Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name Sort descending | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Solon | Barocas | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Suzanne Lanyi | Charles | City and Regional Planning | A Social Network Analysis of House Flipping | A pilot study was undertaken during the summer on 2019, focusing on house flipping in the Chicago suburbs. The pilot study yielded compelling preliminary findings, and the research team is preparing to launch a larger scale study. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
Alexandra | Cirone | Government | Pathways to Power: Multi-level Governance and Political Representation in Europe | 2018 | 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 |
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 |
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. "Employers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workers" Law & Social Inquiry. 2020.17 |
2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | 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 |
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 |
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 |
bethany | Ojalehto | Human Development | Cognitive Drivers of Environmental DeCornell College of Computing and Information Scienceion Making: Mobilizing Indigenous Ecocentric Conceptual Perspectives in Diverse Contexts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
David | Pizarro | Psychology | The Positive Side of Morality: Cultural Influences on Judging Good People and Praiseworthy Acts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Linda | Shi | City and Regional Planning | Surging Seas, Rising Fiscal Stress: A Study of U.S. Fiscal Vulnerability and Policy Response to Climate Change | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Eva | Steiner | School of Hotel Administration | How do Firms Respond to Investment Opportunities? The Role of Cities | This research effort led to the study of the characteristics of cities and how they influence investments, including the working paper ìHow Does Property Location Influence Investment Risk and Return?î | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
David | Strang | Sociology | The Celebration of Lives and Collective Valuation: Textual Analysis of Obituaries Featured in the New York Times, 1851 to Present | 2018 | 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 |
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