to the Security Prison: An Ethnographic Study of Prisoner Self-Governance and Survival | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | Gist in Criminal Adjudiction: Testing the Effects of Mental Representation on Juror Deliberations and Verdicts | We investigated how juries decide on monetary damages in civil cases through the process of converting gist representations into numerical damage judgments as predicted by Fuzzy-Trace Theory. Since 2016, the project led to an NSF grant as well as 8 peer-reviewed publications and 12 presentations. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Kendra | Bischoff | Sociology | Neighborhood Preferences and School Choice | This project examines how residential segregation and school choice conditions influence attitudes about schooling and residential preferences. An article was presented at the 2020 Eastern Sociological Association Conference and is currently in preparation for journal submission. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rosemary | Avery | Policy Analysis and Management | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | CCSS funds went towards purchasing advertising data used for pilot analyses included in an NIH/AHRQ grant proposal, “Direct and Indirect Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,” Avery (Cornell PI), Eisenberg (JHU), Sood (USC), Alpert (UPenn), and Niederdeppe (Cornell), which received four years of funding May 2018. |
2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sachin | Gupta | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Altruism Pays: How Marketing Exclusively to Free Patients at Aravind Eye Hospitals Supports the Enterprise | Gupta, Sachin, Omkar D. Palsule-Desai, C. Gnanasekaran, and Thulasiraj Ravilla, “Spillover Effects of Mission-Activities on Revenues in Nonprofit Healthcare: The Case of Aravind Eye Hospitals, India,” Journal of Marketing Research, December 2018. Also received the 2020 AMA-EBSCO Annual Award for Responsible Research in Marketing. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
Chris | Garces | Anthropology | Latin American Alternatives to the Security Prison: An Ethnographic Study of Prisoner Self-Governance and Survival | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Samuel | Kleiner | Policy Analysis and Management | The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Physician Referral Patterns | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Matthew | Eisenberg | Public Health | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Johns Hopkins University | CCSS Grant | |
Hassan | Enayati | Institute for Compensation Studies | The Cornell Criminal Records Panel Survey (CCRPS): Sample Expansion and Linkage to Administrative Records | This grant supported participant recruitment for the CCRPS, as well as coding of administrative data. This helped us to gain funding from the Department of Labor for the development and fielding of the Wave 2 survey (EO-30278-17-60-5-36; $244,603). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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