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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Miguel | Gomez | Applied Economics and Management | Impacts of Farmer Cooperatives: The Philippines and Colombia | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Miguel I. | Gomez | Dyson School of Applied Economics and 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 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Miguel | Gomez | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Developing a Longitudinal Database of Smallholder Coffee Growers to Assess Impacts of Participation in Specialty Markets | This multidisciplinary project allowed to rigorously measure levels of shade in sustainable coffee systems that allow growers to maximize profits, published as “Thee Economics and Ecology of Shade-grown Coffee: A Model to Incentivize Shade and Bird Conservation” in Ecological Economics (Hernandez et al. 2019) | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Sara | Gorman | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | fall | Co-PI | Critica | CCSS Grant | ||
Kati | Griffith | Labor Relations Law and History | Immigration Status at Work | The grant contributed to data collection and several publications including, Gleeson, Shannon and Kati L. Griffith. 2020. ìEmployers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workersî Law & Social Inquiry. 2020.17 | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
John H. | Guckenheimer | Mathematics | Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems | This interdisciplinary collaboration (developmental psychology and mathematics) validated a new brain-based method for measuring infant attention (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:11460) and a novel dynamical model of infant visual foraging behavior (Dev Psychobiol 2014, 56:1129) to uncover early predictors of childhood attention problems. | 2008 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | The Foreclosure Crisis and Racial Residential Stratification | Led to publication of a paper in the American Sociological Review and another in the ANNALS. | 2012 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Hans | Law | A New Jury System at Work | Our team examined the jury trial’s introduction in Neuquén, Argentina, by collecting data (questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups) from judges, lawyers, and jurors. From legal actors’ experiences, we are learning how citizens’ participation in jury trials has led to fundamental changes in trial procedures. |
2018 | fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jorgen | Harris | Economics | Polarized Beliefs and Discrimination | The grant led to the paper “Professional Interactions and Hiring Decisions: Evidence from the Federal Judiciary (NBER Working Paper 26726). This is a highly influential paper, as proved by the fact that it was profiled by the NBER Digest (May 2020 issue). | 2017 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ori | Heffetz | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Closing the Gap between COVID-19 Information and Beliefs | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Ori | Heffetz | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Limited Rationality and the Strategic Environment: An Experimental Study | 2010 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Claudia | Henschke | Radiology | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. | 2007 | fall | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant |
James | Hesford | Business | The Effects of Incentive Framing and Probabilistic Management Audits on Fraudulent Behavior | 2009 | fall | PI | University of Lethbridge | CCSS Grant | |
Benjamin | Ho | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Paying for Climate Change: The Role of Information and Social Preferences on Willingness to Pay | 2008 | fall | Co-PI | Vassar College | CCSS Grant | |
Will | Hobbs | Human Development | Training Data for Encoding Social and Political Texts | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
John | Hoddinott | Nutritional Sciences | Linking Public & Private Food Assistance Through Admin. Data | 2020 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Natasha | Holmes | Physics | Equity in group work between in-person and remote labs | 2020 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tatiana | Homonoff | Policy Analysis and Management | The Nth of the Month Effect: Consumer and Retailer Response to SNAP Benefit | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Paula | Horrigan | Landscape Architecture | Scripting the Future of a Community: A Participatory Visioning Process for Iowa’s Amana Colonies | 2007 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Mobile Social Networking in Urban Environments | This project identified the ways that people use location-based networks to make claims upon urban public space: “Foursquare & the parochialization of public space”. _First Monday_ (Humphreys & Liao, 2013) | 2008 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Louis | Hyman | Labor Relations Law and History | Economic Methods for Historians Workshop (aka History of Capitalism Summer Camp) | 2015 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Catalina | Iricinschi | Liberal Arts | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | fall | Co-PI | University of the Arts in Philadelphia | CCSS Grant |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Sub-Saharan African Migration Project (S-SMAP) (African Futures Project) | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
