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 ascending | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | Urbanization, Education, and Citizenship in China | This fellowship, along with being a part of the CCSS China’s Cities: Divisions and Plan (2016-2019) project team, allowed me to work on the analysis of my data and to begin writing. In addition to two peer-review publications, I made significant progress on a new book manuscript, The Urbanization of People: Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Education in China. I am now nearly finished with that manuscript, and intend to send it out to publishers later this year. | 20152016 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Adam Seth | Levine | Government | How Citizens Become Advocates | Thanks to the generous time and resources from my ISS fellowship, along with the wonderfully supportive and engaging community of fellows, I completed four new projects examining when ordinary citizens become political advocates in response to social and economic challenges, including unaffordable health care, climate change, and traffic congestion. These papers have been published in top political science, climate change, and transportation journals. One of these projects was a collaboration with ISS fellow Mike Manville. |
20152016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Levon | Barseghyan | Economics | Preference Types and Welfare in Insurance Markets | Barseghyanís fellowship helped him to establish a new collaborative research agenda on limited consideration ñ situations in which consumers evaluate and choose from a limited number of all alternatives (products) available to them. This research is being supported by an NSF grant in the amount of $400,000. | 20152016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Kurt | Jordan | Anthropology | An Archaeology of Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca Iroquois) Autonomy, circa 1688-1715 | Jordan’s 2016 fellowship facilitated the final season of fieldwork at the White Springs archaeological site near Geneva, New York, and four journal articles and book chapters related to the excavations. | 20152016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Ernesto | Bassi | History | Creating Spaces, Envisioning Futures: Region-Making and Geopolitical Imagination in the Transimperial Greater Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions | Bassi’s fellowship allowed him to conduct research on two different project. While the research is still ongoing, resources from the fellowship contributed to the writing and publication of several articles, including “Much More than the Half Has Never Been Told: Narrating the Rise of Capitalism from New Granada’s Shores,” The Latin Americanist 61, 4 (December 2017): 529-550 and “The Franklins of Colombia: Immigration Schemes and Hemispheric Solidarity in the Making of a Civilised Colombia,” Journal of Latin American Studies 50, 3 (August 2018): 673-701. | 20152016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | Disclosure and Well-Being in the Digital World | This fellowship has resulted in a new line of work on bystander interventions conducted with a novel experimental simulation platform developed in Prof. Bazarova's Social Media Lab. This led to several new publications in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. |
2015 2016 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Causes and Consequences of Financial Crises Evidence from New Historical Data, 1900-2015 | Research supported by this grant resulted in two publications: “Credit Expansion and Neglected Crash Risk.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017 (with Wei Xiong), and “Banking Crises Without Panics.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020 (with Emil Verner and Wei Xiong). | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Andrew | Fieldhouse | Economics | Marginal Tax Rates and Income: New Time Series Evidence | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Durba | Ghosh | History | Postcolonial Commemorations: How Revolutionaries Became Freedom Fighters in Independent India | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jose | Fernandez-Albertos | Economic Harship, Citizen Policy Preferences, and Political Participation in the Eurozone Periphery: Evidence from Spain | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Institute for Policies and Public Goods | CCSS Grant | ||
John | Forester | City and Regional Planning | Exploring Conflict, Improvisation, and Governance through Practice-Focused Oral Histories: Advancing an International Network of Applied Research | This research contributed to “How Urban Managers Improvise in Practice: Rethinking the Exercise of Discretion,” with D. Laws and N. Verloo, under review for publication. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Eric | Baumer | Computer Science | Developing Methods for Joint Analysis of Close-Ended and Open-Ended Survey Data | We drew specific connections between new statistical methods and established practices for evaluating free-text survey results. This comparison helps survey researchers in adapting new tools, and helps computational researchers in recognizing how tools are actually being used. Results were published in JASIST. |
2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Lehigh University | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Huckfeldt | Economics | The Scarring Effect of Recessions: A Quantitative Analysis | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Gustavo | Flores-Macias | Government | The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America | This conference resulted in the publication of the edited volume _The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America_ published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Miguel | Gomez | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Developing a Longitudinal Database of Smallholder Coffee Growers to Assess Impacts of Participation in Specialty Markets | This multidisciplinary project allowed to rigorously measure levels of shade in sustainable coffee systems that allow growers to maximize profits, published as “Thee Economics and Ecology of Shade-grown Coffee: A Model to Incentivize Shade and Bird Conservation” in Ecological Economics (Hernandez et al. 2019) | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Tatiana | Homonoff | Policy Analysis and Management | The Nth of the Month Effect: Consumer and Retailer Response to SNAP Benefit | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Malte | Jung | Information Science | Comparative Assessment of Intra-Personal and Inter-Personal Emotion Regulation in Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Surgery | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
