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 descending | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
Bohan | Li | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Reasoning and Trust | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Steven | Ward | Government | Status and the Politics of National Decline | Research has been delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I plan to complete the funded research by next summer. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Karen | Levy | Information Science | Prediction in Practice: Understanding High-Stakes Human Encounters with Artificial Intelligence | This grant supported expenses for an invitational workshop held at Cornell Tech between AI practitioners and scholars researching public sector algorithms. The outcomes of the workshop will be reflected in Stanford University's AI100 report in 2021. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | 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 |
Francesca | Molinari | Economics | Estimating Risk Preferences with Limited Consideration | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kaspar | Zimmerman | "Too-big-to-fail" and Historical Banking Crises | This grant has led a new publicly-available historical database of global financial crises since 1870 and two papers: ìBanking Crises Without Panicsî (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 2020) and a new working paper. | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
Kenneth | Roberts | Government | Authoritative and Contentious Knowledge: Democracy in the Era of "Fake News" | This small conference helped build a research network that received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation for a major conference in 2019, leading to an edited volume on polarization and democratic resiliency that is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | Is There Really a 2:1 Hiring Preference for Women on the STEM Tenure Track? Exploring Boundary Conditions of Williams and Ceci (2015) | Lewis's team has conducted four studies that reveal important conditions under which gender bias may emerge in hiring. They have also secured an in principle acceptance for publication of this research at Nature Human Behaviour. |
2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
bethany | Ojalehto | Human Development | Cognitive Drivers of Environmental DeCornell College of Computing and Information Scienceion Making: Mobilizing Indigenous Ecocentric Conceptual Perspectives in Diverse Contexts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Margarita | Tsoutsoura | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Real Effects of Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting of Firms: Evidence from the 2017 Reform in the UK | The research afforded by this grant is still ongoing. It took time for the administrators in UK to merge in the administrative data additional datasets that we had collected. Also due to covid we had no access to the data since March 2019. Access is now resumed. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Eva | Steiner | School of Hotel Administration | How do Firms Respond to Investment Opportunities? The Role of Cities | This research effort led to the study of the characteristics of cities and how they influence investments, including the working paper ìHow Does Property Location Influence Investment Risk and Return?î | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Mats | Rooth | Linguistics | Collaborative Documentation of the Endangered Language Bororo | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Strang | Sociology | The Celebration of Lives and Collective Valuation: Textual Analysis of Obituaries Featured in the New York Times, 1851 to Present | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Evan | Riehl | Economics | Minority Hiring Quotes and Worker/Firm Match Quality: Evidence from Brazil | The research supported by this grant has been developed into two workings papers that analyze policies that aim reduce inequality by improving the matching of students to colleges and firms. Publication of these papers is pending. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
David | Pizarro | Psychology | The Positive Side of Morality: Cultural Influences on Judging Good People and Praiseworthy Acts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Moritz | Schularick | "Too-big-to-fail" and Historical Banking Crises | This grant has led a new publicly-available historical database of global financial crises since 1870 and two papers: ìBanking Crises Without Panicsî (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 2020) and a new working paper. | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Cascades and Fluctuations in an Economy with an Endogenous Production Network | The research supported by this grant has been presented at 25 conferences and seminars. Further publications are pending. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Cross-Cultural Public Opinion on Climate Change Amid Global Energy Transition | This grant resulted in a Washington Post article ("Despite what Trump says, most Americans want climate action-even if China doesn't do its part") and prompted a related project and a paper published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Linda | Shi | City and Regional Planning | Surging Seas, Rising Fiscal Stress: A Study of U.S. Fiscal Vulnerability and Policy Response to Climate Change | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Pedro | Rabelo Erber | Romance Studies | Collaborative Documentation of the Endangered Language Bororo | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Paying for Privacy, Selling Your Information, and Finding Safety in Numbers | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | |
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 |
Tashara | Leak | Nutritional Sciences | A Critical Examination of After School Programming at Racially Diverse, Title I Middle Schools in Urban Communities | Interviews with staff from Title I-funded middle schools in New York City led to the development of the Advanced Cooking Education program, a nutrition and culinary focused afterschool activity for students from diverse backgrounds. Program implementation and relevant manuscripts are in progress. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 |
Nicholas | Klein | City and Regional Planning | How Car Donation Programs Change the Lives of Poor Families | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences and published in an article - ìSubsidizing Car Ownership for Low-Income Individuals and Householdsî in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Saida | Hodzic | Anthropology | Work that Kills: The Social Life of a Bosnian Weapons Factory | The research supported by this grant has been presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists biennial conference; publications and further grant applications are planned. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Cynthia | Lawell | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Water Conservation and Management: Agricultural Water Use, Climate Change, and Government Policy | The research funded by this grant has resulted in several papers, presentations, and publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles published in Sustainability, in its Special Issue on ìSustainable Agriculture: The State of the Great Debatesî; and in Resource and Energy Economics. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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