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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Wicia | Fang | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Intergroup Loss Aversion | This research uses an economic model of choice behavior and psychophysiological measures of arousal to examine sensitivity to losses for racial ingroup vs. outgroup members, with a discussion of implications for racial disparities at the interpersonal and national level. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
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 |
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 |
Aija | Leiponen | Applied Economics and 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 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Benjamin | Leyden | Applied Economics and Management | Financial Language, Communication, and Competition Across US Industries | We study whether and how companies use a sanctioned form of public communication—quarterly earnings calls—to communicate strategic information with their competitors to coordinate strategic actions and lower competition, thus circumventing antitrust laws. This work will inform policy regarding firm communication and market competition. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Catherine | Lambert | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Dominic | Balog-Way | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Marie | Ozanne | School of Hotel Administration | How and When Sponsored Ads on Social Media Deter Social Interactions | People are bombarded with ads on social media. This research questions whether the number of ads displayed on newsfeeds impacts passive (vs. active) social media usage. Given that passive usage is negatively associated with well-being, this research offers important implications for marketing researchers and policymakers. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
John | Sipple | Global Development | 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 | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 |
Sharon | Tennyson | Economics, Brooks School of Public Policy | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Laurent | Dubreuil | Comparative Literature | Semantic Mapping of Indigeneity Through Computational Modeling of Nineteenth-Century French-Language | We intend to build a digital corpus of French-language documents related to indigeneity in the 19th century, and use both computational methods (NLP/CL) and interpretive tools to understand the ideological biases associated with textual representations of “indigeneity”, from its colonial genesis to its post-colonial recuperation. |
2023 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Imane | Terhmina | Romance Studies | Semantic Mapping of Indigeneity Through Computational Modeling of Nineteenth-Century French-Language | We intend to build a digital corpus of French-language documents related to indigeneity in the 19th century, and use both computational methods (NLP/CL) and interpretive tools to understand the ideological biases associated with textual representations of “indigeneity”, from its colonial genesis to its post-colonial recuperation. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Making AI Explainable to Community Health Workers in Rural India | AI-driven diagnostic applications are increasingly deployed to support low-skilled community health workers (CHWs) in hard-to-reach communities. This work aims to examine how CHWs in rural settings engage with AI explanations and what they need to know to safely operate such systems in high-stakes healthcare contexts. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Stephen | Vider | History | On Our Own: Deinstitutionalization and the Politics of Care | On Our Own traces the impact of deinstitutionalization—the release of people with mental illnesses and disabilities from state-run institutions—to reveal how efforts to repair state systems of mental healthcare were reshaped by the convergence of patient activism and privatization after World War II. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Wendong | Zhang | Applied Economics and Management | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Richard | Stedman | Natural Resources | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Kay | Global Development | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Maria Alejandra | Anaya Torres | Law | Rights-Based Climate Litigation, Climate Mobilization, and Climate Governance: An Interdisciplinary Approach | My dissertation seeks to understand the interplay between rights-based climate litigation, climate mobilization, and climate governance at the global level. By departing from the traditional conception of judicial decisions' domestic effects, my research seeks to provide a more socio-legal approach to understanding how rulings across jurisdictions have the potential to produce effects across scales, beyond the parties to a case, the issue at stake, and the courtroom. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell Law School | QuIRI Grant |
Michael | Cary | Global Development | Rural Livelihoods and Authoritarian Legacies Along Southern Paraguay’s Rice Frontier | This project examines Paraguay’s history of authoritarian politics and their implications for rural development. More specifically, I employ participatory mapping projects and semi-structured interviews to explore the ways in which clientelist networks mediate responses to socioecological change along southern Paraguay’s emergent rice frontier. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Elena | Dominguez Contreras | Natural Resources | Engaging Young Children in Nature Stewardship: Unfolding Nature Purpose | The project explores the ways in which young children can directly engage in restoring nature, or nature stewardship and the learning outcomes of children’s engagement in stewardship. Moreover, I am interested in how children’s participation in stewardship could be a vehicle to fuel purpose among children. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Tessa | Tessa Evans | Government | To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance | Under what conditions do insurgents challenge local gender norms during conflict? Examining armed groups in South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Sahel, I suggest rebels challenge gender norms to undermine rival elites and empower marginalized sub-sections of the population, reducing the likelihood of population-wide resistance. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Margot | Hanley | Information Science | An Ethical Assessment of Commercial Brain Computer Interfaces | As brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) become more mainstream in the market, it is essential to consider the ethical implications for individuals and society as a whole. While BCIs have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of cognitive and sensory motor conditions, they also introduce pressing ethical issues around values such as autonomy and agency, dignity, privacy and security, and fairness. In my PhD dissertation, I aim to develop a comprehensive understanding of the ethics of commercial BCI in four parts: 1) exploring the production of commercial BCIs, 2) analyzing the technology and applications of BCIs, 3) examining ethical and conceptual issues, and 4) developing policy considerations for BCIs. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell Tech | QuIRI Grant |
