Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort ascending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Laura | Niemi | Applied Economics and Management, Psychology | Civility as a contextualized social psychological phenomenon | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Aija | Leiponen | Applied Economics and Management | Tolerance for Sharing Polarizing Content on Information Platforms | We seek to understand users' preferences for spreading polarizing content on an information platform, which is informative for the design of effective platform governance strategies. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Benjamin | Leyden | Applied Economics and Management | Financial Language, Communication, and Competition Across US Industries | We study whether and how companies use a sanctioned form of public communication—quarterly earnings calls—to communicate strategic information with their competitors to coordinate strategic actions and lower competition, thus circumventing antitrust laws. This work will inform policy regarding firm communication and market competition. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Ivan | Rudik | Applied Economics and Management | Spatial and Sectoral Targeting of Climate Policy | Efficient real world climate policy must be heterogeneous across countries and industries. I will quantify the efficient distribution of carbon taxes and adaptation finance subsidies across the world. These estimates will inform policymakers where financing and capital should be directed to combat climate change. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Ariel | Ortiz-Bobea | Applied Economics and Management | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Daniela | Scur | Applied Economics and Management | Dampening Natural Disasters' Disruptive Effects on Firms and Labor Markets | There is still a dearth of evidence on disruptions from "day-to-day" climate shocks such as harsher seasonal flooding. As climate change intensifies these regular events, understanding their impact, how governments and firms can invest in mitigation strategies and how they can handle recovery and reconstruction is key. |
2022 | Fall | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ||
Mark | Constas | Applied Economics and Management | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management | ||
Kevin | Kniffin | Applied Economics and Management | Enhancing the Effectiveness of Soft Skills Among STEM Doctoral Students | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Chris | Forman | Applied Economics and Management | Dancing with Stars or Crowded out by Stars: Superstar Firms’ Effect on AI Adoption | Does the superstar firms’ adoption of AI foster or deter other firms’ adoption of AI? There are two competing mechanisms: imitation and competition. By using comprehensive job posting data and a novel instrumental variable, this study will examine the empirical salience of these competing effects of superstar firms on the AI adoption process. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
Nancy | Chau | Applied Economics and Management | Distance Learning in the Shadow of COVID19 -- Lessons from Cornell University | This study leverages the natural experimental COVID19 setting at the Cornell campus, constructs a student-specific return-home treatment triplet (geographic distance, internet access, pandemic exposure), and performs an assessment of the impact of the return home treatment on student-assessed academic performance among Cornell undergraduates. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Rebecca | Givan | Labor Studies and Employment Relations | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | PI | Rutgers University | CCSS Grant | |
Evan | Riehl | Labor Economics, Economics | Disparities in Household Incarceration and Student Achievement | Riehl and his coauthors wrote a working paper based on his CCSS fellowship project, which is titled "Community Impacts of Mass Incarceration." The paper is now in the submission process. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Matthew | Freedman | Labor Economics | Agglomeration Effects: The Role of Selection | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
C. Kirabo | Jackson | Labor Economics | A Stitch in Time: Evaluating the Effects of an AP Incentive Program on College Outcomes | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Kevin | Hallock | Labor Economics | Considering Compensation: An Interdisciplinary Research Conference for New Scholars | This was a conference of junior scholars and graduate students. The biggest success was that one of the invitees (in his final year of his PhD) was recruited to Cornell this past year with tenure. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Ann | Forsyth | Urban Planning | Computing a Sustainable Future: Fabrication, Ecology, and Simulation in the Age of Global Climate Change | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | 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 |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | Crafting Model Islam: Mustafa Kemal's Turkey in Southeast Asia (1920's-1940's) | Funds allowed for library and archival research in the UK and Washington, DC. These materials are constitutive part of my ongoing book project Toward Healthy Progress: Body, Soul and Nation in 20th century Indonesia. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Gregory | Green | Asian Studies | Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies | 2019 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Chiara | Formichi | Asian Studies | Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life (April 2024 Conference) | This conference explores how women effected change across Asia engaging in everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation and consumption; participants will bring to light how such “domestic” practices had significant impact on “public spaces,” and created spaces for women’s autonomy and agency. