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 Sort descending | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 |
David | Pelletier | Nutritional Sciences | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | This research led to the creation of the Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition (SISN) and an associated publication: Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2019). | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS 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 |
Caezilia | Loibl | Credit Card Reforms and Consumers' Use of Credit Cards | This research on the impact of CARD Act (2010) billing disclosure regulations on consumers’ debt payment behaviors was presented at multiple policy conferences and is published as “Effects of informational nudges on consumer debt repayment behaviors” in Journal of Economic Psychology, 51, 16-33. | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | |
Maureen | Waller | Policy Analysis and Management | Child Custody Decisions in Disadvantaged Families: A Pilot Study | This small grant contributed to a larger USDA (NIFA) grant and several journal articles. The grant supported qualitative data collection and the analysis of survey data to examine why some disadvantaged families establish legal orders in court while others avoid the family court system. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Per | Pinstrup-Andersen | Nutritional Sciences | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Timothy | DeVoogd | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Camille | Robcis | History | Institutional Psychotherapy and the Reaction Against "Concentrationism" | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
John | Sipple | Education | The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life 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 | ||
Mark | Constas | Applied Economics and Management | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management | ||
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 |
John | Forester | City and Regional Planning | Implementation Research for Global Nutrition: Opportunities for the Social Sciences at Cornell | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Architecture Art and Planning | ||
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 | ||
Jörg | Stoye | Economics | Partial Identification and Statistical Decisions: A Conference | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Yanna | Krupnikov | News Evidence and Political Behavior | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Indiana University | |||
Joshua | Linn | The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Maryland | |||
Henry | Schneider | Economics | Explaining Price Dispersion in Online Auctions with Simple Frictions | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Per | Pinstrup-Andersen | Nutritional Sciences | Strengthening the Case for Evidence-Based Policy for Development: Contextualized Causal Inference and the Importance of Mechanism | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | ||
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 |
Timothy | DeVoogd | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Phoebe | Sengers | Information Science | Intervening in American Families' Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design | This research on new methods to research busyness was published as "Reworking the Gaps between Design and Ethnography" in the CHI 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | 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 | CCSS Grant | |
Richard | Swedberg | Sociology | How to Theorize in Sociology and Social Science | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Susan | McCouch | Plant Breeding and Genetics | 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 Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Keith | Porter | Law | Gas Drilling, Sustainability, and Energy Policy: Searching for Common Ground | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Justin | Rao | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | 2011 | Spring | Co-PI | Yahoo Research | CCSS Grant | ||
Robert | Travers | History | An Empire of Complaints: Petitions, Rights, and Justice in Eighteenth Century India | This research has led to the publication of two articles in major journals, including ‘Indian Petitioning and Colonial State-formation in Colonial Bengal, Modern Asian Studies (2019), and a book manuscript (currently being completed) on the role of Indian ideas justice in early colonial India. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sharon | Tennyson | Policy Analysis and Management | Credit Card Reforms and Consumers' Use of Credit Cards | This research on the impact of CARD Act (2010) billing disclosure regulations on consumers’ debt payment behaviors was presented at multiple policy conferences and is published as “Effects of informational nudges on consumer debt repayment behaviors” in Journal of Economic Psychology, 51, 16-33. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
Richard | Patterson | Policy Analysis and Management | Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Calum | Turvey | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The John Lossing Buck Project | This grant was used to conduct field research and background research on John Lossing Buck and agriculture in China’s Republican era. The grant was used to support publication of two books. 1) Fu, Hong and Calum G. Turvey (2018) “The Evolution of Agricultural Credit During China’s Republican Era, 1912-1949”. Palgrave McMillan 2) Hu, Hao, Funing Zhong and Calum G. Turvey (2019) “Chinese Agriculture in the 1930’s: Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Use in China’ Microdata”, Palgrave McMillan. * | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Jordan | Matsudaira | Policy Analysis and Management | Modeling College Choice: The Role of Preferences and Constraints in Producing Disparities in College Attendance Outcomes | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Muna | Ndulo | Institute for African Development | Elections, Accountability, and Democratic Governance in Africa | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell Law School | CCSS Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | The Fourth Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: New Developments in Aging, Emotion, and Health | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
Suzanne | Mettler | Government | How Health Care Policy Shapes Public Opinion: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Over Time | This grant helped fund collection of panel data (now 5 waves over 10 years), and publication of “When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion,” with Lawrence R. Jacobs, Perspectives on Politics. June 2018, Vol. 16 (2). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Andrew | Mertha | Government | Policymaking under the Shadow of Death: The Policymaking Process under the Khmer Rouge in Democratic Kampuchea | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | Fuzzy-Trace Theory and the Law: Testing a Theoretical Model of Juror Damage Awards | Investigations spanned the psychology of commission of crimes to jury deliberation and sentencing including criminal and non-criminal risky decisions in adolescents and adults, risk taking and crime in the brain, and decision processes in psychopathy, ultimately leading to 17 publications and 19 presentations. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Yanyan | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Targeting and Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme | This small grant generated multiple peer-reviewed articles, in for example World Bank Economic Review, World Development, Economic & Political Weekly. | 2012 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | 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 | ||
Felix | Thoemmes | Human Development | Causal mediation analysis in the presence of latent heterogeneity | This grant laid some of the foundation for a federal grant application (IES). This grant was submitted, but unfortunately was not funded, and a resubmission was not attempted. Instead a different research line was submitted and funded by IES. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Andrey | Ukhov | School of Hotel Administration | Time-Varying Risk Preferences and Asset Prices: Evidence from Lottery Bonds | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Nicolas | Ziebarth | Policy Analysis and Management | Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications for Climate Change | The research resulted in a journal publication in the top field environmental economics Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2018): "Population Health Effects and Health-Related Costs of Extreme Temperatures: Comprehensive Evidence from Germany," Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 91: 93–117. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Sam | Tilsen | Linguistics | Visualizing speech: real-time MRI of the vocal tract | Journal publications were produced as a result of this grant, including “Analysis of speech production real-time MRI” (Ramanarayan et al., 2018), and “Anticipatory posturing of the vocal tract reveals dissociation of speech movement plans from linguistic units” (Tilsen et al., 2016). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ziad | Fahmy | Near Eastern Studies | Listening to the Nation: Mass Culture and Identities in Interwar Egypt | This seed grant led to my award of an NEH [FPIRI Program]—American Research Center in Egypt Faculty Research Fellowship. It also supported my research, which led to my recent book: Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020) |
2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Shorna | Allred | Natural Resources | Civic Engagement, Civil Society Organizations, and Urban Environmental Governance: Implications for the New Environmental Politics of Urban Development | This research project utilized a governance framework to examine the civic engagement strategies of civil society organizations involved in urban environmental management, and how those strategies strengthen the influence of civil society organizations in urban regimes for land-use management. |
2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Tarleton | Gillespie | Communication | The Promise of Augmented Reality | This award supported the dissertation research of Tony Liao, including his 2015 paper “Augmented or Admented Reality? The Influence of Marketing on Augmented Reality Technologies” in Information, Communication & Society. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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