Johannes | Lehmann | Crop and Soil Sciences | Leveraging the Commercialization of Animal Bone-Derived Biofertilizers to Create Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Landless Poor in Ethiopia | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexander | Kuo | Government | Economic Harship, Citizen Policy Preferences, and Political Participation in the Eurozone Periphery: Evidence from Spain | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | Understanding Our Influence Over Others’ Moral Decisions | Studies conducted as part of this research project were published in, "With a little help from my friends (and strangers): closeness as a moderator of the underestimation-of-compliance effect," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Garrick | Blalock | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Leveraging the Commercialization of Animal Bone-Derived Biofertilizers to Create Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Landless Poor in Ethiopia | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Eve | DeRosa | Human Development | Influence of Body State on Cognition and Emotion in Shaping Environmental Interactions: Implications for Aging | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Jackson | Information Science | Comparative Assessment of Intra-Personal and Inter-Personal Emotion Regulation in Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Surgery | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
Catalina | Iricinschi | Liberal Arts | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | Fall | Co-PI | University of the Arts in Philadelphia | CCSS Grant |
Abigail | Cohn | Linguistics | LabPhon15-Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation | This conference brought together over 300 international scholars and students to explore experimental approaches to the linguistic analysis of language and speech. The work presented and the interactions that took place at the conference and satellite meetings advanced dozens of research projects. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Louis | Hyman | Labor Relations Law and History | Economic Methods for Historians Workshop (aka History of Capitalism Summer Camp) | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | 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 |
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 |
Sam | Tilsen | Linguistics | LabPhon15-Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation | This conference brought together over 300 international scholars and students to explore experimental approaches to the linguistic analysis of language and speech. The work presented and the interactions that took place at the conference and satellite meetings advanced dozens of research projects. | 2015 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Mimno | Information Science | Developing Methods for Joint Analysis of Close-Ended and Open-Ended Survey Data | We drew specific connections between new statistical methods and established practices for evaluating free-text survey results. This comparison helps survey researchers in adapting new tools, and helps computational researchers in recognizing how tools are actually being used. Results were published in JASIST. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Luo | Zuo | Johnson Graduate School of Management | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Adam | Pearson | Psychology | Effect of Perceived Economic Inequality on Sustainability and Collective Action | This research contributed to a first-authored publication in Climatic Change for graduate student, Julia Davydova: “Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation” (Davydova, Pearson, Ballew, & Schuldt, 2018) | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Pomona College | CCSS Grant |
Karel | Mertens | Economics | Marginal Tax Rates and Income: New Time Series Evidence | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | The Value of Mandated Sick-Pay for the U.S. | This research resulted in two peer-reviewed publications in Health Service Research and the Journal of Public Economics as well as two follow-up grants from RWJF and the Center for Equitable Growth. The findings from the JPubE publication were featured in the Healthy Families Act. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Bruce | Lewenstein | 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 |
Claudia | Verhoeven | History | Love and Terror: The Meaning of the Manson Murders in American Culture | Archival research in Los Angeles formed the basis of the chapter, “’Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter’: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family,” Time and Power. Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, eds. Stefanos Geroulanos, Dan Edelstein, and Natasha Wheatley. Forthcoming Chicago UP, 2020. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Adam Seth | Litwin | Labor Relations Law and History | Labor Unions and the Spread of Healthcare-Associated Infections | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences including the annual meetings of the Labor and Employment Association and the Industry Studies Association. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Claire | Lim | Economics | The Political Economy of the Energy Industry in U.S States | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Trevor | Pinch | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Mass Politics and Policy in Russia and China | The edited volume that emerged from the workshop was published this year by Oxford University Press, titled: Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Russia & China. |
2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Alexander | Ljungqvist | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | NYU | CCSS Grant | |
Rebecca | Seguin | Nutritional Sciences | Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Assess the Double Up Food Bucks Farmers’ Market Incentive Program for SNAP Participants | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Political Economy and Public Law Conference | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
So-Yeon | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | The Impact of Noise and Perceived Crowding on Consumer Emotions and Repatronage Intentions in a Food Service Context: An Exploratory Study in a Real and Virtual Restaurant | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Effect of Perceived Economic Inequality on Sustainability and Collective Action | This research contributed to a first-authored publication in Climatic Change for graduate student, Julia Davydova: “Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation” (Davydova, Pearson, Ballew, & Schuldt, 2018) | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Liandong | Zhang | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Hong Kong | CCSS Grant | |
Alicia | Orta-Ramirez | Food Science and Technology | Contributions of Undergraduate Team Experiences to Professional Preparedness | 2014 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Marina | Welker | Anthropology | An Ethnography of the Sampoerna Clove Cigarette Company | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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