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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Megan | French | Communication | Audience and Self-Concept in Social Media | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Duality of Telecom Policymaking: The Case of Internet Governance Debates | This award supported the dissertation research of Dima Epsitein, and the 2011 publication of “Who’s Responsible for the Digital Divide? Public Perceptions and Policy Implications” (co-authored by Gillespie, Epstein, and Erik Nisbet) in The Information Society. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Gesture of Publication in an Information Society | With the support of this award, Gillespie laid the groundwork for his widely-cited 2010 article ìThe Politics of ëPlatformsíî published in _New Media & Society_. | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | Grounding the Digital Copyright Controversies: Investigating the Intersection of Technology, Law, Politics, and Cultural Practice | This award supported research that became the 2009 paper "Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns" in Communication, Culture, & Critique |
2006 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeffrey | Hancock | Communication | Longitudinal Effects of Computer Mediated Self-Presentations on Scholastic Self-Concept and Achievement | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Predicting the Boomerang Effect | With time and resources afforded by a 2018 CCSS Fellowship I was able, along with Jeff Niederdeppe and four additional Cornell social scientists, to write a grant proposal on e-cigarette policy that secured $1.4 million in funding from NIH, NCI, and the FDA. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | Communication | Preventing Deviant Internet Behavior: An Application of Prospect Theory | Data collection completed by 2009. |
2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Gender Inequalities in Social Media Work: Digital Labor as a New "Pink Ghetto?" | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeffrey | Hancock | Communication | Audience and Self-Concept in Social Media | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Geri | Gay | Communication | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sahara | Byrne | 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 | |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Promise of Augmented Reality | This award supported the dissertation research of Tony Liao, including his 2015 paper “Augmented or Admented Reality? The Influence of Marketing on Augmented Reality Technologies” in Information, Communication & Society. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS 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 |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Contributions of Undergraduate Team Experiences to Professional Preparedness | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Monica | Cornejo | Communication | Post COVID-19: The Social, Health, and Educational Experiences of Latina/o/x Undocumented College Students | This project will explore undocumented college students' social, health, and educational experiences post COVID-19. Sixty semi-structured interviews will be conducted with undocumented undergraduates from (1) a west coast community college; (2) a south-central public university; and (3) an east coast ivy league university.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Y. Connie | Yuan | Communication | The Development of Social Capital and Transactive Memories Systems in Computer-Supported Collaborative Work | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Cross-Cultural Public Opinion on Climate Change Amid Global Energy Transition | This grant resulted in a Washington Post article ("Despite what Trump says, most Americans want climate action-even if China doesn't do its part") and prompted a related project and a paper published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | 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 | 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 |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Creators, Platforms, and the New Politics of Visibility | Drawing upon in-depth interviews with participants in the digital Creator Economy, this research examines the promises, perils, and paradoxes of the platform-dependent labor. In so doing, this project considers how platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch may enable—or, conversely, thwart—a new politics of visibility. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 | |
Y. Connie | Yuan | Communication | Expertise Recognition in Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Groups: The Impact of Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Communication | This project has resulted in 5 publications examining cross-cultural dynamics in group collaboration, with a focus on expertise recognition, communication accommodation, influence processes, and language proficiency. |
2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Megan | Sawey | Communication | (Re)Defining Deception in Sugar Dating: An Exploration of Digital Scam Culture | This project will expand our understanding of online romance scams and broader internet fraud by investigating a.) the varied ways deception is constructed in sugar relationship discourses and practices, and b.) the varied roles of digital platforms in defining, aiding, and/or preventing interpersonal deception. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Y. Connie | Yuan | Communication | Knowledge Management in Organizations | My 2015 fellowship gave me the time and space to think about bigger questions about my research interests. Two book-chapter review articles were produced that summarize how expertise and communication technologies can be more effectively used in collaborative work in organizations. |
2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Effects of Prevalence Information in Framing Health Problems | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | 1. Gender Bias in Academic Hiring; 2. Community Engagement in Environmental Hazards Research; 3. How learning Environments Influence Student Mindsets and Performance; and 4. How Health Information Platforms Influence Health Disparities | Lewis’s CCSS Fellowship gave him the time to: publish a textbook and 8 peer-reviewed journal articles, write a federal grant that yielded $200,000 in new research funding, publish 6 public-facing articles about behavioral science, and contribute to COVID-19 policy efforts at multiple levels of government. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | Is There Really a 2:1 Hiring Preference for Women on the STEM Tenure Track? Exploring Boundary Conditions of Williams and Ceci (2015) | Lewis's team has conducted four studies that reveal important conditions under which gender bias may emerge in hiring. They have also secured an in principle acceptance for publication of this research at Nature Human Behaviour. |
2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 |
Catherine | Lambert | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | Miller | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Danielle | Eiseman | Communication | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Merging Data from the Roper Center Archive to Facilitate Population Subgroup Analysis: Identifying Opportunities and Strategies | This group met regularly, wrote a cross-disciplinary Cornell Migrations research proposal with faculty from Govt, Comm, and PAM to understand the social and political views of Latino Immigrants in the U.S., 2003-2019 and received an NSF grant to evaluate social bias during the COVID-19 crisis. [45] | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Mediated Social Interactions to Reduce Distress in Hospitalized Patients | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
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 | |
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 |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | The Effects of Avatar Appearance and Customization on Embodied Applications | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Presence in Mediated Social Interactions Leads to Absence from the Here and Now | First paper resulting from the research funded by this award is currently undergoing second round of review after revision; part of basis for NSF grant rated highly competitive |
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 |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Linguistic and Emotional Factors in Intergroup Linguistic Bias | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Philip | Sol Hart | Communication | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | Improving Vaccination Equity through Identity-Based Motivation | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Pilot 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 |
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