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Sherifa Abdalla

Finance Specialist

Department of Global Development

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Mathew Abraham

Assistant Director, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • ma947 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Evaluation methodologies
  • Agricultural value chains and markets
  • Food security in developing countries
Made Adityanandana

Ph.D. Student, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

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  • ma734 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Agrarian change
  • Food security
  • Migration
Marvi Ahmed

Ph.D. Candidate, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • ma2285 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Political ecology of caste
  • Agrarian political economy
  • Community development
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
Ana Ximena Alvis Gonzales

Administrative Assistant, Cornell Farmworker Program

Department of Global Development

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  • aa2547 [at] cornell.edu
Ramya Ambikapathi

Senior Research Associate

Department of Global Development

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  • ramyaa [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food environments
  • Food systems
  • Climate
Adham Badawy

Ph.D. Student, Development Studies

Department of Global Development

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  • ab3263 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Water governance
  • Climate adaptation
  • Agent based modeling
Emily Baker

Ph.D. Candidate, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • eab365 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Agricultural ecology
  • Natural resource management and "wilderness" conservation
  • Rural livelihoods and the dynamics of conflict, climate change, and socioeconomic inequality
David Balgley

Ph.D. Student, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • dcb294 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Issues related to collective land in Morocco
  • Nature-Society relations, water governance, rural livelihoods, and land privatization
Aman Banerji

Ph.D. Candidate, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • ab2734 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • 'Global' cities & land markets
Andrew Bell

Schleifer Family Associate Professor of Sustainability

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • arb397 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

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

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

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
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