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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Michael | Lovenheim | Policy Analysis and Management | School Quality Information and the Choice Environment: Evidence from Online School Search Behavior | This project led to a peer-reviewed publication in the Economics of Education Review. The paper has garnered attention and is having an impact on the literature. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Claudio | Lucarelli | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | The Insight Bias: People Overestimate the Quality of Ideas Generated via Insight | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | Moral Psychology, Social Class, and Inequality | This group brought together organizational behavior researchers interested in morality, social class, and inequality for weekly meetings and has advanced two projects on the topics of gender, race, and inequality. | 2019 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Working Group Grant | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | An Inductive Study of Creative Idea Elaboration in Improvisational Comedy Groups. | Research finds that brainstorming groups are notoriously inefficient at generating ideas, compared to individuals working alone. This inductive, qualitative interview study aims to understand the group processes of improvisational comedy groups, and develop insights about how groups can successfully develop creative ideas in real time. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Ian | Lundberg | Information Science | Economic volatility and the changing the U.S. population age structure | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Ian | Lundberg | Information Science | Data-Adaptive Experiments to Discover Discrimination in Context | In what context is discrimination most severe? Using an experimental approach that updates treatment assignment rules as information is learned, this study will discover the contexts in which human decision-makers make especially discriminatory pairwise choices. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Jaimie | Luria | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Barbara | Lust | Human Development | Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Elderly: Stage Two of a Pilot Study | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Archie | Luyimbazi | Tune in to Governance. An Experimental Investigation of Radio Campaigns in Africa | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Makerere University | CCSS Grant | ||
Michael | Lynch | Science and Technology Studies | A Conference to be held at Cornell University in Spring 2016 | This conference brought together the leading STS researchers in the world to celebrate 40 years of STS at Cornell. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Qingzhong | Ma | School of Hotel Administration | What Drives the Stock Price Runups? Insider Trading vs. Market Anticipation | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Catherine | Maclean | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Temple University | CCSS Grant | ||
Michael | Macy | Sociology | Getting Connected: Science, 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Daniel | Magaziner | History | Engaging Images: Artists and the Art of Life in 20th Century South Africa | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Cameron | Mailhot | Government | The Relationship between International Missions and Post-Conflict Political Trust: Evidence from a Qualitative Analysis of Kosovo’s Newspaper Archives | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 | |
Gregory | Mann | Re-evaluating Africa and World War II | This conference brought together an international group of scholars to present case studies on the impact of WW II on Africa. The papers presented here formed the core of the volume Africa and WW II (Cambridge University Press, 2015). | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS 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 |
Karuna | Mantena | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
Michael | Manville | City and Regional Planning | Congestion Pricing: Equity and Environmental Justice Implications | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Manville | Luskin School of Public Affairs | American Travel Behavior and the Macroeconomy: A Longer View | Manvilleís 2016 fellowship helped him complete two journal articles, and also led to a productive collaboration with ISS fellow Adam Levine, resulting in an additional journal article. | 2015-2016 | PI | UCLA | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Vida | Maralani | Sociology | Child investments and Women's Employment across the Life Course | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Vida | Maralani | Sociology | Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kathryn | March | Anthropology | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Drew | Margolin | Communication | The Spread of Misinformation: Motivations and Remedies | With time and collaborative feedback afforded by his 2019 CCSS Fellowship, Drew Margolin developed a functional theory of misinformation. A paper outlining the theory--The Theory of Informative Fictions: A Character-Based Approach to False News and Other Misinformation—is forthcoming in the journal Communication Theory. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
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 |
Sherry | Marin | Parties, Networks, and the Political Representation of Women | 2008-2009 | PI | U.S. Department of State | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Rafael | Marquese | International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Sao Paolo | |||
Christopher | Marquis | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Matt | Marx | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Attention to Exploration: The Effect of Technology Clusters on Scientific Knowledge Production | Do technology clusters of firms affect the direction of local university researchers’ academic research and inspire more applied, commercializable research? By taking advantage of the announcement of previously-unanticipated entry of high-tech firms, we will identify the causal effect of technology clusters on scientists’ research direction. |
2022 | Fall | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Mason-D'croz | Global Development | Mapping US Food Systems: A Stakeholder Database and Pilot Visualization Tool | Food systems actors are fundamental for transformation, yet exhibit diverse priorities, preferred pathways, and power. We intend to build a stakeholder database and pilot visualization tool of several thousand actors across US food systems, serving as a rich resource to support future research and outreach. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Alan | Mathois | Policy Analysis and Management | Smoking Cessation Advertisements and Source Credibility | The project eventually led to two NIH grants and many publications on tobacco warning labels and advertising. | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
Jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Minimum Staffing Legalization and the Quality of Health Care: Evidence on Effectiveness and Necessity from a Natural Experiment | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | 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 | Columbia University | Collaborative Project | ||
Jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Vincent | Mauro | Government | Party Systems and Democratic Redistribution | Mauro's project seeks to understand why some democracies redistribute more than others. Mauro will utilize archival records of private correspondence among political elites from twentieth century Colombia to understand the inner-world of their traditional two-party system, and why elites were able to resist redistributive factions so effectively. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Lisa | Mccabe | Human Development | Poverty, Equity and State Policy: The Move Toward Universal Pre-kindergarten in New York State Rural School Districts | This grant allowed deep and multi-method exploration of the equity implications of the implementation of Universal PreK in NYS. We also discovered a negative impact of UPK programming on infant and toddler care in rural communities. This led to conference papers, a Hatch grant, and Sipple, Casto & McCabe (2020). Child Care Deserts in New York State: Factors Related to the Community Capacity to Care for Children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. |
2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Courtney | Mccluney | Organizational Behavior | Corporate Responses to Racial Injustice | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Grant | |
Courtney | Mccluney | Organizational Behavior | Implications of Racial Codeswitching on Bodily and Psychological Outcomes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | 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 |
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 |
Katherine | Mccomas | Communication | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. |
2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS 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 |
Susan | Mccouch | Plant Breeding and Genetics | Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement and Social Change | This ISS grant helped fund a major interdisciplinary conference held at Cornell, on the deep history of rice and migrations in Asia, coinciding with a co-taught class. It was partially published as a special double issue of the journal Rice (ISSN 1939-8425), 2011 | 2011 | Spring | Co-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 |
Poppy | Mcleod | Communication | Linguistic and Emotional Factors in Intergroup Linguistic Bias | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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