Christine Blake Contact Information: E-mail: ceblake@gwm.sc.edu Phone: (803) 777-1484 Office: Health Sciences 322A

Affiliations:

Arnold School of Public Health
Health Promotion, Education and Behavior
Assistant Professor

Education:

Ph.D., Cornell University, 2006
Master’s, Cornell University, 2000
Bachelor’s, SUNY Plattsburgh, 1996

Research Interest:

• Nutrition
• Food choice
• Food choice schema
• Maternal and child nutrition
• Dietary behavior change

Relevant Grants/Publications:

• Blake, C.E., Devine, C.M., Wethington, E. Jabs, J.A., Jastran, M. Farrell, T.J., and Bisogni, C.A. Gender, family structure and food choice coping strategies: employed parents’ evaluation of work-family integration.  Appetite, In review.
• Farrell, T., Devine, C.M., Blake, C.E., Jastran, M., Wethington, E., and Bisogni, C.A. Dietary quality and the food choice coping strategies of low/moderate income employed parents. Appetite, in review.
• Jastran, M., Bisogni, C.A., Sobal, J., Blake, C.E., and Devine, C.A. Eating routines: Embedded, value based, modifiable and reflected upon. Appetite. 2008; In press.
• Blake, C.E., Bisogni, C.A. Sobal, J., Jastran, M., and Devine, C.M. How adults construct evening meals: Scripts for food choice. Appetite.2008;In press.
• Blake, C. E. Individual differences in the conceptualization of food across eating contexts. Food Quality and Preference, 2008;19:62-70.
• Blake, C. E., Bisogni, C. A., Sobal, J., Devine, C., and Jastran, M. Classifying foods in different contexts reveals the ways adults categorize foods for real-life settings. Appetite, 2007; 49:500-510.
• Bisogni, C. A., Falk, L. W., Madore, E., Blake, C. E., Jastran, M., Sobal, J., and Devine, C. Dimensions of everyday eating and drinking episodes. Appetite. 2007; 48;218-231.
• Blake, C. E., and Bisogni, C. A. Personal and family food choice schemas of rural women in Upstate New York. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2003;35(6):282-293.

Relevant Collaborative Research:

Project: Work-Family Integration and Diets of Multi-Ethnic Adults.  
Funded by: National Cancer Institute. 
PI: C. Devine. A study work-family spillover in a multiethnic sample of urban, employed, low-income parents.  The specific aims were to understand how low- and moderate-income employed parents experience and integrate the social processes and conditions from family and work roles and the integration of the two on their dietary behaviors.