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 | PI/Co-PI Sort descending | College | Grant Type |
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Sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) | 2019 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kelly | Musick | Policy Analysis and Management | Parents’ Time with Children and Subjective Well-being | This project led to a stream of papers on parental well-being in the context of time-intensive, child-centered, and unequal parenting, including “How Parents Fare: Mothers' and Fathers' Subjective Well-Being in Time with Children” in American Sociological Review (Musick et al., 2016). | 2013 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Kelly | Musick | Policy Analysis and Management | Education and Changing Patterns of Fertility Over the Life Course | This project led to new descriptive and conceptual work on education differences in the timing and partnership context of fertility, including “Variation in the Relationship Between Education and Marriage: Marriage Market Mismatch” in Journal of Marriage and Family (Musick et al., 2012). | 2009 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Kelly | Musick | Policy Analysis and Management | Work Hours and Gender Inequality in Earnings Across Countries | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Muna | Ndulo | Institute for African Development | Elections, Accountability, and Democratic Governance in Africa | 2012 | Spring | pi | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Muna | Ndulo | Law | The Food and Financial Crisis and Their Impact in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals in Africa | The conference brought scholars and practitioners from abroad to explore food security and its impact on Africa. The presentations made possible the book, Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa, which focus on the crises, effects on rural poverty, and recommendations to address the crises. | 2009 | Spring | pi | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
David | Ng | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Picking Stocks for Fun or Buying Stock Funds: The Portfolio Choices of U.S Individual Investors | This grant helps our research in individuals' investments in mutual funds, and results in a publication of "behavioral biases of mutual fund investors" in Journal of Financial Economics 2011, vol 102, 1-27. This paper has been cited over 350 times. | 2006 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Tracy | Nichols | Public Health | Adolescent Health and Community Service: Building Bridges and Planting Seeds | 2005 | Spring | pi | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Insurance Competition and Network Offerings | This grant supported the development of a paper, “Narrow Physician Networks, Switching Costs, and Product Variety in Employer Markets,” which received a revise and resubmit request at the American Economic Review, one of the top journals in economics. | 2014 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sean | Nicholson | Policy Analysis and Management | Health and Early Childhood Television and Video Viewing | This exploratory effort led to the creation of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper “Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching,” which is under review at a peer-reviewed economics journal. | 2008 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Effects of Prevalence Information in Framing Health Problems | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Narrative, Metaphor and Inoculation: Communication Theory to Promote Multi-Sector Approaches to Improving Health | This project laid the groundwork for three subsequent successful grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (from 2018-2020) totaling over $600,000 in funding. Combined, these have supported three PhD students and produced three published papers (and 5 others in process) | 2014 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeff | Niederdeppe | Communication | Using Personal Stories to Raise Support for Social Policies to Reduce Obesity | This grant laid the groundwork for a major thread in my research program. This project laid the foundation for at least 30 peer-reviewed research papers and 8 external funded grants totalling over $1 million, largely from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
2008 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Ted | O'Donoghue | Economics | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
bethany | Ojalehto | Human Development | Cognitive Drivers of Environmental DeCornell College of Computing and Information Scienceion Making: Mobilizing Indigenous Ecocentric Conceptual Perspectives in Diverse Contexts | 2018 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | The Fourth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: New Developments in Aging, Emotion, and Health | 2012 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Eleonora | Patacchini | Economics | Polarized Beliefs and Discrimination | The grant led to the paper “Professional Interactions and Hiring Decisions: Evidence from the Federal Judiciary (NBER Working Paper 26726). This is a highly influential paper, as proved by the fact that it was profiled by the NBER Digest (May 2020 issue). | 2017 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Patel | Government | Kin and Kingdom: Using GIS to Understand the Relationship Between Tribes and Elections in Jordan | 2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael T. | Paz | School of Hotel Administration | The Effects of Employee Ownership on Executive Compensation | 2017 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | 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 |
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 | |
