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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David | Mimno | Information Science | Text as Data Conference | The 12th annual New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA) meeting will take place at Cornell Tech. TADA is the premiere venue for computational social science work involving documents, social media, and other text. |
2022 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | The nature and emergence of property norms | Where do ideas of private property come from? This project will examine how territorial instincts might generate property norms through biases in cultural learning. The project will also investigate how people think about property norms, e.g., whether they are fundamentally moral or conventional. |
2022 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Laura | Smith | Public and Ecosystem Health | Incorporating “Zunde Ramambo” into Sustainable Nutrition Interventions to Improve Child Health | Zunde Ramambo is a community-initiated solution to looking after vulnerable children and households through the practice of sharing resources and we propose to engage the same cohort of households involved in the CHAIN trial to explore ways to incorporate it into sustainable nutrition interventions to improve child health and development. |
2022 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | CCSS Grant |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | The Water Justice League: Generating and Sustaining Water and Climate Resilience on Onondaga Lake through Citizen Science | The Water Justice League is a 4-week culturally tailored intervention and Community-Based Participatory Research Project that will assess and build water and climate change literacy and resilience in Onondaga Nation and generate ideas and pathways for sustainable business development and spiritual reprieve on Lake Onondaga. |
2022-2023 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | The Psychological Science of Morality | This research program uses the methods of psychological science to develop a multilevel model of moral judgment and decision-making, and applies moral psychology findings to address challenging social issues. |
2022-2023 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Does Elite Philanthropy Legitimate Plutocracy? | This project examines whether, how, and the extent to which elite philanthropy legitimates rising inequality and plutocracy. It (1) develops measures of support for plutocracy, (2) establishes overall support for plutocracy, (3) determines effects of philanthropy on support for plutocracy, (4) tests mechanisms, and (5) identifies implications. |
2022-2023 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Will | Hobbs | Human Development | The Effects of Changes in Personal, Societal, and Political Contexts on Well-Being and Everyday Activities: Design and analysis of open-ended surveys | This project will study open-ended survey data for tracking and explaining well-being before and after major personal and societal changes. It will construct and validate measures of well-being using replicable artificial intelligence and create multiple measures from a single open-ended response to increase cost-effectiveness. |
2022-2023 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | Designing developmentally-supportive play environments: Testing and refinement of an outdoor playspace audit tool | The proposed work will contribute to the development of a validated outdoor playspace audit tool. Through this initial mixed-methods testing and preliminary validation of a draft tool at 6-8 pilot sites the work will support the final refinement, testing, and publication of this valuable research and design tool. |
2022-2023 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Devon | Proudfoot | Human Resource Studies | Culture, Social Class, and Experience of Positive Stereotypes | The proposed research will investigate how positive stereotypes impact stereotyped group members’ well-being and motivation. Specifically, I will examine how two factors—cultural models of selfhood and social class—intersect with stereotype content to shape stereotyped group members’ experience of positive stereotypes. |
2022-2023 | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Pauline | Leung | Brooks School of Public Policy | The Effects of Work and Financial Assistance Policies on Child Outcomes: Long-Term Evidence from Welfare Reform Experiments | We examine the long-term effects of welfare-to-work policies by following up on five randomized experiments conducted in the nineties. We link the experimental data to a rich array of datasets held at the U.S. Census Bureau to understand the comprehensive economic and demographic impacts on welfare recipients and their children over a time horizon spanning more than 20 years. |
2022-2023 | pi | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Ivan | Rudik | Applied Economics and Management | Spatial and Sectoral Targeting of Climate Policy | Efficient real world climate policy must be heterogeneous across countries and industries. I will quantify the efficient distribution of carbon taxes and adaptation finance subsidies across the world. These estimates will inform policymakers where financing and capital should be directed to combat climate change. |
2022-2023 | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | The Social-Ecological Impacts of Ascendant Aquaculture | Fiorella wrote a single-author publication that examines interactions between freshwater fisheries and aquaculture, and the potential risks and benefits of those. She also received grants that will further her work, including a Public and Ecosystem Health Impact Award and Migrations Initiative Award. |
2021-2022 | pi | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land of No Return: Indonesia’s Development Out of Ruins | Goldstein worked on her book project, titled Land of No Return: Development after Degradation in Indonesia's Peatlands, and submitted three revised article manuscripts. She also received 4 campus funding awards for a Summer 2022 workshop for junior scholars. |
2021-2022 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Marlen | Gonzalez | Psychology | The Neuroecology of Space Use, Belonging, and URM Experience in Higher Education | Submitted a discussed NIH grant, submitted and obtained IRB approval for the proposed project, began working with CCSS and Redcloud to architect a cloud data pipeline for MRI data |
