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 Sort ascending | College | Grant Type |
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Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Revising Anti-Vaccination Beliefs During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Developing a Concept of Choice | Tamar Kushnir spent her 2013 Fellowship discovering how young children learn about the social world. Her fellowship resulted in three empirical papers and a book chapter on children's social learning and moral cognition, and two theoretical reviews on rational learning in childhood. The papers from her 2013 year are some of her most impactful and cited works. | 2012-2013 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Who knows best: Preschoolers’ causal learning from experts in light of their own play experience | NSF award resulting from pilot data and subsequently 5 high impact publications, 10 conference presentations, trained undergraduate/graduate researchers. | 2009 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | Toward Sustainable Health: Modernizing Traditional Medicine in Tanzania | 2012 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Cynthia | Lawell | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Water Conservation and Management: Agricultural Water Use, Climate Change, and Government Policy | The research funded by this grant has resulted in several papers, presentations, and publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles published in Sustainability, in its Special Issue on ìSustainable Agriculture: The State of the Great Debatesî; and in Resource and Energy Economics. | 2018 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Tashara | Leak | Nutritional Sciences | A Critical Examination of After School Programming at Racially Diverse, Title I Middle Schools in Urban Communities | Interviews with staff from Title I-funded middle schools in New York City led to the development of the Advanced Cooking Education program, a nutrition and culinary focused afterschool activity for students from diverse backgrounds. Program implementation and relevant manuscripts are in progress. | 2018 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Lillian | Lee | Computer Science | The Verbal End: Interactions Between Computational Textual Analysis and the Social Sciences | Lee has received multiple society honors (AAAI Fellow, 2013, ACL Fellow, 2017, ACM Fellow 2018) citing contributions to computational social science; the 2008 ISS Fellowship was the first formal encouragement for her to start along this path. | 2008-2009 | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Paying for Privacy, Selling Your Information, and Finding Safety in Numbers | 2018 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Innovating the Smart Grid: Organization of R&D, Standards, and the Electricity Industry | This exploratory project merged with a broader effort to analyze firms’ innovation efforts and contributions to industry standards in network markets. Two articles were published in 2014 (with Delcamp and Bar, respectively) that illustrate firms’ cooperative strategies and knowledge sharing in standard setting. | 2012 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | (When) Should Knowledge Be Controlled? Knowledge Spillovers and Firms’ Innovation Behavior | This project led to several publications (Leiponen 2006a, 2006b, 2008, and with Byma 2009) on organizational arrangements to protect knowledge assets in cooperative innovation. It showed how knowledge-based services can be commercialized while protecting core knowledge, and innovation can be encouraged by appropriate control rights. | 2005 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Adam Seth | Levine | Government | News Evidence and Political Behavior | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Adam Seth | Levine | Government | How Citizens Become Advocates | Thanks to the generous time and resources from my ISS fellowship, along with the wonderfully supportive and engaging community of fellows, I completed four new projects examining when ordinary citizens become political advocates in response to social and economic challenges, including unaffordable health care, climate change, and traffic congestion. These papers have been published in top political science, climate change, and transportation journals. One of these projects was a collaboration with ISS fellow Mike Manville. |
2015-2016 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Karen | Levy | Information Science | Prediction in Practice: Understanding High-Stakes Human Encounters with Artificial Intelligence | This grant supported expenses for an invitational workshop held at Cornell Tech between AI practitioners and scholars researching public sector algorithms. The outcomes of the workshop will be reflected in Stanford University's AI100 report in 2021. | 2018 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Karen | Levy | Information Science | Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance | The time and resources of the CCSS Fellowship enabled me to make significant progress on a book manuscript (Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance). I also became a New America National Fellow and worked on several journal articles related to technology, automation, and social life. | 2018-2019 | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | Is There Really a 2:1 Hiring Preference for Women on the STEM Tenure Track? Exploring Boundary Conditions of Williams and Ceci (2015) | Lewis's team has conducted four studies that reveal important conditions under which gender bias may emerge in hiring. They have also secured an in principle acceptance for publication of this research at Nature Human Behaviour. |
2018 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Neil | Lewis Jr. | Communication | 1. Gender Bias in Academic Hiring; 2. Community Engagement in Environmental Hazards Research; 3. How learning Environments Influence Student Mindsets and Performance; and 4. How Health Information Platforms Influence Health Disparities | Lewis’s CCSS Fellowship gave him the time to: publish a textbook and 8 peer-reviewed journal articles, write a federal grant that yielded $200,000 in new research funding, publish 6 public-facing articles about behavioral science, and contribute to COVID-19 policy efforts at multiple levels of government. |
