CSI : Faculty Affiliates

Name	Title(s)	Research Interests
John Abowd personal site	Director, Cornell Institute of Social and Economic Research Edmund Ezra Day Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Labor Economics	Longitudinal Employer and Labor Market Household Data, International Comparisons of Compensation and Employment Systems, Econometrics of Labor Market Analysis
Chris Anderson personal site	Professor, Dept. of Government	Welfare state policies, Political behavior
N'Dri Assie-Lumumba personal site	Professor, Dept. of Education; Africana Studies and Research Center	Comparative and International Education, Human Resource Planning, African History, Gender and Development, Sociology and Development Theory, Household Economics, Higher Education, Sociology and Education, Educational Policy, African Women and Development
Christopher Barrett personal site	Co-Director, Cornell African Food Security and Natural Resources Management Program Professor, Dept. of Applied Economics and Management	International Development, Environmental and Resource Economics, International Trade, Markets and Price Analysis, Agricultural Production and Distribution, Applied Econometrics
Alaka Basu personal site	Professor, Dept. of Developement Sociology	Population Studies, Reproductive Health and Family Planning, Gender and Development, Child Health and Mortality, Culture and Demographic Behavior
Kaushik Basu personal site	Director, Cornell Program on Comparative Economic Development C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Dept. of Economics	Economic Development, Economic Theory, Industrial Organization, Political Economy
Rosemary Batt personal site	Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations	Strategic Human Resource Management, Service Sector Productivity and Competitiveness, Work Organization and Teams, and Labor Market Analysis
Lourdes Beneria personal site	Director, International Studies and Planning Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning	Gender and Development, Labor Markets, Women's Work, Globalization, European Integration, and Latin American Development
John Bishop personal site	President, Education Excellence Alliance Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Human Resource Studies	Education and Workforce Preparedness, Government Training Programs, Income Maintenance Policies
Francine Blau personal site	Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations	Labor Economics, Economics of Gender, Economics of Discrimination, Wage Inequality, Immigration
Lawrence Blume personal site	Professor, Dept. of Economics	Economic Theory, Game Theory, Statistical Discrimination
Vernon Briggs, Jr. personal site	Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Human Resource Studies	Immigration Policy, Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market, Employment and Training Policy, Labor Force Composition and Trends, Rural Labor Markets
David Brown personal site	Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	Spatial Inequality, Rural-Urban Migration in the United States, Spatial Inequality in Post-Socialist Central Europe
Richard Burkhauser personal site	Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis and Chair, Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management	Social Security Transfer Programs, Public Policy Effects on the Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations
Steven Caldwell personal site	Associate Professor Emeritis, Dept. of Sociology	Large-Scale Models, Life Course Choices, Microsimulation, Evaluation and Policy Research
Marianella Casasola personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Development	Infant cognitive development, early word learning
John Cawley personal site	Associate Professor , Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management	Health economics
Stephen J. Ceci personal site	The Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology, Department of Human Development	Alternatives to Psychometric Theories of Intellectual Development, Bio-Ecological Theory of Intelligence, Ecological Models of Cognitive Development; Translation of Social Science Research into Public Policy, Public Interest Research
Susan Christopherson personal site	Professor, Dept. of City and Regional Planning	Social Policy and Social Welfare, Urban Theory and Spatial Development, Industrial Restructuring
Shelley Correll personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Gender, Social Psychology, Sociology of Education, Social Stratification, and Methods
Milton S. F. Curry personal site	Associate Professor of Architecture and Theory, Department of Architecture	Relationships among architecture, culture, and cultural identity; Economic theory and urban planning paradigms; The role of architectural space in shaping identities; Urbanism and Inner City America
Rachel Dunifon personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management	Family Structure and Child Well-being, Influence of Public Policies on Children and Parents, Food Insecurity
David A. Dunning personal site	Professor, Dept. of Psychology	Accuracy and Illusion in Human Judgement, Accuracy and Error in Eyewitness Testimony
Paul Eberts personal site	Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	Politics and Economics of Communities and Regions, Sociological Theory, Political Economy, Research Methods and Analytic Techniques on Social Indicators and Local Government Fiscal Conditions
Ronald Ehrenberg personal site	Director, Cornell Higher Education Research Institute Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics	Economics of Higher Education, Protective Labor Legislation and Social Insurance Programs, Employee Benefits and Compensation Policies
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	Schooling and Post-schooling Outcomes, Population Trends and Development, Human Fertility, Socioeconomic Inequalities and Change
Peter Enns personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Government	Public opinion, Representation, and Quantitative research methods
Gary Evans personal site	Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor Professor, Depts. of Design and Environmental Analysis and of Human Development	Environmental stress, Children's environments (e.g. schools, daycare, housing), the Environment of poverty, Environmental attitudes and behaviors in children
