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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Abigail | Cohn | Linguistics | LabPhon15-Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation | This conference brought together over 300 international scholars and students to explore experimental approaches to the linguistic analysis of language and speech. The work presented and the interactions that took place at the conference and satellite meetings advanced dozens of research projects. | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Will | Cong | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Interpretable AI and Big Data Analytics with Applications in Finance | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Mark | Constas | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Moving Beyond the Census Tract: Activity Space and Social Networks in Later Life | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | What is the subjective cost of carbon? Exploring the economic evaluation of environmental information from a cognitive, decision-based approach | 2014 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | Exploring and modeling COVID-19 vaccination preferences | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
Nicola | Dell | Information Science | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Eve | DeRosa | Human Development | Influence of Body State on Cognition and Emotion in Shaping Environmental Interactions: Implications for Aging | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Chekitan | Dev | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Team Diversity and Financial Decision Making | This project lead to a publication in the Review of Behavioral Finance. Bogan et al. (2013) _Team Gender Diversity and Investment Decision Making Behavior_ Review of Behavioral Finance. 5 (2), 134-152. | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Carol M. | Devine | Nutritional Sciences | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Molly | Diesing | Linguistics | The interaction of syntax, semantics, and prosody in Slovenian | Formed a partial underpinning of several papers, including “Getting in the first word” Glossa 2.1 2017. | 2010 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Doris | Management | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mary Jo | Dudley | Development Sociology | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rachel | Dunifon | Policy Analysis and Management | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Matthew | Eisenberg | Public Health | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | 2016 | fall | Co-PI | Johns Hopkins University | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
Peter | Enns | Government | Conference on Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion | This conference led to the edited volume, Who Gets Represented? (Enns and Wlezien 2011). | 2007 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Evangelista | Government | Humanity's Midlife Crisis: The Existential Deadlock of Liber | This book project submits that humanity's progress towards peace and prosperity increasingly coincides with regress into mass uncertainty and unease, climaxing with the coronavirus crisis. Decoding liberalism's deadlock may help renew hope and improve politics. We examine our propositions comparatively, across cultures and civilizations. |
2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Gary W. | Evans | Design and Environmental Analysis, Human Development | Childhood Poverty, Health, and Behavior: Biological and Psychosocial Pathways | 2016 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | Intergenerational Trauma: Flint, COVID-19 and Racial Justice | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Amr | Faharat | 2010 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing conference in 2010 at Cornell University | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | MIT | CCSS Grant | ||
Ximena | Fajardo | Management | Is Colombia Ready for a Sustainable Cocoa Boom? Developing a Baseline Knowledge on the Productive Practices, Biodiversity Conditions and Environmental Performance of Cocoa Production in a Post-Conflict Context | This research examined challenges and opportunities for development of cacao value chains in post-conflict regions in rural Colombia, deriving on a MS Thesis “Using Cacao to Catalyze Development: Productivity Drivers and Technology Adoption amongst Smallholder Farmers in Montes De Maria, Colombia” (Williams 2019) | 2017 | fall | Co-PI | University of the Andes | CCSS Grant |
Sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Testing interventions to encourage self-blinding | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Shelley | Feldman | Development Sociology | Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: A Conference on Militarizing Everyday Life | 2008 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | Implicit Nationalism and Prejudice: Testing effects on behavior | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | The Implicit Operation of Ideology | 2008 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Roger | Figueroa | Nutritional Sciences | Community Needs Assessment on Facilitators and Inhibitors of Food Security in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Public Health | Understanding fish consumption and fishing effort | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | 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 |
Gustavo | Flores-Macias | Government | Strengthening the State: Understanding Citizens' Willingness to Pay Taxes for Public Safety | This ISS grant funded research on the link between taxation and public safety, including the publication “Building the Modern State in Developing Countries: Perceptions of Public Safety and (Un)willingness to Pay Taxes in Mexico” in the journal _Politics and Society_. | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne | Flynn | Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Elderly: Stage Two of a Pilot Study | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | Wellesley College | CCSS Grant | ||
Michael | Fontaine | Classics | Travel to Buenos Aires to present work at the "Comedy and Society in Antiquity" Conference (Jornada sobre Comedia y Sociedad en la Antiguedad) | This 2011 keynote presentation in Buenos Aires resulted in a major paper, titled “Who was in the Audience of Roman Comedy?,” that changed the field. Although technically still “forthcoming” in the conference proceedings, the samizdat version is regularly cited and discussed in the relevant literature. | 2011 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | The Status of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia | Amidst growing intolerance, scholars from a range of disciplines convened for the conference ìThe State of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia,î which featured five panels on topics spanning Indonesiaís diverse religious, ethnic, and geographic landscape. An edited volume is under contract with Cornell University Press. | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ann | Forsyth | Urban Planning | Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology, and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Frakes | Law | Project Narratives | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Jason | Frank | Government | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jill | Frank | Government | Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions | 2019 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Maria Cristina | Garcia | History, Latino Studies | Whose America? U.S Immigration Policy since 1986 | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Charles | Geisler | Development Sociology | Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: A Conference on Militarizing Everyday Life | 2008 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Todd | Gerarden | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Role of Individual Inventors in the Energy Transition | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Durba | Ghosh | History | Postcolonial Commemorations: How Revolutionaries Became Freedom Fighters in Independent India | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Promise of Augmented Reality | This award supported the dissertation research of Tony Liao, including his 2015 paper “Augmented or Admented Reality? The Influence of Marketing on Augmented Reality Technologies” in Information, Communication & Society. | 2012 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | Grounding the Digital Copyright Controversies: Investigating the Intersection of Technology, Law, Politics, and Cultural Practice | This award supported research that became the 2009 paper "Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns" in Communication, Culture, & Critique |
2006 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Thomas | Gilovich | Psychology | Why So Many People Find Informal Conversation So Stressful Despite Its Many Benefits | A write-up of 9 surveys and laboratory studies supported by this award has been submitted for publication in one of the top journals in social psychology. The most logistically challenging study was put on hold because of the pandemic, but it will be rebooted as a zoom-based study in two weeks. | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Givan | Labor Studies and Employment Relations | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | fall | PI | Rutgers University | CCSS Grant | |
Rebecca | Givan | Women and the State in Europe: Spring 2007 Brown Bag Speaker Series for the Institute for European Studies | 2006 | fall | PI | Rutgers University | CCSS Grant | ||
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 |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Learning to talk, learning to sing: A comparative approach to discovering mechanisms of infant learning from social interaction | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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