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 descending | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Stephen | Vider | History | LGBTQ Affirmative Psychotherapy and Social Services, 1960 to 1987 | This study, co-directed by Stephen Vider (Cornell University) and David S. Byers (Bryn Mawr College), investigates the role of grassroots clinical activism in the depathologization of LGBTQ people in the United States from 1960 to 1987, through archival research as well as oral history interviews.
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2022 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Laura Elizabeth | Smith | Public and Ecosystem Health | Characterizing women empowerment and its influences on infant and young child feeding practices in rural Zimbabwe | 2022 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Benjamin | Lipp | Science and Technology Studies | The Promise of 'Post-Opioid' Pain Technology | The aim of this project is to understand the convergence of digital and neuro-technology in chronic pain amidst the opioid crisis. It compares pain technologies combining neuro-technological interventions with data-driven techniques. The project will analyse their promise as "post-opioid" technologies as well as associated risks.
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2022 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 |
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 |
Iggy E-Shien | Chang | Experiences and challenges faced by certified nursing assistants in mitigating resident-to-resident aggression in long-term care facilities: The role of race and ethnicity | The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of the role of race/ethnicity in resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) from the perspective of certified nursing assistants. Insights generated will help inform the design of a novel staff education intervention to mitigate and prevent race/ethnicity-related RRA.
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2022 | fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Yun-chien | Chang | Law | Empirical Legal Studies in the Sinophone Region | This conference, titled Empirical Legal Studies in the Sinophone Region, brings together legal scholars doing quantitative works from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The data used in the 20 presentations describe the functioning of the legal systems in the Chinese-speaking region. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Colleen | Carey | Economics | The Actions of State Medical Boards in the Opioid Prescribing Epidemic | A small number of inappropriately-prescribing physicians drove opioid prescribing increases in the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic. This project collects a novel dataset of state medical board actions to determine the nature and extent of investigations and disciplinary actions regarding opioid prescribing. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
Kamel | Jedid | Leveraging Generative AI for Marketing Research: An Application on Music Album Reviews | The capabilities of Generative AI to extract thematic content from unstructured data make it powerful to understand experiential domains. This research leverages this technology to extract experiential features from expert music reviews to enhance our understanding of album success and aid artists in their designs. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | |
Khaled | Boughanmi | Marketing and Management Communication | Leveraging Generative AI for Marketing Research: An Application on Music Album Reviews | The capabilities of Generative AI to extract thematic content from unstructured data make it powerful to understand experiential domains. This research leverages this technology to extract experiential features from expert music reviews to enhance our understanding of album success and aid artists in their designs. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Jetson | Leder-Luis | The Actions of State Medical Boards in the Opioid Prescribing Epidemic | A small number of inappropriately-prescribing physicians drove opioid prescribing increases in the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic. This project collects a novel dataset of state medical board actions to determine the nature and extent of investigations and disciplinary actions regarding opioid prescribing. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | Boston University | CCSS Grant | |
Nancy | Chau | Applied Economics and Management | Distance Learning in the Shadow of COVID19 -- Lessons from Cornell University | This study leverages the natural experimental COVID19 setting at the Cornell campus, constructs a student-specific return-home treatment triplet (geographic distance, internet access, pandemic exposure), and performs an assessment of the impact of the return home treatment on student-assessed academic performance among Cornell undergraduates. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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 |
Aaron | Childree | American Politics | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Douglas | Kriner | American Institutions | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jillian | Goldfarb | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | AI, Rulemaking, and Threats to Scientific Policymaking | Citizens and experts alike can influence regulatory processes primarily through public notice and comment. Generative AI threatens this democratic expression. Can generative AI skew representation by overwhelming response pools with technically sophisticated comments perceived by regulators to be as informative as those written by experts? |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant |
Nikhil | Garg | Operations Research and Information Engineering | NYC School Match: How Do Design Details Drive Inequity | NYC matches students to public high schools through an algorithm. We study the process’s design details: what drives educational inequity? What is the role of students’ ranked lists or school policies in prioritizing grades or geography? Our analyses will inform student-side interventions and policy recommendations. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant |
Alexander | Fulmer | Marketing | The Biography of Discovery: How Discovery of Resources by Humans versus Machines Shapes Preference | This research builds upon recent work illuminating that biographical elements of a resource’s discovery can influence consumer preference for otherwise identical resources. Specifically, this project explores how consumer preference for resources is influenced by awareness of whether the discoverer was a human or a machine. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Anthonia | Carter | Information Science | How Race and Gender Stereotypes Impact Crowdfunding Outcome | We study how racial discrimination and gender roles stereotypes influence crowdfunding campaigns’ outcomes. We focus on outcomes experienced by Black female founders and how their chances of success change as product complexity and targeted market vary. Our results will inform policy and platform design interventions. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Cristobal | Cheyre | Information Science | How Race and Gender Stereotypes Impact Crowdfunding Outcome | We study how racial discrimination and gender roles stereotypes influence crowdfunding campaigns’ outcomes. We focus on outcomes experienced by Black female founders and how their chances of success change as product complexity and targeted market vary. Our results will inform policy and platform design interventions. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Hannah | Friedrich | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | CCSS Grant | ||
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
Evan | Riehl | Economics | The Efficacy of For-profit Teacher Training Programs | To combat teacher shortages, a growing number of states are allowing teachers to complete training programs at for-profit companies. This project explores the efficacy of for-profit training programs by examining their impacts on the quantity and quality of teachers in Texas. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Vincent | Slaugh | Operations, Technology, and Information Management | Child Welfare Operations Research Symposium | This symposium aims to connect operations academics with child welfare leaders and facilitate conversations about how operations research approaches can help improve child welfare. Approximately 30 attendees will meet at Cornell on November 9 practitioner panels, brief research presentations, and roundtable discussions. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
