Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort ascending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Kathryn | March | Anthropology | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Andrew | Willford | Anthropology | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Chris | Garces | Anthropology | Latin American Alternatives to the Security Prison: An Ethnographic Study of Prisoner Self-Governance and Survival | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Stacey | Langwick | Anthropology | The Power of Skin in East Africa | The research afforded by this grant contributed to two top-tier journal articles and two chapters in edited volumes as well as moved forward a book manuscript. In addition, this grant enabled the development of international partnerships that are resulting in ongoing work, co-publications and grants. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Stacey | Langwick | Anthropology | First Conference/Workshop: Ecological Learning Collaboratory for Food, Healing, and Spatial Justice | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Paul Steven | Sangren | Anthropology | Application for Funding for Preliminary Research on Local Product (Techan) Specialization in China and Taiwan | Relevant to long-standing linkages in all my research to regional economic and social organization. Most recently, paper on “SPATIAL IMAGINATION: Skinnerian “Human Interaction Systems” and the Roles of Spatial Imagery and “Subjection” in Chinese Rituals. | 2009 | Fall | 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 | |
Marina | Welker | Anthropology | Ethical Technologies of Corporate Rule: A Mining Company in Postauthoritarian Indonesia | The grant contributed to my book, “Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Postauthoritarian Indonesia” (University of California Press, 2014), which is based on two years of ethnographic research on a Denver-based mining firm and its Indonesian operation. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
Stacey | Langwick | Anthropology | Toward Sustainable Health: Modernizing Traditional Medicine in Tanzania | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Smith | Anthropology | Resilience and Ruination in Mountain Communities: Comparative Regional Settlement Dynamics in the South Caucasus from the Bronze Age to Today | This pilot research led to a multi-year NSF grant to support further archaeological research on settlement dynamics in the South Caucasus. | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kurt | Jordan | Anthropology | Beyond Diversity: Re-Situating Pluralism | This workshop added and integrated perspectives drawn from ecological systems into the socio-cultural context that defines pluralism, the objectives being: articulation of an enriched concept of pluralism; identification of new and integrated areas of research; and development of a strategy for further research. |
2008 | Spring | Co-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 | |
Amiel | Bize | Anthropology | Indexing Environments: Risk, Value, and Experimentation in the Era of Climate Change | This project examines “index-based insurance” (IBI)—a response to climate-induced risks for farmers and herders in the Global South. Examining IBI as an experimental technology that straddles development and finance, it explores the implications of IBI’s framing of risk, environment, and social life. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Magnus | Fiskesjo | Anthropology | Kings and Dictators: Asia’s New Authoritarianians and the Legacy of Monarchy (Conference) | The conference "Kings & Dictators: The legacy of monarchy and the new authoritarianism in Asia" was held April 13-14, 2018. It included both external invitees and Cornell speakers, and attracted a large Cornell audience, including students in a course timed to coincide with it. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Alex | Nading | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Saida | Hodzic | Anthropology | Work that Kills: The Social Life of a Bosnian Weapons Factory | The research supported by this grant has been presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists biennial conference; publications and further grant applications are planned. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | How a Community Teaches Justice: Public Pedagogies and Youth–Adult Civic Learning in Everyday Social Movement | This project contributed to two publications: A chapter in an edited volume, “Latinx cultural programming as public pedagogy: Mobilizing cultura (culture) in Upstate New York,” and a journal article, “Pedagogies of ‘being with:’ Witnessing, testimonio and critical love in everyday social movement.” In addition to multiple paper presentations, it also laid the foundation for a book manuscript-in-progress. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Velasco | Anthropology | Embodying Social Inequality During a Time of War: A Bioarchaeological Study of Childhood Health in the Late Prehispanic Andes | Funding helped support laboratory research on archaeological human remains in Peru, to examine childhood health outcomes and patterns of geographic mobility. To date, this pilot study has yielded two conference posters and an undergraduate thesis. Papers based on this research are in preparation. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Viranjini | Munasinghe | Anthropology | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Elif | Sari | Anthropology | From Competition to Solidarity: Iranian & Syrian LGBTQ Refugee Meetings | Sari conducted 10 follow-up interviews with Iranian LGBTQ refugees in Turkey to complete her dissertation on refugees’ lives and experiences. The funding also allowed her to organize two small group meetings, where Iranian refugees discussed how to establish collaboration and solidarity with Syrian LGBTQ refugees in the country and prepared a community-engaged project plan and a tentative division of labor. Accordingly, the group will organize 3 virtual meetings in Fall 2021 to bring Iranian and Syrian refugees together and develop strategies for transforming prejudices and preconceptions about each other. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Itamar | Haritan | Anthropology | Foreign Ancestors: Alternative Genealogical Imaginaries in Israeli Society | This study asks whether and how the genealogical imaginaries created by Israeli Family Constellation facilitators and participants and Polish-Israeli hometown association activists create alternative genealogical imaginaries, and how these imaginaries affirm, transform or resist dominant modes of belonging in Israeli society, which are usually nationalized.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 | |
