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 | College Sort descending | Grant Type |
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Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Mediated Social Interactions to Reduce Distress in Hospitalized Patients | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Drew | Margolin | Communication | The Dissemination and Refutation of Rumor | This project initiated Margolin’s research into fake news and fact-checking, resulting in the publication “Get Back! You Don’t Know Me Like That: The Social Mediation of Fact Checking Interventions in Twitter Conversations,” the first of several on this topic. | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land of No Return: Indonesia’s Development Out of Ruins | Goldstein worked on her book project, titled Land of No Return: Development after Degradation in Indonesia's Peatlands, and submitted three revised article manuscripts. She also received 4 campus funding awards for a Summer 2022 workshop for junior scholars. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
David | Pelletier | Nutritional Sciences | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | This research led to the creation of the Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition (SISN) and an associated publication: Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2019). | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chuan | Liao | Global Development | The Sustainability Justice of Socio-Environmental System Transitions in the Drylands | This research aims to investigate how to ensure just transition of socio-environmental systems to achieve food security and rangeland sustainability in the drylands. It focuses on the Kenyan drylands that support hundreds of thousands of pastoralists whose livelihoods are directly tied to the land. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | Sender | Communication | Sexual Mobilities | Katherine Sender spent the year getting IRB approval for a new study of LGBTQ marketing and interviewing 11 participants (with more to follow). She presented her preliminary findings at the International Communication Association's annual conference in Paris, France, in May 2022. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Catherine | Lambert | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Dominic | Balog-Way | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Richard | Stedman | Natural Resources | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | Miller | Communication | Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age | This team has generated over $900,000 in grants and 45 publications thus far, including 1 book. Research topics include the Social Media TestDrive project, fact-checking dynamics on Reddit, diverse participation in online education, underestimating others' willingness to help, and encouraging bystander interventions on social media. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Megan | Sawey | Communication | (Re)Defining Deception in Sugar Dating: An Exploration of Digital Scam Culture | This project will expand our understanding of online romance scams and broader internet fraud by investigating a.) the varied ways deception is constructed in sugar relationship discourses and practices, and b.) the varied roles of digital platforms in defining, aiding, and/or preventing interpersonal deception. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Fouad | Makki | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeanne | Coffin-Schmitt | Natural Resources | Self-provisioning fishing in the urban Great Lakes | How do urban and immigrant fishers and anglers in upstate New York use fish from the Great Lakes? By understanding fish uses and perceived risks and benefits of consumption among urban immigrants, I will illuminate the needs of groups under-represented in fishery management and fish consumption policies. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Anna | Mansfield | Food Science and Technology | Estimating the Impact of Alternative Canopy Management Practices on White Wine Purchase Decisions | Led to a publication in the Journal of Agricultural Economics entitled the Consumer Valuation of Environmentally Friendly Production Practices in Wines considering Asymmetric Information and Sensory Effects, with B. Rickard and J. Taber, 2013. The research results were used extensively in Extension presentations in New York State. | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Kay | Global Development | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Sipple | Global Development | Assessing the Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Healthcare Access in Rural Communities | This project evaluates the effectiveness of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) to address health disparities among underserved rural youth using de-identified individual-level panel data on patient visits to healthcare providers. The study focuses on 4 high-poverty rural counties in New York, comparing healthcare for children in 16 school districts with SBHCs to those in 22 school districts without. We will assess how SBHCs help poor rural communities by bringing health services directly to children to enhance rural community health. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ding | Fei | Global Development | Afterlives of Pandemics: Disrupted Mobility and New Transnational Habitus of Chinese Labor | The project investigates how stringent Covid-19 prevention measures in China generate new forms of (im)mobility and transnational life aspirations among Chinese migrant workers in “Belt and Road” countries, and how workers' encounters with different pandemic control regimes produce alternative visions and interpretations of state-led development. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Zinda | Development Sociology | Cross-Cutting Risk Responses: Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | This fellowship facilitated analytical work and advanced methodological training, as of January 2022 yielding one journal article (Different Hazards, Different Responses: Assessments of Flooding and COVID-19 Risks among Upstate New York Residents), two manuscripts in progress, and a grant proposal in preparation. |
