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 Sort ascending | Grant Type |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Draga | Zec | Linguistics | The interaction of syntax, semantics, and prosody in Slovenian | Formed a partial underpinning of several papers, including “Getting in the first word” Glossa 2.1 2017. | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Zoe | Draga | Linguistics | Support for organizing a Workshop on Grammar Induction | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Restoring Credit: How people Understand and Interact with Credit Scoring Systems | Two papers based on 16 months of data collection for this exploratory project are currently being written up and under review, respectively. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Malte | Ziewitz | Science and Technology Studies | Inscrutable Algorithms: Decoding the Paradox of Computational Authority | His time as a 2018 CCSS Faculty Fellow helped Malte Ziewitz advance his research on due process in automated scoring systems, leading to an NSF CAREER award as well as a journal article. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
Edward E. | Baptist | History | International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Claudine | Gay | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jennifer | Hochschild | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Timothy | DeVoogd | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
Douglas | Kriner | Government | Presidential Politics in an Era of Democratic Disruption | This conference examines how presidential politics have helped precipitate and in turn been shaped by troubling trends in democratic governance in the United States and around the world. Papers will be published in a special issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Draga | Zec | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Workshop on Grammar Induction | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Monroe | Near Eastern Studies | Life on the Frontier: Identify and Exchange at the Ancient Border Town of Abel Bath Maacah, Israel | 2012 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Maria | Håkansson | Information Science | Intervening in American Families' Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Molly | Diesing | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Jörg | Stoye | Economics | Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Camille | Robcis | History | Catholics, Gender, and the Gay Marriage Debate in France | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | Youth, Identities, and Transnational Flows | The grant supported (1) collaboration with Mexican NGO in Chiapas, (2) creation of educational materials for local farmworkers on rights, on COVID awareness, (3) publication of various professional articles by co-PIs, often in collaboration with students and community members. | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Way | Government | Understanding Bioweapons Proliferation | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | A New Social Indicators Framework for Measuring Trends in Inequality | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Social Mobility and Immobility in an Age of Inequality | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Work Hours and Gender Inequality in Earnings Across Countries | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarin Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarian Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Robert | Weiner | Government | Strategy and Sincerity in Democratic Party Systems | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Mass Politics and Policy in Russia and China | The edited volume that emerged from the workshop was published this year by Oxford University Press, titled: Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Russia & China. |
2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Heidi | Waterfall | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Marina | Welker | Anthropology | An Ethnography of the Sampoerna Clove Cigarette Company | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 | |
Sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | Qualitative Methods Working Group | The Qualitative Methods Working Group brought together social science faculty and researchers from around the campus who are teaching, employing, and developing qualitative research methods. The working group has grown to become the Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute under the CCSS. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Working Group 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 | |
Kathleen | Vogel | Science and Technology Studies | Imagined and Realized Futures of U.S Bioweapons Threat Assessments | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Elif | Celikors | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Wagner | Linguistics | Encoding and Retrieving Information with Prosody | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Ward | Government | Status and the Politics of National Decline | Research has been delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I plan to complete the funded research by next summer. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Chloe | Ahmann | Anthropology | After Apocalypse: The Work of Utopia in White Power Activism | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Martin | Wells | Statistical Science | The Cornell Criminal Records Panel Survey (CCRPS): Sample Expansion and Linkage to Administrative Records | This grant supported participant recruitment for the CCRPS, as well as coding of administrative data. This helped us to gain funding from the Department of Labor for the development and fielding of the Wave 2 survey (EO-30278-17-60-5-36; $244,603). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Begüm | Adalet | Government | Transnational Theories | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
John | Whitman | Linguistics | 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 Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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