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 | College | Grant Type Sort descending |
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Jeremy | Wallace | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 2016-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | collaborative project | |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 Human Ecology | collaborative project | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. |
2016-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | collaborative project | |
Martin | Wells | Statistical 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 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | collaborative project | |
Howard | Welser | Getting Connected: 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 | Co-PI | Ohio University | collaborative project | ||
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development | 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 Human Ecology | collaborative project | |
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 | |
Janis | Whitlock | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | 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 Human Ecology | collaborative project | |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | collaborative project | |
Lindy | Williams | Development Sociology | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | collaborative project | |
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground | The 7 project fellows produced over 1.6 million dollars in external funding, a vibrant book series with Cornell University Press, and 77 publications. Research topics included global land deals, the neoliberal agri-food regime, First Nation formation in the Yukon, envirotechnical disasters, and migration and labor. | 2012-2015 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | collaborative project | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground | The 7 project fellows produced over 1.6 million dollars in external funding, a vibrant book series with Cornell University Press, and 77 publications. Research topics included global land deals, the neoliberal agri-food regime, First Nation formation in the Yukon, envirotechnical disasters, and migration and labor. | 2012-2015 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 | |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | collaborative project | |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | 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 Arts and Sciences | collaborative project | |
Jaleesa | Reed | Human Centered Design | Black Femininity Placed: An Exploration of Beauty and Placemaking in L.A. | This interdisciplinary project integrates fashion studies and city planning knowledge to investigate Black femininity and place in Los Angeles, California. In city planning, Black femininity is often ignored, yet beauty culture is tied to how Black women engage in mobility and place-making. Using a mixed methods approach, we explore Black femininity’s connections and implications on policies and place-making. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | collaborative project | |
Jocelyn | Poe | City and Regional Planning | Black Femininity Placed: An Exploration of Beauty and Placemaking in L.A. | This interdisciplinary project integrates fashion studies and city planning knowledge to investigate Black femininity and place in Los Angeles, California. In city planning, Black femininity is often ignored, yet beauty culture is tied to how Black women engage in mobility and place-making. Using a mixed methods approach, we explore Black femininity’s connections and implications on policies and place-making. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | collaborative project | |
Duanyi | Yang | Labor Relations Law and History | Organizational Interventions to Alleviate Burnout and Promote Well-Being | Can organizational interventions reduce employee burnout and promote well-being? We are planning to investigate these questions using a randomized field experiment in the setting of veterinarian clinics in the United States. |
2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | collaborative project | |
Sunita | Sah | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Organizational Interventions to Alleviate Burnout and Promote Well-Being | Can organizational interventions reduce employee burnout and promote well-being? We are planning to investigate these questions using a randomized field experiment in the setting of veterinarian clinics in the United States. |
2024 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | collaborative project | |
Brittany | Bond | Organizational Behavior | Organizational Interventions to Alleviate Burnout and Promote Well-Being | Can organizational interventions reduce employee burnout and promote well-being? We are planning to investigate these questions using a randomized field experiment in the setting of veterinarian clinics in the United States. |
2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | collaborative project | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Prosociality During COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | covid_19 grant | ||
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | CoRUS: Coronavirus in Russia and Ukraine Survey | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
Stephen | Hilgartner | Science and Technology Studies | A Comparative Study of Expertise for Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic, | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Implications of Course Enrollment Structure for the Potential of Epidemic Spread on a College Campus | This project will use complete student transcript data to map the bipartite (two-mode) network that connects students to each other via their enrollment in college courses, thereby creating social structural conditions for the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. We will evaluate how clusters of course offerings, the timing of courses throughout the week, and mode of class instruction affect the structure of this network. We will also assess how students with different majors, level in school, gender, and race occupy different positions within the network. |
2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | |
Benjamin | Cornwell | Sociology | Implications of Course Enrollment Structure for the Potential of Epidemic Spread on a College Campus | This project will use complete student transcript data to map the bipartite (two-mode) network that connects students to each other via their enrollment in college courses, thereby creating social structural conditions for the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. We will evaluate how clusters of course offerings, the timing of courses throughout the week, and mode of class instruction affect the structure of this network. We will also assess how students with different majors, level in school, gender, and race occupy different positions within the network. |
2020 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
John | Doris | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | covid_19 grant | ||
Kevin | Kniffin | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | covid_19 grant | ||
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Economic and Environmental Consequences of COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | covid_19 grant | ||
Panle Jia | Barwick | Economics | Measuring the Economic and Environmental Consequences of COVID-19 | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
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. | 2015-2016 | 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. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
David | Bateman | Government | The Development of American State Constitution | Bateman’s 2018 fellowship resulted in the compilation of an extensive dataset on state constitutions and drafting conventions, and contributed to the publication of “Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785-1868,” “Transatlantic Anxieties: Democracy and Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Discourse,” and a series of working papers. | 2018-2019 | 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 | |
Daniel | Benjamin | Understanding and Developing Survey-Based Measures of Well-Being | 2012-2013 | PI | University of Southern California | faculty fellows program | |||
Antonio | Bento | On the Costs of Climate Mitigation: A Federal Clean Energy Standard with State-Level Distributional Constraints | 2012-2013 | PI | University of Southern California | faculty fellows program | |||
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 | |
Julieta | Caunedo | Economics | Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technology | During the 2020-2021 academic year the first draft of Occupational Exposure to Capital-Embodied Technical Change was completed and submitted for publication. The paper was presented at various workshops including the NBER SI 2020. A sequel to this paper, Technical Change and the Demand for Talent, has been accepted for publication at the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU series of the Journal of Monetary Economics in 2022. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Benjamin | Cornwell | Sociology | Social Networks Dynamics and Health in Later Life | With the time and resources provided in his 2013 ISS Fellowship, Ben Cornwell wrote a study on older adults’ social networks as well as a book, Social Sequence Analysis, which was published by Cambridge University Press. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
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 | |
Raymond | Craib | History | The Cry of the Renegade: Poetry, Politics and Anarchism in Chile, 1920 | With the fellowship I was able to make very good progress on my book The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press and which was part of my promotion file for full professor. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
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 | |
Mara Yue | Du | History | China: From a Nationless State to a Nation Defined by State | The CCSS faculty fellowship enabled Mara Du to wrap up her first book, State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform, and to make significant progress on her second book, China: From a Nationless State and a Nation Defined by State. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Geoffrey | Fisher | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Self-Control, Attention, and Cognitive Modelling | Fisher's 2018-2019 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the role of attention in choice, as well as a publication on the neural mechanisms of projection bias. |
2018-2019 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | faculty fellows program | |
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. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | faculty fellows program | |
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 | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | The Role of Local Governments and Civil Society in Advancing Equity and Justice for Immigrant Communities | Gleeson's Fall 2018 fellowship helped advance research with Kate Griffith on immigrant worker precarity funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, and a co-authored book with Xóchitl Bada entitled Accountability across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (University of Texas Press, 2019). | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | faculty fellows program | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Socially Guided Learning in the Transition from Babbling to Words | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | ||
Jeffrey | Hancock | The Practice of Lying in the Digital Age | 2008-2009 | PI | Stanford University | faculty fellows program |
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