Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name Sort ascending | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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zoe | Draga | Linguistics | Support for organizing a Workshop on Grammar Induction | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
ziad | Fahmy | Near Eastern Studies | Listening to the Nation: Mass Culture and Identities in Interwar Egypt | This seed grant led to my award of an NEH [FPIRI Program]—American Research Center in Egypt Faculty Research Fellowship. It also supported my research, which led to my recent book: Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020) |
2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Graphical Representation and Visual Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs | The 2018 fellowship allowed Zhuan Pei to start the project, and he has recently completed a working paper with coauthors. Through the fellowship, Zhuan met Prof. Sahara Byrne, who generously gave him access to her eyetracking lab for the project. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
zhuan | Pei | Policy Analysis and Management | Further Education During Unemployment | Produced an eponymous working paper (Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper #642, May 2020) currently under peer review. Results from the project presented at more than ten seminars and conferences. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
zeynab | Jouzi | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Co-production of knowledge for designing and developing of support services in transitional housing in New York City. | New York City has the largest number of sheltered homelessness in the country. This study will utilize the co-production of knowledge approach to collaborate with the residents of a transitional housing center in NYC, to design the appropriate supportive system to empower and prepare residents for a successful transition to their permanent housing. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
zaneta | Hong | Landscape Architecture | The Civic Playground Project | The Civic Playground Project seeks to empower individuals of different backgrounds, languages, and abilities through shared modes of making and collaborative play. The project is anchored in the development and deployment of inclusive frameworks that foster engagement between communities and their built environments. |
2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
zachary d. | Clopton | Law | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
yun-chien | Chang | Law | Empirical Legal Studies in the Sinophone Region | This conference, titled Empirical Legal Studies in the Sinophone Region, brings together legal scholars doing quantitative works from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The data used in the 20 presentations describe the functioning of the legal systems in the Chinese-speaking region. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
yoselinda | Mendoza | Sociology | Latinx immigrant families and housing instability | Mendoza used semi-structured interviews to uncover the experiences, responses to, and consequences of housing precarity among mixed-status Latinx immigrant families in southern California. The funding helped with a transcription service. Preliminary findings demonstrate that a lack of legal status restricts individuals’ access to and participation in various social and economic benefits, which in turn inhibit their ability to find adequate housing. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
yoon | Kang | Racial Disparities in Patient Care and the Role of Medical Training: An audit study | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | ||
yiying | Xiong | Government | Weaponizing Nationalism: China’s Economic Coercion and Its Effectiveness | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
yiran | Zhang | Labor Relations Law and History | Public Compensation for Family Caregivers: The Governance of Care Work within Consumer-Directed Care | Examining administrative adjudication records, this project studies the everyday legal struggles and the state’s governance of care work in Medicaid-funded Consumer Directed Personal Care Programs, an emerging healthcare provision model that pays a family member to perform long-term home-based care. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
ying | Hua | Design and Environmental Analysis | An Exploration of the Effect of Design Interventions on Reducing Sedentary Behavior in Workplace | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
yi | Shen | Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Waterloo | 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 | |
yanyan | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Targeting and Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme | This small grant generated multiple peer-reviewed articles, in for example World Bank Economic Review, World Development, Economic & Political Weekly. | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
yanna | Krupnikov | News Evidence and Political Behavior | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Indiana University | |||
yamile | Guibert | Government | The Politics of Accountability: Party Strength, Patronage, and the State in Latin America | This project seeks to understand the conditions under which Latin American politicians at the highest levels of power are held accountable after accusations of corruption arise. By focusing on the Odebrecht scandal, this project emphasizes the role of the strategies of politicians and political parties. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
y. connie | Yuan | Communication | The Development of Social Capital and Transactive Memories Systems in Computer-Supported Collaborative Work | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
y. connie | Yuan | Communication | Knowledge Management in Organizations | My 2015 fellowship gave me the time and space to think about bigger questions about my research interests. Two book-chapter review articles were produced that summarize how expertise and communication technologies can be more effectively used in collaborative work in organizations. |
2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 |
xuewen | Yan | Sociology | English hegemony from below: How Chinese scholars navigate academic production in an Anglicized world | This project explores how non-native English-speaking academics from periphery nations use and evaluate Anglophone scholarship against the general backdrop of Anglo-American dominance in global academia. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
xue | Zhang | Global Development | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
xóchitl | Bada | Latin American and Latino Studies | Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local | As international migration continues to rise, countries of origin have played an increasing role in engaging their emigrants; however, we know little about how they are being held accountable for the services offered to their diasporas. To fill the gap, this book analyzes on-the-ground, transnational defense of migrant labor rights.
