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 | Grant Type Sort descending |
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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 | |
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 | |
Kathryn | Fiorella | Public and Ecosystem Health | Health and Environment | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | grant writing development pilot grant | |
Laura | Bellows | Nutritional Sciences | Digital platform for mothers of young children to address obesity promoting behaviors | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | grant writing development pilot grant | |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Use of AI-driven malnutrition diagnosis technology among community health workers in rural India | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | grant writing development pilot grant | |
Sara | Bronin | City and Regional Planning | Building a National Zoning Atlas | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | grant writing support program | |
Kevin | Kniffin | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Teamwork, Leadership, and Convergence Skills as Avenues for Success for STEM Doctoral Students and Programs | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | grant writing support program | |
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 | |
Ricardo | Daziano | Civil and Environmental | MCA: Modeling Social Interaction Effects on Economic Choices via Graph Convolutional Networks | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Engineering | grant writing support program | |
Qi | Wang | Psychology | Leveraging Social Media to Facilitate Teens’ Meaning Making and Mental Health | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | grant writing support program | |
Saleh | Kalantari | Human Centered Design | Intelligent Cognitive Assistant for Promoting Human-Centered Design Through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | grant writing support program | |
Wenfei | Xu | City and Regional Planning | A New Picture of Segregation | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | grant writing support program | |
Caitie | Barrett | Classics | Modeling Space and Experience at Pompeii | 2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | grant writing support program | |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Combating Global Health Misinformation via Community-Engaged Research | 2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | grant writing support program | |
Nicholas | Klein | City and Regional Planning | The effects of decreasing access to a car | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | quiri grant | |
Jenny | Goldstein | Development Sociology | Pandemics and human-environment interactions: Land use change as a driver of coronavirus and influenza outbreaks in Asia | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | quiri grant | |
Kendra | Kintzi | Development Sociology | Glittering Metropolis: Renewable Energy, Smart Grids, and Life beyond Oil in Jordan | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | quiri grant | |
Daniel | Ferman-Leon | Anthropology | The Financialization of Racialized Geographies: Real Estate Investment and Housing Insecurity in Kansas City | Fermon-Leon's funding has been used to explore the archives of business journals and local development publications. The remainder of the funds will be used to carryout in-depth interviews and focus groups. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant |
Elif | Sari | Anthropology | From Competition to Solidarity: Iranian & Syrian LGBTQ Refugee Meetings | Sari conducted 10 follow-up interviews with Iranian LGBTQ refugees in Turkey to complete her dissertation on refugees’ lives and experiences. The funding also allowed her to organize two small group meetings, where Iranian refugees discussed how to establish collaboration and solidarity with Syrian LGBTQ refugees in the country and prepared a community-engaged project plan and a tentative division of labor. Accordingly, the group will organize 3 virtual meetings in Fall 2021 to bring Iranian and Syrian refugees together and develop strategies for transforming prejudices and preconceptions about each other. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant |
Cameron | Mailhot | Government | The Relationship between International Missions and Post-Conflict Political Trust: Evidence from a Qualitative Analysis of Kosovo’s Newspaper Archives | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Martin | Abbott | Science and Technology Studies | Organizing Irresponsibility? Redrawing Nature with Magic and Maps | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Trevor | Brown | Government | Democracy Deindustrialized?: The Political Economy of the Fall of Industry and the Rise of the Service Economy, 1960-2019 | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Fernando | Delgado | Information Science | Sociotechnical Design and Governance in Automated Legal Discovery | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | 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 | |
Alex | Dyzenhaus | Government | Conceptions of Justice: Obstacles to Land Restitution in South Africa's Putfontein Community | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Naomi | Egel | Government | Regulating Destruction: the Politics of Multilateral Weapons Governance | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
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 | |
Thalia | Gerzso | Government | Judicial Resistance: The Role of Courts in Electoral Disputes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Ashley | Heim | Physics | Measuring critical thinking in ecology and physics: What influences students' abilities to make comparisons? | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Emily | Hillenbrand | Development Sociology | Engaging Men in Shifting Masculinities in Burundi | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | quiri grant | |
Jess | Hohenstein | Information Science | Developing a Complete Framework for the Social Effects of AI in Communication | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | quiri grant | |
Eun A | Jo | Government | Narrating Enemies in World Politics | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Joseph | Lasky | Government | Shadows and Silence: Identity and Legacies of Cameroon's Hidden War | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Christine | Leuenberger | Science and Technology Studies | From Africa's Great Lake Region to Maine: The experiences of East African immigrants in the Eastern U.S. | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Jen | Liu | Information Science | Understanding the impact of climate change on networked infrastructures in vulnerable coastal communities in south Louisiana | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | quiri grant | |
Mary Beth | Morrissey | Sociology | Situating Friendship in Middle-Class Emerging Adulthood | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Isabel | Perera | Government | States of Mind: The development of Norwegian and Swedish mental health policy in comparative perspective | Perera hired a research assistant to support the development of her book manuscript. The monograph documents and explains the varied development of mental health policy in different countries, including Norway and Sweden. With the help of the RA's language skills, the team collected descriptive statistics and translated key texts into English. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant |
Lindsey | Pruett | Government | Soldiers, Shovels and the State: Military Led State-Building and Civic Action in Post-Colonial Senegal | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Adrienne | Scott | Government | American Citizenship and the Welfare State | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Yiying | Xiong | Government | Weaponizing Nationalism: China’s Economic Coercion and Its Effectiveness | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Rebecca | Harrison | Science and Technology Studies | "Safe sex for insects" and other stories: How land-grant scientists configure and enact their roles in working with controversial biotechnologies | The funding enabled Harrison to (1) subscribe to a Zoom-compatible transcription service, and (2) will assist with future expenses associated with primary resource and document acquisition, by mail and in-person. This research will be presented at the 2021 Society for Social Studies of Science meeting and in Ms. Harrison’s forthcoming dissertation. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant |
Chris | Hesselbein | Science and Technology Studies | Rejecting 5G: Alternative Arti/facts | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
Wanheng | Hu | Science and Technology Studies | Uncovering the Face Mask: Mundane Governance, Ontology, and the Construction of Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Hu intends to recruit interview participants for a study exploring the role of masks in constructing risks and governing social loves. He anticipates conducting 30 virtual interviews and multi-sited ethnography. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant |
Barkha Satish | Kagliwal | Science and Technology Studies | Processing in Mega Food Parks: The Trials of a Technological Fix | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | quiri grant | |
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 |
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 |
Negar | Khojasteh | Information Science | How International Students and Their Spouses use Technology to Communicate with their Families | Negar's thesis is focused on understanding the challenges international students face as they communicate with their families remotely. Her goal is to contribute to theories related to family communication as well as designing new technological tools for this population. The grant also covered expenses of Atlas.ti and otter.ai (analysis and transcription tools). |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | quiri grant |
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