Faculty and academic staff

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Mathew Abraham

Assistant Director, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Mathew Abraham
  • ma947 [at] cornell.edu
Evaluation methodologies
Agricultural value chains and markets
Food security in developing countries
Maricelis Acevedo
Maricelis Acevedo

Research Professor

Department of Global Development

International Research Professor (Joint)

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Maricelis Acevedo
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Ramya Ambikapathi

Senior Research Associate

Department of Global Development

Ramya Ambikapathi
  • ramyaa [at] cornell.edu
Food environments
Food systems
Climate
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Rachel Bezner Kerr

Professor

Department of Global Development

Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Field of Development Studies

Department of Global Development

Director, Institute for African Development

Global Cornell

Rachel Bezner Kerr
Agroecology
Food And Agriculture
Gender
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Kathryn Boor

Professor

Food Science

Professor

Department of Global Development

Kathryn Boor
Mary Jo Dudley
Mary Jo Dudley

Senior Extension Associate

Department of Global Development

Director, Cornell Farmworker Program

Department of Global Development

Mary Jo Dudley
Agricultural Labor
Immigrant Workers & Communities
Farmworkers
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Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

Professor

Department of Global Development

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue
Education, Development and Inequality
Population and Development
Sociological Research Methods
Julie Ficarra
Julie Ficarra

Associate Professor of the Practice

Department of Global Development

Julie Ficarra
  • jmf389 [at] cornell.edu
International Education & Engaged Learning
Partnership Development
Critical Pedagogy
Lucy Fisher
Lucy Fisher

Extension Associate

Department of Global Development

Associate Director of Communications - SRI International Network and Resource Center

Department of Global Development

Lucy Fisher
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Sarah Giroux

Associate Professor of the Practice

Department of Global Development

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Strategic Programs

Office of Academic Programs

Sarah Giroux
Decompositional Methods
Demography of Inequality and Poverty
Empirics Of Development and Inequality
Jenny Goldstein
Jenny Goldstein

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

Jenny Goldstein
  • goldstein [at] cornell.edu
Political ecology
Digital geography
Southeast Asia
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Carlos Gonzalez Fischer

Research Associate

Department of Global Development

Carlos Gonzalez Fischer
  • cmg295 [at] cornell.edu
Agri-food and livestock systems
Climate change mitigation and adaptation
Sustainability and environmental analysis
Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero

Professor; Cornell Atkinson Scholar; Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences

Department of Global Development

Mario Herrero
  • mario.herrero [at] cornell.edu
Climate mitigation and adaption
Agri-food and livestock systems
Sustainability and environmental analyses
Thomas Hirschl
Thomas Hirschl

Professor

Department of Global Development

Thomas Hirschl
Demography, Social Stratification, Ideology
Poverty, Social Policy, Community Action
Youth Development, Social Behavior
John Hoddinott
John Hoddinott

H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Economics and Policy

Nutritional Sciences (CALS)

Professor

Department of Global Development

John Hoddinott
Economics
Nutrition
Food security
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Benjamin Houlton

Ronald P. Lynch Dean

Office of the Dean

Professor

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor

Department of Global Development

Benjamin Houlton
  • bzhoulton [at] cornell.edu
Global ecosystem processes
Climate change solutions
Agricultural sustainability
David Kay
David Kay

Senior Extension Associate

Department of Global Development

David Kay
Community & Economic Development
Community, Energy Transitions & Climate Change
Governance & Conflict Resolution
Johannes Lehmann
Johannes Lehmann

Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Professor

Department of Global Development

Johannes Lehmann
Soil biogeochemistry, fertility management, organic matter, and carbon and nutrient cycling from wastes
Soil carbon sequestration and biochar systems
Sustainable agriculture in the tropics
Lori Leonard
Lori Leonard

Professor

Department of Global Development

Chair

Department of Global Development

Lori Leonard
Gender
Waste & garbage
Ethnography
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Chuan Liao

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

Chuan Liao
Environment, development & justice
Environmental sustainability
Statistical & spatial methods
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Ed Mabaya

