Rosemary Avery
Professor; Chair
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Ph.D., Family Resource Management, Ohio State University, 1988
Research interests: family formation via adoption of special needs children, impact of media images on consumer choice

Christopher Barrett
Professor
Department of Applied Economics and Management
Ph.D., Agricultural Economics and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
Research interests: development economics; environmental and resource economics; international economics

Alaka Basu
Professor
Department of Development Sociology
M.Sc. (Medical Demography), Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Research interests: population studies; reproductive health and family planning; gender and development; child health and mortality; culture and demographic behavior

Francine D. Blau
Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics
Department of Labor Economics  
Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1975
Reserach interests: labor economics; economics of gender; economic demography; international comparisons

James G. Booth
Professor; Chair
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
Ph.D., Statistics, University of Kentucky, 1987
Research interests: statistical modeling including: categorical data analysis, generalized linear, hierarchical and mixed models

Charles Brainerd
Professor
Department of Human Development
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Michigan State University, 1970
Research interests: development of cognitive processes in normal and atypical children; adult cognition

Marianella Casasola
Associate Professor
Department of Human Development
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Texas-Austin, 2000
Research interests: infant cognitive development and early word learning, cognition and language acquisition

Stephen Ceci
Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology
Department of Human Development
Ph.D., Development Psychology, University of Exeter, 1978
Research interests: alternatives to psychometric theories of intellectual development; the bio-ecological theory of intelligence; ecological models of cognitive development; children’s testimonial competence; the accuracy of children’s memory

Nancy Chau
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Economics and Management
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1996
Research interests: international trade; regional economics; development economics

Susan Christopherson
Professor
Department of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D., Geography, University of California-Berkeley, 1983
Research interests: labor markets; labor flexibility; economic development; media industries; market governance and European studies

Rachel Dunifon
Associate Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Ph.D., Human Development, Northwestern University, 1999
Research interests: child and family policy

John Eckenrode
Professor
Department of Human Development
Ph.D., Social Psychology, Tufts University 1979
Research interests: child abuse and neglect, including official child maltreatment reports, the academic effects of child abuse and neglect, and the long-term effects of a program of home visitation on the development of high-risk mothers and their children

Gary W. Evans
Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis; Department of Human Development
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Massachusetts
Research interests: role of physical and social factors in early childhood on the life course trajectory of mental and health and stress; role of elevated cumulative risk exposure in income-related health disparities in children and youth

Gary Fields
Professor
Department of Labor Economics
Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 1972
Research interests: economic development; global economy; human resources management; international and comparative workplace studies; labor economics; leadership; older workers; aging, and pensions; rights of working people; social insurance and welfare; wage differentials and inequality

Matthew Freedman
Assistant Professor
Department of Labor Economics
Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland–College Park, 2007
Research interests: labor economics; worker mobility; earnings dynamics and inequality; poverty; human capital investment; incentives and performance; discrimination; job training and education

Jennifer Gerner
Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974
Research interests: role of family characteristics and family disruption in outcomes for children

Michael Goldstein
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology and Animal Behavior, Indiana University, 2001
Research interests: infant development in the context of the family, with a focus on mechanisms of social learning

Douglas Gurak
Professor
Department of Development Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison 1973
Research interests: population and development; migration; health and mortality; ethnic stratification

David R. Harris
Professor; Deputy Provost; Vice Provost for Social Sciences
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University, 1997
Research interests: race and ethnicity; social inequality; social policy

Douglas Heckathorn
Professor
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Kansas, 1974
Research interests: social exchange across macrosocial categories, including race and ethnicity, gender, age, and economic status, to analyze quantitatively both social structure and the power differentials encoded in those structures

Thomas Hirschl
Professor; Director, Population & Development Program
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986
Research interests: social stratification; research methods and statistics; state and local demography

Elizabeth Hirsh
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Washington, 2006
Research interests: race and gender inequality; employment discrimination; work and organizations; law and society; quantitative methods

Lawrence M. Kahn
Professor
Department of Labor Economics and Collective Bargaining
Ph.D., Economics, University of California-Berkeley, 1975
Research interests:  wage inequality; unemployment; employment protection; gender and the labor market; immigration; sports economics

Ravi Kanbur
T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs; International Professor of Applied Economics and Management; Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Ph.D., Economics, University of Oxford, 1981
Research iInterests: public finance; theory of income distribution; theory of decision-making under uncertainty; inequality; poverty and development

