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 Sort descending | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | The Social Life of Land Workshop | 2019 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How Incentivizing Reviews Bias User-Generated Content | Woolley’s 2020-2021 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and resource allocation, including a publication on how time resources shape intrinsic motivation that was conditionally accepted in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. |
2019 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
So-Yeon | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Immersive Discrete Choice Experiments for the Analysis of Time Perceptions in Crowded Environments | 2019 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Cristobal | Young | Sociology | Millionaire Migration after the Trump Tax Bill | 2020 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 |
Jiwon | Yun | Linguistics | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Platonic Friendship and Social Olfactory Cues in Human Body Odor | Prior support led to 4 conference talks and 3 poster presentations. | 2012 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chris | Zepeda-Millan | Children of the Undocumented: Inclusion versus Exclusion | 2013 | spring | Co-PI | Loyola Marymount University | CCSS Grant | ||
Liandong | Zhang | 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 | University of Hong Kong | CCSS Grant | |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Kaspar | Zimmerman | "Too-big-to-fail" and Historical Banking Crises | This grant has led a new publicly-available historical database of global financial crises since 1870 and two papers: ìBanking Crises Without Panicsî (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 2020) and a new working paper. | 2018 | spring | Co-PI | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
John | Zinda | Development Sociology | Cross-Cutting Risk Responses: Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | This fellowship facilitated analytical work and advanced methodological training, as of January 2022 yielding one journal article (Different Hazards, Different Responses: Assessments of Flooding and COVID-19 Risks among Upstate New York Residents), two manuscripts in progress, and a grant proposal in preparation. |
2018 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Emily | Zitek | Organizational Behavior | When Do People Perceive Their Positive Outcomes as Unfair? | A paper describing a series of studies funded by this grant will soon be under review. | 2017 | spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Luo | Zuo | Johnson Graduate School of Management | 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 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | 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 | CCSS Grant | |
Heffetz | Ori | Business | What’s a Price Worth? An Experimental Study of Prices and Preferences | 2007 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ||
Jennifer | Hochschild | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Claudine | Gay | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | spring | 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 | ||
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 | ||
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Real Estate Cycles and Banking Crises | This project aims to analyze the role of real estate cycles in causing banking crises by creating a new historical database of the stock returns of real estate-related firms and investment vehicles since 1870 across 17 economies. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Sara | Bronin | City and Regional Planning | A Historic Preservation Local Law Census: Where and Why | People interact with preservation law predominantly at the local level, through historic commissions that opine on proposed rehab projects. Yet there is neither a census of local governments that regulate historic places, nor any scholarship that ties adoption to demographic characteristics, political inclinations, and state enabling authority features. My research will identify where historic districts have been adopted and explore how rates of adoption change from state to state depending on various independent variables. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | 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 |
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 |
Will | Hobbs | Psychology | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
John | Thrasher | Smith Institute for Political Economy and 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 | Co-PI | Chapman University | 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 | 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 | |
Jenny | Goldstein | Development Sociology | Pandemics and human-environment interactions: Land use change as a driver of coronavirus and influenza outbreaks in Asia | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Kendra | Kintzi | Development Sociology | Glittering Metropolis: Renewable Energy, Smart Grids, and Life beyond Oil in Jordan | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Cameron | Mailhot | Government | The Relationship between International Missions and Post-Conflict Political Trust: Evidence from a Qualitative Analysis of Kosovo’s Newspaper Archives | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Lindsey | Pruett | Government | Soldiers, Shovels and the State: Military Led State-Building and Civic Action in Post-Colonial Senegal | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Adrienne | Scott | Government | American Citizenship and the Welfare State | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Yiying | Xiong | Government | Weaponizing Nationalism: China’s Economic Coercion and Its Effectiveness | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
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