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 | PI/Co-PI Sort descending | College | Grant Type |
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Edith | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Do international bond markets diversify portfolio risk? | 2010 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Peng | Liu | School of Hotel Administration | Commodity Prices in the Presence of Long-run Economic Relationships | This study resulted in a publication titled “Economic Linkages, Relative Scarcity, and Commodity Futures Returns” at the Review of Financial Studies in 2013. | 2011 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Alexander | Livingston | Government | James Tully: To Think and Act Differently | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Beth | Livingston | Human Resource Studies | "Men at Work" (and Family): Caregiving Responsibilities among the Working Class | 2014 | Spring | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | Reimagining Recess: Examining the Impacts of Schoolyard 'Loose Parts Recess' Programs on the Outdoor Play Behaviors of School Age Children | 2019 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Corinna | Loeckenhoff | Human Development | Age and Intertemporal Choice Among Aversive Experiences | This pilot study resulted in an external grant (R21 AG043741 NIH/NIA. “Age Differences in Preferences for and Responses to Temporal Sequences” and multiple journal publications. | 2011 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
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 | |
Sherry | Marin | Parties, Networks, and the Political Representation of Women | 2008-2009 | pi | U.S. Department of State | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | 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 |
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 |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Linguistic and Emotional Factors in Intergroup Linguistic Bias | 2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Interagency Cooperation in Social Services for Families and Children: Application of Group Dynamics Theory | 2006 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life 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 |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Embedded Neo-Liberalism in the Gear of Social Change: A Comparative-Historical Analysis | Assisted grad student lab on local manifestations of neoliberalism, resulting in an edited book, Contesting Development. Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, 2010). |
2007 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jane | Mendle | Human Development | Secular Trends in Puberty and Mental Health | Jane Mendleís time at ISS helped her complete two journal articles, write a grant proposal funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child and Human Development, and submit a proposal for a textbook on Developmental Psychopathology that will be published by Macmillan. | 2015-2016 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Karel | Mertens | Economics | Marginal Tax Rates and Income: New Time Series Evidence | 2015 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Karel | Mertens | Economics | The Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated Tax Policy Changes | 2009 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Karel | Mertens | Escaping the Liquidity Trap | 2012-2013 | pi | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Andrew | Mertha | Government | Policymaking under the Shadow of Death: The Policymaking Process under the Khmer Rouge in Democratic Kampuchea | 2012 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and 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 |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Access Denied: Poverty, Politics, and Civil Legal Representation | This grant supported the research that culminated in an article entitled, “Power from the Margins: Grassroots Mobilization and Urban Expansions of Civil Rights” (Urban Affairs Review, 2019). The work on this project continues and will culminate in a book. I have already given over a dozen invited talks based on this research and collaborated with a national organization (the Justice Collaborative Institute) to write a related policy report. | 2017 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Medicaid and the Politics of the Poor | This grant supported the research that culminated in a book entitled, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The book won the 2019 Virgina Gray best book award from the American Political Science Association and established the foundation for a current grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (for over $400k) that represents a key extension of this work. Fragmented Democracy has been the basis for more than two dozen invited talks and presentations and has been cited in New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and many other outlets. | 2014 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Outputs to Outcomes: Poverty, Race and Transformative Public Policy | 2018-2019 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Douglas | Miller | Policy Analysis and Management | Machine Learning for Prediction of Tax Evasion | We develop a machine-learning prediction model for tax evasion. The model will be used to produce recommendations improving the targeting of auditing resources. Additionally, the prediction model will be used to construct a novel measure of manager productivity in the government service sector. |
2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
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 | |
Devra | Moehler | Government | Tune in to Governance: An Experimental Investigation of Radio Campaigns in Africa | 2008 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Devra | Moehler | Government | Media Effects and Political Knowledge in Africa | 2005 | Spring | 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 |
Stephen L. | Morgan | Patronage and Networks & Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences | 2008-2009 | pi | Johns Hopkins University | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Mostafa | Minawi | History | The Geopolitics of Ottoman Imperialism in the Horn of Africa | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Pamela | Moulton | School of Hotel Administration | Investor Distraction versus Investor Focus: Evidence from Earnings Announcements | 2013 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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