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 Sort descending | College | Grant Type |
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Wesley | Sine | Johnson Graduate School of Management | 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 SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
Wendy | Smith | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | co-pi | Alfred Lerner College | CCSS Grant | ||
Jeffery | Sobal | Nutritional Sciences | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Philip | Sol Hart | Communication | Smoking Cessation Advertisements and Source Credibility | The project eventually led to two NIH grants and many publications on tobacco warning labels and advertising. | 2008 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
William | Sonnenstuhl | Organizational Behavior | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Sarah | Soule | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | co-pi | Stanford University | Collaborative Project | ||
Susan | Spronk | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | co-pi | University of Ottawa | Collaborative Project | ||
William | Starr | Philosophy | Support for Organizing a Conference: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) | 2019 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mary | Still | 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 | University of Massachusetts Boston | Collaborative Project | ||
Rebecca | Stoltzfus | Nutritional Sciences | 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 | |
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 | Strang | Sociology | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Barbara | Strupp | Nutritional Sciences | Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Neurocognitive Development in Infants | We found that a higher maternal choline intake during the last trimester improved infant processing speed across the first year of life. “Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study. FASEB J. 2018;32(4):2172-2180” | 2008 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Alex | Susskind | School of Hotel Administration | The Impact of Restaurant Menu Labeling on Food Choice | We conducted a randomized experiment of calorie labels on restaurant menus. Over 5,500 patrons received either the regular menu without calorie counts or the same menu but with calorie information added. We estimate that the calorie labels reduced the number of calories ordered by roughly 3%. | 2016 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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 | |
Richard | Swedberg | 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 | |
Laura | Tach | Policy Analysis and Management | Choosing Neighborhoods, Choosing Schools: A Pilot Study of the Association between Neighborhood and School Composition | This collaborative demographic analysis resulted in the publication of “The Racial Composition of Neighborhoods and Local Schools: The Role of Diversity, Inequality, and School Choice” in _City and Community_ and “School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods” in _Sociological Science_. | 2013 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Enhancing the Community Impact of School-Based Health Centers in Rural New York | The ISS grant provided the necessary support to secure a data agreement between the Bassett (NY Healthcare system and Cornell’s CRADIC system. We are now analyzing nearly 4 million records over 7 years to measure the impact of SBHCs on the healthcare behavior of residents in five counties. We recently secured a Federal Hatch grant to continue our analyses in partnership with Bassett. | 2016 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Janice | Thies | Crop and Soil Sciences | Contentious Knowledge: Science, Social Science and Social Movements | Project fellows published an impressive total of 9 books and dozens of articles on wide-ranging topics including the diffusion of social movements, genomics research, transgenics and the poor, labor reform in Latin America, sex and family in colonial India, and constituency in post-revolutionary America. | 2006-2009 | co-pi | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Sam | Tilsen | Linguistics | LabPhon15-Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation | This conference brought together over 300 international scholars and students to explore experimental approaches to the linguistic analysis of language and speech. The work presented and the interactions that took place at the conference and satellite meetings advanced dozens of research projects. | 2015 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
William | Tomek | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Secondary Effects of Biofuels Demands: Implications for Feed and Livestock | Led to a publication in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review entitled the Implications of Growing Biofuels Demands on Northeast Livestock Feed Costs, with L. Verteramo and W. Tomek, April 2009. The research was used extensively in numerous Extension presentations in New York State. | 2007 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | |
Fabio | Trecca | Linguistics Cognitive Science and Semiotics | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | co-pi | Aarhus University | CCSS Grant | |
Syd | Van Morgan | Women and the State in Europe: Spring 2007 Brown Bag Speaker Series for the Institute for European Studies | 2006 | Fall | co-pi | Johns Hopkins University | CCSS Grant | ||
Liana | Victorino | A Systematic Assessment of Service Scripts in the Hospitality Industry | 2007 | Fall | co-pi | University of Victoria | CCSS Grant | ||
Lars | Vilhuber | Economics | 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 |
Sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | Youth, Identities, and Transnational Flows | The grant supported (1) collaboration with Mexican NGO in Chiapas, (2) creation of educational materials for local farmworkers on rights, on COVID awareness, (3) publication of various professional articles by co-PIs, often in collaboration with students and community members. | 2010 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sofia | Villenas | Anthropology | Qualitative Methods Working Group | The Qualitative Methods Working Group brought together social science faculty and researchers from around the campus who are teaching, employing, and developing qualitative research methods. The working group has grown to become the Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute under the CCSS. | 2019 | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Working Group Grant | |
Michael | Waldman | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Limited Rationality and the Strategic Environment: An Experimental Study | 2010 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Waldman | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Health and Early Childhood Television and Video Viewing | This exploratory effort led to the creation of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper “Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching,” which is under review at a peer-reviewed economics journal. | 2008 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 | |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Qualitative Methods Working Group | The Qualitative Methods Working Group brought together social science faculty and researchers from around the campus who are teaching, employing, and developing qualitative research methods. The working group has grown to become the Qualitative & Interpretive Research Institute under the CCSS. | 2019 | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Working Group Grant | |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Brian | Wansink | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Heidi | Waterfall | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kim | Weeden | Sociology | Work Hours and Gender Inequality in Earnings Across Countries | 2021 | Spring | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jessica Chen | Weiss | Government | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. |
2016-2019 | co-pi | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | 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 |
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 | 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 | |
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 |
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