Back

Discover CALS

See how our current work and research is bringing new thinking and new solutions to some of today's biggest challenges.

Search for People

Shorna Allred

Professor

Natural Resources and the Environment

Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Conservation social science
  • Environmental justice
  • Southeast Asia
Rachel Bezner Kerr

Professor

Department of Global Development

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Agroecology
  • Food And Agriculture
  • Gender
Kathryn Boor

Professor

Food Science

Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

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

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • goldstein [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Political ecology
  • Digital geography
  • Southeast Asia
Miguel Gomez

Robert G. Tobin Professor

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Food and agricultural economics
  • Food marketing and distribution
  • Food value chains and sustainability
Mario Herrero

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

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • 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

Contact

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

Contact

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

Contact

  • bzhoulton [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Global ecosystem processes
  • Climate change solutions
  • Agricultural sustainability
Philippe Jeanneaux

Visiting Scholar

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Sustainable agriculture, farm multiperformance and farm dynamics
  • Farmer’s decision making and digital technologies in food and agriculture
  • Complex value chains
Larisa Kasumagić- Kafedžić

Visiting Associate Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Intercultural education
  • Peace pedagogy
  • Language education
Johannes Lehmann

Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

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

Contact

Interest

  • Gender
  • Waste & garbage
  • Ethnography
Chuan Liao

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Environment, development & justice
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Statistical & spatial methods