Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name Sort descending | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Marina | Welker | Anthropology | Ethical Technologies of Corporate Rule: A Mining Company in Postauthoritarian Indonesia | The grant contributed to my book, “Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Postauthoritarian Indonesia” (University of California Press, 2014), which is based on two years of ethnographic research on a Denver-based mining firm and its Indonesian operation. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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 |
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 | |
Howard | Welser | 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 | Ohio University | Collaborative Project | ||
Olivia Xin | Wen | Psychology | Social Affiliation and Music-Induced Synchrony in Dance | Prior support led to 1 paper and two papers in preparation, 2 pop press pieces, 2 chaired symposia, and 3 posters (awarded the SPSP Student Poster Award (1st place). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development, Sociology | Marriage and Re-partnering in the Second Half of Life | This project contributed to multiple papers and chapters on the potential contributions of ageism to social isolation and loneliness among older adults and its impact on health. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development | State level COVID-19 Policies: Economics, Equity and Health | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development, Sociology | The Second Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: Improving the State of Americans | A book was published based on the conference: Wethington, Elaine and Rachel Dunifon. 2012. Research for the Public Good: Applying the Methods of Translational Research to Improve Human Health and Well Being. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. |
2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
Janis | Whitlock | Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | 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 College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
John | Whitman | Linguistics | Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement and Social Change | This ISS grant helped fund a major interdisciplinary conference held at Cornell, on the deep history of rice and migrations in Asia, coinciding with a co-taught class. It was partially published as a special double issue of the journal Rice (ISSN 1939-8425), 2011 | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States | This project yielded 3 books, dozens of articles, over a million dollars in external grants, including a $450,000 award from fwd.us to study the prevalence and impact of family incarceration, and an annual speaker series including Pulitzer Prize winning author, James Forman, Jr. | 2015-2018 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | Paternal Incarceration and Teachers’ Expectations of Students | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Wildeman | Policy Analysis and Management | The Fifth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference- Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children | This interdisciplinary conference, focused on impacts of parental incarceration, led to the publication of a book: Wildeman, Christopher, Anna R. Haskins and Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Eds. 2018. _When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children_ Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. | 2016 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Matthew | Wilkens | Information Science | Machine learning for online medical support communities | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
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 | |
Andrew | Willford | Anthropology | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Lindy | Williams | Development Sociology | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Michele | Williams | The Emotions of Embeddedness | 2008-2009 | PI | University of Iowa | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
Charley | Willison | Public Health | Invisible Policymaking: The Hidden Actors Shaping Homelessness | Cities wield enormous power over homelessness. Yet, we know shockingly little about these approaches and their effects on unhoused-residents. Using national data and in-depth cases, this research investigates: the full landscape of homeless-policy; how homeless-policy gets made; the consequences of homeless-policy decisions for people who are unhoused. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Leila | Wilmers | Sociology | Nationalism and Identity | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Christopher | Wlezien | Conference on Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion | This conference led to the edited volume, Who Gets Represented? (Enns and Wlezien 2011). | 2007 | Fall | Co-PI | Temple University | CCSS Grant | |
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground | The 7 project fellows produced over 1.6 million dollars in external funding, a vibrant book series with Cornell University Press, and 77 publications. Research topics included global land deals, the neoliberal agri-food regime, First Nation formation in the Yukon, envirotechnical disasters, and migration and labor. | 2012-2015 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Workshop on Projectification, Governance and Sustainability: US-EU Synthesis and Comparison | This funding supported sustained engagement with University of Helsinki around questions of short-term organizational forms in environmental governance. Publications include “Toward projectified environmental governance?” 2017. Environment and Planning A. 49(2):273-292 and “Short-termism and Sustainability: Changing Time-frames in Spatial Policy Interventions” (eds. S. Sjöblom et al.). 2012. Ashgate | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Steven | Wolf | Natural Resources | Rights to the Forest: Impacts of Governance Changes on Health, Nutrition and Livelihoods | 2013 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Andrew | Wolf | Global Labor and Work | Racialized Labor Markets, the Work-Citizenship Nexus, and Platform Work in the U.S. and South Africa | This study investigates how platform labor becomes racialized through a survey of U.S. and South African workers. Exploring issues of race, immigration, job quality, and worker resistance. We aim to establish the feasibility of a social media distribution methodology to survey platform workers globally. |