So-Yeon | Yoon | Human Centered Design | Fostering Consumer Creativity in Metaverse Virtual Retail Spaces with Psychological Virtuality | At the forefront of retail innovation, the metaverse offers extended brand-consumer experiences that stimulate creative abilities. Grounded in self-expansion theory, this project develops virtual retail spaces infused with psychological virtuality and unveils the mechanisms that amplify consumer creativity in our proposed retail settings. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Woo Bin | Kim | Fostering Consumer Creativity in Metaverse Virtual Retail Spaces with Psychological Virtuality | At the forefront of retail innovation, the metaverse offers extended brand-consumer experiences that stimulate creative abilities. Grounded in self-expansion theory, this project develops virtual retail spaces infused with psychological virtuality and unveils the mechanisms that amplify consumer creativity in our proposed retail settings. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | CCSS Grant | ||
Jaleesa | Reed | Human Centered Design | Fostering Consumer Creativity in Metaverse Virtual Retail Spaces with Psychological Virtuality | At the forefront of retail innovation, the metaverse offers extended brand-consumer experiences that stimulate creative abilities. Grounded in self-expansion theory, this project develops virtual retail spaces infused with psychological virtuality and unveils the mechanisms that amplify consumer creativity in our proposed retail settings. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Christa | Deneault | Economics | The Efficacy of For-profit Teacher Training Programs | To combat teacher shortages, a growing number of states are allowing teachers to complete training programs at for-profit companies. This project explores the efficacy of for-profit training programs by examining their impacts on the quantity and quality of teachers in Texas. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Nicolas | Bottan | Economics | Redistribution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT promise significant productivity improvements, but they may also reduce the importance of human capital and labor, further concentrating power and wealth in the hands of the rich. The authors investigate views on inequality and support for economic policies in an AI dominated economy. |
2023 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Marcel | Preuss | Strategy and Business Economics | Redistribution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT promise significant productivity improvements, but they may also reduce the importance of human capital and labor, further concentrating power and wealth in the hands of the rich. The authors investigate views on inequality and support for economic policies in an AI dominated economy. |
2023 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Caitie | Barrett | Classics | Modeling Space and Experience at Pompeii | 2023 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Shorna | Allred | Natural Resources | Civic Engagement, Civil Society Organizations, and Urban Environmental Governance: Implications for the New Environmental Politics of Urban Development | This research project utilized a governance framework to examine the civic engagement strategies of civil society organizations involved in urban environmental management, and how those strategies strengthen the influence of civil society organizations in urban regimes for land-use management. |
2012 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neural Instantiation of Physical and Social Nutrients | This project will test the overlapping and unique representations of social and physical resources in the brain using partner hand holding and a tasteless carbohydrate. |
2020 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neural and Behavioral Differences in Initiation and Perserverance in Effortful Behavior | 2019 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neurogenetic Sources of Individual Variation in Sensitivity to the Environment | Anderson’s lab collected data through behavioral assessment of sensitivity to emotional cues, findings of which have highlighted a distinction between emotional reactivity to a current event and the tendency to embed emotional events into memory. He received a second CU grant for the project. |
2015 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Andronicos | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | 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 |
Ned | Augenblick | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | This study examined why subjects fail to play mixed-strategy equilibria in zero-sum games, calling into question prior research which suggests that experimental subjects do not follow the predictions of game theory and cannot bring the skills and heuristics used in real‐life economies into the laboratory. |
2011 | spring | Co-PI | University of California Berkeley | CCSS Grant | |
Rosemary | Avery | 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 |
Xóchitl | Bada | Latin American and Latino Studies | Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local | As international migration continues to rise, countries of origin have played an increasing role in engaging their emigrants; however, we know little about how they are being held accountable for the services offered to their diasporas. To fill the gap, this book analyzes on-the-ground, transnational defense of migrant labor rights.
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2021 | spring | Co-PI | University of Illinois | CCSS Grant |
Netta | Barak-Corren | Law | The Effects on Children of Equality Rules for Religious Placement Agencies | Through triangulating in-depth interviews, original datasets, and national archive data on child placement outcomes, this comprehensive analysis will explore the question, are children harmed when child placement agencies close their doors rather than follow anti-discrimination rules that violate their religious beliefs? |
2021 | spring | Co-PI | Hebrew University | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Mortgage and Corporate Debt in the U.S. Great Depression | This project gathers data on individual U.S. firms and municipalities in the 1920s to assess the extent to which corporate and mortgage debt issuance and real estate construction helped precipitate the banking crises of the Great Depression. |
2020 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | "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 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Baron | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Christopher B. | Barrett | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Targeting and Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme | This small grant generated multiple peer-reviewed articles, in for example World Bank Economic Review, World Development, Economic & Political Weekly. |
2012 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Christopher B. | Barrett | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Avoiding and Escaping Persistent Poverty | This grant seeded work that ultimately led to 9 journal articles, 1 book, and >$3 mn in external funding. |
2006 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Colleen | Barry | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Levon | Barseghyan | Economics | Estimating Risk Preferences with Limited Consideration | This project: puts forward a semi-nonparametric empirical model of discrete choice with limited consideration; characterizes what can be learned about the parameters and distribution functions; provides methods to build and test confidence intervals; applies the previous to household decision making under risk. |
2018 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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