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 ascending | College | Grant Type |
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Stefan | Klonner | 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 | University of Heidelberg | Collaborative Project | ||
Julie | Kmec | Human Resources Policies and Discrimination Charges | 2008 | Spring | co-pi | Washington State University | CCSS Grant | ||
Julilly | Kohler-Hausmann | History | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Kimberly | Kopko | Policy Analysis and Management | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Christina | Korting | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Heidi | Kretser | Natural Resources | 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 | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Carol Lynne | Krumhansl | Psychology | Social Affiliation and Music-Induced Synchrony in Dance | Prior support led to 1 paper and two papers in preparation, 2 pop press pieces, 2 chaired symposia, and 3 posters (awarded the SPSP Student Poster Award (1st place). | 2016 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Neema | Kudva | City and Regional Planning | Building on the Informalized City: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2010 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Benedek | Kurdi | Psychology | Taking a Computational Approach to Implicit Social Cognition | 2020 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Effect of Gossip on Children's Well-being and Belonging | 2020 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Kyle | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Stacey | Langwick | Anthropology | First Conference/Workshop: Ecological Learning Collaboratory for Food, Healing, and Spatial Justice | 2018 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
T. Bruce | Lauber | Natural Resources | 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 | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Lazer | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | Fall | co-pi | Northeastern University | CCSS Grant | ||
Peter | Lazes | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | ||
David | Lee | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | |
Aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Pauline | Leung | Policy Analysis and Management | Further Education During Unemployment | Produced an eponymous working paper (Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper #642, May 2020) currently under peer review. Results from the project presented at more than ten seminars and conferences. | 2017 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
David | Levine | Can an Improved Sales Contract Speed Adoption of Improved Stoves? | 2010 | Fall | co-pi | Berkeley | 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 |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Bohan | Li | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Daniel | Lichter | Policy Analysis and Management, Sociology | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. | 2008-2011 | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Dean R. | Lillard | Policy Analysis and Management | Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational Socio-Economic Mobility | 2010 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Sarah | Lim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Starbucks Effect: How Consumer Identification Impacts Consumer Preferences | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences (Association of Consumer Research and Society of Consumer Psychology Conferences). Further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Yanyan | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Targeting and Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme | This small grant generated multiple peer-reviewed articles, in for example World Bank Economic Review, World Development, Economic & Political Weekly. | 2012 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Peng | Liu | School of Hotel Administration | Novelty and Popularity in Markets for News | 2009 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | |
Caezilia | Loibl | Credit Card Reforms and Consumers' Use of Credit Cards | This research on the impact of CARD Act (2010) billing disclosure regulations on consumers’ debt payment behaviors was presented at multiple policy conferences and is published as “Effects of informational nudges on consumer debt repayment behaviors” in Journal of Economic Psychology, 51, 16-33. | 2011 | Spring | co-pi | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | |
Maria Vignau | Loria | Sociology | Occupational Quality and Health | This group has advanced pilot phase research for a project on the occupational health of Latino workers. The goal is to obtain NIH funding to add a module to the Hispanic Community Health Study that can help shed light on risk factors over time. | 2019 | co-pi | University of Washington | Working Group Grant | |
Claudio | Lucarelli | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Archie | Luyimbazi | Tune in to Governance. An Experimental Investigation of Radio Campaigns in Africa | 2008 | Spring | co-pi | Makerere University | 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 |
Catherine | Maclean | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | Spring | co-pi | Temple University | CCSS Grant | ||
Fouad | Makki | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Gregory | Mann | Re-evaluating Africa and World War II | This conference brought together an international group of scholars to present case studies on the impact of WW II on Africa. The papers presented here formed the core of the volume Africa and WW II (Cambridge University Press, 2015). | 2009 | Spring | co-pi | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | |
Anna | Mansfield | Food Science and Technology | Estimating the Impact of Alternative Canopy Management Practices on White Wine Purchase Decisions | Led to a publication in the Journal of Agricultural Economics entitled the Consumer Valuation of Environmentally Friendly Production Practices in Wines considering Asymmetric Information and Sensory Effects, with B. Rickard and J. Taber, 2013. The research results were used extensively in Extension presentations in New York State. | 2010 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Karuna | Mantena | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | Fall | co-pi | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
Kathryn | March | Anthropology | 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 | |
Alan | Mathois | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2018 | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | co-pi | Columbia University | CCSS Grant | ||
Jordan | Matsudaira | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. | 2008-2011 | co-pi | Columbia University | Collaborative Project | ||
Lisa | McCabe | Human Development | Poverty, Equity and State Policy: The Move Toward Universal Pre-kindergarten in New York State Rural School Districts | This grant allowed deep and multi-method exploration of the equity implications of the implementation of Universal PreK in NYS. We also discovered a negative impact of UPK programming on infant and toddler care in rural communities. This led to conference papers, a Hatch grant, and Sipple, Casto & McCabe (2020). Child Care Deserts in New York State: Factors Related to the Community Capacity to Care for Children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. |
2008 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Susan | McCouch | Plant Breeding and Genetics | Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement and Social Change | This ISS grant helped fund a major interdisciplinary conference held at Cornell, on the deep history of rice and migrations in Asia, coinciding with a co-taught class. It was partially published as a special double issue of the journal Rice (ISSN 1939-8425), 2011 | 2011 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
Philip | McMichael | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development in an Age of Climate Change | 2010 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tom | Medvetz | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | co-pi | University of California San Diego | Collaborative Project |
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