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 ascending | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Kathleen | Vogel | Science and Technology Studies | Imagined and Realized Futures of U.S Bioweapons Threat Assessments | 2007 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Wagner | Linguistics | Encoding and Retrieving Information with Prosody | 2007 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Do Policies Affect Father Involvement, and How Much Does Involvement Reduce Inequality in Child Outcomes? | The ISS small grant helped us secure funding for a 3-year project from the WT Grant Foundation. Research from this project has been presented at several conferences and has resulted in five journal articles to date. | 2016 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Child Custody Decisions in Disadvantaged Families: A Pilot Study | This small grant contributed to a larger USDA (NIFA) grant and several journal articles. The grant supported qualitative data collection and the analysis of survey data to examine why some disadvantaged families establish legal orders in court while others avoid the family court system. | 2011 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Ward | Government | Status and the Politics of National Decline | Research has been delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I plan to complete the funded research by next summer. | 2018 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mildred | Warner | City and Regional Planning | Understanding the Impact of Austerity on New York's Local Governments | This research was presented at state and national conferences and published in 2019 in Environment and Planning A. "Austerity Coalitions or Pragmatic Municipalism? Local Responses to Austerity in New York State,”. | 2016 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Work Hours and Gender Inequality in Earnings Across Countries | 2021 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarin Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2010 | spring | 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 | |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development, Sociology | The Second Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: Improving the State of Americans | A book was published based on the conference: Wethington, Elaine and Rachel Dunifon. 2012. Research for the Public Good: Applying the Methods of Translational Research to Improve Human Health and Well Being. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. |
2009 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
John | Whitman | Linguistics | Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement and Social Change | This ISS grant helped fund a major interdisciplinary conference held at Cornell, on the deep history of rice and migrations in Asia, coinciding with a co-taught class. It was partially published as a special double issue of the journal Rice (ISSN 1939-8425), 2011 | 2011 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Workshop on Projectification, Governance and Sustainability: US-EU Synthesis and Comparison | This funding supported sustained engagement with University of Helsinki around questions of short-term organizational forms in environmental governance. Publications include “Toward projectified environmental governance?” 2017. Environment and Planning A. 49(2):273-292 and “Short-termism and Sustainability: Changing Time-frames in Spatial Policy Interventions” (eds. S. Sjöblom et al.). 2012. Ashgate | 2006 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | The Social Life of Land Workshop | 2019 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How Incentivizing Reviews Bias User-Generated Content | Woolley’s 2020-2021 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and resource allocation, including a publication on how time resources shape intrinsic motivation that was conditionally accepted in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. |
2019 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
So-Yeon | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Immersive Discrete Choice Experiments for the Analysis of Time Perceptions in Crowded Environments | 2019 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults | 2021 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Cristobal | Young | Sociology | Millionaire Migration after the Trump Tax Bill | 2020 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Y. Connie | Yuan | Communication | Expertise Recognition in Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Groups: The Impact of Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Communication | This project has resulted in 5 publications examining cross-cultural dynamics in group collaboration, with a focus on expertise recognition, communication accommodation, influence processes, and language proficiency. |
2010 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jiwon | Yun | Linguistics | What are the Pieces of Language Knowledge? | 2009 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Platonic Friendship and Social Olfactory Cues in Human Body Odor | Prior support led to 4 conference talks and 3 poster presentations. | 2012 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Chris | Zepeda-Millan | Children of the Undocumented: Inclusion versus Exclusion | 2013 | spring | Co-PI | Loyola Marymount University | CCSS Grant | ||
Liandong | Zhang | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | spring | Co-PI | University of Hong Kong | CCSS Grant | |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | US Sick Pay Mandates: Coverage and Welfare Effects | 2020 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Kaspar | Zimmerman | "Too-big-to-fail" and Historical Banking Crises | This grant has led a new publicly-available historical database of global financial crises since 1870 and two papers: ìBanking Crises Without Panicsî (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 2020) and a new working paper. | 2018 | spring | Co-PI | University of Bonn | CCSS Grant | |
John | Zinda | Development Sociology | Cross-Cutting Risk Responses: Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | This fellowship facilitated analytical work and advanced methodological training, as of January 2022 yielding one journal article (Different Hazards, Different Responses: Assessments of Flooding and COVID-19 Risks among Upstate New York Residents), two manuscripts in progress, and a grant proposal in preparation. |
2018 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Emily | Zitek | Organizational Behavior | When Do People Perceive Their Positive Outcomes as Unfair? | A paper describing a series of studies funded by this grant will soon be under review. | 2017 | spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Luo | Zuo | Johnson Graduate School of Management | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Timothy | DeVoogd | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Heffetz | Ori | Business | What’s a Price Worth? An Experimental Study of Prices and Preferences | 2007 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ||
Jennifer | Hochschild | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Claudine | Gay | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Timothy | DeVoogd | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Matthew | Baron | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Real Estate Cycles and Banking Crises | This project aims to analyze the role of real estate cycles in causing banking crises by creating a new historical database of the stock returns of real estate-related firms and investment vehicles since 1870 across 17 economies. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Sara | Bronin | City and Regional Planning | A Historic Preservation Local Law Census: Where and Why | People interact with preservation law predominantly at the local level, through historic commissions that opine on proposed rehab projects. Yet there is neither a census of local governments that regulate historic places, nor any scholarship that ties adoption to demographic characteristics, political inclinations, and state enabling authority features. My research will identify where historic districts have been adopted and explore how rates of adoption change from state to state depending on various independent variables. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Douglas | Kriner | Government | Presidential Politics in an Era of Democratic Disruption | This conference examines how presidential politics have helped precipitate and in turn been shaped by troubling trends in democratic governance in the United States and around the world. Papers will be published in a special issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Mimno | Information Science | Text as Data Conference | The 12th annual New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA) meeting will take place at Cornell Tech. TADA is the premiere venue for computational social science work involving documents, social media, and other text. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Will | Hobbs | Psychology | Text as Data Conference | The 12th annual New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA) meeting will take place at Cornell Tech. TADA is the premiere venue for computational social science work involving documents, social media, and other text. |
2022 | spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | The nature and emergence of property norms | Where do ideas of private property come from? This project will examine how territorial instincts might generate property norms through biases in cultural learning. The project will also investigate how people think about property norms, e.g., whether they are fundamentally moral or conventional. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Thrasher | Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy | The nature and emergence of property norms | Where do ideas of private property come from? This project will examine how territorial instincts might generate property norms through biases in cultural learning. The project will also investigate how people think about property norms, e.g., whether they are fundamentally moral or conventional. |
2022 | spring | Co-PI | Chapman University | CCSS Grant |
Laura | Smith | Public and Ecosystem Health | Incorporating “Zunde Ramambo” into Sustainable Nutrition Interventions to Improve Child Health | Zunde Ramambo is a community-initiated solution to looking after vulnerable children and households through the practice of sharing resources and we propose to engage the same cohort of households involved in the CHAIN trial to explore ways to incorporate it into sustainable nutrition interventions to improve child health and development. |
2022 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | CCSS Grant |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | Exploring and understanding communities within communities: A mixed methods investigation of rural drug use among Black, Latinx, and Native Americans | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | African Futures Project (Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth) | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Vida | Maralani | Sociology | Child investments and Women's Employment across the Life Course | 2021 | spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow |
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