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 | College Sort descending | Grant Type |
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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 | |
Beth | Livingston | Human Resource Studies | "Men at Work" (and Family): Caregiving Responsibilities among the Working Class | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Maria | Cook | International and Comparative Labor | 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 | |
Sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Testing interventions to encourage self-blinding | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Adam Seth | Litwin | Labor Relations Law and History | Labor Unions and the Spread of Healthcare-Associated Infections | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences including the annual meetings of the Labor and Employment Association and the Industry Studies Association. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Freedman | Labor Economics | Agglomeration Effects: The Role of Selection | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Esta | Bigler | Labor and Employment Law | Law and Social Sciences Conference: Increasing Inclusion/Reducing Discrimination: What Works | Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Courtney | McCluney | Organizational Behavior | Corporate Responses to Racial Injustice | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI 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 | |
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 | |
Pamela | Tolbert | Organizational Behavior | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
John | Abowd | Economics | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | Africa Futures Project: Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Grant Writing Support Program | |
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 | |
Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | 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 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Working Group Grant | |
Evan | Riehl | Economics | Minority Hiring Quotes and Worker/Firm Match Quality: Evidence from Brazil | The research supported by this grant has been developed into two workings papers that analyze policies that aim reduce inequality by improving the matching of students to colleges and firms. Publication of these papers is pending. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Yiran | Zhang | Labor Relations Law and History | Public Compensation for Family Caregivers: The Governance of Care Work within Consumer-Directed Care | Examining administrative adjudication records, this project studies the everyday legal struggles and the state’s governance of care work in Medicaid-funded Consumer Directed Personal Care Programs, an emerging healthcare provision model that pays a family member to perform long-term home-based care. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
William | Sonnenstuhl | Organizational Behavior | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Brittany | Bond | Organizational Behavior | Organizational Interventions to Alleviate Burnout and Promote Well-Being | Can organizational interventions reduce employee burnout and promote well-being? We are planning to investigate these questions using a randomized field experiment in the setting of veterinarian clinics in the United States. |
2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Maria | Cook | International and Comparative Labor | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local | As international migration continues to rise, countries of origin have played an increasing role in engaging their emigrants; however, we know little about how they are being held accountable for the services offered to their diasporas. To fill the gap, this book analyzes on-the-ground, transnational defense of migrant labor rights.
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2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Peter | Lazes | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | ||
Marya | Besharov | Organizational Behavior | Creating Change from Within or Building an Alternative? The Role of Intermediaries in Developing Local Food Systems | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Pamela | Tolbert | Organizational Behavior | Law and Social Sciences Conference: Increasing Inclusion/Reducing Discrimination: What Works | Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Sangah | Bae | Organizational Behavior | The Hidden Costs of Intrinsic Motivation | Intrinsic motivation is championed as a benefit that people should aspire to, with little attention paid to the negative consequences. We study an interpersonal cost of high intrinsic motivation: managers are more likely to burden intrinsically motivated employees with extra work tasks.
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2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | The Hidden Costs of Intrinsic Motivation | Intrinsic motivation is championed as a benefit that people should aspire to, with little attention paid to the negative consequences. We study an interpersonal cost of high intrinsic motivation: managers are more likely to burden intrinsically motivated employees with extra work tasks.
