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Benjamin Houlton

Ronald P. Lynch Dean

Office of the Dean

Professor

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • bzhoulton [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Global ecosystem processes
  • Climate change solutions
  • Agricultural sustainability
Mushahid Hussain

Ph.D. Candidate, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • mh2395 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Historical & global-transnational sociology, social theory
  • Nationalism, decolonization, and international development
  • Urban/labor politics, South Asia
Mai Ichihara

Ph.D. Student, Development Studies

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • mi265 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Agroecology and rural livelihood
  • Applied and participatory research
  • Science-based metrics and markets for food system sustainability
Muhammad Ali Ilahi

Research Support Specialist, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • mai55 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food security in developing countries
  • Cross country agriculture, nutrition & health analysis in South Asia
  • Farmer aggregation models
Devon Jenkins

Program Manager, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • dlj67 [at] cornell.edu
Amrutha Jose Pampackal

Ph.D. Candidate, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • aj599 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Sociology of access to food
  • Food security, land governance & social inequalities
  • India
Kyunghee Kang

Ph.D. Student, Development Studies

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • kk932 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Inequality and global challenges
  • Climate change, forced displacement & extreme poverty
  • Global governance
Shrey Kapoor

Ph.D. Candidate, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • sk2875 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Rural & urban dispossession in South Asia
  • Neoliberalism, Hindutva & the dispossession of marginalized groups
David Kay

Senior Extension Associate

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Community & Economic Development
  • Community, Energy Transitions & Climate Change
  • Governance & Conflict Resolution
Ndunge Kiiti

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • nk26 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Communication & mobile technologies
  • Public health & international/community development
  • Business & entrepreneurship
Kendra Kintzi

Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • kmk337 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Energy & climate change
  • Digital mobilization & smart infrastructure
  • Middle East/Southwest Asia
Chris Knight

Producer, Cinematographer and IT Support

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • ck536 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Cinematography
  • Photography
  • Journalism
Beth Korson

CLASP Program Coordinator

Department of Global Development

Contact

Lacey Lattin

Assistant to the Chair

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Latin America
  • Epidemiology
Tamar Law

Ph.D. Student, Development Sociology

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • tl432 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Nature-society relations & capitalist natures
  • Political ecology of climate mitigation & adaptation
  • Politics of soil