Diane M. Gibson

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D.     University of Chicago     Public Policy     1999

M.A.       University of Chicago     Public Policy     1996

B.S.       University of Wisconsin - Madison     Economics & International Relations     1992

FULL-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Baruch College     Associate Professor with tenure     Public Affairs     1/2006 - present

Baruch College     Assistant Professor with tenure     Public Affairs     9/2005 - 12/2005

Baruch College     Assistant Professor     Public Affairs     9/1999 - 9/2005

PART-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

University of Chicago     Research Assistant     Policy Analysis     6/1995 - 5/1997 & 6/1994 - 9/1994

University of Chicago     Teaching Assistant     Urban Economics     Winter 1997 & Winter 1996

University of Chicago     Teaching Assistant     Microeconomics II     Winter 1996

University of Chicago     Teaching Assistant     Regression Analysis     Spring 1995

NON ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Department of Housing and Urban Development,Chicago, Illinois     Contract Specialist in the Region V Office     11/1992 - 9/1993

Madison Gas and Electric - Madison, Wisconsin     Intern in Policy Analysis of the Low-Income Weatherization Assistance Program     1/1992 - 5/1992

EMPLOYMENT AT BARUCH

Associate Professor with tenure     1/2006 - present

Assistant Professor with tenure     9/2005 - 12/2005

Assistant Professor     9/1999 - 9/2005

COURSES TAUGHT AT BARUCH

PAF 9999    Independent Study in Food Stamp Program Participation and Nutrition

PAF 9999    Independent Study in Public Opinion and Poverty Policy

PAF 9136    Independent Study in Urban Economic Development

PAF 9136    Independent Study in Poverty Policy

PAF 9133    Economics of the Public Sector

PAF 9130    Economic Analysis and Public Policy

PAF 5000    Independent Study in Immigration

PAF 3102    Economic Analysis and Public Policy

PAF 3101    Public Finance

ECO 3320    Urban Economics

ARTICLES IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

Diane Gibson. “Long-term Food Stamp Program Participation is Positively Related to Simultaneous Overweight in Young Daughters and Obesity in Mothers” Journal of Nutrition, 2006, 136, pp. 1081-1085.

Ted Joyce, Diane Gibson and Silvie Coleman. “The Changing Association between Prenatal Participation in WIC and Birth Outcomes in New York City.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005, 24(4), pp. 661-683.

Diane Gibson. “Long-Term Food Stamp Program Participation is Differentially Related to Overweight in Young Girls and Boys.” Journal of Nutrition, 2004. Vol. 134. pp. 372-379.

Diane Gibson. "Neighborhood Characteristics and the Targeting of Tax Increment Financing in Chicago" Journal of Urban Economics 2003. Vol. 54. pp. 309-327.

Diane Gibson. "Food Stamp Program Participation is Positively Related to Obesity in Low Income Women" Journal of Nutrition 2003. Vol.133. pp. 2225-2231.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

Gibson, Diane. "Food Stamp Program Participation and Health: Estimates from the NLSY97" in Social Awakening: Adolescent Behavior as Adulthood Approaches, edited by Robert T. Michael. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2001. 258-295.

PRESENTATIONS

Diane Gibson. “Long-term Food Stamp Program Participation is Positively Related to Simultaneous Overweight in Young Daughters and Obesity in Mothers”
presented to the American Society for Nutritional Sciences Annual Meetings in San Diego, California. April 3, 2005.

Diane Gibson. “Neighborhood Characteristics and the Targeting of Tax Increment Financing in Chicago”
presented to the National Tax Association Annual Meetings in Chicago, Illinois. November 14, 2003.

Diane Gibson. “Long-Term Food Stamp Program Participation is Related to Overweight for Young Children”
presented to the Department of Health Policy at Mt. Sinai Hospital. September 16, 2003.

Diane Gibson. "Food Stamp Program Participation is Positively Related to Obesity in Low-Income Women,"
presented as a guest lecture in the class Theories and Methodologies of Social Sciences (QMSS 4010) at Columbia University, November 18, 2002.

Diane Gibson. "Food Stamp Program Participation and Obesity,"
presented to the annual research conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management in Washington, D.C.. November 3, 2001.

Diane Gibson. "Food Stamp Program Participation and Obesity,"
presented to the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Conference in Washington, D.C.. October 12, 2001.

Diane Gibson."Food Stamp Program Participation and Obesity,"
presented to the Joint Center for Poverty Research/ USDA Research Development Grants Workshop in Chicago, Illinois. May 11, 2001.

Diane Gibson. "Food Stamp Program Participation and Obesity,"
presented to the Faculty Seminar at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College - CUNY. May 7, 2001.

Diane Gibson. "Neighborhood Characteristics and the Targeting of Tax Increment Financing in Chicago,"
presented to the annual research conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management. November 4, 2000.

