Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort descending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 |
Karim-Aly | Kassam | Natural Resources, American Indian and Indigenous Studies | Rhythms of the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Thriving | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Alvarado | Sociology | Multigenerational Neighborhood Effects | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Elizabeth | Hirsh | Sociology | Human Resources Policies and Discrimination Charges | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Anna | Haskins | Sociology | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
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 | |
Benjamin | Cornwell | Sociology | Social Networks Dynamics and Health in Later Life | With the time and resources provided in his 2013 ISS Fellowship, Ben Cornwell wrote a study on older adults’ social networks as well as a book, Social Sequence Analysis, which was published by Cambridge University Press. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Amada | Armenta | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Steve | Benard | Sociology | Threats to Group Survival, Status, and “Upping the Threat Level” | Our experiments show a correlation between manipulations of perceptions of threat level in order to elicit higher group member contributions and status within a group and analyze the causes of this status effect. These findings were presented at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Brashears | Sociology | Eating Network Partners | We developed a conceptual framework and measures incorporating data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). | 2010 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Moving Beyond the Census Tract: Activity Space and Social Networks in Later Life | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kendra | Bischoff | Sociology | Neighborhood Preferences and School Choice | This project examines how residential segregation and school choice conditions influence attitudes about schooling and residential preferences. An article was presented at the 2020 Eastern Sociological Association Conference and is currently in preparation for journal submission. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kendra | Bischoff | Sociology | Choosing Neighborhoods, Choosing Schools: A Pilot Study of the Association between Neighborhood and School Composition | This collaborative demographic analysis resulted in the publication of “The Racial Composition of Neighborhoods and Local Schools: The Role of Diversity, Inequality, and School Choice” in _City and Community_ and “School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods” in _Sociological Science_. | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kendra | Bischoff | Sociology | Participation in Local Governance Before and After the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Case of School Boards | The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of school governance in local communities as districts’ independent decisions not only affected children’s education, but also adults’ labor force participation. This project examines how the pandemic, and its interaction with community demographics, affected school board election turnout rates. |
2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Steven | Alvarado | Sociology | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Implications of Course Enrollment Structure for the Potential of Epidemic Spread on a College Campus | This project will use complete student transcript data to map the bipartite (two-mode) network that connects students to each other via their enrollment in college courses, thereby creating social structural conditions for the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. We will evaluate how clusters of course offerings, the timing of courses throughout the week, and mode of class instruction affect the structure of this network. We will also assess how students with different majors, level in school, gender, and race occupy different positions within the network. |
2020 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | |
Hui Yuan | Neo | Sociology | Revolution from the Ivory Tower?: The Knowledge Economy and Political Destabilization in Authoritarian Regimes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Prosecutorial Discretion & Perceptions of Place: How Neighborhoods Matter in Juvenile Cases | Through in-depth interviews and participatory mapping, this study investigates the process of prosecutorial discretion, focusing on the influence of spatial stigma on charging offers for juvenile offenders and answering the question: how do attorneys perceive the role of neighborhoods in their approach to prosecuting juvenile cases? |
2022 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Maria Vignau | Loria | Sociology | 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 | University of Washington | Working Group Grant | |
Cristobal | Young | Sociology | Millionaire Migration after the Trump Tax Bill | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Moving Beyond the Census Tract: Real-Time Assessment of Neighborhoods, Social Connectedness, and Health | York Cornwell’s 2015-2016 Fellowship resulted in journal articles in the American Journal of Public Health and the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, as well as collaborative development of the proposal for a $3 million grant funded by the National Institute on Aging. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Does Elite Philanthropy Legitimate Plutocracy? | This project examines whether, how, and the extent to which elite philanthropy legitimates rising inequality and plutocracy. It (1) develops measures of support for plutocracy, (2) establishes overall support for plutocracy, (3) determines effects of philanthropy on support for plutocracy, (4) tests mechanisms, and (5) identifies implications. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Benjamin | Cornwell | Sociology | Implications of Course Enrollment Structure for the Potential of Epidemic Spread on a College Campus | This project will use complete student transcript data to map the bipartite (two-mode) network that connects students to each other via their enrollment in college courses, thereby creating social structural conditions for the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. We will evaluate how clusters of course offerings, the timing of courses throughout the week, and mode of class instruction affect the structure of this network. We will also assess how students with different majors, level in school, gender, and race occupy different positions within the network. |
2020 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | |
Barum | Park | Sociology | Political Polarization and the Role of Online Foci in Deliberative Discussions | The fellowship helped laying the groundwork for the analysis of a massive dataset on online behavior during the 2016 US presidential election. Several papers are expected to be published from this project within the next three years. Further, an R package to fit stochastic blockmodels to weighted networks was developed. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Vida | Maralani | Sociology | Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Macy | Sociology | Getting Connected: Science, 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Vida | Maralani | Sociology | Child investments and Women's Employment across the Life Course | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Erika | Abbott | Sociology | The Modified Child Tax Credit and Social Recognition among American Families | Using qualitative semi-structured interviews, this project is an investigation into the destigmatization process families may face via monthly cash benefits as a part of the new expanded Child Tax Credit. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
David | Strang | Sociology | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Katherine | Zaslavsky | Sociology | Measuring Race as a Social Construct: Toward Improving the State of the Art | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Meaghan | Mingo | Sociology | Prepare and Punish: Schooling and Discipline in the Black Belt | Mingo conducted interviews with 22 junior high school students and 11 educators as part of her ethnographic study on schooling and discipline in the rural US South. This research will be presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in August 2021, and is included in manuscripts in progress. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Adriana | Reyes | Sociology | Understanding Americans Attitudes towards Caregiving for Older Adults | I will assess the attitudes and policy preferences of Americans toward caregiving for older adults using survey data and in-depth interview data. I will focus on variations across race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and over time. Vignettes will be used to understand when preferences diverge from expectations. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Inequality, Religion, and Wellbeing | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Juhwan | Seo | Sociology | Queering the American Family: Same-Sex Couples and the Marriage Green Card Process | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Mary Beth | Morrissey | Sociology | Situating Friendship in Middle-Class Emerging Adulthood | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Chiara | Galli | Sociology | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Leila | Wilmers | Sociology | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Richard | Swedberg | Sociology | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Richard | Swedberg | Sociology | How to Theorize in Sociology and Social Science | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 | |
David | Strang | Sociology | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Measuring Race as a Social Construct: Toward Improving the State of the Art | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and 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 |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | A New Social Indicators Framework for Measuring Trends in Inequality | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Social Mobility and Immobility in an Age of Inequality | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program |
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