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 Sort ascending | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Daniel | Mason-D'Croz | Global Development | Mapping US Food Systems: A Stakeholder Database and Pilot Visualization Tool | Food systems actors are fundamental for transformation, yet exhibit diverse priorities, preferred pathways, and power. We intend to build a stakeholder database and pilot visualization tool of several thousand actors across US food systems, serving as a rich resource to support future research and outreach. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shorna | Allred | Natural Resources, Global Development | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Richard | Stedman | Natural Resources | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Bryn | Rosenfeld | Government | Risky Politics and Political Participation under Authoritarian Rule | In nondemocracies, protest participation, voting for the opposition, and even abstaining from supporting regime candidates entail risks. This project investigates how risk attitudes shape political participation under authoritarian rule and how ordinary citizens overcome their baseline aversion to taking political risks. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Nikhil | Garg | Operations Research and Information Engineering | NYC School Match: How Do Design Details Drive Inequity | NYC matches students to public high schools through an algorithm. We study the process’s design details: what drives educational inequity? What is the role of students’ ranked lists or school policies in prioritizing grades or geography? Our analyses will inform student-side interventions and policy recommendations. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Intergroup Loss Aversion | This research uses an economic model of choice behavior and psychophysiological measures of arousal to examine sensitivity to losses for racial ingroup vs. outgroup members, with a discussion of implications for racial disparities at the interpersonal and national level. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Maria Alejandra | Anaya Torres | Law | Rights-Based Climate Litigation, Climate Mobilization, and Climate Governance: An Interdisciplinary Approach | My dissertation seeks to understand the interplay between rights-based climate litigation, climate mobilization, and climate governance at the global level. By departing from the traditional conception of judicial decisions' domestic effects, my research seeks to provide a more socio-legal approach to understanding how rulings across jurisdictions have the potential to produce effects across scales, beyond the parties to a case, the issue at stake, and the courtroom. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | QuIRI 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 |
Giulia | Solinas | Munich School of 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 | Co-PI | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | CCSS Grant |
Emma | Murrugarra | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
Joy | Ming | Information Science | Visibilizing Work: Collecting In-Depth Narratives of Home Care Workers for Advocacy | Home care workers (HCWs) are essential but vulnerable workers—a lot of their difficult working conditions and out-of-scope contributions are rendered invisible. My project collects and aggregates data and stories of HCWs to develop a comprehensive narrative to reduce wage theft and advocate for fairer wages. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Catherine | Lambert | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 |
Alexander | Fulmer | Marketing | The Biography of Discovery: How Discovery of Resources by Humans versus Machines Shapes Preference | This research builds upon recent work illuminating that biographical elements of a resource’s discovery can influence consumer preference for otherwise identical resources. Specifically, this project explores how consumer preference for resources is influenced by awareness of whether the discoverer was a human or a machine. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 |
Oumar | Ba | Government | Against Humanity: Race, Empire, and the Liberal International Order | This project reconstructs the emergence of the current global justice regime and argues that the Liberal International Order is built upon the denial of humanity through a layered racial hierarchy of humanness. Using archival research, it focuses on the drafting and adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights amidst the French campaign of “pacification” in Madagascar; the UN Trusteeship Council as a site of legislation and contestation of nuclear imperialism in the Pacific; and the prosecution of the crimes against peace at the Tokyo Tribunal. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Hongyuan | Xia | Economics | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
Ru | Liu | Nutritional Sciences | Facilitators and barriers to implementing a food pantry-based produce prescription program in New York City | Through semi-structured interviews, this project aims to understand the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a food pantry-based Produce Prescription program in New York City from stakeholders’ perspectives. The findings will inform the design and implementation of community-clinic-partnered health interventions. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | QuIRI Grant |
Walker | DePuy | Southeast Asia Program, Einaudi Center for International Studies | 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 | Southeast Asia Program | 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 |
Cindy | Kao | Human Centered Design | Understanding the Social Aspects of On-Skin Interface Usage | On-skin interfaces are a fast-growing segment of wearable computing in daily life. However, the social aspects of using these devices remain underexplored. This project examines how on-skin interfaces could enhance and even create new forms of social experience and engage broader populations for inclusive design. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Katherine | McComas | Communication | Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions: The Case of Deep Geothermal | Transitions to renewable energy systems will falter if inadequate attention is paid to public engagement with promising new technologies like deep geothermal systems. This project investigates public opinion about deep geothermal to advance social science research on this topic and solidify a policy-engaged, trans-Atlantic collaboration. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Aaron | Childree | American Politics | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kristin | Roebuck | History | Remember Girl Zero: Trafficked Women, Imperial Men, and the Ends of Abolition | Remember Girl Zero is a book project in feminist global and Asian history, designed to show how patrilineal norms generate a uniquely feminine form of enslavement, largely invisible both to nineteenth-century abolitionists and to current scholars of slavery. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Douglas | Kriner | American Institutions | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ivy | Gilbert | Psychology | Qualitative analysis of dairy-industry discourse on Instagram | This project analyzes visual and textual features in a small corpus of Instagram posts by dairy farmers to explore the persuasive role of social media in the discursive construction of dairy farming. Implications for moral evaluations of animals and farming practices are discussed. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Gen | Meredith | Public and Ecosystem Health | Impact of cross-system collaboration and community health worker models on preventative service use in Northern Appalachia | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Margot | Hanley | Information Science | An Ethical Assessment of Commercial Brain Computer Interfaces | As brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) become more mainstream in the market, it is essential to consider the ethical implications for individuals and society as a whole. While BCIs have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of cognitive and sensory motor conditions, they also introduce pressing ethical issues around values such as autonomy and agency, dignity, privacy and security, and fairness. In my PhD dissertation, I aim to develop a comprehensive understanding of the ethics of commercial BCI in four parts: 1) exploring the production of commercial BCIs, 2) analyzing the technology and applications of BCIs, 3) examining ethical and conceptual issues, and 4) developing policy considerations for BCIs. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell Tech | QuIRI Grant |