Research Professor

Department of Global Development

Director, Humphrey Fellowship Program

Department of Global Development

Co-Director, Graduate Field of Global Development

Department of Global Development

Ed Mabaya
Applied Economics and Policy
Food and Agricultural Economics
International and Development Economics and Policy
Fouad Makki
Fouad Makki

Associate Professor

Department of Global Development

Fouad Makki
Uneven and Combined Development
Nature and Modernity
State Formation and Development
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Daniel Mason-D'Croz

Senior Research Associate

Department of Global Development

Daniel Mason-D'Croz
  • dem286 [at] cornell.edu
Food system transformation
Scenario development/analysis & economic/foresight modeling
Anticipatory governance & futures thinking
Andy McDonald
Andrew McDonald

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Associate Professor

Department of Global Development

Andrew McDonald
  • ajm9 [at] cornell.edu
Cropping systems ecology
Climate change adaptation and mitigation
Agricultural sustainability, food security, water resources, international agriculture, policy, and applied social sciences
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Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman

Senior Extension Associate

Department of Global Development

Director, Education Minor

Department of Global Development

Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman
Community development
Civic engagement
Engaged learning and research
Rebecca Nelson
Rebecca Nelson

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

Professor

Department of Global Development

Rebecca Nelson
Circular bionutrient economy and enhancing wellbeing in peri-urban areas through waste valorization
Agroecology and supporting student leadership toward sustainability
Participatory research and extension
Tess Pendergrast
Tess Pendergrast

Research Associate, Cornell Prison Education Program

Department of Global Development

Tess Pendergrast
  • tlp59 [at] cornell.edu
Inequality studies
Sociology of public health and environmental justice
Engaged education
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Jeffrey Perry

Senior Lecturer

Department of Global Development

Jeffrey Perry
Extension Education
Teaching Methods
Youth Leadership Development
Scott Peters
Scott Peters

Professor

Department of Global Development

Scott Peters
Political theory & public philosophy
Community organizing & development
Oral history
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Prabhu Pingali

Professor

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Professor

Department of Global Development

Director, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Prabhu Pingali
Food and Nutrition Policy
International Agricultural Development
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
Marvin Pritts
Marvin Pritts

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Plant Sciences Major

School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture Section

Professor

Department of Global Development

Marvin Pritts
Berry crops
Season extension
Sustainable production practices
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Andaleeb Rahman

Research Associate, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Andaleeb Rahman
  • ar687 [at] cornell.edu
Economic & human development
Agriculture, food & nutritional security
India
Annalisa Raymer
Annalisa Raymer

Senior Lecturer

Department of Global Development

Director of Community Learning and Service Partnership (CLASP)

Department of Global Development

Annalisa Raymer
Ecosystem of learning
Education and development
Learning cities
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Aubryn Sidle

Lecturer and Research Associate

Department of Global Development

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of Global Development

Aubryn Sidle
  • as286 [at] cornell.edu
Gender & development
International education
Evaluation research
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John Sipple

Professor

Department of Global Development

John Sipple
Pk-12 education
Sociology of communities
Policy
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Margaret Smith

Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Professor

Department of Global Development

Associate Dean and Director

Cornell AES

Margaret Smith
Maize breeding and genomics
Abiotic stress tolerance
Insect and disease resistance
Erika Styger
Erika Styger

Professor of the Practice

Department of Global Development

Director, Climate-Resilient Farming Systems Program

Department of Global Development

Erika Styger
  • eds8 [at] cornell.edu
System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Sustainable Land and Water Management (SLWM)
Agrobiodiversity management and agroforestry
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Terry Tucker

Professor of the Practice

Department of Global Development

Co-Director, Graduate Field of Global Development

Department of Global Development

Terry Tucker
International agriculture & rural development
Participatory research & extension
Higher education & development
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Lawrence Van De Valk

Senior Extension Associate

Department of Global Development

Executive Director, Lead NY

Department of Global Development

Lawrence Van De Valk
Leadership development
Team building
Leadership assessments
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Leslie Verteramo Chiu

Research Associate, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Leslie Verteramo Chiu
  • ljv9 [at] cornell.edu
Risk management for smallholder farmers
Food-value chains
Entrepreneurship
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Kurt Waldman

