Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name Sort descending | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 |
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 | |
cindy | Hazan | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
cindy | Kao | Human Centered Design | Understanding the Social Aspects of On-Skin Interface Usage | On-skin interfaces are a fast-growing segment of wearable computing in daily life. However, the social aspects of using these devices remain underexplored. This project examines how on-skin interfaces could enhance and even create new forms of social experience and engage broader populations for inclusive design. |
2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
claire | Dush | 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 | |
claire | Lim | Economics | The Political Economy of the Energy Industry in U.S States | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
claudia | Boneu | Community Needs Assessment on Facilitators and Inhibitors of Food Security in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus | CCSS Grant | ||
claudia | Verhoeven | History | Love and Terror: The Meaning of the Manson Murders in American Culture | Archival research in Los Angeles formed the basis of the chapter, “’Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter’: Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family,” Time and Power. Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, eds. Stefanos Geroulanos, Dan Edelstein, and Natasha Wheatley. Forthcoming Chicago UP, 2020. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
claudine | Gay | Government | Workshop on Immigrant Political Incorporation | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
claudio | Lucarelli | Policy Analysis and Management | Consequences of Teen and Early Fatherhood | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
colleen | Carey | Economics | What is the Advantage of Medicare Advantage? Supply and Demand Factors in Medicare Beneficiaries' Enrollment in Private Insurance | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant | |
colleen | Barry | Communication | Narrative, Metaphor and Inoculation: Communication Theory to Promote Multi-Sector Approaches to Improving Health | This project laid the groundwork for three subsequent successful grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (from 2018-2020) totaling over $600,000 in funding. Combined, these have supported three PhD students and produced three published papers (and 5 others in process) | 2014 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
colleen | Carey | Economics | The Actions of State Medical Boards in the Opioid Prescribing Epidemic | A small number of inappropriately-prescribing physicians drove opioid prescribing increases in the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic. This project collects a novel dataset of state medical board actions to determine the nature and extent of investigations and disciplinary actions regarding opioid prescribing. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | CCSS Grant |
colten | Meisner | Communication | Independent News Production in the Platform Economy: Digital Journalists, Social Media Creators, and the Labor of Subscription Platforms | This project examines how the labor of journalism is being reconfigured through the structures and incentives of the social media economy. Specifically, I consider how subscription platforms like Substack, which successfully serve both digital journalists and social media creators, are shaping future news cultures.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
corinna | Loeckenhoff | Human Development | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
courtney | McCluney | Organizational Behavior | Implications of Racial Codeswitching on Bodily and Psychological Outcomes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
courtney | McCluney | Organizational Behavior | Corporate Responses to Racial Injustice | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Grant | |
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 | |
cristina | Florea | History | Crossroads of Empire: Revolutions and Encounters at the Frontiers of Europe | Cristina Florea completed a full draft of her book manuscript, 'Crossroads of Empire: Revolutions and Encounters at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe.' The book reveals how crucial interactions between states and local societies in the East European borderlands have been to the evolution and development of the modern state in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
2021-2022 | 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 | |
cristobal | Cheyre | Information Science | How Race and Gender Stereotypes Impact Crowdfunding Outcome | We study how racial discrimination and gender roles stereotypes influence crowdfunding campaigns’ outcomes. We focus on outcomes experienced by Black female founders and how their chances of success change as product complexity and targeted market vary. Our results will inform policy and platform design interventions. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
cynthia | Lawell | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Water Conservation and Management: Agricultural Water Use, Climate Change, and Government Policy | The research funded by this grant has resulted in several papers, presentations, and publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles published in Sustainability, in its Special Issue on ìSustainable Agriculture: The State of the Great Debatesî; and in Resource and Energy Economics. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
cynthia | Bowman | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
dale | Tomich | International Seminar for the Study of the Second Slavery | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Binghamton University | |||
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 | |
daniel | Benjamin | Economics | Testing the Two-Systems Theory of Anomalous Preferences | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
daniel | Cosley | Information Science | Supporting Communities of Memory and Reminiscence | This was a workshop grant that brought together researchers ranging from gerontology to computer science to probe the impact of social media on self-understanding and life stories, leading to several new collaborations between participants and research directions for future work. | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
daniel | Benjamin | Understanding and Developing Survey-Based Measures of Well-Being | 2012-2013 | PI | University of Southern California | Faculty Fellows Program | |||
daniel | Casasanto | Human Development, Psychology | Toward Preventing Racial Bias: The Role of Dialect | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
daniel | Casasanto | Human Development | Revolutionizing Assessment of Children's Early Numerical Abilities with Portable EEG | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS 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 |
daniel | Magaziner | History | Engaging Images: Artists and the Art of Life in 20th Century South Africa | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
daniel | Huttenlocher | 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 | Cornell Tech | Collaborative Project | ||
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 |
daniel | Lichter | Policy Analysis and Management, Sociology | Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility | This project produced over 14 million dollars in external funding and 169 publications, including 6 books. Research topics included poverty traps, food insecurity, malnutrition, educational attainment, rural poverty in the US, the socioeconomic dimensions of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and overseas research. | 2008-2011 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
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 | ||
daniel | Lichter | Policy Analysis and Management | Immigration, Intra- and Inter-generational Socio-Economic Mobility | 2010 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
daniela | Scur | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Capacity to be Aggressive: Structured Management and Tax Behaviors or Firms | 2019 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
daniela | Scur | Applied Economics and Management | Dampening Natural Disasters' Disruptive Effects on Firms and Labor Markets | There is still a dearth of evidence on disruptions from "day-to-day" climate shocks such as harsher seasonal flooding. As climate change intensifies these regular events, understanding their impact, how governments and firms can invest in mitigation strategies and how they can handle recovery and reconstruction is key. |
2022 | Fall | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | ||
danielle | Eiseman | Communication | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
david | Mimno | Information Science | Text as Data Conference | The 12th annual New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA) meeting will take place at Cornell Tech. TADA is the premiere venue for computational social science work involving documents, social media, and other text. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
david | Just | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Team Diversity and Financial Decision Making | This project lead to a publication in the Review of Behavioral Finance. Bogan et al. (2013) _Team Gender Diversity and Investment Decision Making Behavior_ Review of Behavioral Finance. 5 (2), 134-152. | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
david | Strang | Sociology | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
david | Field | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
david | Bateman | Government | The Politics of American State Constitution-Making | The investigators involved with the American State Constitutions Project collected, digitized, and coded all ratified and proposed state constitutions, as well as state legislative petitions for the 19th century, and all state Bills of Rights from 1788 to the late 20th century. |
2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
david | Scales | Internal Medicine Weill Cornell | Understanding Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy and resistance | 2020 | Fall | PI | Weill Cornell Medicine | CCSS Grant | |
david | Bateman | Government | The Development of American State Constitution | Bateman’s 2018 fellowship resulted in the compilation of an extensive dataset on state constitutions and drafting conventions, and contributed to the publication of “Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785-1868,” “Transatlantic Anxieties: Democracy and Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Discourse,” and a series of working papers. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program |
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