Mid-Career Faculty Grants
This small-grants program is designed to support Schools’ diversity plans, by advancing the career success of outstanding mid-career faculty who have received tenure for the first time in the previous seven years, have made a recent, significant contribution to their field, and who contribute to the diversity goals of the University by their research, teaching, and mentoring activities. Requests for proposals occur once a year and the maximum award is $37,500 total over three years.
The Spring 2021 submission deadline was Friday, March 12, 2021.
Spring 2021 Awardees
Associate Professor of Astronomy
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Using Star Clusters to Fix Stellar Clocks
Associate Professor of Social Work; Associate Dean for Doctoral Education
School of Social Work
Stress and Waking Health Behaviors in Daily Life: Is Sleep a Stress-Buffer or Stress-Exacerbator?
Professor of Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Building a Collaborative Science and Community Outreach Infrastructure
Associate Professor, Music, Ethnomusicology & African American & African Diaspora Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Love Song in Black Popular Music, 1945-2000
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Preparing Today’s Hardware for Tomorrow’s Software
Associate Professor of History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Fugitive Cosmopolitans and the Making of the Black Atlantic
Associate Professor of History and French
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation
Spring 2020 Awardees
Associate Professor of Business
Columbia Business School
Acuity-based Staffing in the ICU
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Investigating the Mechanobiology of Cervical Tissue Remodeling
Lenfest Earth Institute Associate Professor of Climate Change
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Innovative Carbon Dioxide and Volatile Organic Compound Capture integrated with Humidity Control for Human Health
Associate Professor of Social Work
Columbia School of Social Work
What Happens After Trauma Is Posted on Social Media?
Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
A New Antiquity, Art and Humanity as Universal (1400-1600)
Associate Professor of Religion & African American and African Diaspora Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Religion and Music in African American Life Since the 1960s
Spring 2019 Awardees
Associate Professor of Management
Columbia Business School
Hormones in Groups: The Effects of Collective Testosterone-Environmental Fit on Group Performance
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Remapping Race
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
A Novel Technique for in-situ Atmospheric Aerosol Activity Measurement
Associate Professor of Sociology
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Underemployment and Racial/Ethnic Inequality Among College Graduates
Spring 2018 Awardees
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Cross-currents: Recontextualizing Race, Gender and Queer Studies in Early Medieval English Literature
This project recontexualizes the conceptualization of race, gender, and queer studies in early English medieval literature by putting the field in direct dialogue with contemporary scholarship in African-American studies, queer studies, ethnic studies, and the broader field of island studies.
Professor of Chemistry
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Elucidating the Structural Basis of Tissue Failure in Osteogenesis Imperfecta
This project proposes to delineate how structural defects in osteogenesis imperfecta (oi) collagen lead to altered mechanical response and, in particular, impaired strain stiffening in collagen networks that serve as model tissue.
Associate Professor of Professional Practice
School of the Arts
Proving Up: 3 Novellas
Associate Professor of Business
Graduate School of Business
What's on Your Mind? Where Minds Wander and How it Impacts Our Lives
Associate Professor of Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Do Hiring Nudges Affect Racial and Gender Diversity? Case-by-Case Versus Group Hiring
Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Women, Architecture, Writing: Research Seminar and Book
Associate Professor of Physics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Extending the Coherence Time of Molecule Interactions with Light for Precision Measurements and Quantum Information