Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort descending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 |
Robert | Travers | History | An Empire of Complaints: Petitions, Rights, and Justice in Eighteenth Century India | This research has led to the publication of two articles in major journals, including ‘Indian Petitioning and Colonial State-formation in Colonial Bengal, Modern Asian Studies (2019), and a book manuscript (currently being completed) on the role of Indian ideas justice in early colonial India. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Aaron | Sachs | History | Creative Academic Writing: Exploring the Relationship between Artful Prose and Scholarly Production | The experience of this conference helped lead to the publication of _Artful History: A Practical Anthology_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), co-edited by Aaron Sachs and John Demos. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Edward E. | Baptist | History | International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Cristina | Florea | History | Crossroads of Empire: Revolutions and Encounters at the Frontiers of Europe | Cristina Florea completed a full draft of her book manuscript, 'Crossroads of Empire: Revolutions and Encounters at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe.' The book reveals how crucial interactions between states and local societies in the East European borderlands have been to the evolution and development of the modern state in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
Maria Cristina | Garcia | History, Latino Studies | Whose America? U.S Immigration Policy since 1986 | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Maria | Cristina Garcia | History, Latino Studies | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Zachary D. | Clopton | Law | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | 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 |
John H. | Blume | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Cynthia | Bowman | Law | Women, Sustainable Development and Food Sovereignty/Security in a Changing World | This grant helped fund an international conference at Cornell Law School of feminist scholars and activists engaged in grassroots work to protect the environment; it resulted in papers published in a symposium issue of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy in 2013. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Cynthia | Bowman | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | A New Jury System at Work | Our team examined the jury trial’s introduction in Neuquén, Argentina, by collecting data (questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups) from judges, lawyers, and jurors. From legal actors’ experiences, we are learning how citizens’ participation in jury trials has led to fundamental changes in trial procedures. |
2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Frakes | Law | Project Narratives | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Sheri Lynn | Johnson | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | Fuzzy-Trace Theory and the Law: Testing a Theoretical Model of Juror Damage Awards | Investigations spanned the psychology of commission of crimes to jury deliberation and sentencing including criminal and non-criminal risky decisions in adolescents and adults, risk taking and crime in the brain, and decision processes in psychopathy, ultimately leading to 17 publications and 19 presentations. | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jack | Clarke | Law | Meridian 180 Inter-Disciplinary Conference: Rethinking the "Comfort Women" Problem | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | Collaborative Project | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | Gist in Criminal Adjudiction: Testing the Effects of Mental Representation on Juror Deliberations and Verdicts | We investigated how juries decide on monetary damages in civil cases through the process of converting gist representations into numerical damage judgments as predicted by Fuzzy-Trace Theory. Since 2016, the project led to an NSF grant as well as 8 peer-reviewed publications and 12 presentations. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Seeds | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Nelson | Tebbe | 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 | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Charles | Whitehead | Law | Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship | This project garnered over 2 million in funding, produced over 100 publications on topics including entrepreneurial team evolution; creativity evaluation; intellectual property rights; and scholarly originality. It was a catalyst for the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM degree and the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor. | 2013-2016 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | The Reasoning State | With time and resources from the ISS fellowship, Stiglitz conducted additional experiments and completed his book manuscript, The Reasoning State, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell Law School | Faculty Fellows Program | |
John H. | Blume | Law | Prosecutorial Discretion & Perceptions of Place: How Neighborhoods Matter in Juvenile Cases | Through in-depth interviews and participatory mapping, this study investigates the process of prosecutorial discretion, focusing on the influence of spatial stigma on charging offers for juvenile offenders and answering the question: how do attorneys perceive the role of neighborhoods in their approach to prosecuting juvenile cases? |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Maria Alejandra | Anaya Torres | Law | Rights-Based Climate Litigation, Climate Mobilization, and Climate Governance: An Interdisciplinary Approach | My dissertation seeks to understand the interplay between rights-based climate litigation, climate mobilization, and climate governance at the global level. By departing from the traditional conception of judicial decisions' domestic effects, my research seeks to provide a more socio-legal approach to understanding how rulings across jurisdictions have the potential to produce effects across scales, beyond the parties to a case, the issue at stake, and the courtroom. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | QuIRI Grant |
Eleanor | Wilking | Law | Worker Classification and Misclassification: Evidence from Employer Insurance Mandates | Over the fellowship year, significant progress was made in cleaning and linking administrative datasets. Initial descriptive findings found increasing convergence between workers classified as employees and those classified as independent contractors, accepted for publication in Northwestern University Law Review [Nov. 2022]. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell Law School | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Keith | Porter | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Reasoning and Trust | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Muna | Ndulo | Law | The Food and Financial Crisis and Their Impact in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals in Africa | The conference brought scholars and practitioners from abroad to explore food security and its impact on Africa. The presentations made possible the book, Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa, which focus on the crises, effects on rural poverty, and recommendations to address the crises. | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jeffrey | Rachlinski | Law | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | Collaborative Project | |
Steve | Yale-Loehr | Law | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | Collaborative Project | |
Jeffrey | Rachlinski | Law | Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? | This award supported the research for the following paper: Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Sheri Johnson, Andrew J. Wistrich & Chris Guthrie, Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? 84 Notre Dame L. Rev.1195 (2009). |
2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Political Economy and Public Law Conference | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | 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 |
Pat | Barclay | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Stephen | Emlen | Neurobiology and Behavior | 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 | |
Eric | Baumer | Information Science | Developing Computational Support for Frame Reflection | This project synthesizes concepts from political science and computational linguistics to guide the development of tools valuable for their capacity to promote critical thinking about how controversial issues are variously framed by different parties. |
2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Lehigh University | CCSS Grant |
Solon | Barocas | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Cristian | Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil | Information Science | Improving Online Discourse Through Conversational Modeling | The CCSS fellowship allowed me to assimilate a new qualitative dimension into my (traditionally quantitative) research. This enabled a mixed-methods study of proactive moderation practices and of the potential for algorithmic support in multiple online discussion platforms and has (so far) led to a CSCW publication in the PACM HCI journal. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
Nicola | Dell | 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 |
Daniel | Cosley | Information Science | Supporting Communities of Memory and Reminiscence | This was a workshop grant that brought together researchers ranging from gerontology to computer science to probe the impact of social media on self-understanding and life stories, leading to several new collaborations between participants and research directions for future work. | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Dan | Cosley | Information Science | Identifying, Modeling, and Visualizing Disclosure of Personal Information in Social Media | Cosley's 2013 fellowship contributed to a $1.2 million NSF grant with Natalie Bazarova and Janis Whitlock that produced many well-cited publications around communication, relationships, mental health, design, and privacy in social media, helping several PhD students and postdocs launch successful research careers. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Content & Impact of Diversity Statements in Course Syllabi | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
Solon | Barocas | Information Science | Algorithms, Big Data, and Inequality | This project has produced over $927,000 in external grants and 39 publications thus far. Research topics include algorithmic management among cultural workers, agency of data subjects, estimation of causal effects from data for counterfactual fairness and comparing compliance procedures and research proposals for non-discrimination in statistical models. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
Penny | Stewart | Information Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant |
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