Past Grantees and Fellows

Fermon-Leon's funding has been used to explore the archives of business journals and local development publications. The remainder of the funds will be used to carryout in-depth interviews and focus groups.

This project evaluates the acceptability of the Local Food Procurement Agreement (LFPA) in Cortland and Tompkins counties. Through focus groups, it examines recipient perceptions regarding LFPA’s effectiveness, burden, and ethicality to assess its role in strengthening food systems, reducing food insecurity, and supporting small-scale farmers.

Fiorella wrote a single-author publication that examines interactions between freshwater fisheries and aquaculture, and the potential risks and benefits of those. She also received grants that will further her work, including a Public and Ecosystem Health Impact Award and Migrations Initiative Award.

Aquatic food systems are rapidly transforming: aquaculture now produces over 50% of aquatic foods. This proposal examines the synergies and trade-offs between wild fisheries and aquaculture resource access and value chains amid this transformation around Lake Victoria, Kenya, a context emblematic of change in global aquatic food systems.

In recent decades, aquatic ecosystems worldwide have experienced an unprecedented frequency, scale, and duration of harmful algal blooms. Cyanobacteria-producing harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) produce microcystins, a family of potent liver toxins. Despite increasing cyanoHABs globally, understanding of environmental and occupational exposures are limited. Our long-term goal is to elucidate the human health impacts of multiple exposure pathways of cyanoHABs. The objective of this application is to analyze levels of microcystins exposure in highly vulnerable populations around Kenya's Lake Victoria, where water, fish, and aerosol exposure are likely. 

Fisher's 2018-2019 fellowship resulted in several working papers on the role of attention in choice, as well as a publication on the neural mechanisms of projection bias.

For years, Senegalese government officials have promoted rice self-sufficiency by intensifying the use of synthetic inputs and irrigation. Recently, a national coalition has rejected this approach, advocating ecologically intensive practices. This project examines the transformative effect of these contrasting approaches in two regions of Senegal.

The conference "Kings & Dictators: The legacy of monarchy and the new authoritarianism in Asia" was held April 13-14, 2018. It included both external invitees and Cornell speakers, and attracted a large Cornell audience, including students in a course timed to coincide with it.

Cristina Florea completed a full draft of her book manuscript, 'Crossroads of Empire: Revolutions and Encounters at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe.' The book reveals how crucial interactions between states and local societies in the East European borderlands have been to the evolution and development of the modern state in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Does the superstar firms’ adoption of AI foster or deter other firms’ adoption of AI? There are two competing mechanisms: imitation and competition. By using comprehensive job posting data and a novel instrumental variable, this study will examine the empirical salience of these competing effects of superstar firms on the AI adoption process.

This conference explores how women effected change across Asia engaging in everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation and consumption; participants will bring to light how such “domestic” practices had significant impact on “public spaces,” and created spaces for women’s autonomy and agency.

This dissertation examines post-flood residential im/mobility in Monroe County, Florida, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana, exploring how socioeconomic factors, demographics, and access to recovery resources shape decisions to stay or move. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, it highlights how flooding amplifies community inequalities and stratification.

This project explores how publicly funded local food procurement programs in U.S. emergency food systems shape power dynamics and equity for small-scale, socially disadvantaged farmers, using qualitative interviews to uncover more just and sustainable practices.