Donny | Persaud | Science & Technology Studies | Overcoming place from outer space: Constructing global internet connectivity through low-earth-orbit satellite internet infrastructure | My project examines how the introduction of low-earth-orbit satellite internet infrastructure reshapes relationships between technology, place, and nature. I do so by tracing the challenges in providing satellite internet services, the impacts of satellite constellations on astronomical research, and how this infrastructure challenges existing environmental protections. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Francine | Barchett | Natural Resources | Human Dimensions of Tourism Hunting: An Ethnographic Study of Hunting Camps in Mozambique & Cameroon | This ethnographic case study centers on the operations of 2 tourist hunting camps in Mozambique and Cameroon. Set apart by their high biodiversity, vast acreage, and the small number of wealthy, predominantly American clients they attracts, this work can provide insights on tourist hunting, among the most controversial conservation topics of the 21st century. The tourist hunting industry accounts for 5x more conservation land than national parks in Sub-Saharan Africa, has been an economic incentive for conservation, and is a chosen livelihood tool by some communities through the community-based natural resource management model. Through observations, interviews, and immersion, my research will probe the links between communities, clients, and companies involved in tourist hunting, their relationships to the land, and day-to-day community experiences and perceptions. This informs my broader dissertation, which employs a human dimensions of wildlife lens to probe the sustainability and resilience of the tourist hunting industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Grace | Beals | Government | Debt and Death: Looking at Fringe Credit Use During COVID-19 | Did stimulus checks change low-income consumers' use of predatory financial services? I interview payday loan borrowers in New York and Michigan to ask about their experience using alternative financial products and about their use of the stimulus checks. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Jarvis | Fisher | Global Development | Rice Production and Agroecology in Senegal | For years, Senegalese government officials have promoted rice self-sufficiency by intensifying the use of synthetic inputs and irrigation. Recently, a national coalition has rejected this approach, advocating ecologically intensive practices. This project examines the transformative effect of these contrasting approaches in two regions of Senegal. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Ivy | Gilbert | Psychology | Qualitative analysis of dairy-industry discourse on Instagram | This project analyzes visual and textual features in a small corpus of Instagram posts by dairy farmers to explore the persuasive role of social media in the discursive construction of dairy farming. Implications for moral evaluations of animals and farming practices are discussed. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Ru | Liu | Nutritional Sciences | Facilitators and barriers to implementing a food pantry-based produce prescription program in New York City | Through semi-structured interviews, this project aims to understand the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a food pantry-based Produce Prescription program in New York City from stakeholders’ perspectives. The findings will inform the design and implementation of community-clinic-partnered health interventions. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Carlos | Lopez-Ortiz | City and Regional Planning | Moving up or down the ladder? Disentangling the effects of slum upgrading on social mobility in Global South cities | How do adult residents’ experiences of intergenerational social mobility differ between upgraded and non-upgraded slums in Global South cities? Using semi-structured interviews, I will explore how physical transformations in upgraded and non-upgraded slums in Bogota and Nairobi relate to their residents’ social mobility experiences. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | QuIRI Grant |
Joy | Ming | Information Science | Visibilizing Work: Collecting In-Depth Narratives of Home Care Workers for Advocacy | Home care workers (HCWs) are essential but vulnerable workers—a lot of their difficult working conditions and out-of-scope contributions are rendered invisible. My project collects and aggregates data and stories of HCWs to develop a comprehensive narrative to reduce wage theft and advocate for fairer wages. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Timothy | Ravis | Global Development | The Tectonics of Power: Earth, Energy, and State in Indonesia | This research examines the history of and contemporary struggles over geothermal energy in Indonesia, which has the most geothermal energy in the world. I illuminate the configurations through which state, society, capital, and science cooperate—and struggle—over energy resources and the value they offer. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Katherine | Sender | Communication | Queer Eye goes global: Understanding local audiences’ reception of transnational LGBTQ television | As Netflix has expanded television streaming around the world, I focus on audiences of Queer Eye to explore the transnational export of LGBTQ content beyond the US. The QuIRI grant will be used to compensate focus group participants in Brazil, China, Spain, and the US. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Troy | Richardson | Communication | Indigenous Seed Reclamation in the Carolina and Virginia Piedmont | Indigenous farmers in the southeastern US have are regularly left out of discussions of land based practices in Indigenous Studies. This research seeks to amplify the personal experiences, motivations and aspirations of these farmers and their work with heritage and other varieties of corn. |
2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Evaluating the Impact of a Modified Community-Supported Agriculture Program at an Urban Food Pantry for low-income parent-child dyads | 2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Peter | Rich | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's license suspensions, legal debt, and the reproduction of inequality | 2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Maureen | Waller | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's license suspensions, legal debt, and the reproduction of inequality | 2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Gen | Meredith | Public and Ecosystem Health | Impact of cross-system collaboration and community health worker models on preventative service use in Northern Appalachia | 2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Ian | Lundberg | Information Science | Economic volatility and the changing the U.S. population age structure | 2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Laura | Bellows | Nutritional Sciences | Digital platform for mothers of young children to address obesity promoting behaviors | 2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Use of AI-driven malnutrition diagnosis technology among community health workers in rural India | 2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Saleh | Kalantari | Human Centered Design | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | 2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Wenfei | Xu | City and Regional Planning | A New Picture of Segregation | 2023 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Combating Global Health Misinformation via Community-Engaged Research | 2024 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Brennan | Antone | Information Science | Social Onboarding for LLMs: Examining Communication and Social Support Around Generative AI Use. | Generative AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT) require skill to use effectively. We consider how social learning (human-human interaction) can shape how people approach Generative AI. Through interviews and observation of chatbot use in social conditions, we explore how people learn to prompt and apply AI tools. |
2024 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Malte | Jung | Information Science | Social Onboarding for LLMs: Examining Communication and Social Support Around Generative AI Use. | Generative AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT) require skill to use effectively. We consider how social learning (human-human interaction) can shape how people approach Generative AI. Through interviews and observation of chatbot use in social conditions, we explore how people learn to prompt and apply AI tools.
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2024 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Caitie | Barrett | Classics | Exploring the Domestic Impact of Roman Imperialism at Pompeii | This archaeological excavation examines the impact of the Roman conquest on ancient households at Pompeii, a city originally governed by a non-Roman Italic people. This critical analysis of domestic space intervenes in archaeological and anthropological discourse on imperialism, inequality, and identity in the ancient Mediterranean. |
2024 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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