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 | Grant Type Sort ascending |
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Dina | Bishara | International and Comparative Labor | The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics | Bishara conducted research on the effects of subnational resource wealth on protest in Tunisia. Bishara published three peer-reviewed articles in 2021-2022. Her article, “The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics” (Comparative Political Studies, 2021), was awarded “Best Fieldwork” by the Middle East and North Africa Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. |
2021-2022 | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | faculty fellows program | ||
Alexandra | Cirone | Government | A Citizens’ Assembly in Ithaca: Deliberative Democracy and Local Policymaking | The fellowship allowed for substantial progress on a book for Cambridge Elements in Political Economy, focusing on the use of lotteries and citizens' assemblies in democratic governance, entitled "Lotteries and Democracy". |
2021-2022 | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | ||
Kathryn | Fiorella | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | The Social-Ecological Impacts of Ascendant Aquaculture | Fiorella wrote a single-author publication that examines interactions between freshwater fisheries and aquaculture, and the potential risks and benefits of those. She also received grants that will further her work, including a Public and Ecosystem Health Impact Award and Migrations Initiative Award. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | 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 | |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land of No Return: Indonesia’s Development Out of Ruins | Goldstein worked on her book project, titled Land of No Return: Development after Degradation in Indonesia's Peatlands, and submitted three revised article manuscripts. She also received 4 campus funding awards for a Summer 2022 workshop for junior scholars. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Marlen | Gonzalez | Psychology | The Neuroecology of Space Use, Belonging, and URM Experience in Higher Education | Submitted a discussed NIH grant, submitted and obtained IRB approval for the proposed project, began working with CCSS and Redcloud to architect a cloud data pipeline for MRI data |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | faculty fellows program | |
Nicholas | Klein | City and Regional Planning | Car Ownership Transitions Among Low-Income Households | Nicholas Klein conducted interviews and fieldwork for an ongoing research project on low-income households’ precarious grasp on car ownership. He also used the time to publish several journal and magazine articles. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | 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 | |
Evan | Riehl | Labor Economics, Economics | Disparities in Household Incarceration and Student Achievement | Riehl and his coauthors wrote a working paper based on his CCSS fellowship project, which is titled "Community Impacts of Mass Incarceration." The paper is now in the submission process. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | faculty fellows program | |
Nicholas | Sanders | Economics | Environmental Justice and the Differential Effects of Pollution: The Role of Place, Income, and Resources | Nicholas Sanders produced research on influenza, pollution, and related health effects by socioeconomic status, to be published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He prepared research on lead exposure and educational outcomes by race, which he is in process of revising for publication. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | faculty fellows program | |
Katherine | Sender | Communication | Sexual Mobilities | Katherine Sender spent the year getting IRB approval for a new study of LGBTQ marketing and interviewing 11 participants (with more to follow). She presented her preliminary findings at the International Communication Association's annual conference in Paris, France, in May 2022. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
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 | |
Eleanor | Wilking | Law | Worker Classification and Misclassification: Evidence from Employer Insurance Mandates | Over the fellowship year, significant progress was made in cleaning and linking administrative datasets. Initial descriptive findings found increasing convergence between workers classified as employees and those classified as independent contractors, accepted for publication in Northwestern University Law Review [Nov. 2022]. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell Law School | faculty fellows program | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Africa Futures Project: Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth | This project uses cross-national comparative survey and longitudinal interview data to address unresolved questions regarding how resource inequality affects labor market access and immigrant selectivity and the effect of migration on the lives of upwardly mobile Sub-Saharan African youth. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | faculty fellows program | |
Heeyon | Kim | School of Hotel Administration | Disrupting a Winner-Take-All Market: Pathways for Increasing Status Mobility in the Art World | Increasing number of fields resemble a winner-take-all market with limited pathways of status mobility for lower-status actors. Using both online and field experiments in the art market context, the proposed research will investigate structural and contextual interventions that can increase audience engagement with lesser-known artworks. |
2023 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | faculty fellows program | |
Cindy | Kao | Human Centered Design | Understanding the Social Aspects of On-Skin Interface Usage | On-skin interfaces are a fast-growing segment of wearable computing in daily life. However, the social aspects of using these devices remain underexplored. This project examines how on-skin interfaces could enhance and even create new forms of social experience and engage broader populations for inclusive design. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | faculty fellows program | |
Chuan | Liao | Global Development | Circular Bionutrient Economy for AgriFood System Transition in Kenya | My project aims to explore agrifood system transitions through enhanced circularity in Kenya. I will synthesize available datasets to examine how, under different policy scenarios and engagement activities, the agrifood system transition can allow us to achieve synergistic outcomes in human and environmental wellbeing. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | An Inductive Study of Creative Idea Elaboration in Improvisational Comedy Groups. | Research finds that brainstorming groups are notoriously inefficient at generating ideas, compared to individuals working alone. This inductive, qualitative interview study aims to understand the group processes of improvisational comedy groups, and develop insights about how groups can successfully develop creative ideas in real time. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | faculty fellows program | |