2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Sarah E. | Wolfolds | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Employee Incentives in Microfinance Institutions:Examining the Importance of Diversification and Profit Status | The survey was included in a paper awarded the Charles H. Levine Best Conference Paper from the Public and Nonprofit Division, presented at the Academy of Management in Chicago in August 2018. Follow-up grants were awarded to continue this project, and further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | The Social Life of Land Workshop | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground | The 7 project fellows produced over 1.6 million dollars in external funding, a vibrant book series with Cornell University Press, and 77 publications. Research topics included global land deals, the neoliberal agri-food regime, First Nation formation in the Yukon, envirotechnical disasters, and migration and labor. | 2012-2015 | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Wendy | Wolford | Development Sociology | Rethinking Development: Debating New Directions in a Time of Crisis | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Joshua | Woodard | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Farm Bill Dairy Title Milk Producer Survey in NY State | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Mary N. | Woods | Architecture | Unpacking the Nano: The Price of the World's Most Affordable Car | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | CCSS Grant | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How the Use of a Non-native (vs. Native) Language Shapes Food Preferences | Can the use of a non-native (vs. native) language change people’s preference for healthy (vs. unhealthy) food? We investigate whether and how linguistic context (native vs. non-native) influences food choices, advancing literature on bilingualism and health, with practical implications for policy-makers. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How Intrinsic Motivation Shapes Resource Allocation | Woolley’s 2020-2021 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and resource allocation, including a publication on how time resources shape intrinsic motivation that was conditionally accepted in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Johnson Graduate School of Management | How Incentivizing Reviews Bias User-Generated Content | Woolley’s 2020-2021 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and resource allocation, including a publication on how time resources shape intrinsic motivation that was conditionally accepted in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. |
2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Marketing and Management Communication | 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 SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Marketing | 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. |
2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Joy | Wu | Munich School of Management | Tolerance for Sharing Polarizing Content on Information Platforms | We seek to understand users' preferences for spreading polarizing content on an information platform, which is informative for the design of effective platform governance strategies. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | CCSS Grant |
Hongyuan | Xia | Economics | Dancing with Stars or Crowded out by Stars: Superstar Firms’ Effect on AI Adoption | Does the superstar firms’ adoption of AI foster or deter other firms’ adoption of AI? There are two competing mechanisms: imitation and competition. By using comprehensive job posting data and a novel instrumental variable, this study will examine the empirical salience of these competing effects of superstar firms on the AI adoption process. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Yiying | Xiong | Government | Weaponizing Nationalism: China’s Economic Coercion and Its Effectiveness | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
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 | |
Wenfei | Xu | City and Regional Planning | A New Picture of Segregation | In an era of increasingly granular location data, quantitative measures of segregation in the social sciences remain reliant on the residential Census. This project collects observed social context using mobile phone location data across the United States to create a dynamic “new” picture of segregation. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | 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 | |
Xuewen | Yan | Sociology | English hegemony from below: How Chinese scholars navigate academic production in an Anglicized world | This project explores how non-native English-speaking academics from periphery nations use and evaluate Anglophone scholarship against the general backdrop of Anglo-American dominance in global academia. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 | |
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 |
So-Yeon | Yoon | Human Centered Design | Fostering Consumer Creativity in Metaverse Virtual Retail Spaces with Psychological Virtuality | At the forefront of retail innovation, the metaverse offers extended brand-consumer experiences that stimulate creative abilities. Grounded in self-expansion theory, this project develops virtual retail spaces infused with psychological virtuality and unveils the mechanisms that amplify consumer creativity in our proposed retail settings. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
So-Yeon | Yoon | Design and Environmental Analysis | The Impact of Noise and Perceived Crowding on Consumer Emotions and Repatronage Intentions in a Food Service Context: An Exploratory Study in a Real and Virtual Restaurant | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
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