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 ascending | Grant Type |
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Jack | Clarke | Law | Meridian 180 Inter-Disciplinary Conference: Rethinking the "Comfort Women" Problem | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
John H. | Blume | Law | 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 | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Hans | Law | A New Jury System at Work | Our team examined the jury trial’s introduction in Neuquén, Argentina, by collecting data (questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups) from judges, lawyers, and jurors. From legal actors’ experiences, we are learning how citizens’ participation in jury trials has led to fundamental changes in trial procedures. |
2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Zachary D. | Clopton | Law | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Frakes | Law | Project Narratives | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Charles | Whitehead | Law | 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 Law School | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
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 |
Cynthia | Bowman | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | 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 |
Eleanor | Wilking | Law | Worker Classification and Misclassification: Evidence from Employer Insurance Mandates | Over the fellowship year, significant progress was made in cleaning and linking administrative datasets. Initial descriptive findings found increasing convergence between workers classified as employees and those classified as independent contractors, accepted for publication in Northwestern University Law Review [Nov. 2022]. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell Law School | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | The Reasoning State | With time and resources from the ISS fellowship, Stiglitz conducted additional experiments and completed his book manuscript, The Reasoning State, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell Law School | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Reasoning and Trust | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Hans | Law | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Jed | Stiglitz | Law | Political Economy and Public Law Conference | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Keith | Porter | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Nelson | Tebbe | Law | The Effects on Children of Equality Rules for Religious Placement Agencies | Through triangulating in-depth interviews, original datasets, and national archive data on child placement outcomes, this comprehensive analysis will explore the question, are children harmed when child placement agencies close their doors rather than follow anti-discrimination rules that violate their religious beliefs? |
2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Annelise | Riles | Anthropology | Law Markets and Social Equity Conference | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Jeffrey | Rachlinski | 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 | |
Sheri Lynn | Johnson | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
John H. | Blume | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Muna | Ndulo | Institute for African Development | Elections, Accountability, and Democratic Governance in Africa | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Steve | Yale-Loehr | Law | 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 Law School | Collaborative Project | |
Cynthia | Bowman | Law | Women, Sustainable Development and Food Sovereignty/Security in a Changing World | This grant helped fund an international conference at Cornell Law School of feminist scholars and activists engaged in grassroots work to protect the environment; it resulted in papers published in a symposium issue of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy in 2013. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Seeds | Law | Capital Jurors Deciding Intellectual Disability: What Matters and Why? | 2010 | Fall | 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 |
Valerie | Hans | Law | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant |
William | Block | Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research | Linking Public & Private Food Assistance Through Admin. Data | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell Research Division | CCSS Grant | |
William | Block | Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research | Cyber-Boosting African Social Science: Exporting the Cornell College of Computing and Information Science Experience | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Research Division | CCSS Grant | |
Amanda | Birnbaum | Public Health | Adolescent Health and Community Service: Building Bridges and Planting Seeds | 2005 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Tracy | Nichols | Public Health | Adolescent Health and Community Service: Building Bridges and Planting Seeds | 2005 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Sasha | Fahme | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Prevalence and predictors of sexually transmitted infections among trauma-exposed Syrian refugee women in Beirut, Lebanon | 2021 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Yoon | Kang | Racial Disparities in Patient Care and the Role of Medical Training: An audit study | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | ||
Cary | Reid | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Gonzalez | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Leveraging Father-Son Relationships to Optimize Weight-Management Interventions in Hispanic Immigrant Communities | 2021 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
David | Yankelevitz | Radiology | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant |
Madeline | Sterling | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Improving the Mental Health of Home Health Aides | 2022 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Claudia | Henschke | Radiology | Risk Communication and Lung Cancer Screening | Led to one conference presentation and an NIH grant proposal, which was not funded. | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant |
Iggy E-Shien | Chang | Experiences and challenges faced by certified nursing assistants in mitigating resident-to-resident aggression in long-term care facilities: The role of race and ethnicity | The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of the role of race/ethnicity in resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) from the perspective of certified nursing assistants. Insights generated will help inform the design of a novel staff education intervention to mitigate and prevent race/ethnicity-related RRA.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
David | Scales | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | Fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Laura | Pinheiro | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Short and long-term influences of structural racism on cardiovascular outcomes among cancer survivors. | 2022 | Spring | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Katarzyna | Bilicka | The Capacity to be Aggressive: Structured Management and Tax Behaviors or Firms | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Utah State University | CCSS Grant | ||
Daniel | Benjamin | Understanding and Developing Survey-Based Measures of Well-Being | 2012-2013 | PI | University of Southern California | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Daniel | Benjamin | 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 | University of Southern California | Collaborative Project | ||
Antonio | Bento | On the Costs of Climate Mitigation: A Federal Clean Energy Standard with State-Level Distributional Constraints | 2012-2013 | PI | University of Southern California | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Alice | Chen | Price School of Public Policy | The Impact of the 2008-2009 Economic Recession on Service Intensity in Physician Offices | This project led to the peer-reviewed publication: Li et al. “County-level unemployment rates and service intensity in primary care physician offices for Medicare patients.” Medical Care Research and Review. 2019 Aug 31:1077558719872864. It also led to a presentation at the International Health Economics Association congress. | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Southern California | CCSS Grant |
Phoebe | Sengers | Information Science, Science and Technology Studies | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Dan | Cosley | Information Science | Identifying, Modeling, and Visualizing Disclosure of Personal Information in Social Media | Cosley's 2013 fellowship contributed to a $1.2 million NSF grant with Natalie Bazarova and Janis Whitlock that produced many well-cited publications around communication, relationships, mental health, design, and privacy in social media, helping several PhD students and postdocs launch successful research careers. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Cristian | Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil | Information Science | Improving Online Discourse Through Conversational Modeling | The CCSS fellowship allowed me to assimilate a new qualitative dimension into my (traditionally quantitative) research. This enabled a mixed-methods study of proactive moderation practices and of the potential for algorithmic support in multiple online discussion platforms and has (so far) led to a CSCW publication in the PACM HCI journal. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Nicola | Dell | Information Science | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
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