Shelley Feldman personal site	Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	Political and Economic Sociology, International Feminisms, State Formation, Sociology of "Third World" States, Feminist Epistemology, Rural Economy and Society, Comparative Social Inequality
Gary Fields personal site	Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Labor Economics; Department of Economics	Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Development; Labor Market Models of Developing Countries; Economic Mobility in the United States and France; Microeconomics of Income Distribution; Employment and Earnings Dynamics in South Africa; Personnel Economics
Robert Frank personal site	Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management; Johnson Graduate School of Management; Dept. of Economics	Applied Economics
Matthew Freedman personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Labor Economics	Compensation and Employee Benefits, Discrimination, Employment contracts, Incentives and performance, Industry Studies, Innovation, Labor Economics, Labor force composition and market trends, Wage differentials and inequality, Other Expertise: Labor mobility
Charles Geisler personal site	Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	Land Reform, Property and Community, Social Impact Assessment, Technology and Society, New Formulations of Property and Community
Paul Gellert personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	Natural Resource Extraction, Trade and Development in Local and Global Economies; the Role of the State in International, National, and Sub-National Contexts; Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia
Nina Glasgow personal site	Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Development Sociology	Sociology of Aging, Community Sociology
Jennifer Glass	Professor, Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management	Work and Family Life, Employment Behavior of Women With Children, Employment and Family Effects on Mental Health
Michael E. Gold personal site	Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Law History	Labor and Employment Law, Equality and Employment Discrimination Law, Ethics at Work
Angela A. Gonzalez personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept of Development Sociology	Development Sociology and American Indian Studies
Davydd Greenwood personal site	Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology Director, Institute for European Studies	Action Research, Political Economy, Universities as Forms of Work Organization
Douglas Gurak personal site	Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	International Migration and Immigration Processes, Life Course Processes With a Special Focus on U.S. Ethnic Groups, Determinants of Fertility and Mortality Change in Developing Countries
Martine Haas	Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, School of Industrial and Labor Relations and Department of Sociology	Organizational Knowledge, Power and Elites in Organizations, Groups and Teams, Public and Non-Profit Organizations, International Organizations
Kevin Hallock personal site	Professor of Labor Economics and of Human Resource Studies	Compensation, job loss and firm outcomes, labor economics
Stephen Hamilton personal site	Associate Provost for Outreach Professor, Dept. of Human Development	Ecology of Adolescent Development, Informal Teaching and Learning in Apprenticeship, Workplace Socialization, Community Service
David Harris personal site	Deputy Provost and Vice Provost for Social Sciences Director, Institute for the Social Sciences Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Race and Ethnicity, Stratification, and Public Policy
Douglas Heckathorn personal site	Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Formal Theory, AIDS Prevention Research, Collective Action, Policy Analysis, Organizations, Social Psychology, Quantitative Methods
Ronald Herring personal site	Professor, Dept. of Government	Comparative Politics, South Asia, Political Economy, Development, Environmental Politics
Thomas Hirschl personal site	Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	Social Class
Elizabeth Hirsh personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Stratification, Work and Organizations, Employment Discrimination, Quantitative Methods
Robert Hutchens personal site	Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Labor Economics	Labor Economics, Social Insurance and Public Assistance, Public Finance, Applied Econometrics, Older Workers, Welfare
Alice M. Isen personal site	Professor of Psychology, S.C. Johnson Professor of Marketing	Influence of affect on consumer decision making, functioning in work or organizational settings, doctors' diagnostic processes and interactions with patients.
Kirabo Jackson personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Labor Economics	Economic Development, Economics of higher education, Education (organizations and systems), Labor Economics, Peer effects, Policy and analysis
George Jakubson personal site	Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Labor Economics	Labor Supply and Earnings, Economic Effects of Transfer Programs, Labor Market Transitions, Evaluation of Social Programs and Legislation, Income Distribution and Security, Statistical Theory and Methods
Michael Jones-Correa personal site	Associate Professor, Department of Government	Immigrant Naturalization and Political Mobilization, Racial and Ethnic Politics and Identity, Inter-ethnic Relations in US Metropolitan Areas
Lawrence Kahn personal site	Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations	Occupational Segregation and Discrimination, Race and Gender Wage Inequalities, Unions and Collective Bargaining, Labor Force Composition, Econometrics, Labor Markets in Professional Sports
Ravi Kanbur personal site	Director, Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, Dept. of Applied Economics and Management; Dept. of Economics	Public Economics, Agricultural Economics, Development Economics
Harry Katz personal site	Dean, School of Industrial and Labor Relations	Transformation of American Industrial Relations, Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry, Worker Participation, Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining, Industrial and Work Restructuring, Worker Training
Mary Katzenstein personal site	Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies; Professor, Government Department and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program	Politics of India, Politics of Incarceration, Race, Gender, Social Movements.