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2021 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Illinois | 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 |
woo bin | Kim | Fostering Consumer Creativity in Metaverse Virtual Retail Spaces with Psychological Virtuality | At the forefront of retail innovation, the metaverse offers extended brand-consumer experiences that stimulate creative abilities. Grounded in self-expansion theory, this project develops virtual retail spaces infused with psychological virtuality and unveils the mechanisms that amplify consumer creativity in our proposed retail settings. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | CCSS Grant | ||
william d. | Schulze | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
william | Tomek | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Secondary Effects of Biofuels Demands: Implications for Feed and Livestock | Led to a publication in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review entitled the Implications of Growing Biofuels Demands on Northeast Livestock Feed Costs, with L. Verteramo and W. Tomek, April 2009. The research was used extensively in numerous Extension presentations in New York State. | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
william | Sonnenstuhl | Organizational Behavior | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
william | Starr | Philosophy | Support for Organizing a Conference: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
william | Block | Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research | Cyber-Boosting African Social Science: Exporting the Cornell College of Computing and Information Science Experience | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Research Division | CCSS Grant | |
william | Block | Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research | Linking Public & Private Food Assistance Through Admin. Data | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Research Division | CCSS Grant | |
will | Hobbs | Human Development | Training Data for Encoding Social and Political Texts | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
will | Hobbs | Human Development | The Effects of Changes in Personal, Societal, and Political Contexts on Well-Being and Everyday Activities: Design and analysis of open-ended surveys | This project will study open-ended survey data for tracking and explaining well-being before and after major personal and societal changes. It will construct and validate measures of well-being using replicable artificial intelligence and create multiple measures from a single open-ended response to increase cost-effectiveness. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 |
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 | |
wicia | Fang | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
wesley | Sine | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship | This project garnered over 2 million in funding, produced over 100 publications on topics including entrepreneurial team evolution; creativity evaluation; intellectual property rights; and scholarly originality. It was a catalyst for the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM degree and the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor. | 2013-2016 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
wesley | Sine | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Political Turbulence, Entrepreneurial Processes, and Outcomes | Published in organization Science | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
wesley | Sine | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Effect of neighborhood stigma on entrepreneurship | Stigma has been shown to have a large negative impact on firms. However, research has focused on stigma from individual, firm, or category-level characteristics. While stigma created by the geographic location of the firm has been largely ignored, even though this stigma is widespread. In this study, the authors attempt to demonstrate how the location of a firm, when stigmatized, can impact the firm's ability to acquire capital. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
wenfei | Xu | City and Regional Planning | A New Picture of Segregation | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | Grant Writing Support Program | |
wenfei | Xu | City and Regional Planning | A New Picture of Segregation | In an era of increasingly granular location data, quantitative measures of segregation in the social sciences remain reliant on the residential Census. This project collects observed social context using mobile phone location data across the United States to create a dynamic “new” picture of segregation. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant |
wendy | Brunner | Bassett Research Center | Assessing the Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Healthcare Access in Rural Communities | This project evaluates the effectiveness of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) to address health disparities among underserved rural youth using de-identified individual-level panel data on patient visits to healthcare providers. The study focuses on 4 high-poverty rural counties in New York, comparing healthcare for children in 16 school districts with SBHCs to those in 22 school districts without. We will assess how SBHCs help poor rural communities by bringing health services directly to children to enhance rural community health. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Bassett Healthcare Network | CCSS Grant |
wendy | Erb | Lab of Ornithology | Hearing the Forest Through the Trees: Collaborative Science and Indigenous Sonic Entanglements in East Kalimantan | Working with frontline Indigenous communities, this team of social and natural scientists brings anthropological, bioacoustic, and Indigenous knowledges together to investigate: 1) The impacts of Indonesia's emerging new capital, Nusantara, on surrounding peoples and landscapes, and 2) how collaborative soundscape research can reveal novel multi-species entanglements and advance Indigenous territorial monitoring. |
2023 | 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 | |
wendy | Smith | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Alfred Lerner College | 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 | |
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 | |
wendong | Zhang | Applied Economics and Management | Quantifying the Property Value and Land Use Impacts of Utility-Scale Solar Farms in New York State | Large solar facilities are critical to meet the New York State’s ambitious climate and energy goals. This research will evaluate the monetary impacts of large solar farms on nearby farmland sales prices, and assess land use and crop choice changes following solar farm constructions using satellite data. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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