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 | |
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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Kristin | Roebuck | History | Remember Girl Zero: Trafficked Women, Imperial Men, and the Ends of Abolition | Remember Girl Zero is a book project in feminist global and Asian history, designed to show how patrilineal norms generate a uniquely feminine form of enslavement, largely invisible both to nineteenth-century abolitionists and to current scholars of slavery. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | Risky Politics and Political Participation under Authoritarian Rule | In nondemocracies, protest participation, voting for the opposition, and even abstaining from supporting regime candidates entail risks. This project investigates how risk attitudes shape political participation under authoritarian rule and how ordinary citizens overcome their baseline aversion to taking political risks. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Dynamic Propagation in Production Networks | It takes time to move intermediate inputs along supply chains. The goal of this paper is to integrate this fact in a modern production network macroeconomic model and to evaluate its importance for the dynamic propagation of shocks. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Katherine | Tschida | Psychology | Role of Social Touch in Regulating Susceptibility to Isolation-induced Aggression. | Social isolation increases aggression in men and women, but studies of isolation-induced aggression have historically focused on males. We propose a novel paradigm for isolation-induced aggression in female mice to test the role of social touch in regulating susceptibility and resilience to social isolation. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | faculty fellows program | |
Gili | Vidan | Information Science | Technologies of Trust: The Making of Electronic Authentication in Postwar United States | This book traces technical attempts to solve the problems of trust and authentication over the past seven decades in the US. It argues that the digital transformation of objects such as checks, signatures, and coins constituted a fundamental shift in the nature of public trust. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | faculty fellows program | |
Charley | Willison | Public Health | Invisible Policymaking: The Hidden Actors Shaping Homelessness | Cities wield enormous power over homelessness. Yet, we know shockingly little about these approaches and their effects on unhoused-residents. Using national data and in-depth cases, this research investigates: the full landscape of homeless-policy; how homeless-policy gets made; the consequences of homeless-policy decisions for people who are unhoused. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | faculty fellows program | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Prosociality During COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | covid_19 grant | ||
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | CoRUS: Coronavirus in Russia and Ukraine Survey | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
Stephen | Hilgartner | Science and Technology Studies | A Comparative Study of Expertise for Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic, | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Implications of Course Enrollment Structure for the Potential of Epidemic Spread on a College Campus | This project will use complete student transcript data to map the bipartite (two-mode) network that connects students to each other via their enrollment in college courses, thereby creating social structural conditions for the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. We will evaluate how clusters of course offerings, the timing of courses throughout the week, and mode of class instruction affect the structure of this network. We will also assess how students with different majors, level in school, gender, and race occupy different positions within the network. |
2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | |
Benjamin | Cornwell | Sociology | Implications of Course Enrollment Structure for the Potential of Epidemic Spread on a College Campus | This project will use complete student transcript data to map the bipartite (two-mode) network that connects students to each other via their enrollment in college courses, thereby creating social structural conditions for the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. We will evaluate how clusters of course offerings, the timing of courses throughout the week, and mode of class instruction affect the structure of this network. We will also assess how students with different majors, level in school, gender, and race occupy different positions within the network. |
2020 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
John | Doris | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | covid_19 grant | ||
Kevin | Kniffin | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | covid_19 grant | ||
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Economic and Environmental Consequences of COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | covid_19 grant | ||
Panle Jia | Barwick | Economics | Measuring the Economic and Environmental Consequences of COVID-19 | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | covid_19 grant | ||
John | Abowd | Economics | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. |
2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | collaborative project | |
Elizabeth | Adkins-Regan | Psychology | 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 | |
Ifeoma | Ajunwa | Organizational Behavior | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | collaborative project | |
Steven | Alvarado | Sociology | 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. | 2015-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | collaborative project | |
Christopher | Anderson | Government | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. | 2008-2011 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | collaborative project | |
Amada | Armenta | Sociology | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | collaborative project | |
Solon | Barocas | Information Science | 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 Computing and Information Science | collaborative project | |
Christopher B. | Barrett | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. |
2008-2011 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | collaborative project | |
Panle | Barwick | Economics | 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 | |
Natalie | Bazarova | Communication | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | collaborative project | |
Daniel | Benjamin | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | University of Southern California | collaborative project | ||
Richard | Bensel | Government | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | collaborative project | |
Larry | Blume | Economics | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | collaborative project |
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