Ian | Lundberg | Information Science | Economic volatility and the changing the U.S. population age structure | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Michael | Cary | Global Development | Rural Livelihoods and Authoritarian Legacies Along Southern Paraguay’s Rice Frontier | This project examines Paraguay’s history of authoritarian politics and their implications for rural development. More specifically, I employ participatory mapping projects and semi-structured interviews to explore the ways in which clientelist networks mediate responses to socioecological change along southern Paraguay’s emergent rice frontier. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Elena | Dominguez Contreras | Natural Resources | Engaging Young Children in Nature Stewardship: Unfolding Nature Purpose | The project explores the ways in which young children can directly engage in restoring nature, or nature stewardship and the learning outcomes of children’s engagement in stewardship. Moreover, I am interested in how children’s participation in stewardship could be a vehicle to fuel purpose among children. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Evan | Riehl | Economics | The Efficacy of For-profit Teacher Training Programs | To combat teacher shortages, a growing number of states are allowing teachers to complete training programs at for-profit companies. This project explores the efficacy of for-profit training programs by examining their impacts on the quantity and quality of teachers in Texas. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Jillian | Goldfarb | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | AI, Rulemaking, and Threats to Scientific Policymaking | Citizens and experts alike can influence regulatory processes primarily through public notice and comment. Generative AI threatens this democratic expression. Can generative AI skew representation by overwhelming response pools with technically sophisticated comments perceived by regulators to be as informative as those written by experts? |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | CCSS Grant |
Maureen | Waller | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's license suspensions, legal debt, and the reproduction of inequality | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Khaled | Boughanmi | Marketing and Management Communication | Leveraging Generative AI for Marketing Research: An Application on Music Album Reviews | The capabilities of Generative AI to extract thematic content from unstructured data make it powerful to understand experiential domains. This research leverages this technology to extract experiential features from expert music reviews to enhance our understanding of album success and aid artists in their designs. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Understanding Household Experiences and Inequities in Wind and Flood Insurance Coverage | Insurance is a key tool for disaster recovery. Current research poorly explains how homeowners address complicated uncertainties and inequities in purchasing and using insurance. We will assess available insurance policy and claims datasets and examine homeowners’ experiences to better understand insurance decisions and their uneven impacts. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
Adam | Anderson | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Natasha | Raheja | Anthropology | Majority-Minority Politics across the India-Pakistan Border | How do majorities come to imagine themselves as minorities? Conversely, how do minorities come to imagine justice as part of majorities? Focusing on immigration policy in South Asia, my project argues that majority-minority politics exceed state borders, in ways that are not nation bound. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Use of AI-driven malnutrition diagnosis technology among community health workers in rural India | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Jarvis | Fisher | Global Development | Rice Production and Agroecology in Senegal | For years, Senegalese government officials have promoted rice self-sufficiency by intensifying the use of synthetic inputs and irrigation. Recently, a national coalition has rejected this approach, advocating ecologically intensive practices. This project examines the transformative effect of these contrasting approaches in two regions of Senegal. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Brooke Erin | Duffy | Communication | Creators, Platforms, and the New Politics of Visibility | Drawing upon in-depth interviews with participants in the digital Creator Economy, this research examines the promises, perils, and paradoxes of the platform-dependent labor. In so doing, this project considers how platforms like Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch may enable—or, conversely, thwart—a new politics of visibility. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 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 |
Ian | Lundberg | Information Science | Data-Adaptive Experiments to Discover Discrimination in Context | In what context is discrimination most severe? Using an experimental approach that updates treatment assignment rules as information is learned, this study will discover the contexts in which human decision-makers make especially discriminatory pairwise choices. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Cristobal | Cheyre | Information Science | How Race and Gender Stereotypes Impact Crowdfunding Outcome | We study how racial discrimination and gender roles stereotypes influence crowdfunding campaigns’ outcomes. We focus on outcomes experienced by Black female founders and how their chances of success change as product complexity and targeted market vary. Our results will inform policy and platform design interventions. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Colleen | Carey | Economics | The Actions of State Medical Boards in the Opioid Prescribing Epidemic | A small number of inappropriately-prescribing physicians drove opioid prescribing increases in the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic. This project collects a novel dataset of state medical board actions to determine the nature and extent of investigations and disciplinary actions regarding opioid prescribing. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
Marie | Ozanne | School of Hotel Administration | How and When Sponsored Ads on Social Media Deter Social Interactions | People are bombarded with ads on social media. This research questions whether the number of ads displayed on newsfeeds impacts passive (vs. active) social media usage. Given that passive usage is negatively associated with well-being, this research offers important implications for marketing researchers and policymakers. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Tessa | Tessa Evans | Government | To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance | Under what conditions do insurgents challenge local gender norms during conflict? Examining armed groups in South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Sahel, I suggest rebels challenge gender norms to undermine rival elites and empower marginalized sub-sections of the population, reducing the likelihood of population-wide resistance. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
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