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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a. feder | Cooper | Computer Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
aaron | Sachs | History | Creative Academic Writing: Exploring the Relationship between Artful Prose and Scholarly Production | The experience of this conference helped lead to the publication of _Artful History: A Practical Anthology_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), co-edited by Aaron Sachs and John Demos. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
aaron | Childree | American Politics | Race, Public Opinion, and the Political Costs of Military Adventurism | Policymakers assert that broad public support should be a precondition for military action; however, the conditions under which racial/ethnic gaps in war support emerge remain unclear. Using public polling and an original survey, we study the mechanisms producing such gaps across conflicts and over time. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
aaron | Bodoh-Creed | Economics | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | This study examined why subjects fail to play mixed-strategy equilibria in zero-sum games, calling into question prior research which suggests that experimental subjects do not follow the predictions of game theory and cannot bring the skills and heuristics used in real‐life economies into the laboratory. |
2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
aaron | Adalja | School of Hotel Administration | Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change Through Food | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
abigail | Cohn | 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 |
abigail | Cohn | 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
abigail | Cohn | Linguistics | Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neurogenetic Sources of Individual Variation in Sensitivity to the Environment | Anderson’s lab collected data through behavioral assessment of sensitivity to emotional cues, findings of which have highlighted a distinction between emotional reactivity to a current event and the tendency to embed emotional events into memory. He received a second CU grant for the project. |
2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
adam | Anderson | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
adam | Anderson | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 |
adam | Pearson | Psychology | Effect of Perceived Economic Inequality on Sustainability and Collective Action | This research contributed to a first-authored publication in Climatic Change for graduate student, Julia Davydova: “Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation” (Davydova, Pearson, Ballew, & Schuldt, 2018) | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Pomona College | CCSS Grant |
adam | Pearson | Social Science Symposium on Climate Change | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Pomona College | CCSS Grant | ||
adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neural Instantiation of Physical and Social Nutrients | This project will test the overlapping and unique representations of social and physical resources in the brain using partner hand holding and a tasteless carbohydrate. |
2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neural and Behavioral Differences in Initiation and Perserverance in Effortful Behavior | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | 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 | |
adam seth | Levine | Government | News Evidence and Political Behavior | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
adam seth | Litwin | Labor Relations Law and History | Labor Unions and the Spread of Healthcare-Associated Infections | The research afforded by this grant has been presented at several conferences including the annual meetings of the Labor and Employment Association and the Industry Studies Association. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
adi | Rao | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Use of AI-driven malnutrition diagnosis technology among community health workers in rural India | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Making AI Explainable to Community Health Workers in Rural India | AI-driven diagnostic applications are increasingly deployed to support low-skilled community health workers (CHWs) in hard-to-reach communities. This work aims to examine how CHWs in rural settings engage with AI explanations and what they need to know to safely operate such systems in high-stakes healthcare contexts. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Combating Global Health Misinformation via Community-Engaged Research | 2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Support Program | |
adriana | Reyes | Policy Analysis and Management | Changes in Social Contact Due to COVID-19 and Implications for Health and Well-Being of Older Adults | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
adriana | Reyes | Sociology | Understanding Americans Attitudes towards Caregiving for Older Adults | I will assess the attitudes and policy preferences of Americans toward caregiving for older adults using survey data and in-depth interview data. I will focus on variations across race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and over time. Vignettes will be used to understand when preferences diverge from expectations. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy | Faculty Fellows Program | |
adrienne | Scott | Government | American Citizenship and the Welfare State | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant | |
ahmad | Sikainga | Re-evaluating Africa and World War II | This conference brought together an international group of scholars to present case studies on the impact of WW II on Africa. The papers presented here formed the core of the volume Africa and WW II (Cambridge University Press, 2015). | 2009 | Spring | Co-PI | Ohio State University | CCSS Grant | |
aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | (When) Should Knowledge Be Controlled? Knowledge Spillovers and Firms’ Innovation Behavior | This project led to several publications (Leiponen 2006a, 2006b, 2008, and with Byma 2009) on organizational arrangements to protect knowledge assets in cooperative innovation. It showed how knowledge-based services can be commercialized while protecting core knowledge, and innovation can be encouraged by appropriate control rights. | 2005 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
aija | Leiponen | Applied Economics and 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 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Innovating the Smart Grid: Organization of R&D, Standards, and the Electricity Industry | This exploratory project merged with a broader effort to analyze firms’ innovation efforts and contributions to industry standards in network markets. Two articles were published in 2014 (with Delcamp and Bar, respectively) that illustrate firms’ cooperative strategies and knowledge sharing in standard setting. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Paying for Privacy, Selling Your Information, and Finding Safety in Numbers | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
aija | Leiponen | Dyson School of Applied Economics and 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 | |
alan | Mathois | Policy Analysis and Management | 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 Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
alex | Nading | Anthropology | Practicing Ethnography in Unprecedented Times | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
alex | Dyzenhaus | Government | Conceptions of Justice: Obstacles to Land Restitution in South Africa's Putfontein Community | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI 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 |
alexander | Fulmer | Marketing | The Biography of Discovery: How Discovery of Resources by Humans versus Machines Shapes Preference | This research builds upon recent work illuminating that biographical elements of a resource’s discovery can influence consumer preference for otherwise identical resources. Specifically, this project explores how consumer preference for resources is influenced by awareness of whether the discoverer was a human or a machine. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
alexander | Livingston | Government | James Tully: To Think and Act Differently | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
alexander | Ljungqvist | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | NYU | CCSS Grant | |
alexander | Kuo | Government | Preferences of Firms During Economic Crists: Evidence from Spain | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
alexander | Kuo | Government | Economic Harship, Citizen Policy Preferences, and Political Participation in the Eurozone Periphery: Evidence from Spain | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
alexandra | Blackman | Government | Elite and Citizen Interviews in High-Risk Settings: Research Challenges and Teaching Opportunities | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
alexandra | Cirone | Government | Pathways to Power: Multi-level Governance and Political Representation in Europe | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
alexandra | Cirone | Government | A Citizens’ Assembly in Ithaca: Deliberative Democracy and Local Policymaking | The fellowship allowed for substantial progress on a book for Cambridge Elements in Political Economy, focusing on the use of lotteries and citizens' assemblies in democratic governance, entitled "Lotteries and Democracy". |
2021-2022 | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
alice | Chen | Price School of Public Policy | The Impact of the 2008-2009 Economic Recession on Service Intensity in Physician Offices | This project led to the peer-reviewed publication: Li et al. “County-level unemployment rates and service intensity in primary care physician offices for Medicare patients.” Medical Care Research and Review. 2019 Aug 31:1077558719872864. It also led to a presentation at the International Health Economics Association congress. | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | University of Southern California | CCSS Grant |
alicia | Orta-Ramirez | Food Science and Technology | Contributions of Undergraduate Team Experiences to Professional Preparedness | 2014 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
allison | Koenecke | Information Science | Dialectal Fairness in Korean Speech-to-Text Technology | Using a Korean corpus of five regional dialects plus “standard” Korean speech, we address the problem of speech-to-text fairness in commercial technology. Will non-standard dialects have worse error rates, and what are the drivers and remedies for disparities? Comprehensive linguistic analysis of Korean dialects follows. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
alyssa | Goldman | Sociology | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
amada | Armenta | Sociology | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
amanda | Domingues | Science and Technology Studies | Body of knowledge and knowledge of bodies: disciplinary reconfigurations of Archaeology | By examining two contrasting ways of doing archaeology, this project examines the connections between recent changes in archaeological practice and the ways interpretations about the past are formulated. The methods include qualitative interviews, archival work, and participant observation in Brazil and the United States. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Grant |
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