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Jenny Aker

Daniel G. Sisler Professor of Development Economics

Department of Global Development

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Interest

  • Economic development in Africa
  • Information technology and development
  • Agricultural economics
Shorna Allred

Adjunct Professor

Natural Resources and the Environment

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

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Interest

  • Conservation social science
  • Environmental justice
  • Southeast Asia
Andrew Bell

Schleifer Family Associate Professor of Sustainability

Department of Global Development

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  • arb397 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

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

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

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  • aaron.benanav [at] cornell.edu

Interest

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

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Interest

  • Agroecology
  • Food And Agriculture
  • Gender
Kathryn Boor

Professor

Food Science

Professor

Department of Global Development

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Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

Professor

Department of Global Development

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Interest

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

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

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  • goldstein [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Political ecology
  • Digital geography
  • Southeast Asia
Mario Herrero

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

Department of Global Development

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  • mario.herrero [at] cornell.edu

Interest

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

Professor

Department of Global Development

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Interest

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

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

Nutritional Sciences (CALS)

Professor

Department of Global Development

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Interest

  • Economics
  • Nutrition
  • Food security
Benjamin Houlton

Ronald P. Lynch Dean

Office of the Dean

Professor

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor

Department of Global Development

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  • bzhoulton [at] cornell.edu

Interest

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

Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Professor

Department of Global Development

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Interest

  • 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

Professor

Department of Global Development

Chair

Department of Global Development

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Interest

  • Gender
  • Waste & garbage
  • Ethnography
Chuan Liao

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

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Interest

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