2020-2021 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Ben | Leyden | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | A Platform-wide Analysis of Firm Responses to Platform-owner | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Jing | Li | Healthcare Research and Policy | The Impact of the 2008-2009 Economic Recession on Service Intensity in Physician Offices | This project led to the peer-reviewed publication: Li et al. “County-level unemployment rates and service intensity in primary care physician offices for Medicare patients.” Medical Care Research and Review. 2019 Aug 31:1077558719872864. It also led to a presentation at the International Health Economics Association congress. | 2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Daniel | Lichter | Policy Analysis and Management | Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational Socio-Economic Mobility | 2010 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Claire | Lim | Economics | The Political Economy of the Energy Industry in U.S States | 2015 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Adam Seth | Litwin | Labor Relations Law and History | Labor Unions and the Spread of Healthcare-Associated Infections | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences including the annual meetings of the Labor and Employment Association and the Industry Studies Association. | 2015 | Fall | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Edith | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The effect of globalization on bank operations and borrowing costs | 2013 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Edith | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Do international bond markets diversify portfolio risk? | 2010 | Fall | 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 |
Alexander | Livingston | Government | James Tully: To Think and Act Differently | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Beth | Livingston | Human Resource Studies | "Men at Work" (and Family): Caregiving Responsibilities among the Working Class | 2014 | Spring | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Janet | Loebach | Human Centered Design | Reimagining Recess: Examining the Impacts of Schoolyard 'Loose Parts Recess' Programs on the Outdoor Play Behaviors of School Age Children | 2019 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Corinna | Loeckenhoff | Human Development | Age and Intertemporal Choice Among Aversive Experiences | This pilot study resulted in an external grant (R21 AG043741 NIH/NIA. “Age Differences in Preferences for and Responses to Temporal Sequences” and multiple journal publications. | 2011 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Lovenheim | Policy Analysis and Management | School Quality Information and the Choice Environment: Evidence from Online School Search Behavior | This project led to a peer-reviewed publication in the Economics of Education Review. The paper has garnered attention and is having an impact on the literature. | 2013 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | Moral Psychology, Social Class, and Inequality | This group brought together organizational behavior researchers interested in morality, social class, and inequality for weekly meetings and has advanced two projects on the topics of gender, race, and inequality. | 2019 | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Working Group Grant | |
Barbara | Lust | Human Development | Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Elderly: Stage Two of a Pilot Study | 2009 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Qingzhong | Ma | School of Hotel Administration | What Drives the Stock Price Runups? Insider Trading vs. Market Anticipation | 2010 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Macy | Sociology | Getting Connected: Science, 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 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Daniel | Magaziner | History | Engaging Images: Artists and the Art of Life in 20th Century South Africa | 2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Manville | City and Regional Planning | Congestion Pricing: Equity and Environmental Justice Implications | 2014 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Manville | Luskin School of Public Affairs | American Travel Behavior and the Macroeconomy: A Longer View | Manvilleís 2016 fellowship helped him complete two journal articles, and also led to a productive collaboration with ISS fellow Adam Levine, resulting in an additional journal article. | 2015-2016 | pi | UCLA | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Vida | Maralani | Sociology | Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Drew | Margolin | Communication | The Dissemination and Refutation of Rumor | This project initiated Margolin’s research into fake news and fact-checking, resulting in the publication “Get Back! You Don’t Know Me Like That: The Social Mediation of Fact Checking Interventions in Twitter Conversations,” the first of several on this topic. | 2013 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Drew | Margolin | Communication | The Spread of Misinformation: Motivations and Remedies | With time and collaborative feedback afforded by his 2019 CCSS Fellowship, Drew Margolin developed a functional theory of misinformation. A paper outlining the theory--The Theory of Informative Fictions: A Character-Based Approach to False News and Other Misinformation—is forthcoming in the journal Communication Theory. | 2018-2019 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Drew | Margolin | 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 | |
Sherry | Marin | Parties, Networks, and the Political Representation of Women | 2008-2009 | pi | U.S. Department of State | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Christopher | Marquis | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes | 2012 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Minimum Staffing Legalization and the Quality of Health Care: Evidence on Effectiveness and Necessity from a Natural Experiment | 2008 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Promoting Conservation of a Risk-Laden Species using One Health Risk Messaging: The Case of White Nose Syndrome in Bats | This grant resulted in one presentation and peer-reviewed publication. | 2017 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Marine Health Matters: A Risk Communication Workshop | This workshop strengthened the network of social science researchers working on marine health challenges and resulted in at least one peer-reviewed publication. | 2013 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. |
2007 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Poppy | McLeod | Communication | Linguistic and Emotional Factors in Intergroup Linguistic Bias | 2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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