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Jenny Aker

Daniel G. Sisler Professor of Development Economics

Global Development Section

Contact

  • jca253 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Economic development in Africa
  • Information technology and development
  • Agricultural economics
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Andrew Bell

Schleifer Family Associate Professor of Sustainability

Global Development Section

Contact

  • arb397 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Agent-based modeling
  • Behavioral experiments
  • Rural livelihoods decision-making
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Aaron Benanav

Assistant Professor

Global Development Section

Contact

  • aaron.benanav [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Automation, artificial intelligence, and the future of work
  • Unemployment, underemployment, and informality
  • Histories of social and economic development
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Rachel Bezner Kerr

Professor

Global Development Section

Director, Institute for African Development

Global Cornell

Contact

Interest

  • Agroecology
  • Food And Agriculture
  • Gender
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Kathryn Boor

Professor

Food Science

Professor

Global Development Section

Contact

  • kjb4 [at] cornell.edu
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Bonna Davidson

Graduate Field Administrator

Global Development Section

Natural Resources and the Environment Section

Contact

  • bnd26 [at] cornell.edu
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Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

Section Head, Professor

Global Development Section

Contact

Interest

  • Education, Development and Inequality
  • Population and Development
  • Sociological Research Methods
Jenny Goldstein
Jenny Goldstein

Associate Professor

Global Development Section

Contact

  • goldstein [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Political ecology
  • Digital geography
  • Southeast Asia
Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero

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

Global Development Section

Contact

  • mario.herrero [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Climate mitigation and adaption
  • Agri-food and livestock systems
  • Sustainability and environmental analyses
Thomas Hirschl
Thomas Hirschl

Professor

Global Development Section

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Interest

  • 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

Global Development Section

Contact

Interest

  • Economics
  • Nutrition
  • Food security
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Benjamin Houlton

Ronald P. Lynch Dean

Office of the Dean

Professor

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor

Global Development Section

Contact

  • bzhoulton [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Global ecosystem processes
  • Climate change solutions
  • Agricultural sustainability
Johannes Lehmann
Johannes Lehmann

Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Professor

Global Development Section

Contact

Interest

  • Soil biogeochemistry, fertility, organic matter
  • Carbon cycling and sequestration
  • Biochar systems and nutrient cycling from wastes
Lori Leonard
Lori Leonard

Professor

Global Development Section

Senior Associate Dean

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Contact

Interest

  • Gender
  • Waste & garbage
  • Ethnography
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Chuan Liao

Associate Professor

Global Development Section

Contact

  • cl824 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Environment, development & justice
  • Climate change mitigation & adaptation
  • Statistical & spatial methods