Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort ascending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Amelia | Greiner Safi | Public and Ecosystem Health | Expanding the Understanding of Black Experiences with Gynecologic Cancer | Gynecologic cancers are understudied in general, especially Black experiences of such cancers. This engaged research brings together oncologists, researchers, survivors, quality improvement entities. Our focus groups with Black gynecologic cancer survivors aim to identify possible factors at various stages (i.e., diagnosis, treatment) that might inform future interventions to address disparities in survival. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | 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 | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Public and Ecosystem Health | Health and Environment | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Amelia | Greiner Safi | Public and Ecosystem Health | Developing a tailored approach to reducing cancer screening disparities in Tompkins County: Focus groups that address population-specific concerns | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Michelle | Falkenbach | Public and Ecosystem Health | Austria's Fall from Grace: The Kurz Regime and its Impact on Democracy | This article investigates whether instruments of the state have become instruments of the new ÖVP (Austrian People's Party), much like in Erdogan's Turkey, or Orbán's Hungary. The research question: Is Austria is at risk of democratic backsliding as a direct result of the "Kurz Regime." |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Public and Ecosystem Health | Mapping Aquaculture and Wild Fishery Interactions in a Changing Aquatic Food System | Aquatic food systems are rapidly transforming: aquaculture now produces over 50% of aquatic foods. This proposal examines the synergies and trade-offs between wild fisheries and aquaculture resource access and value chains amid this transformation around Lake Victoria, Kenya, a context emblematic of change in global aquatic food systems. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | CCSS Grant |
John | Thrasher | Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy | The nature and emergence of property norms | Where do ideas of private property come from? This project will examine how territorial instincts might generate property norms through biases in cultural learning. The project will also investigate how people think about property norms, e.g., whether they are fundamentally moral or conventional. |
2022 | Spring | Co-PI | Chapman University | 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 | |
Maureen | Waller | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Driver's License Suspensions, Legal Debt, and the Reproduction of Inequality | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Peter | Rich | 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 | |
Peter | Rich | Brooks School of Public Policy, Sociology | Hidden Black-White Disparities in the Pursuit of Educational Opportunity | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Pauline | Leung | Brooks School of Public Policy | The Effects of Work and Financial Assistance Policies on Child Outcomes: Long-Term Evidence from Welfare Reform Experiments | We examine the long-term effects of welfare-to-work policies by following up on five randomized experiments conducted in the nineties. We link the experimental data to a rich array of datasets held at the U.S. Census Bureau to understand the comprehensive economic and demographic impacts on welfare recipients and their children over a time horizon spanning more than 20 years. |
2022-2023 | PI | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Eleanor | Paynter | Einaudi Center for International Studies | The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Migrant Precarity and Decision-Making in Italy | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Angel | Escamilla García | Einaudi Center for International Studies | Transit Migration in Mexico After the Covid-19 Pandemic: New Policies, New migrants but Same Precarity | This research will investigate the impact that the COVID-19 has had on migrant minors on transit through Mexico to the United States. The researcher will explore how violence and precariousness against children have been exacerbated during the 2020 global pandemic. |
2022 | Spring | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
Eleanor | Paynter | Einaudi Center for International Studies | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Understanding Use of Wild and Backyard Foods in Response to COVID19 in Upstate New York | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Kate | Dickin | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Proyecto MESA: Exploring the food insecurity experiences of Latino families | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Karla | Hanson | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Mutual Aid Food Sharing: An exploration of host motivations and relationship building | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | The Social-Ecological Impacts of Ascendant Aquaculture | Fiorella wrote a single-author publication that examines interactions between freshwater fisheries and aquaculture, and the potential risks and benefits of those. She also received grants that will further her work, including a Public and Ecosystem Health Impact Award and Migrations Initiative Award. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Elizabeth | Fox | Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences | Buy or Brown Bag? School Lunch Program Use in Tompkins County Schools | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | QuIRI Grant | |