Diane Gibson. "Neighborhood Characteristics and the Targeting of Tax Increment Financing in Chicago,"
presented to the Faculty Seminar at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College - CUNY. October 27, 2000.

Diane Gibson. "Poverty, Food Stamp Program Participation and Health: Estimates from the NLSY97,"
presented to the Faculty Seminar at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College - CUNY. May 5, 2000.

Diane Gibson. "Poverty, Food Stamp Program Participation and Health: Estimates from the NLSY97,"
presented to the Early Findings of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Conference. November 18, 1999

Diane Gibson. "The Further Disadvantaged? An Analysis of the Effect of Income and Race on the Availability of Grocery Stores in Chicago,"
presented to the Conference on Chicago Research and Public Policy. October 19, 1998.

PAPERS SUBMITTED TO JOURNALS

Diane Gibson. “Neighborhood Poverty, Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Composition and Neighborhood Supermarket Availability in Urban and Rural Areas in the United States.” Under review at the American Journal of Public Health. Submitted July 2006.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Diane Gibson. “Supermarket Access and Adult Obesity.”

Diane Gibson. “Family Supermarket Access and Child Weight Status.”

Sanders Korenman and Diane Gibson. “The Rise in Childhood Obesity in a Family Context.”

PROFESSIONAL HONORS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS

Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching,
Baruch College - City University of New York, 2004.

Graduate Research Fellow,
Northwestern University/ University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, 1998 - 1999.

Graduate Studies Fellowship,
Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies - University of Chicago, 1993 - 1997.

Phi Beta Kappa,
Inducted into the University of Wisconsin - Madison Chapter, 1992.

GRANTS-IN-AID

Diane Gibson. PSC-CUNY Research Award, “Neighborhood Supermarket Availability and Adult Obesity,” 2006–2007.

Diane Gibson. PSC-CUNY Research Award, “Long-term Food Stamp Program Participation and the Weight of Mothers and Daughters,” 2005–2006.

Ted Joyce and Diane Gibson. Institute for Research on Poverty/USDA Small Grant Project, “The Use of Twins to Understand the Effect of WIC on Birth Outcomes,” 2003–2004.

Diane Gibson. PSC-CUNY Research Award, “Neighborhood Effects in Store Location: Examining the Variation in Retail Density with Neighborhood Characteristics,” 2003–2004.

Diane Gibson. PSC-CUNY Research Award, “Food Stamp Program Participation and Adolescent Obesity,” 2002–2003.

Diane Gibson. Food Assistance Research Development Grant, Administered by the Northwestern University/ University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, Funded by the USDA, “The Influence of Food Stamp Program Participation on Adult Health: Estimates from the NLSY79,” 2000–2001.

Diane Gibson. Eugene Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Baruch College, “ The Relationship between Neighborhood Characteristics and the Geographic Targeting of Economic Development Initiatives in Chicago,” 2000–2001.

Diane Gibson. NLSY97 Research Grant, Northwestern University/ University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, “Poverty, Food Stamp Program Participation and Health: Estimates from the NLSY97,” Fall 1999.

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

A. Service to the Department: N/A

B. Service to the School:

Member, Search committee for Dean of the School of Public Affairs, Spring 2005, Fall 2005

Member, Search committee for Professor of Health Policy, Fall 2004 – Spring 2005

Member, Search committee for Professor of Immigration Studies, Summer 2003

Member, Executive Committee, 2003–present

Member, Search committee for the Lillian and Nathan Ackerman Professor of Equality and Justice in America, Spring 2002

Member, Search committee for the Professor and Director of the Center for Equality, Pluralism and Policy, Spring 2002

Member, Committee on Academic Standing, 2001–present

Member, Research Committee, 2001–present

Graduate Student Adviser, 1999–present

C. Service to the College:

Member, Student Affairs Committee, 2005 - present

Member, Search committee for the Assistant Director of Sponsored Programs and Research, Summer 2005

Lecturer at Undergraduate Open Houses, 2001

D. Service to the Graduate Center: None

E. Service to the City University

Proposal Reviewer for PSC-CUNY Research Award Program, 2000 and 2002

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE

Research Affiliate, Sloan Industry Studies Program, September 2005–present

Member, Policy and Research Committee of the Food Bank for New York City, January 2004–present

Member, Expert Panel on Obesity, Poverty and Food Assistance Programs for the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, 2004

Peer reviewer of proposals for the USDA’s Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program in the area of obesity, 2002 & 2006

Discussant of “Social Capital and Health: Is There a Causal Link” by Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo at the annual research conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management, 2002

Research Affiliate, Northwestern University/ University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, 2001–present

Discussant of “An Economic Analysis of Obesity” by Michael Grossman and Shin-Yi Chou at the annual research conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management, 2001

Chair of panel “Public Policy and Obesity” at the annual research conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management, 2001

Member, Association for Public Policy and Management, 1999–present

Member, American Economic Association, 1999–present

Peer reviewer of articles for the American Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Obesity, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Urban Affairs.