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 ascending | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 | |
Karuna | Mantena | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | fall | Co-PI | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
Andrew | Mertha | Government | Rectification, Thought Reform, and Political Education in Khmer Rouge Liberated Zones (1970-1975) and Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Suzanne | Mettler | Government | How Health Care Policy Shapes Public Opinion: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Over Time | This grant helped fund collection of panel data (now 5 waves over 10 years), and publication of “When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion,” with Lawrence R. Jacobs, Perspectives on Politics. June 2018, Vol. 16 (2). | 2012 | fall | 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 |
Hirokazu | Miyazaki | Anthropology | The Socal Distribution of Hope | 2005 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Francesca | Molinari | Economics | Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference | Most presenters at this conference were junior scholars at the time. All went on to be granted tenure, and build a successful research agenda around the themes of this conference. | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lauren | Monroe | Near Eastern Studies | Life on the Frontier: Identify and Exchange at the Ancient Border Town of Abel Bath Maacah, Israel | This grant paved the way to a new book project entitled Becoming Israel: Political Identity in the Song of Deborah, which I am now in the process of finishing thanks to a 2020-21 faculty fellowship from the Cornell Society for the Humanities. | 2012 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kelly | Musick | Policy Analysis and Management | Parents’ Time with Children and Subjective Well-being | This project led to a stream of papers on parental well-being in the context of time-intensive, child-centered, and unequal parenting, including “How Parents Fare: Mothers' and Fathers' Subjective Well-Being in Time with Children” in American Sociological Review (Musick et al., 2016). | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Neblo | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | fall | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | ||
Jeremy | Nemeth | Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces | The funding ultimately resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. |
2009 | fall | Co-PI | University of Colorado | CCSS Grant | |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | Revising Anti-Vaccination Beliefs During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | 2020 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Health and Early Childhood Television and Video Viewing | This exploratory effort led to the creation of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper “Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching,” which is under review at a peer-reviewed economics journal. | 2008 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | 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 |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | The Fourth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: New Developments in Aging, Emotion, and Health | 2012 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
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 | |
Adam | Pearson | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | fall | Co-PI | Pomona College | CCSS Grant | ||
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 |
Karl | Pillemer | Human Development | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
Marcel | Preuss | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Dynamics of Luck, Effort, and Redistribution | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Bringing STS Into Environmental History | This grant supported an important, international workshop on the contributions of science studies to environmental history, resulting in the edited volume, _New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies_, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2013). | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Hudson | Reeve | Neurobiology and Behavior | Threats to Group Survival, Status, and “Upping the Threat Level” | Our experiments show a correlation between manipulations of perceptions of threat level in order to elicit higher group member contributions and status within a group and analyze the causes of this status effect. These findings were presented at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.
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2007 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Camille | Robcis | History | Catholics, Gender, and the Gay Marriage Debate in France | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Quinetta | Roberson | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | fall | Co-PI | Villanova University | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Robertson | Human Development | Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems | This interdisciplinary collaboration (developmental psychology and mathematics) validated a new brain-based method for measuring infant attention (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:11460) and a novel dynamical model of infant visual foraging behavior (Dev Psychobiol 2014, 56:1129) to uncover early predictors of childhood attention problems. | 2008 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
Mats | Rooth | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Workshop on Grammar Induction | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Rubineau | Organizational Behavior | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | fall | PI | McGill University | CCSS Grant | |
Deni | Ruggeri | Landscape Architecture | Scripting the Future of a Community: A Participatory Visioning Process for Iowa’s Amana Colonies | 2007 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tina | Saksida | Business | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | 2016 | fall | Co-PI | University of Prince Edward Island | CCSS Grant | |
Carmen | Sanchez | Psychology | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Paul Steven | Sangren | Anthropology | Application for Funding for Preliminary Research on Local Product (Techan) Specialization in China and Taiwan | Relevant to long-standing linkages in all my research to regional economic and social organization. Most recently, paper on “SPATIAL IMAGINATION: Skinnerian “Human Interaction Systems” and the Roles of Spatial Imagery and “Subjection” in Chinese Rituals. | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
Sharon | Sassler | Sociology | A Mini-Conference on Gender Inequality in Science, Math, Cornell College of Engineering, and Behavioral Science Occupations | This conference at the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting brought together several sociologists studying STEM fields to discuss research directions. | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Scales | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Stephan | Schmidt | City and Regional Planning | Perceptions of “Publicness” in NYC’s Privately Owned Public Spaces | The funding ultimately resulted in a peer-reviewed publication. |
2009 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
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