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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Pamela | Tolbert | Organizational Behavior | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | Fall | pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Robert | Travers | History | An Empire of Complaints: Petitions, Rights, and Justice in Eighteenth Century India | This research has led to the publication of two articles in major journals, including ‘Indian Petitioning and Colonial State-formation in Colonial Bengal, Modern Asian Studies (2019), and a book manuscript (currently being completed) on the role of Indian ideas justice in early colonial India. | 2011 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Maxim | Troshkin | Economics | Designing Optimal Social Insurance Systems | 2013 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Katherine | Tschida | Psychology | Effects of social isolation on vocal communication | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Margarita | Tsoutsoura | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Real Effects of Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting of Firms: Evidence from the 2017 Reform in the UK | The research afforded by this grant is still ongoing. It took time for the administrators in UK to merge in the administrative data additional datasets that we had collected. Also due to covid we had no access to the data since March 2019. Access is now resumed. | 2018 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Calum | Turvey | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The John Lossing Buck Project | This grant was used to conduct field research and background research on John Lossing Buck and agriculture in China’s Republican era. The grant was used to support publication of two books. 1) Fu, Hong and Calum G. Turvey (2018) “The Evolution of Agricultural Credit During China’s Republican Era, 1912-1949”. Palgrave McMillan 2) Hu, Hao, Funing Zhong and Calum G. Turvey (2019) “Chinese Agriculture in the 1930’s: Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Use in China’ Microdata”, Palgrave McMillan. * | 2012 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Andrey | Ukhov | School of Hotel Administration | Time-Varying Risk Preferences and Asset Prices: Evidence from Lottery Bonds | 2012 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Stijn M. J. | Van Osselaer | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Starbucks Effect: How Consumer Identification Impacts Consumer Preferences | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences (Association of Consumer Research and Society of Consumer Psychology Conferences). Further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Velasco | Anthropology | Embodying Social Inequality During a Time of War: A Bioarchaeological Study of Childhood Health in the Late Prehispanic Andes | Funding helped support laboratory research on archaeological human remains in Peru, to examine childhood health outcomes and patterns of geographic mobility. To date, this pilot study has yielded two conference posters and an undergraduate thesis. Papers based on this research are in preparation. | 2017 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Claudia | Verhoeven | History | Love and Terror: The Meaning of the Manson Murders in American Culture | Archival research in Los Angeles formed the basis of the chapter, “’Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter’: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family,” Time and Power. Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, eds. Stefanos Geroulanos, Dan Edelstein, and Natasha Wheatley. Forthcoming Chicago UP, 2020. | 2015 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rohit | Verma | Johnson Graduate School of Management | A Systematic Assessment of Service Scripts in the Hospitality Industry | 2007 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | How a Community Teaches Justice: Public Pedagogies and Youth–Adult Civic Learning in Everyday Social Movement | This project contributed to two publications: A chapter in an edited volume, “Latinx cultural programming as public pedagogy: Mobilizing cultura (culture) in Upstate New York,” and a journal article, “Pedagogies of ‘being with:’ Witnessing, testimonio and critical love in everyday social movement.” In addition to multiple paper presentations, it also laid the foundation for a book manuscript-in-progress. | 2014 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Kathleen | Vogel | Science and Scientific Expertise in the Assessment of and Response to Bioweapons | From her time as a 2008-2009 CCSS Fellow, Vogel was able to complete a manuscript for a journal article that was published: Vogel, Kathleen M., ìNecessary Interventions: Expertise and Experiments in Bioweapons Intelligence Assessments,î _Science, Technology & Innovation Studies_, Vol. 9, No. 2 (October 2013): 61-88. | 2008-2009 | pi | University of Maryland | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Michael | Wagner | Linguistics | Encoding and Retrieving Information with Prosody | 2007 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeremy | Wallace | Government | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
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 | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | 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 |
Christopher | Way | Government | Understanding Bioweapons Proliferation | 2008-2009 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | A New Social Indicators Framework for Measuring Trends in Inequality | 2005 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Social Mobility and Immobility in an Age of Inequality | 2012-2013 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarin Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarian Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2008 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Robert | Weiner | Government | Strategy and Sincerity in Democratic Party Systems | 2005 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Mass Politics and Policy in Russia and China | The edited volume that emerged from the workshop was published this year by Oxford University Press, titled: Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Russia & China. |
2015 | Fall | 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 | |
Marina | Welker | Anthropology | Ethical Technologies of Corporate Rule: A Mining Company in Postauthoritarian Indonesia | The grant contributed to my book, “Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Postauthoritarian Indonesia” (University of California Press, 2014), which is based on two years of ethnographic research on a Denver-based mining firm and its Indonesian operation. | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Martin | Wells | Statistical 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 | pi | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development, Sociology | Marriage and Re-partnering in the Second Half of Life | This project contributed to multiple papers and chapters on the potential contributions of ageism to social isolation and loneliness among older adults and its impact on health. | 2014 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | Paternal Incarceration and Teachers’ Expectations of Students | 2014 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Michele | Williams | The Emotions of Embeddedness | 2008-2009 | pi | University of Iowa | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
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 |
Sarah E. | Wolfolds | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Employee Incentives in Microfinance Institutions:Examining the Importance of Diversification and Profit Status | The survey was included in a paper awarded the Charles H. Levine Best Conference Paper from the Public and Nonprofit Division, presented at the Academy of Management in Chicago in August 2018. Follow-up grants were awarded to continue this project, and further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | The Social Life of Land Workshop | 2019 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development: Debating New Directions in a Time of Crisis | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground | The 7 project fellows produced over 1.6 million dollars in external funding, a vibrant book series with Cornell University Press, and 77 publications. Research topics included global land deals, the neoliberal agri-food regime, First Nation formation in the Yukon, envirotechnical disasters, and migration and labor. | 2012-2015 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Andrea | Stevenson Won | Communication | Social Interactions in Virtual Reality as an Intervention for Pain | Work related to this fellowship was put on hold due to pandemic constraints; was restarted in the fall of 2021, and is ongoing. Preliminary results have been used to support an NIH grant application. |
2020-2021 | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Joshua | Woodard | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Farm Bill Dairy Title Milk Producer Survey in NY State | 2013 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How Intrinsic Motivation Shapes Resource Allocation | 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. |
2020-2021 | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | The Impact of Noise and Perceived Crowding on Consumer Emotions and Repatronage Intentions in a Food Service Context: An Exploratory Study in a Real and Virtual Restaurant | 2015 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Jay | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Roles of Positive Emotions in Human-Product Interactions | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Moving Beyond the Census Tract: Real-Time Assessment of Neighborhoods, Social Connectedness, and Health | York Cornwell’s 2015-2016 Fellowship resulted in journal articles in the American Journal of Public Health and the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, as well as collaborative development of the proposal for a $3 million grant funded by the National Institute on Aging. | 2015-2016 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Cristobal | Young | Sociology | Millionaire Migration after the Trump Tax Bill | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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