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 descending | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Geri | Gay | Communication, Information Science | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
Charles | Geisler | 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 | |
Durba | Ghosh | History | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Gesture of Publication in an Information Society | With the support of this award, Gillespie laid the groundwork for his widely-cited 2010 article ìThe Politics of ëPlatformsíî published in _New Media & Society_. | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Rebecca | Givan | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | Co-PI | Rutgers University | Collaborative Project | ||
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2018 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | The Role of Local Governments and Civil Society in Advancing Equity and Justice for Immigrant Communities | Gleeson's Fall 2018 fellowship helped advance research with Kate Griffith on immigrant worker precarity funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, and a co-authored book with Xóchitl Bada entitled Accountability across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (University of Texas Press, 2019). | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Occupational Quality and Health | This group has advanced pilot phase research for a project on the occupational health of Latino workers. The goal is to obtain NIH funding to add a module to the Hispanic Community Health Study that can help shed light on risk factors over time. | 2019 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Working Group Grant | |
Alyssa | Goldman | Sociology | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Socially Guided Learning in the Transition from Babbling to Words | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Jack | Goncalo | Organizational Behavior | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Els de | Graauw | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Baruch College | Collaborative Project | ||
Kati | Griffith | Labor Relations Law and History | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Kati | Griffith | Labor Relations Law and History | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. |
2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Ryan | Guggenmos | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Novel Statistical Methods for Experimental Research Learning Group | This group brought Andrew Hayes to campus for a conditional process analysis workshop attended by faculty and PhD students. The methods from the workshop have been utilized in at least 3 publications, thus far. | 2019 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Working Group Grant | |
Douglas | Gurak | Development Sociology | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | Deportation Relief | This project garnered about $35,000 in external funding and produced over 50 publications, including 2 books. Research topics included the local context of immigration, implementing immigrant worker rights, and the impact of legal status on school retention and worker claimsmaking. | 2015-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Matthew | Hall | Policy Analysis and Management | Occupational Quality and Health | This group has advanced pilot phase research for a project on the occupational health of Latino workers. The goal is to obtain NIH funding to add a module to the Hispanic Community Health Study that can help shed light on risk factors over time. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Working Group Grant | |
Jeffrey | Hancock | The Practice of Lying in the Digital Age | 2008-2009 | PI | Stanford University | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Valerie | Hans | Law | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | Collaborative Project | |
Anna | Haskins | Sociology | School Engagement and Avoidance among Criminal Justice-Involved Families with School-Aged Children | With time and resources afforded by her 2018 CCSS Fellowship, Anna Haskins received a $350,000 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program for her research on “School Engagement and Avoidance among System-Involved Parents with Young Children. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Anna | Haskins | Sociology | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Ori | Heffetz | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Ronald | Herring | Government | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Angus | Hildreth | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Moral Psychology, Social Class, and Inequality | This group brought together organizational behavior researchers interested in morality, social class, and inequality for weekly meetings and has advanced two projects on the topics of gender, race, and inequality. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Working Group Grant | |
Stephen | Hilgartner | Science and Technology Studies | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Benjamin | Ho | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | Vassar College | Collaborative Project | ||
Saida | Hodzic | Anthropology | Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Awkward Endings of Female Genital Cutting | Hodži?’s fellowship resulted in the book The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (University of California Press, 2017) which won two prestigious awards, the Michelle Rosaldo book prize for Feminist Anthropology and the Amaury Talbot Book Prize for African Anthropology. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Privacy and Social Media: Dialects of Personal Information Sharing Online | Humphrey’s 2013 fellowship research resulted in the book The Qualified Self : Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2018), as well as journal articles on social media privacy and how extension offices and small businesses use social media. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Lee | Humphreys | Communication | Qualitative Methods Working Group | The Qualitative Methods Working Group brought together social science faculty and researchers from around the campus who are teaching, employing, and developing qualitative research methods. The working group has grown to become the Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute under the CCSS. | 2019 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
Daniel | Huttenlocher | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell Tech | Collaborative Project | ||
Michael | Jones-Correa | Government | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Kurt | Jordan | Anthropology | An Archaeology of Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca Iroquois) Autonomy, circa 1688-1715 | Jordan’s 2016 fellowship facilitated the final season of fieldwork at the White Springs archaeological site near Geneva, New York, and four journal articles and book chapters related to the excavations. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Arturs | Kalnins | Information Exchange in Revenue Management Industries | After many rounds of revision, this work was finally published in the RAND Journal of Economics in 2017 under the title: Can mergers increase output? Evidence from the lodging industry | 2008-2009 | PI | University of Iowa | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Sabrina | Karim | Government | When Peace Makes States: How International Security Sector Assistance Shapes Post-Conflict State Building | The CCSS fellowship allowed Sabrina Karim to launch her Gender and Security Sector Lab and submit six papers for review---spanning research topics related to electoral violence, health and security, refugees and education, war/crime victimization, and policing. It also allowed Karim to finish a first draft of a co-authored book, "From Gender Equality to the Status of Women: Concepts and Measurement in Conflict and Peace Studies." |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Mary | Katzenstein | Government | Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership | This project resulted in over a million dollars in external funding and about 100 publications, including 9 books. Research topics include immigration law, new immigrant destinations, immigration and employment, the history of asylum seekers, immigration in the US as a Christian nation, and immigrant integration. | 2010-2013 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Mary | Katzenstein | Government | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Olga | Khessina | Organizational Behavior | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age | This team has generated over $900,000 in grants and 45 publications thus far, including 1 book. Research topics include the Social Media TestDrive project, fact-checking dynamics on Reddit, diverse participation in online education, underestimating others' willingness to help, and encouraging bystander interventions on social media. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
Jon | Kleinberg | Computer Science | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
Stefan | Klonner | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | University of Heidelberg | Collaborative Project | ||
Julilly | Kohler-Hausmann | History | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Seeing ‘Them’ as Less Human: Causes and Consequences of Whites’ Perceptual Dehumanization of Racial Minorities | This grant supported research accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology with one publication in progress and another accepted in principle. Neuroimaging for this project has been delayed due to covid but will resume this semester. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Developing a Concept of Choice | Tamar Kushnir spent her 2013 Fellowship discovering how young children learn about the social world. Her fellowship resulted in three empirical papers and a book chapter on children's social learning and moral cognition, and two theoretical reviews on rational learning in childhood. The papers from her 2013 year are some of her most impactful and cited works. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Steven | Kyle | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Lillian | Lee | Computer Science | The Verbal End: Interactions Between Computational Textual Analysis and the Social Sciences | Lee has received multiple society honors (AAAI Fellow, 2013, ACL Fellow, 2017, ACM Fellow 2018) citing contributions to computational social science; the 2008 ISS Fellowship was the first formal encouragement for her to start along this path. | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and 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 | |
Adam Seth | Levine | Government | How Citizens Become Advocates | Thanks to the generous time and resources from my ISS fellowship, along with the wonderfully supportive and engaging community of fellows, I completed four new projects examining when ordinary citizens become political advocates in response to social and economic challenges, including unaffordable health care, climate change, and traffic congestion. These papers have been published in top political science, climate change, and transportation journals. One of these projects was a collaboration with ISS fellow Mike Manville. |
2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Karen | Levy | Information Science | Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance | The time and resources of the CCSS Fellowship enabled me to make significant progress on a book manuscript (Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance). I also became a New America National Fellow and worked on several journal articles related to technology, automation, and social life. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program |
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