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2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Ifeoma | Ajunwa | Organizational Behavior | Algorithms, Big Data, and Inequality | This project has produced over $927,000 in external grants and 39 publications thus far. Research topics include algorithmic management among cultural workers, agency of data subjects, estimation of causal effects from data for counterfactual fairness and comparing compliance procedures and research proposals for non-discrimination in statistical models. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Rachel | Aleks | Labor Relations Law and History | Practice What You Preach: Gender (In)Equality in Labor Union Leadership | Using 14 years of longitudinal data from Labor Organization Annual Reports, which all private-sector unions are required to file, this research will be the first quantitative analysis to explore nationally the question of gender (in)equality in union officer positions. |
2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Black Employees’ Allyship Needs | In general, fulfilling relationships with coworkers can foster positive work outcomes for employees. Expanding on this broad framework, we demonstrate that when Black employees’ allyship needs are met by their white coworkers, they experience higher attachment to coworkers, higher organizational commitment, and lower turnover intentions.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Esta R. | Bigler | Labor and Employment Law | 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 |
Celene | Reynolds | Organizational Behavior | Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Esta | Bigler | Labor and Employment Law | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | Understanding Our Influence Over Others’ Moral Decisions | Studies conducted as part of this research project were published in, "With a little help from my friends (and strangers): closeness as a moderator of the underestimation-of-compliance effect," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Christa | Deneault | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Brian | Rubineau | Organizational Behavior | Racial Disparities in Patient Care and the Role of Medical Training: An audit study | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Immigrant Worker Precarity, Race and the Dual Pandemic | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Tristan | Ivory | International and Comparative Labor | African Futures Project (Socioeconomic and Geographic Mobility of Ghanaian, Kenyan, and South African Youth) | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Shannon | Gleeson | Labor Relations Law and History | Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local | The QuIRI grant enabled ILR Professor Shannon Gleeson to defray publication costs for her book manuscript "Portable Rights: Bringing the Sending State Back into the Local" (with Xóchitl Bada, under contract with the University of California Press). During this funding period, the research team prepared demographic tables and other figures for the introductory chapters, consolidated a database for the methodological appendix, and submitted chapter drafts to convenings hosted by the American Sociological Association, Texas A&M and the University of Colorado. The book will be under full review by Fall 2021, with an expected publication date of late 2022. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Grant |
Eli | Friedman | International and Comparative Labor | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 2016-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Kati | Griffith | Labor Relations Law and History | Immigration Status at Work | The grant contributed to data collection and several publications including, Gleeson, Shannon and Kati L. Griffith. 2020. ìEmployers as Subjects of the Immigration State: How the State Foments Employment Insecurity for Temporary Immigrant Workersî Law & Social Inquiry. 2020.17 | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Patricia | Campos Medina | Labor Relations Law and History | Displaced and Uprooted: Stories of Belonging Central American TPS Workers' Defiant Struggle for their Right to Stay Home in US | This project seeks to elevate the stories of workers with TPS (Temporary Protective Status) who despite living in temporality, have engaged in social movement organizing, have participated in non-traditional political mobilization and have become agents for their own struggle for permanency and citizenship rights. It will also explore the engagement of TPS workers in the struggle for immigrant worker justice and union organizing. The survey interview questionnaire covers three dimensions of belonging, or what Campos-Medina 2019 describes as Bounded Integration: (1) Social Economic Status, (2) Civic and Social Movement Engagement, and (3) Collective Group Identity.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Grant |
Dina | Bishara | International and Comparative Labor | The Politics of Labor Market Outsiders in the Middle East and North Africa: Insights from Tunisia | This project aims at unpacking the political and social policy preferences of labor market outsiders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We will conduct a pilot survey in Tunisia, which will serve as the foundation for a larger grant proposal. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS 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 |
Marya | Besharov | Organizational Behavior | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Duanyi | Yang | Labor Relations Law and History | Organizational Interventions to Alleviate Burnout and Promote Well-Being | Can organizational interventions reduce employee burnout and promote well-being? We are planning to investigate these questions using a randomized field experiment in the setting of veterinarian clinics in the United States. |
2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Jennifer | Schwade | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Robert | Travers | History | An Empire of Complaints: Petitions, Rights, and Justice in Eighteenth Century India | This research has led to the publication of two articles in major journals, including ‘Indian Petitioning and Colonial State-formation in Colonial Bengal, Modern Asian Studies (2019), and a book manuscript (currently being completed) on the role of Indian ideas justice in early colonial India. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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