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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
Maricelis Acevedo

Research Professor

Department of Global Development

International Research Professor (Joint)

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

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Made Adityanandana

Ph.D. Student, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • ma734 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Agrarian change
  • Tourism development
  • Social/environmental impact
Marvi Ahmed

Ph.D. Student, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • ma2285 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Construction & function of the development discourse
  • Political economy of transnational development, aid agencies & networks
  • Agrarian land rights
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

Contact

  • aa2547 [at] cornell.edu
Ramya Ambikapathi

Senior Research Associate

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • ramyaa [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food environments
  • Food systems
  • Climate
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
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
Mike Bishop

Ph.D. Student, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • bishop [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Power, race and social movements and institutions in rural USA
Jordan Blekking

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • jpb377 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food systems / food security
  • Spatial analysis
  • International agricultural development
Maria Boa Alvarado

Ph.D. Student, Development Studies

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • mdb339 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Sustainability of food systems
  • Climate-resilience
  • Rural development and dynamics of social change