David | Jaume | Economics | Agricultural Productivity Gaps: Feedbacks from Human Capital and Equipment Embodied Technology Adoption | This project examines the impact of capital-embodied technical change on the labor market. Results were presented at the NBER Summer Institute and various academic institutions. A draft has been submitted for publication. | 2016 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Steven | Alvarado | Sociology | Multigenerational Neighborhood Effects | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sheri Lynn | Johnson | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Dolly | Jorgenson | Bringing STS Into Environmental History | This grant supported an important, international workshop on the contributions of science studies to environmental history, resulting in the edited volume, _New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies_, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2013). | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | Norwegian University | CCSS Grant | |
Finn | Jorgenson | Bringing STS Into Environmental History | This grant supported an important, international workshop on the contributions of science studies to environmental history, resulting in the edited volume, _New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies_, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2013). | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | Norwegian University | CCSS Grant | |
David | Just | Dyson School of Applied Economics and 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 |
Namrata | Kala | Returns to Mechanization through Rental Equipment Markets | 2019 | fall | Co-PI | MIT Sloan School of Management | CCSS Grant | ||
Saleh | Kalantari | Design and Environmental Analysis | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | We created a platform for immersive VR testing of wayfinding designs, collecting both subjective feedback and biometric data. The project results in a validated virtual design-testing system, along with specific findings about the effectiveness of wayfinding strategies in a hospital design. | 2018 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Yasemin Z. | Kalender | Physics | Equity in group work between in-person and remote labs | 2020 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sabrina | Karim | Government | Endline Survey for Election Violence Project in Liberia | The research afforded by this grant produced the paper, "Election Violence Prevention During Democratic Transitions: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Police and Youth in Liberia," which finds that experiences with successful elections enhances perceptions of democracy among police officers. | 2017 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Elisa | Keller | Economics | Agricultural Productivity Gaps: Feedbacks from Human Capital and Equipment Embodied Technology Adoption | This project examines the impact of capital-embodied technical change on the labor market. Results were presented at the NBER Summer Institute and various academic institutions. A draft has been submitted for publication. | 2016 | fall | Co-PI | University of Exeter Business School | CCSS Grant |
Hyunseob | Kim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Why Is There a Valuation Discount for Dual-Class Firms? | This project led to collaboration between my faculty colleagues at the Johnson School of Management, producing a working paper that has been presented at numerous seminars and conferences. | 2016 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Hyunseob | Kim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Frictions in Real Asset Market and Corporate Investment: Evidence from Ship-level Data | This project led to collaboration between faculties and a PhD student at the Johnson School of Management, producing a working paper that has been presented at numerous seminars and conferences. | 2013 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Soo | Kim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Individuals’ Need to Feel “True” to Themselves during Life Transitions and How Charitable Organizations can be Positioned to Fulfill the Need | 2016 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Heeyon | Kim | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Take-off of the Korean Wave: Antecedents and Consequences of the Globalization of Korean Pop Culture | 2019 | fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Sheryl | Kimes | Johnson Graduate School of Management | 2010 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing conference in 2010 at Cornell University | 2009 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Kent | Kleinman | Architecture | Unpacking the Nano: The Price of the World's Most Affordable Car | 2010 | fall | PI | Rhode Island School of Design | CCSS Grant | |
Kevin M. | Kniffin | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Kimberly | Kopko | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sarah | Kreps | Government | Mechanisms of Morality: Why the U.S. Public Supports Humanitarian Interventions | 2014 | fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Carol Lynne | Krumhansl | Psychology | Social Affiliation and Music-Induced Synchrony in Dance | Prior support led to 1 paper and two papers in preparation, 2 pop press pieces, 2 chaired symposia, and 3 posters (awarded the SPSP Student Poster Award (1st place). | 2016 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sarosh | Kuruvilla | International and Comparative Labor | Development of Collective Bargaining in China: A Multidisciplinary Conference and Research Project | This award resulted in the publication of two articles and the development of a network of scholars studying collective bargaining in China. | 2012 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Sarosh | Kuruvilla | International and Comparative Labor | Employment Practices of Multinationals in Comparative Context | This grant resulted in a special issue of the journal Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations Review on employment practices in multinationals. | 2009 | fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Effect of Gossip on Children's Well-being and Belonging | 2020 | fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
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 | 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 |
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