2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Troy | Richardson | American Indian and Indigenous Studies | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Drew | Margolin | Communication | Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age | This team has generated over $900,000 in grants and 45 publications thus far, including 1 book. Research topics include the Social Media TestDrive project, fact-checking dynamics on Reddit, diverse participation in online education, underestimating others' willingness to help, and encouraging bystander interventions on social media. | 2018-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Conference Proposal: The World Food Crisis: Event of Conjuncture? (April 3-4, 2008) | Assisted on-campus two-day Conference on food crisis in 2008, with keynote from London, and other prominent agrifood scholars. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shorna | Allred | Natural Resources, Global Development | Hearing the Forest Through the Trees: Collaborative Science and Indigenous Sonic Entanglements in East Kalimantan | Working with frontline Indigenous communities, this team of social and natural scientists brings anthropological, bioacoustic, and Indigenous knowledges together to investigate: 1) The impacts of Indonesia's emerging new capital, Nusantara, on surrounding peoples and landscapes, and 2) how collaborative soundscape research can reveal novel multi-species entanglements and advance Indigenous territorial monitoring. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Embedded Neo-Liberalism in the Gear of Social Change: A Comparative-Historical Analysis | Assisted grad student lab on local manifestations of neoliberalism, resulting in an edited book, Contesting Development. Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, 2010). |
2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Effects of Prevalence Information in Framing Health Problems | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | 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 | |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Narrative, Metaphor and Inoculation: Communication Theory to Promote Multi-Sector Approaches to Improving Health | This project laid the groundwork for three subsequent successful grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (from 2018-2020) totaling over $600,000 in funding. Combined, these have supported three PhD students and produced three published papers (and 5 others in process) | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Using Personal Stories to Raise Support for Social Policies to Reduce Obesity | This grant laid the groundwork for a major thread in my research program. This project laid the foundation for at least 30 peer-reviewed research papers and 8 external funded grants totalling over $1 million, largely from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kristie | LeBeau | Global Development | Hitting the $40,000 Threshold: A Rural Critical Policy Analysis of Indiana Competitive Teacher Pay Legislation | Indiana recently implemented a statewide $40,000 minimum salary requirement for public school districts. I aim to understand how this seemingly neutral statewide policy can be more attentive to rural needs and discover what local budget decisions result in the highest net benefit for rural communities.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Aparajita | Bhandari | Communication | Communicative Labor and Community Care in Times of Crisis: The Case of VaxHuntersCanada | This project engages in a multi-method exploration of the hidden labor of building digitally mediated collectives through a case study of VaxHuntersCanada's social media channels, a large volunteer run online community created to help people find vaccine appointments during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Kendra | Kintzi | Development Sociology | Glittering Metropolis: Renewable Energy, Smart Grids, and Life beyond Oil in Jordan | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Christine | Olson | Nutritional Sciences | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. | 2008-2011 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Gayatri | Menon | 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 | |
Colten | Meisner | Communication | Independent News Production in the Platform Economy: Digital Journalists, Social Media Creators, and the Labor of Subscription Platforms | This project examines how the labor of journalism is being reconfigured through the structures and incentives of the social media economy. Specifically, I consider how subscription platforms like Substack, which successfully serve both digital journalists and social media creators, are shaping future news cultures.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Andrew | Ofstehage | Development Sociology | The Social Life of Land Workshop | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Wendy | Erb | Lab of Ornithology | Hearing the Forest Through the Trees: Collaborative Science and Indigenous Sonic Entanglements in East Kalimantan | Working with frontline Indigenous communities, this team of social and natural scientists brings anthropological, bioacoustic, and Indigenous knowledges together to investigate: 1) The impacts of Indonesia's emerging new capital, Nusantara, on surrounding peoples and landscapes, and 2) how collaborative soundscape research can reveal novel multi-species entanglements and advance Indigenous territorial monitoring. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Interagency Cooperation in Social Services for Families and Children: Application of Group Dynamics Theory | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Linguistic and Emotional Factors in Intergroup Linguistic Bias | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | Improving Vaccination Equity through Identity-Based Motivation | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Marvi | Ahmed | Global Development | Assembling the Development Frontier: Identity, Climate Vulnerability & Agrarian Politics in the Indus Delta | This project explores the entanglements between modernist donor-funded community development projects, structural inequalities such as caste, intergenerational debt bondage and land ownership with the unevenness of climate vulnerability in the Indus Delta region of Pakistan.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life 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 |
Isha | Bhatnagar | Global Development | Dearest daughters: Women's agency, parental expectations and elderly support in north India | Using interviews with women and focus group discussions with elderly parents in Delhi, I investigate how the gender, birth order and physical proximity of siblings influences women's agency to support elderly parents, spousal decision-making on visiting wife's family, and elderly expectations from their children.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Marine Health Matters: A Risk Communication Workshop | This workshop strengthened the network of social science researchers working on marine health challenges and resulted in at least one peer-reviewed publication. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jenny | Goldstein | Development Sociology | Pandemics and human-environment interactions: Land use change as a driver of coronavirus and influenza outbreaks in Asia | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Monica | Cornejo | Communication | Post COVID-19: The Social, Health, and Educational Experiences of Latina/o/x Undocumented College Students | This project will explore undocumented college students' social, health, and educational experiences post COVID-19. Sixty semi-structured interviews will be conducted with undocumented undergraduates from (1) a west coast community college; (2) a south-central public university; and (3) an east coast ivy league university.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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