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Suyoung | Son | Asian Studies | Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life (April 2024 Conference) | This conference explores how women effected change across Asia engaging in everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation and consumption; participants will bring to light how such “domestic” practices had significant impact on “public spaces,” and created spaces for women’s autonomy and agency. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Fontaine | Classics | Travel to Buenos Aires to present work at the "Comedy and Society in Antiquity" Conference (Jornada sobre Comedia y Sociedad en la Antiguedad) | This 2011 keynote presentation in Buenos Aires resulted in a major paper, titled “Who was in the Audience of Roman Comedy?,” that changed the field. Although technically still “forthcoming” in the conference proceedings, the samizdat version is regularly cited and discussed in the relevant literature. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Caitie | Barrett | Classics | Modeling Space and Experience at Pompeii | 2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Caitie | Barrett | Classics | Exploring the Domestic Impact of Roman Imperialism at Pompeii | This archaeological excavation examines the impact of the Roman conquest on ancient households at Pompeii, a city originally governed by a non-Roman Italic people. This critical analysis of domestic space intervenes in archaeological and anthropological discourse on imperialism, inequality, and identity in the ancient Mediterranean. |
2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | The Water Justice League: Generating and Sustaining Water and Climate Resilience on Onondaga Lake through Citizen Science | The Water Justice League is a 4-week culturally tailored intervention and Community-Based Participatory Research Project that will assess and build water and climate change literacy and resilience in Onondaga Nation and generate ideas and pathways for sustainable business development and spiritual reprieve on Lake Onondaga. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | Intergenerational Trauma: Flint, COVID-19 and Racial Justice | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tao Leigh | Goffe | Africana Studies and Research Center | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group 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 | |
Gary W. | Evans | Design and Environmental Analysis, Human Development | Childhood Poverty, Health, and Behavior: Biological and Psychosocial Pathways | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
Jay | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | Roles of Positive Emotions in Human-Product Interactions | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
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 |
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 | |
Gary | Evans | Design and Environmental Analysis | Chaos and Children's Development: Levels of Analysis and Mechanisms | This SSRC grant in conjunction with additional funding enabled hosting of the International Network for Research on Inequalities in Child Health at Cornell. This is only the second time this Network has met in the United States. Funding also enabled support for several, international graduate students to attend. | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Peter | Enns | Roper Center, Government | Merging Data from the Roper Center Archive to Facilitate Population Subgroup Analysis: Identifying Opportunities and Strategies | This group met regularly, wrote a cross-disciplinary Cornell Migrations research proposal with faculty from Govt, Comm, and PAM to understand the social and political views of Latino Immigrants in the U.S., 2003-2019 and received an NSF grant to evaluate social bias during the COVID-19 crisis. [45] |
2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
Hassan | Enayati | Institute for Compensation Studies | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Charley | Willison | Public Health | Invisible Policymaking: The Hidden Actors Shaping Homelessness | Cities wield enormous power over homelessness. Yet, we know shockingly little about these approaches and their effects on unhoused-residents. Using national data and in-depth cases, this research investigates: the full landscape of homeless-policy; how homeless-policy gets made; the consequences of homeless-policy decisions for people who are unhoused. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Public Health | Understanding fish consumption and fishing effort | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Tracy | Nichols | Public Health | Adolescent Health and Community Service: Building Bridges and Planting Seeds | 2005 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Amanda | Birnbaum | Public Health | Adolescent Health and Community Service: Building Bridges and Planting Seeds | 2005 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Matthew | Eisenberg | Public Health | Consumer Understanding of Information on OTC Product and Rx Drug Advertisements: A Pilot Study | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Johns Hopkins University | CCSS Grant | |
John | Doris | Management | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | Exploring and modeling COVID-19 vaccination preferences | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | What is the subjective cost of carbon? Exploring the economic evaluation of environmental information from a cognitive, decision-based approach | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | Immersive Discrete Choice Experiments for the Analysis of Time Perceptions in Crowded Environments | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant | |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | MCA: Modeling Social Interaction Effects on Economic Choices via Graph Convolutional Networks | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | Grant Writing Support Program |
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