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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Hassan | Enayati | Institute for Compensation Studies | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Louis | Hyman | Labor Relations Law and History | Economic Methods for Historians Workshop (aka History of Capitalism Summer Camp) | Supported the growth of a cross-generational scholarly community in asking new questions about the history of capitalism. The camp transformed the many books and articles published by those graduate students and faculty. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Louis | Hyman | Labor Relations Law and History | Economic Methods for Historians Workshop (aka History of Capitalism Summer Camp) | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Marya | Besharov | Organizational Behavior | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Jack | Goncalo | Organizational Behavior | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Kati | Griffith | Labor Relations Law and History | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Kati | Griffith | Labor Relations Law and History | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Kati | Griffith | Labor Relations Law and History | Immigration Status at Work | The grant contributed to data collection and several publications including, Gleeson, Shannon and Kati L. Griffith. 2020. ìEmployers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workersî Law & Social Inquiry. 2020.17 | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Kati | Griffith | Labor Relations Law and History | Immigrant Worker Precarity, Race and the Dual Pandemic | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Diane | Burton | Human Resource Studies | 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 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Esta R. | Bigler | Labor and Employment Law | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Esta | Bigler | Labor and Employment Law | Law and Social Sciences Conference: Increasing Inclusion/Reducing Discrimination: What Works | Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Esta | Bigler | Labor and Employment Law | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Kevin | Hallock | Labor Economics | Considering Compensation: An Interdisciplinary Research Conference for New Scholars | This was a conference of junior scholars and graduate students. The biggest success was that one of the invitees (in his final year of his PhD) was recruited to Cornell this past year with tenure. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior, Psychology | The Social Psychology Behind “Always On” Work Culture | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | Understanding Our Influence Over Others’ Moral Decisions | Studies conducted as part of this research project were published in, "With a little help from my friends (and strangers): closeness as a moderator of the underestimation-of-compliance effect," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Marya | Besharov | Organizational Behavior | Creating Change from Within or Building an Alternative? The Role of Intermediaries in Developing Local Food Systems | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Sub-Saharan African Migration Project (S-SMAP) (African Futures Project) | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
C. Kirabo | Jackson | Labor Economics | A Stitch in Time: Evaluating the Effects of an AP Incentive Program on College Outcomes | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Testing interventions to encourage self-blinding | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Olga | Khessina | Organizational Behavior | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Matthew | Freedman | Labor Economics | Agglomeration Effects: The Role of Selection | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | Education Work in China: A Comparative Study of Beijing's Separate School Systems | This support allowed me to conduct fieldwork that helped advance my book project. Most directly, it led to the publication of an article, “Teachers’ Work in China’s Migrant Schools” in Modern China. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | 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 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Precarity and Migrant Labor: Consular Protection as a Case of Transnational Labor Advocacy | With coauthor Xóchitl Bada (University of Illinois, Chicago), this book project uses the case of Mexico and the United States to assess the portability of worker rights across borders and the key role that the sending state and transnational civil society can play. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | 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 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Working Group Grant | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local | As international migration continues to rise, countries of origin have played an increasing role in engaging their emigrants; however, we know little about how they are being held accountable for the services offered to their diasporas. To fill the gap, this book analyzes on-the-ground, transnational defense of migrant labor rights.
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2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Immigrant Worker Precarity, Race and the Dual Pandemic | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Jetson | Leder-Luis | The Actions of State Medical Boards in the Opioid Prescribing Epidemic | A small number of inappropriately-prescribing physicians drove opioid prescribing increases in the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic. This project collects a novel dataset of state medical board actions to determine the nature and extent of investigations and disciplinary actions regarding opioid prescribing. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Boston University | CCSS Grant | |
Wendy | Brunner | Bassett Research Center | Assessing the Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Healthcare Access in Rural Communities | This project evaluates the effectiveness of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) to address health disparities among underserved rural youth using de-identified individual-level panel data on patient visits to healthcare providers. The study focuses on 4 high-poverty rural counties in New York, comparing healthcare for children in 16 school districts with SBHCs to those in 22 school districts without. We will assess how SBHCs help poor rural communities by bringing health services directly to children to enhance rural community health. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Bassett Healthcare Network | CCSS Grant |
Tobias | Kretschmer | Munich School of Management | Tolerance for Sharing Polarizing Content on Information Platforms | We seek to understand users' preferences for spreading polarizing content on an information platform, which is informative for the design of effective platform governance strategies. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | CCSS Grant |
Giulia | Solinas | Munich School of Management | Tolerance for Sharing Polarizing Content on Information Platforms | We seek to understand users' preferences for spreading polarizing content on an information platform, which is informative for the design of effective platform governance strategies. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | CCSS Grant |
Joy | Wu | Munich School of Management | Tolerance for Sharing Polarizing Content on Information Platforms | We seek to understand users' preferences for spreading polarizing content on an information platform, which is informative for the design of effective platform governance strategies. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | CCSS Grant |
Ferdinand | Eibl | Political Economy | The Politics of Labor Market Outsiders in the Middle East and North Africa: Insights from Tunisia | This project aims at unpacking the political and social policy preferences of labor market outsiders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We will conduct a pilot survey in Tunisia, which will serve as the foundation for a larger grant proposal. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | King’s College London | CCSS Grant |
Walker | DePuy | Southeast Asia Program, Einaudi Center for International Studies | Hearing the Forest Through the Trees: Collaborative Science and Indigenous Sonic Entanglements in East Kalimantan | Working with frontline Indigenous communities, this team of social and natural scientists brings anthropological, bioacoustic, and Indigenous knowledges together to investigate: 1) The impacts of Indonesia's emerging new capital, Nusantara, on surrounding peoples and landscapes, and 2) how collaborative soundscape research can reveal novel multi-species entanglements and advance Indigenous territorial monitoring. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Southeast Asia Program | CCSS Grant |
Adriana | Reyes | Sociology | Understanding Americans Attitudes towards Caregiving for Older Adults | I will assess the attitudes and policy preferences of Americans toward caregiving for older adults using survey data and in-depth interview data. I will focus on variations across race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and over time. Vignettes will be used to understand when preferences diverge from expectations. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Colleen | Carey | Economics | The Actions of State Medical Boards in the Opioid Prescribing Epidemic | A small number of inappropriately-prescribing physicians drove opioid prescribing increases in the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic. This project collects a novel dataset of state medical board actions to determine the nature and extent of investigations and disciplinary actions regarding opioid prescribing. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
Nicolas | Bottan | Economics | Social comparisons and economic decisions | I propose a new research project where I plan on conducting an online survey experiment and a large-scale field experiment to study the causal effect of social comparisons and home price expectations on individual housing investment decisions. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Colleen | Carey | Economics | What is the Advantage of Medicare Advantage? Supply and Demand Factors in Medicare Beneficiaries' Enrollment in Private Insurance | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | 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 |
Mark | Constas | Applied Economics and Management | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management | ||
Yanna | Krupnikov | News Evidence and Political Behavior | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Indiana University | |||
Dale | Tomich | International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Binghamton University | |||
Rafael | Marquese | International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Sao Paolo | |||
Eric | Baumer | Computer Science | Developing Methods for Joint Analysis of Close-Ended and Open-Ended Survey Data | We drew specific connections between new statistical methods and established practices for evaluating free-text survey results. This comparison helps survey researchers in adapting new tools, and helps computational researchers in recognizing how tools are actually being used. Results were published in JASIST. |
2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Lehigh University | CCSS Grant |
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