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

Kurt Waldman
  • kbw8 [at] cornell.edu
Judgement & decision making
Social-environmental systems
Climate adaptation & food security
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Mildred Warner

Professor, City and Regional Planning, AAP

Professor

Department of Global Development

Director, Polson Institute for Global Development

Department of Global Development

Mildred Warner
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Wendy Wolford

Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor

Department of Global Development

Vice Provost for International Affairs

Office of the Provost

Wendy Wolford
International development
Land use & distribution
Social mobilization & agrarian societies
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Y. Connie Yuan

Professor

Department of Communication

Professor

Department of Global Development

Y. Connie Yuan
Organizational communication
Intercultural communication
Knowledge management
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John Zinda

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

John Zinda
Environmental sociology
Risk and disaster
Political ecology

Adjunct faculty

Shorna Allred
Shorna Allred

Adjunct Professor

Natural Resources and the Environment

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

Shorna Allred
Conservation social science
Environmental justice
Southeast Asia
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Richard Cahoon

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

Richard Cahoon
  • rsc5 [at] cornell.edu
Intellectual property management
Invention & innovation, entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship
Technology transfer, development & implementation
Peter Gregory
Peter Gregory

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

Peter Gregory
Global Agriculture and Development
Agricultural Biotechnology
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Ndunge Kiiti

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Global Development

Ndunge Kiiti
  • nk26 [at] cornell.edu
Communication & mobile technologies
Public health & international/community development
Business & entrepreneurship
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Jan Low

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

Jan Low
  • jwl59 [at] cornell.edu
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Purvi Mehta

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

Purvi Mehta
  • pm473 [at] cornell.edu
Agricultural development
Agriculture and nutrition policy
South and southeast Asia
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Alice Pell

International Professor and Professor Emerita of Animal Nutrition

Animal Science

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

Alice Pell
International development
Agriculture & nutrition
Education
Ram
Veerabhadran Ramanathan

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

Veerabhadran Ramanathan
  • vr279 [at] cornell.edu
Climate change science
Climate solutions
Climate literacy
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Rob Scott

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

Rob Scott
Sustainable food production
Education in correctional facilities
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Hale Ann Tufan

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Global Development

Hale Ann Tufan
Gender equality & social inclusion
Inclusive crop improvement and seed systems
Agricultural research for development

Emeriti faculty

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David Brown

International Professor Emeritus

Department of Global Development

David Brown
Rural demography
Political economy
Spacial inequality
Eugene Erickson

Emeritus Professor

Department of Global Development

Eugene Erickson
Joe Francis

Emeritus

Department of Global Development

Joe Francis
Charles Geisler

Emeritus Professor

Department of Global Development

Charles Geisler
Douglas Gurak

Emeritus Professor

Department of Global Development

Douglas Gurak
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Paula Horrigan

Emeritus; Director of Rust2Green

Department of Global Development

Landscape Architecture

Paula Horrigan
Philip McMichael
Philip McMichael

Professor Emeritus

Department of Global Development

Philip McMichael
  • pdm1 [at] cornell.edu
Food regimes
Food sovereignty
Agrarian questions
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Max Pfeffer

Professor Emeritus

Department of Global Development

Max Pfeffer
  • mjp5 [at] cornell.edu
Agricultural Labor
Community Development
International Migration

