Brooks Graduate Field Faculty

Rosemary Avery
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Professor, Brooks
adolescents, at-risk children or youth, foster care, child welfare, consumer behavior, pharmaceutical advertising, regulation

Colleen Barry
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Dean, Professor, Brooks
health policy, mental health, addiction and gun violence

Christopher Barrett
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Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor, Brooks & Applied Economics and Management
applied economics, international and development economics and policy, food and agricultural economics, environmental, energy and resource economics and policy, emerging markets

David Bateman
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Associate Professor, Brooks & Government
democratic institutions, legislatures and political rights, ideas and ideologies of democracy, race, and racism

Michèle Belot
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Professor, Economics
applied microeconomics, with a special interest in experimental work in areas related to labour, health and education

Kendra Bischoff
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Assistant Professor, Sociology
segregation, education, income inequality

Francine Blau
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Professor, ILR
labor policy, gender, immigration

Nicolas Bottan
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Assistant Professor, Brooks
public finance, behavioral economics, labor economics, urban economics and economics of education

Colleen Carey
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Associate Professor, Brooks
industrial organization of health care, health economics

John Cawley
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Professor; Director of Cornell in Washington, Director Institute on Health Economics, Brooks
economics, health economics, health policy, public policy, obesity

Benjamin Cornwell
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Associate Professor
Sociology
social networks, health, social stratification

Erin York Cornwell
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Associate Professor, Sociology
neighborhoods, law, health, aging, social networks

Rachel Dunifon
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Professor & Dean, College of Human Ecology
child and family policy, social policy, maternal employment, welfare reform, grandparents, children’s living arrangements

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue
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Professor; Department Chair; Associate Director, Cornell Population Center, Brooks & Sociology
global inequality, food security, youth employment, sustainable development

Peter Enns
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Professor, Brooks & Government
public opinion, representation, criminal justice system, survey research, time series analysis

Jerel Ezell
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Associate Professor, Africana
economic and labor markets, impacts on health, social equity and environmental sustainability in America

Maria Fitzpatrick
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Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Brooks
public economics, labor economics, child education

Gustavo Flores-Macias
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Associate Professor, Brooks & Government
the politics of economic reform, and taxation and state capacity

Richard Geddes
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Professor & Director CPIP, Brooks
infrastructure investment, public-private partnerships, transportation policy, postal service, corporate governance, women’s property rights

Shannon Gleeson
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Professor, Brooks & ILR
bureaucracies and workplace protections, worker rights, labor unions and other community organizations, play in advocating on their behalf

David Just
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Professor, Dyson
applied economics and policy, food and agricultural economics

Max Kapustin
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Assistant Professor, Brooks
reducing crime and violence; improving educational, health, and other life outcomes of disadvantaged youth and adults; policing; public policy; experimental economics; applied econometrics

Don Kenkel
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Professor & Co-Director, Institute on Health Economics, Brooks
health economics, public health, tobacco control, cost-benefit analysis

Philipp Kircher
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Professor, Economics
labor economics

Cathy Kling
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Professor, Brooks & ILR
environmental, energy and resource economics and policy

Sarah Kreps
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Professor, Brooks & Government
international relations, international conflict and cooperation, alliance politics, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

Douglas L. Kriner
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Professor, Brooks & Government
American political institutions and the separation of powers, US foreign policy, science and health policy

Pauline Leung
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Assistant Professor, Brooks
public economics, labor economics, public policy

Michael Lovenheim
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Professor, Brooks & Economics
economics of education, local taxation and regulation, cigarette and alcohol taxes and regulation on health outcomes

Vida Maralani
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Associate Professor, Sociology
social inequality, demography, social stratification

Alan Mathios
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Professor, Brooks
advertising, food and drug administration, federal trade commission, health outcomes, health disparities, cigarettes, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, direct-to-consumer advertising, cigarette taxes

Jamila Michener
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Associate Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Public Engagement, Brooks & Government
American politics; poverty and inequality; public policy; political participation; race and ethnic politics; urban politics

Douglas Miller
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Professor, Brooks
public economics, labor economics, applied microeconometrics, economic environment and health outcomes

Kelly Musick
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Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Research, Brooks
family demography, marriage, fertility, social class, inequality

Sean Nicholson
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Professor, Director, Brooks, Sloan
health economics, pharmaceuticals, physicians

Jeff Niederdeppe
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Associate Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, Brooks & Communication
communication, public health, health policy, health disparities

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
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Assistant Professor, Brooks & Government
environmental, energy and resource economics and policy, food and agricultural economics, international and development economics and policy, quantitative modeling, climate change

Eleonora Patacchini
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Professor, Economics
urban economics, labor economics, law and economics, political economy, policy evaluation, public policy

Zhuan Pei
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Assistant Professor, Brooks
labor economics, applied econometrics, public policy

Thomas Pepinsky
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Professor, Brooks & Government
comparative politics and political economy, emerging market economies in Southeast Asia

Karl Pillemer
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Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Outreach, Human Development
gerontology, life course studies, sociology of the family, long-term care, public policy, translational research

Adriana Reyes
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Assistant Professor, Brooks
family demography, health disparities

Rachel Beatty Riedl
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Professor, Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Brooks & Government
institutional development in new democracies, local governance and decentralization policy, authoritarian regime legacies, and religion and politics, with a focus on Africa

Evan Riehl
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Assistant Professor, Economics
labor economics, development economics, education

Peter Rich
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Assistant Professor, Brooks
segregation, education, inequality, demography

David Sahn
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Professor, Nutritional Sciences
health economics, nutrition and poverty

Nicholas Sanders
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Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Brooks
environmental economics, health economics, labor economics, environmental policy

Seth Sanders
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Professor, Department Chair, Economics
labor economics and econometrics with a specialization in population research

Sharon Sassler
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Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Brooks
family, adolescents, gender issues, marriage, cohabitation, immigrants, relationships, young adult transitions

Laura Tach
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Associate Professor, Brooks
poverty & public policy; family demography; neighborhood inequality & housing

Sharon Tennyson
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Professor, Brooks
consumer policy, government regulation, insurance, financial services, law and economics

Chantal Thomas
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Professor, Brooks & Law
law and development and international economic law

Maureen Waller
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Professor, Brooks
poverty, family, social policy

Kim Weeden
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Professor, Sociology
education, income inequality, gender inequality in labor markets, social class

Jessica Weiss 
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Associate Professor, Brooks & Government
Chinese politics and foreign relations, nationalism and public opinion, the connection between domestic politics and international relations

Eleanor Wilking
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Assistant Professor, Law
tax administration, particularly questions concerning individual income and consumption tax structuring, distribution, and compliance

Cristobal Young
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Associate Professor, Sociology
tax policy, economics sociology, big data, quantitative methods