Pierre | Mérel | Agriculture and Resource Economics | Can public institutions resolve information asymmetries? Historical evidence from the French wine market | 2014 | Fall | Co-PI | UC Davis | CCSS 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 |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land Technologies: Interrogating Tools of Governance in the Colonial Present | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
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 |
Timothy | Ravis | Global Development | The Tectonics of Power: Earth, Energy, and State in Indonesia | This research examines the history of and contemporary struggles over geothermal energy in Indonesia, which has the most geothermal energy in the world. I illuminate the configurations through which state, society, capital, and science cooperate—and struggle—over energy resources and the value they offer. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
John | Sipple | Global Development | 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 | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
Jenny | Goldstein | Global Development | Land of No Return: Indonesia’s Development Out of Ruins | Goldstein worked on her book project, titled Land of No Return: Development after Degradation in Indonesia's Peatlands, and submitted three revised article manuscripts. She also received 4 campus funding awards for a Summer 2022 workshop for junior scholars. |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
David | Kay | Global Development | 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 |
John | Zinda | Global Development | Flood Risk in COVID-19 Context | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Chuan | Liao | Global Development | Circular Bionutrient Economy for AgriFood System Transition in Kenya | My project aims to explore agrifood system transitions through enhanced circularity in Kenya. I will synthesize available datasets to examine how, under different policy scenarios and engagement activities, the agrifood system transition can allow us to achieve synergistic outcomes in human and environmental wellbeing. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Xue | Zhang | Global Development | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Chuan | Liao | Global Development | The Sustainability Justice of Socio-Environmental System Transitions in the Drylands | This research aims to investigate how to ensure just transition of socio-environmental systems to achieve food security and rangeland sustainability in the drylands. It focuses on the Kenyan drylands that support hundreds of thousands of pastoralists whose livelihoods are directly tied to the land. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ding | Fei | Global Development | Afterlives of Pandemics: Disrupted Mobility and New Transnational Habitus of Chinese Labor | The project investigates how stringent Covid-19 prevention measures in China generate new forms of (im)mobility and transnational life aspirations among Chinese migrant workers in “Belt and Road” countries, and how workers' encounters with different pandemic control regimes produce alternative visions and interpretations of state-led development. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kristie | LeBeau | Global Development | Hitting the $40,000 Threshold: A Rural Critical Policy Analysis of Indiana Competitive Teacher Pay Legislation | Indiana recently implemented a statewide $40,000 minimum salary requirement for public school districts. I aim to understand how this seemingly neutral statewide policy can be more attentive to rural needs and discover what local budget decisions result in the highest net benefit for rural communities.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
Marvi | Ahmed | Global Development | Assembling the Development Frontier: Identity, Climate Vulnerability & Agrarian Politics in the Indus Delta | This project explores the entanglements between modernist donor-funded community development projects, structural inequalities such as caste, intergenerational debt bondage and land ownership with the unevenness of climate vulnerability in the Indus Delta region of Pakistan.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
John | Sipple | Global Development | Rural Schools: Planning and Decision Making in Times of Fiscal Stress | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Parfait | Eloundou-Enyegue | Global Development | Schooling, Childbearing, and Work Transitions of Young Women in Africa: Understanding Determinants and Consequences | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Martin | Wells | Statistical Science | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
Martin | Wells | Statistical Science | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Fabio | Trecca | Linguistics Cognitive Science and Semiotics | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Aarhus University | CCSS Grant | |
Huseyin | Topaloglu | Operations Research and Information | 2010 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing conference in 2010 at Cornell University | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Engineering | 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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
David | Scales | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | Fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
Imane | Terhmina | Romance Studies | Semantic Mapping of Indigeneity Through Computational Modeling of Nineteenth-Century French-Language | We intend to build a digital corpus of French-language documents related to indigeneity in the 19th century, and use both computational methods (NLP/CL) and interpretive tools to understand the ideological biases associated with textual representations of “indigeneity”, from its colonial genesis to its post-colonial recuperation. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Pedro | Rabelo Erber | Romance Studies | Collaborative Documentation of the Endangered Language Bororo | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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