DSOC faculty Phil McMichael, new faculty member and alumna Rachel Bezner-Kerr and alumna Hannah Wittman presented at the University of Chicago's Food (In)Security series on May 9th.
DSOC PhD candidate Brian Thiede was one of the 16 presenters from DSOC at the Population Association of America's Annual Meeting on May 3-5. Others presenters were: F. Arguillas, A. Basu, D. Brown, P. Eloundou-Enyegue, A. Flaim, J. Francis, S. Giroux, D. Gurak, T. Hirschl, M. Kritz, D. Lichter, S. Sanders, S. Sassler and L. Williams. Full list here.
Faculty member Tom Hirschl was elected President of the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty senate.
Dr. Marygold Walsh-Dilley received the Philip Taietz Prize for most outstanding paper presented at a scholarly meeting for the year 2011.
Ashon Bradford received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award for 2011-2012.
Gonzales et al - Effect of Tribal Language Use on Colorectal Cancer Screening Among American Indians.
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Charles C Geisler
Professor
My objectives are the following: Extension/outreach in AIP: Secure funding for an inter-racial network in NYS committed to better Indian water law, to community-based water management, to water education, and practical environmental justice in Indian and non-Indian communities. Teaching: Maintain... Read Charles C Geisler's full profile
Emme Edmunds (far right) was recently awarded a fellowship for the summer 2012 at the World Health Organization. Read more about Emme here.
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Junior Ajay Kailas plans to study medicine after graduation. Read more about Ajay here.
Steven Wolf gave a talk in the Yale Forestry Forum, "Construction of working forests in the Adirondacks: What can contemporary experiences tell us about institutional complementarity, hybridity and stickiness?"
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue gave a seminar at Duke University's Population Research Institute (DuPri) focusing on the demography of inequality, specifically new conceptual links between demographic trends and macro-level inequality.
Institute for the Social Sciences
Announces the New 2012-2015 Theme Project:
Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy, & Livelihoods on the Ground
The Institute for the Social Sciences is pleased to announce the just-selected 2012-2015 theme project, "Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground." This project is co-led by Charles Geisler and Wendy Wolford, both from Development Sociology, and thus far includes the following Cornell faculty: Nancy Chau, Applied Economics and Management, and Paul Nadasdy, Anthropology and American Indian Studies. PDF here.
The Land Deal Politics Initiative
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Academic Conference
GLOBAL LAND GRABBING II
October 17 – 19, 2012
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
More info here.
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Photo of Emme Edmunds provided by E. Edmunds. Photo of AJ Kailas provided by AJ Kailas. Photo of Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue by David Hawshurst/Wilson Center. Photo of Hannah McDermott by ILR News Center. Photos of Marygold Walsh-Dilley and Ashon Bradford by L. Johnson.
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