Visiting scientists and fellows

  • Home institution: Professor, Department of Agricultural and Forestry Economic Management, Nanjing Forestry University (China)
  • Research focus: Jiayun’s research interests focus on forest tenure and institution, forest conflict management, and forestry finance. Currently he is exploring the impact of forest tenure on the performance of returning farmland to forest in China.
  • Contactjd2324 [at] cornell.edu (jd2324[at]cornell[dot]edu) | Warren 251
  • Home institution: Professor at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
  • Research focus: Smart agriculture; Human-elephant conflict; Drone design and deployment
  • ContactProfile page | srm278 [at] cornell.edu (srm278[at]cornell[dot]edu)
  • Home institution: Associate Professor, Shaanxi Normal University (China)
  • Research focus: Jingchun is interested in investigating effective school- and family-based approaches to promote child development (especially early child development) through field experiments in rural China. His research primarily revolves around rural human capital, educational economics, and health economics.
  • Contactjn557 [at] cornell.edu (jn557[at]cornell[dot]edu) | Mann B75
  • Home institution: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
  • Research focus: As an agricultural economist, Stella focuses on food systems and specifically on how to improve global nutrition while achieving other social goals. Her areas of research interest include market-based approaches to improving diets and nutrition, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, climate change adaptation, gender equity, food safety, food environments, and drivers of food choice.
  • Contact: Profile pagesnordhagen [at] gainhealth.org (snordhagen[at]gainhealth[dot]org)
  • Home institution: Professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Growth in New Delhi, India
  • Research focus: Chandra's research interests include food value chains, the economics of technological change, natural resource management, and the social sector. He believes in the game-changing nature of technologies for optimizing social welfare, especially for smallholders and poor consumers.
  • ContactProfile page | csn38 [at] cornell.edu (csn38[at]cornell[dot]edu)
  • Home institution: CGIAR
  • Research focus: Philip's work centers on farming systems research, crop and livestock modelling, agricultural economics, ex ante and ex post impact assessment, and priority setting.
  • Contact: Profile page | p.thornton [at] cgiar.org (p[dot]thornton[at]cgiar[dot]org)
  • Home institution: Associate Professor at the Wageningen University Farming Systems Ecology group
  • Research focus: Hannah's research explores how circular food systems can contribute to producing healthy foods for a growing population within the carrying capacity of the Earth.
  • ContactProfile page 

Postdoctoral associates

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Franco Maximiliano Bilotto

Postdoctoral Associate, Food Systems and Global Change

Department of Global Development

Franco Maximiliano Bilotto
  • fmb59 [at] cornell.edu
Climate change, mitigation and adaptation
Sustainable agriculture and environmental analysis
Nutrient cycling in agroecosystems
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Jordan Blekking

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Global Development

Jordan Blekking
  • jpb377 [at] cornell.edu
Food systems / food security
Spatial analysis
International agricultural development
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Jocelyn Boiteau

Postdoctoral Associate, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Jocelyn Boiteau
  • jmb575 [at] cornell.edu
Food systems
Food loss and waste
International nutrition
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Natacha Bruna

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Global Development

Natacha Bruna
  • nrb92 [at] cornell.edu
(Green) Extractivism
Land and Resource Grabbing
Rural Livelihoods and Development
Peiyu Cao
Peiyu Cao

Postdoctoral Associate, Food Systems and Global Change

Department of Global Development

Peiyu Cao
  • peiyucao [at] cornell.edu
Cropping and livestock systems
Agricultural and environmental sustainability
Climate change mitigation
Thais Diniz Oliveira
Thais Diniz Oliveira

Postdoctoral Associate, Food Systems and Global Change

Department of Global Development

Thais Diniz Oliveira
  • tdo27 [at] cornell.edu
Climate change mitigation and adaptation
Scenario development/analysis & economic modeling
Healthy diets from sustainable, just food systems
Matthew Gibson
Matthew Gibson

Postdoctoral Associate, Food Systems and Global Change

Department of Global Development

Matthew Gibson
  • mfg62 [at] cornell.edu
Food systems transformation
Degrowth and post-growth futures
Healthy diets from sustainable, just food systems
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Raghav Puri

Postdoctoral Associate, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Raghav Puri
  • rp455 [at] cornell.edu
Health and nutrition policy
Policy implementation
International development
Kendra Kintzi
Kendra Kintzi

Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Global Development

Kendra Kintzi
  • kmk337 [at] cornell.edu
Energy & climate change
Digital mobilization & smart infrastructure
Middle East/Southwest Asia
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Radine Rafols

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Global Development

Radine Rafols
  • rbr82 [at] cornell.edu
Program evaluation
Climate change effects in developing countries
Quantitative spatial equilibrium models
Marina Sundiang
Marina Sundiang

Postdoctoral Associate, Food Systems and Global Change

Department of Global Development

Marina Sundiang
  • msundiang [at] cornell.edu
Spatiotemporal dynamics of complex systems
Computational modeling
Network Science
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Shuai Zhou

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Global Development

Shuai Zhou
  • sz675 [at] cornell.edu
Environmental migration and health
Spatial demography
Computational social science