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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Sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sarah | Murray | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mathieu | Taschereau-Dumouchel | Economics | Cascades and Fluctuations in an Economy with an Endogenous Production Network | The research supported by this grant has been presented at 25 conferences and seminars. Further publications are pending. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Mostafa | Minawi | History | The Geopolitics of Ottoman Imperialism in the Horn of Africa | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Lauren | Monroe | Near Eastern Studies | Life on the Frontier: Identify and Exchange at the Ancient Border Town of Abel Bath Maacah, Israel | This grant paved the way to a new book project entitled Becoming Israel: Political Identity in the Song of Deborah, which I am now in the process of finishing thanks to a 2020-21 faculty fellowship from the Cornell Society for the Humanities. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Francesca | Molinari | Economics | Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference | Most presenters at this conference were junior scholars at the time. All went on to be granted tenure, and build a successful research agenda around the themes of this conference. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Francesca | Molinari | Economics | Estimating Risk Preferences with Limited Consideration | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Adam Seth | Levine | Government | How Citizens Become Advocates | Thanks to the generous time and resources from my ISS fellowship, along with the wonderfully supportive and engaging community of fellows, I completed four new projects examining when ordinary citizens become political advocates in response to social and economic challenges, including unaffordable health care, climate change, and traffic congestion. These papers have been published in top political science, climate change, and transportation journals. One of these projects was a collaboration with ISS fellow Mike Manville. |
2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Richard | Swedberg | Sociology | How to Theorize in Sociology and Social Science | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Ted | O'Donoghue | Economics | Age and Intertemporal Choice Among Aversive Experiences | This pilot study resulted in an external grant (R21 AG043741 NIH/NIA. “Age Differences in Preferences for and Responses to Temporal Sequences” and multiple journal publications. | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ted | O'Donoghue | Economics | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Randy | Lee | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Begüm | Adalet | Government | Transnational Theories | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Bateman | Government | Congress & History Conference | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jerel | Ezell | Africana Studies and Research Center | Exploring and understanding communities within communities: A mixed methods investigation of rural drug use among Black, Latinx, and Native Americans | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Y. Connie | Yuan | Communication | Knowledge Management in Organizations | My 2015 fellowship gave me the time and space to think about bigger questions about my research interests. Two book-chapter review articles were produced that summarize how expertise and communication technologies can be more effectively used in collaborative work in organizations. |
2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Cristobal | Young | Sociology | Millionaire Migration after the Trump Tax Bill | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Smith | Anthropology | Resilience and Ruination in Mountain Communities: Comparative Regional Settlement Dynamics in the South Caucasus from the Bronze Age to Today | This pilot research led to a multi-year NSF grant to support further archaeological research on settlement dynamics in the South Caucasus. | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shaun | Nichols | Philosophy | Revising Anti-Vaccination Beliefs During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Adult Attachment: Integrating Social, Cognitive, and Neurophysiological Approaches | Prior support led to an edited book, 8 papers, 3 pop press pieces, 9 chaired symposia, and 1 NSF grant. | 2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Marina | Welker | Anthropology | An Ethnography of the Sampoerna Clove Cigarette Company | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Christopher | Monroe | Near Eastern Studies | Life on the Frontier: Identify and Exchange at the Ancient Border Town of Abel Bath Maacah, Israel | 2012 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Hudson | Reeve | Neurobiology and Behavior | Threats to Group Survival, Status, and “Upping the Threat Level” | Our experiments show a correlation between manipulations of perceptions of threat level in order to elicit higher group member contributions and status within a group and analyze the causes of this status effect. These findings were presented at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.
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2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Rebecca | Slayton | Science and Technology Studies | Rhythms of the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Science, and Thriving | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kathryn | March | Anthropology | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Jessica | Weeks | Government | Authoritarin Domestic Political Institutions and International Conflict | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vida | Maralani | Sociology | Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy | 2021 | Spring | 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 |
Robert | Weiner | Government | Strategy and Sincerity in Democratic Party Systems | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Jörg | Stoye | Economics | Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
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 |
Landon | Schnabel | Sociology | Does Elite Philanthropy Legitimate Plutocracy? | This project examines whether, how, and the extent to which elite philanthropy legitimates rising inequality and plutocracy. It (1) develops measures of support for plutocracy, (2) establishes overall support for plutocracy, (3) determines effects of philanthropy on support for plutocracy, (4) tests mechanisms, and (5) identifies implications. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Ranjit | Singh | Science and Technology Studies | Restoring Credit: How people Understand and Interact with Credit Scoring Systems | Two papers based on 16 months of data collection for this exploratory project are currently being written up and under review, respectively. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Social Mobility and Immobility in an Age of Inequality | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | A New Social Indicators Framework for Measuring Trends in Inequality | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Tao Leigh | Goffe | Africana Studies and Research Center | Cross-National Issues in Racial/Ethnic Inequality | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Elif | Celikors | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Khena | Swallow | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Katherine | Zaslavsky | Sociology | Measuring Race as a Social Construct: Toward Improving the State of the Art | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Platonic Friendship and Social Olfactory Cues in Human Body Odor | Prior support led to 4 conference talks and 3 poster presentations. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Effect of Gossip on Children's Well-being and Belonging | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Erin | York Cornwell | Sociology | Moving Beyond the Census Tract: Real-Time Assessment of Neighborhoods, Social Connectedness, and Health | York Cornwell’s 2015-2016 Fellowship resulted in journal articles in the American Journal of Public Health and the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, as well as collaborative development of the proposal for a $3 million grant funded by the National Institute on Aging. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Molly | Diesing | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Conference: "Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 7" | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences |
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