2021-2022 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Nicholas | Klein | City and Regional Planning | Car Ownership Transitions Among Low-Income Households | Nicholas Klein conducted interviews and fieldwork for an ongoing research project on low-income households’ precarious grasp on car ownership. He also used the time to publish several journal and magazine articles. |
2021-2022 | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Barum | Park | Sociology | Political Polarization and the Role of Online Foci in Deliberative Discussions | The fellowship helped laying the groundwork for the analysis of a massive dataset on online behavior during the 2016 US presidential election. Several papers are expected to be published from this project within the next three years. Further, an R package to fit stochastic blockmodels to weighted networks was developed. |
2021-2022 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Evan | Riehl | Labor Economics, Economics | Disparities in Household Incarceration and Student Achievement | Riehl and his coauthors wrote a working paper based on his CCSS fellowship project, which is titled "Community Impacts of Mass Incarceration." The paper is now in the submission process. |
2021-2022 | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Nicholas | Sanders | Economics | Environmental Justice and the Differential Effects of Pollution: The Role of Place, Income, and Resources | Nicholas Sanders produced research on influenza, pollution, and related health effects by socioeconomic status, to be published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He prepared research on lead exposure and educational outcomes by race, which he is in process of revising for publication. |
2021-2022 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Katherine | Sender | Communication | Sexual Mobilities | Katherine Sender spent the year getting IRB approval for a new study of LGBTQ marketing and interviewing 11 participants (with more to follow). She presented her preliminary findings at the International Communication Association's annual conference in Paris, France, in May 2022. |
2021-2022 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Simone | Tang | School of Hotel Administration | The Antecedents, Psychological Processes, and Consequences of Perceiving Organizations as Humans | Tang pursued an empirical and theoretical analysis of how organizations are humanized. This project will provide a roadmap for understanding what, how and why organizations are humanized, and under what circumstances. |
2021-2022 | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | Exploring and understanding communities within communities: A mixed methods investigation of rural drug use among Black, Latinx, and Native Americans | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | African Futures Project (Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth) | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Vida | Maralani | Sociology | Child investments and Women's Employment across the Life Course | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Jane | Mendle | Human Development | Physical and Psychological Change Across the Menstrual Cycle | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | School Based Health Centers - An approach to address health disparities among rural youth | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
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 | |
Sasha | Fahme | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Prevalence and predictors of sexually transmitted infections among trauma-exposed Syrian refugee women in Beirut, Lebanon | 2021 | Spring | pi | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Establishing a community advisory board (CAB) of child nutrition policymakers, CACFP stakeholders, ECE staff, Registered Dietitians, and parents of preschoolers to design a multi-level intervention to promote preschoolers' nutrient-dense food consumption in CACFP-participating ECE programs. | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Christopher | Gonzalez | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Leveraging Father-Son Relationships to Optimize Weight-Management Interventions in Hispanic Immigrant Communities | 2021 | Spring | pi | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Tashara | Leak | Nutritional Sciences | Reducing risk factors for type 2 diabetes among adolescent girls from low-income backgrounds | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot 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 | |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Inequality, Religion, and Wellbeing | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Remember COVID-19: Enhancing Post-Pandemic Mental Health in Diverse Populations Through the Lens of Memory | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
David | Bateman | Government | Congress & History Conference | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Learning at Scale Conference at Cornell Tech | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
Begüm | Adalet | Government | Transnational Theories | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Chloe | Ahmann | Anthropology | After Apocalypse: The Work of Utopia in White Power Activism | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Victoria | Beard | City and Regional Planning | Global Survey of City Leaders | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Heeyon | Kim | School of Hotel Administration | How University Status Impacts the Stigma Attached to Online Degrees | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Kevin | Kniffin | Applied Economics and Management | Enhancing the Effectiveness of Soft Skills Among STEM Doctoral Students | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | The Insight Bias: People Overestimate the Quality of Ideas Generated via Insight | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Courtney | McCluney | Organizational Behavior | Implications of Racial Codeswitching on Bodily and Psychological Outcomes | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Karl | Pillemer | Psychology | Linking Families and Community Institutions: Testing the Partners in Care Intervention | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Measuring Race as a Social Construct: Toward Improving the State of the Art | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jonathon | Schuldt | Communication | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Field | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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