Anneliese | Riles | Anthropology | Meridian 180 Inter-Disciplinary Conference: Rethinking the "Comfort Women" Problem | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Saida | Hodzic | Anthropology | Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Awkward Endings of Female Genital Cutting | Hodži?’s fellowship resulted in the book The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (University of California Press, 2017) which won two prestigious awards, the Michelle Rosaldo book prize for Feminist Anthropology and the Amaury Talbot Book Prize for African Anthropology. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Itamar | Haritan | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Hirokazu | Miyazaki | Anthropology | The Socal Distribution of Hope | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Annelise | Riles | Anthropology | Law Markets and Social Equity Conference | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Natasha | Raheja | Anthropology | Majority-Minority Politics across the India-Pakistan Border | How do majorities come to imagine themselves as minorities? Conversely, how do minorities come to imagine justice as part of majorities? Focusing on immigration policy in South Asia, my project argues that majority-minority politics exceed state borders, in ways that are not nation bound. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Daniel | Ferman-Leon | Anthropology | The Financialization of Racialized Geographies: Real Estate Investment and Housing Insecurity in Kansas City | Fermon-Leon's funding has been used to explore the archives of business journals and local development publications. The remainder of the funds will be used to carryout in-depth interviews and focus groups. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Simone | Tang | School of Hotel Administration, Organizational Behavior | Anthropomorphization of organizations and its consequences | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Ben | Ho | School of Hotel Administration | Novelty and Popularity in Markets for News | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Sean | Rogers | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Aaron | Adalja | School of Hotel Administration | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Jamie | Perry | School of Hotel Administration | Meta-Analytic Evidence and Critica Contingencies of Resource-Based Subgroup | The fellowship allowed Jamie Perry the resources to develop a theoretical framework for understanding cooperation and competition within groups. She has recently completed a working paper with coauthors, and subsequently, started empirical investigation of the phenomenon. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
James | Hesford | School of Hotel Administration | Give & Take: Incentive Framing in Compensation Contracts | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Marie | Ozanne | School of Hotel Administration | How the Use of a Non-native (vs. Native) Language Shapes Food Preferences | Can the use of a non-native (vs. native) language change people’s preference for healthy (vs. unhealthy) food? We investigate whether and how linguistic context (native vs. non-native) influences food choices, advancing literature on bilingualism and health, with practical implications for policy-makers. |
2022 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Renata | Kosova | School of Hotel Administration | Agglomeration, Product Differentiation, and Firm Entry | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Arturs | Kalnins | School of Hotel Administration | The Diversification of Small Business Entrepreneurs: Form and Effects | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | |
Pamela | Moulton | School of Hotel Administration | Investor Distraction versus Investor Focus: Evidence from Earnings Announcements | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Chekitan | Dev | School of Hotel Administration | A Multimethod and Longitudinal Explanation of Diversity and Firm Performance | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Alex | Susskind | School of Hotel Administration | The Impact of Restaurant Menu Labeling on Food Choice | We conducted a randomized experiment of calorie labels on restaurant menus. Over 5,500 patrons received either the regular menu without calorie counts or the same menu but with calorie information added. We estimate that the calorie labels reduced the number of calories ordered by roughly 3%. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Eva | Steiner | School of Hotel Administration | How do Firms Respond to Investment Opportunities? The Role of Cities | This research effort led to the study of the characteristics of cities and how they influence investments, including the working paper ìHow Does Property Location Influence Investment Risk and Return?î | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Jamie | Perry | School of Hotel Administration | A Multimethod and Longitudinal Explanation of Diversity and Firm Performance | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Howard | Chong | School of Hotel Administration | Disentangling the building from behavior in residential energy efficiency | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Peng | Liu | School of Hotel Administration | Novelty and Popularity in Markets for News | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Peng | Liu | School of Hotel Administration | Commodity Prices in the Presence of Long-run Economic Relationships | This study resulted in a publication titled “Economic Linkages, Relative Scarcity, and Commodity Futures Returns” at the Review of Financial Studies in 2013. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Boone | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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