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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Camille | Robcis | History | The Catholic Origins of French Dignity | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Anneliese | Riles | Anthropology | Meridian 180 Inter-Disciplinary Conference: Rethinking the "Comfort Women" Problem | 2013 | 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 | |
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 | |
Mostafa | Minawi | History | The Geopolitics of Ottoman Imperialism in the Horn of Africa | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
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 |
Pedro | Rabelo Erber | Romance Studies | Collaborative Documentation of the Endangered Language Bororo | 2018 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Bringing STS Into Environmental History | This grant supported an important, international workshop on the contributions of science studies to environmental history, resulting in the edited volume, _New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies_, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2013). | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Fluid Empires: Water Management Across the French Mediterranean | Led to an article in Social Studies of Science (2012) crucial to author’s tenure file; research also reflected in Environment and Planning A special issue, “Knowledge and the Politics of Land” (2016), co-edited with Steven Wolf and Wendy Wolford. | 2010 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jeffrey | Prince | Economics | 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 | |
Joseph | Price | Economics | How Does New Medical Information Affect the Use of High-Risk Procedures? | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Prentice | Science and Technology Studies | The Surgeon's Body: Surgical Practice in an Age of Digital Medicine | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Rachel | Prentice | Science and Technology Studies | Teamwork and Technology in the Operating Room | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kenneth | Roberts | Government | Authoritative and Contentious Knowledge: Democracy in the Era of "Fake News" | This small conference helped build a research network that received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation for a major conference in 2019, leading to an edited volume on polarization and democratic resiliency that is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Kristin | Roebuck | History | Japan Reborn: Race, Nation, and Foreign Relations from World War to Cold War | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Alexander | Livingston | Government | James Tully: To Think and Act Differently | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Jennifer | Schwade | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Henry | Schneider | Economics | Explaining Price Dispersion in Online Auctions with Simple Frictions | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Sharon | Sassler | Sociology | A Mini-Conference on Gender Inequality in Science, Math, Cornell College of Engineering, and Behavioral Science Occupations | This conference at the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting brought together several sociologists studying STEM fields to discuss research directions. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Sara | Pritchard | Science and Technology Studies | Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground | The 7 project fellows produced over 1.6 million dollars in external funding, a vibrant book series with Cornell University Press, and 77 publications. Research topics included global land deals, the neoliberal agri-food regime, First Nation formation in the Yukon, envirotechnical disasters, and migration and labor. | 2012-2015 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Vilma | Santiago-Irizarry | Anthropology | 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 | |
Michael | Lynch | Science and Technology Studies | A Conference to be held at Cornell University in Spring 2016 | This conference brought together the leading STS researchers in the world to celebrate 40 years of STS at Cornell. | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Paul Steven | Sangren | Anthropology | Application for Funding for Preliminary Research on Local Product (Techan) Specialization in China and Taiwan | Relevant to long-standing linkages in all my research to regional economic and social organization. Most recently, paper on “SPATIAL IMAGINATION: Skinnerian “Human Interaction Systems” and the Roles of Spatial Imagery and “Subjection” in Chinese Rituals. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Carmen | Sanchez | Psychology | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Elissa | Sampson | Near Eastern Studies | The Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS 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 |
Mats | Rooth | Linguistics | Support for Organizing a Workshop on Grammar Induction | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Mats | Rooth | Linguistics | Collaborative Documentation of the Endangered Language Bororo | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Macy | Sociology | Getting Connected: Science, 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 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
David | Pizarro | Psychology | The Positive Side of Morality: Cultural Influences on Judging Good People and Praiseworthy Acts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Trevor | Pinch | Science and Technology Studies | 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 | |
Trevor | Pinch | Science and Technology Studies | 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 | |
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 | |
Andrew | Mertha | Government | Rectification, Thought Reform, and Political Education in Khmer Rouge Liberated Zones (1970-1975) and Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979) | 2009 | Fall | 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 |
Paul | Nadasdy | Anthropology, American Indian and Indigenous Studies | Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground | The 7 project fellows produced over 1.6 million dollars in external funding, a vibrant book series with Cornell University Press, and 77 publications. Research topics included global land deals, the neoliberal agri-food regime, First Nation formation in the Yukon, envirotechnical disasters, and migration and labor. | 2012-2015 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Medicaid and the Politics of the Poor | This grant supported the research that culminated in a book entitled, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The book won the 2019 Virgina Gray best book award from the American Political Science Association and established the foundation for a current grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (for over $400k) that represents a key extension of this work. Fragmented Democracy has been the basis for more than two dozen invited talks and presentations and has been cited in New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and many other outlets. | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Jamila | Michener | Government | Outputs to Outcomes: Poverty, Race and Transformative Public Policy | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
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 | |
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 |
Mostafa | Minawi | History | Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Colonialism in East Africa | It allowed me to conduct research in the British Library which went into an article titled International Law and the Precarity of Ottoman Imperialism in Africa at the end of the 19th Century in the International History Review (2020). | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Bineet | Mishra | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Hirokazu | Miyazaki | Anthropology | The Socal Distribution of Hope | 2005 | 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 | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kristoffer | Nimark | Economics | Production Networks under Uncertainty | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
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