David | Pelletier | Nutritional Sciences | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | This research led to the creation of the Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition (SISN) and an associated publication: Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2019). | 2011 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Political Science and the New Politics of Authoritarianism | 2020 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Workshop on the Global Impact of the Financial Crisis | This grant supported an important research workshop on the political implications of the 2008-09 financial crisis around the world, resulting in several peer-reviewed publications. | 2009 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Thomas | Pepinsky | Government | Politics, Economics, and Religion in Indonesia | Pepinsky’s fellowship resulted in a number of publications, including “Colonial Migration and the Origins of Governance” (Comparative Political Studies, 2016) and Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam (New York: Oxford University Press). |
2012-2013 | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Isabel | Perera | Government | The American Political Economy after COVID-19 | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jamie | Perry | School of Hotel Administration | A Multimethod and Longitudinal Explanation of Diversity and Firm Performance | 2019 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Jamie | Perry | School of Hotel Administration | Meta-Analytic Evidence and Critica Contingencies of Resource-Based Subgroup | The fellowship allowed Jamie Perry the resources to develop a theoretical framework for understanding cooperation and competition within groups. She has recently completed a working paper with coauthors, and subsequently, started empirical investigation of the phenomenon. | 2018-2019 | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Elizabeth | Peters | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Elizabeth | Peters | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Trevor | Pinch | Science and Technology Studies | A Conference to be held at Cornell University in Spring 2016 | This conference brought together the leading STS researchers in the world to celebrate 40 years of STS at Cornell. | 2015 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
David | Pizarro | Psychology | The Positive Side of Morality: Cultural Influences on Judging Good People and Praiseworthy Acts | 2018 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sharon | Poctzer | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Impact of Firm's Resource Misallocation on Growth in Developing Economies: Evidence from Indonesia | 2013 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Keith | Porter | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | pi | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Prentice | Science and Technology Studies | Teamwork and Technology in the Operating Room | 2013 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Prentice | Science and Technology Studies | The Surgeon's Body: Surgical Practice in an Age of Digital Medicine | 2006 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Marcel | Preuss | Johnson Graduate School of Management | The Dynamics of Luck, Effort, and Redistribution | 2020 | Fall | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Jeffrey | Prince | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Assessing Gender Differences in Time Consistency | 2006 | Spring | pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Fluid Empires: Water Management Across the French Mediterranean | Led to an article in Social Studies of Science (2012) crucial to author’s tenure file; research also reflected in Environment and Planning A special issue, “Knowledge and the Politics of Land” (2016), co-edited with Steven Wolf and Wendy Wolford. | 2010 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Bringing STS Into Environmental History | This grant supported an important, international workshop on the contributions of science studies to environmental history, resulting in the edited volume, _New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies_, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2013). | 2009 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Victoria | Prowse | Economics | Income Redistribution through Defined Benefit Pension systems when Life Expectancy is Heterogenous | 2015-2016 | pi | Purdue University | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Jeffrey | Rachlinski | Law | Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? | This award supported the research for the following paper: Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Sheri Johnson, Andrew J. Wistrich & Chris Guthrie, Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? 84 Notre Dame L. Rev.1195 (2009). |
2006 | Spring | pi | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Hudson | Reeve | Neurobiology and Behavior | 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.
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2007 | Fall | pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Adriana | Reyes | Policy Analysis and Management | Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults | 2021 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | Gist in Criminal Adjudiction: Testing the Effects of Mental Representation on Juror Deliberations and Verdicts | We investigated how juries decide on monetary damages in civil cases through the process of converting gist representations into numerical damage judgments as predicted by Fuzzy-Trace Theory. Since 2016, the project led to an NSF grant as well as 8 peer-reviewed publications and 12 presentations. | 2016 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | Fuzzy-Trace Theory and the Law: Testing a Theoretical Model of Juror Damage Awards | Investigations spanned the psychology of commission of crimes to jury deliberation and sentencing including criminal and non-criminal risky decisions in adolescents and adults, risk taking and crime in the brain, and decision processes in psychopathy, ultimately leading to 17 publications and 19 presentations. | 2012 | Spring | pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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