Donald Kenkel
Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 1987
Research interests: health economics; public sector economics

Mary M. Kritz
Senior Research Associate
Department of Development Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972
Research interests:  international migration; population and development; immigrant integration and assimilation; nativity differences in migration and integration

Daniel Lichter
Ferris Family Professor; Director, Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981
Research interests: family and welfare policy; children's changing living arrangements and poverty; cohabitation and marriage among unwed mothers; welfare incentive effects on the family; interracial marriage and cohabitation; new destinations of recent immigrants; changing patterns of concentrated poverty in rural areas

Alan Mathios
Professor; Dean, College of Human Ecology
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania , 1985
Research interests: intersection of advertising policy and health; government tax policy and its impact on smoking onset and cessation

Joseph Mikels
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Michigan, 2003
Research interests: life-span interface between emotion and cognition, and how emotion-cognition interactions relate to and underlie decision making-especially in the health domain

Ronald Mize
Assistant Professor of Latino Studies
Department of Development Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology and Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
Research interests: critical migration studies; Chicano/a studies; comparative race and ethnicity; political economy; cultural studies; sociology of education; social theory; political sociology; social stratification

Anthony Ong
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development
Ph.D., Adult aging and Development, University of Southern California, 2002
Research interests: socio-emotional, cognitive and cultural resources that people draw upon to adapt to stressful life circumstances as they age

Emily Owens
Assistant Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, 2007
Research interests:  economics of crime and criminal justice; social justice and welfare programs; legal institutions; American economic history

Pilar Parra
Research Associate & Senior Lecturer
Division of Nutritional Sciences
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
Research interests: immigration; nutrition, diet and chronic disease; health status of minorities (culture, immigration); aging minorities in the U.S.

Rolf Pendall
Associate Professor
Department of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley, 1995
Research interests: land use planning; state, regional, and local growth management; zoning and subdivision regulation; affordable housing; domestic ( U.S.) environmental planning and policy

H. Elizabeth Peters
Professor; Director, Cornell Population Program
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 1983
Research interests:  economic demography; family economics and family policy; work and family; economics of divorce; family investments in children; altruism

Karl Pillemer
Professor; Director, Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA)
Department of Human Development
Ph.D., Sociology, Brandeis University, 1985
Research interests: human development over the life course, with a special emphasis on family and social relationships in middle age and beyond

Christine K. Ranney
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Economics and Management
Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of California-Davis, 1983
Research interests: household behavior; policy analysis affecting households in the US, particularly food, welfare, labor force, nutrition and health policies; well-being of the elderly and other sub-populations

Valerie Reyna
Professor of Human Development and Psychology; Co-director, Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research
Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Rockefeller University, 1981
Research interests: human judgment and decision making; numeracy and quantitative reasoning; risk and uncertainty; medical decision making; social judgment; false memory

David Sahn
Professor
Division Nutritional Sciences; Department of Economics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
Research interests: economic development; applied econometrics; labor economics; economics of health and education; the effect of economic policy transitions in Africa and Eastern Europe on poverty and income distribution labor markets and gender issues in developing countries; pricing policy in social sectors food and nutrition policy

Sharon Sassler
Associate Professor
Department of Policy Analysis & Management
Ph.D., Sociology/Demography, Brown University, 1995
Research interests: attributes of men who become step-fathers; the timing and circumstances of the transition to fatherhood; effect of union transitions on the health and well-being of single mothers and their offspring; family formation views of cohabiting couples and relationship progression in interracial relationships

Kosali I. Simon
Assistant Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, 1999
Research interests: health economics; health insurance; social and policy determinants of health and health care use

Robert Strawderman
Professor
Department of Biological Statistics & Computational Biology
Sc.D., Biostatistics, Harvard University, 1992
Research interests: survival analysis; recurrent event data; longitudinal, clustered and missing data; missing data; model selection; causal inference

Francoise Vermeylen
Head of Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit

Qi Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Human Development
Ph.D., Psychology, Harvard University, 2000
Research Interests: intersection of cognitive and social development, focusing on the development of autobiographical memory

Mildred Warner
Associate Professor
Department of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D., Development Sociology, Cornell University, 1997
Research interests: devolution and privatization in local, state, and national policy and their impacts on community and economic development

Martin Wells
Charles A. Alexander Professor of Statistical Sciences
Department of Social Statistics
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, 1987
Research interests: applied and theoretical statistics and sometimes cross the boundary into applied probability