Mary Kritz personal site	Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Development Sociology	Gender Systems and Reproduction, Determinants and Consequences of International Migration to Industrialized Countries
Edward Lawler personal site	Dean, School of Industrial and Labor Relations Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Organizational Behavior; Dept. of Sociology	Group Processes, Social Psychology, Organizations, Social Exchange, Negotiations
Daniel T. Lichter personal site	Director, Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center Ferris Family Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management	Family Welfare Incentives, Patterns of Marriage and Cohabitation in American Society
Risa Lieberwitz personal site	Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Labor Law	Employment Discrimination Law, Worker and Union Member Rights, National Labor Relations Board, Freedom of Speech and Due Process, Arbitration
David B. Lipsky personal site	Director, Cornell/PERC Institute on Collective Resolution Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Collective Bargaining	Conflict Resolution, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Collective Bargaining, Education Reform, Employment and Labor Policy, Labor Market Analysis
Michael Macy personal site	Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Computational Modeling; Collective Action; Game Theory; Deviance, Conformity and Social Control; Social Exchange Theory; Rational Choice
Fouad Makki personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	Social power, Economic systems and cultural forms, Comparative and historical perspective of development processes
Elizabeth Mannix personal site	Professor of Management and Organizations, Johnson Graduate School of Management Director, Center for Leadership	Negotiation, Teams, Leadership, Power and Influence in Organizations
Kathryn March personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Women's Studies, and Asian Studies Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Anthropology	Gender, Buddhism, Gender Imagery, Life Histories, The Ethnohistorical Construction of Gender Relations
Biddy Martin personal site	Provost	Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German Literature and Culture, Feminist Theory
Jordan Matsudaira personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management	Effects of Education, Health, and Welfare Policies on the Behavior and Well-being of Vulnerable Populations
Philip McMichael personal site	Professor and Chair, Dept. of Development Sociology	Politics of Globalization, Anti-Globalization Movements, Global Agri-Food System Restructuring
Suzanne Mettler personal site	Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, Dept. of Government	Inequality and American Politics, Public Policy, Political Participation, Race, Gender, Citizenship
George Milkovich personal site	Martin P. Catherwood Professor of Human Resource Management, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Human Resource Management Research Director of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies	Managing Total Compensation, International Human Resource Management, Social Contract and the Workplace
Richard Miller personal site	Professor, Dept. of Philosophy	Social and Political Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Ethics
Michele Moody-Adams personal site	Director, Cornell Program on Ethics and Public Life Professor, Dept. of Philosophy	Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Feminist Philosophy, History of Philosophy From Descartes to Kant, Applied Ethics
Stephen Morgan Director personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Social Stratification, Sociology of Education, Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methodology
Viranjini Munasinghe personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology; Dept. of Asian Studies	Caribbean, Asian Diaspora in the New World, Race, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Plantation Societies
Victor Nee personal site	Director, Center for the Study of Economy and Society Goldwin Smith Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Theory, Economic Sociology, Ethnicity and Immigration, Comparative Development, Transitions from State Socialism
Christine Olson personal site	Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences	Nutritional Concerns of Women, Infants, and Children
Anthony D. Ong personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Human Development	Stress and Emotions, Resilience and Life Course Development, Ethnic Minority Mental Health
Emily Owens personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management	Government regulation of criminal activity
H. Elizabeth Peters personal site	Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management	Effect of Child Support and Paternity Establishment Policies on Father Involvement and the Transition to Fatherhood, Welfare Reform and Child Care Choices, Welfare Reform and Child Maltreatment
Max Pfeffer personal site	Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology;	Conflicts of Interests and Ideas in Modern Society, Social Action
Karl Pillemer personal site	Professor, Dept. of Human Development	Sociology of Aging and the Life Course, Family, Social Networks, Aging and Health Policy
Trevor Pinch personal site	Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Sociology	Economy and Society, Social Psychology, Social Science and Technology
Kenneth Roberts personal site	Professor, Dept. of Government	Comparative politics; Latin American politics and political economy; democratization, party systems; labor and social movements
Quinetta M. Roberson personal site	Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Human Resource Studies	Justice Climate Emergence Processes, The Role of Fairness in Human Resource Management, Climates for Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations, Strategic Diversity Management
Brian Rubineau personal site	Assistant Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Organizational Behavior Department	Discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion, Occupational segregation, Occupations and Professions, Organizations, Peer effects, Wage differentials and inequality, Women in the workplace, Other Expertise: Social networks and Modeling, Social dynamics
David Sahn personal site	Director, Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program Professor of Economics, Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Economics	Health and Education Policy in Developing Countries, Economic Growth and Changes in Nutritional Status and Living Standards, Government Policy and Programs in Reducing Poverty and Malnutrition
Sharon Sassler personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management	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, Relationship Progression in Interracial Relationships
Henry Shue personal site	Professor of Ethics and Public Life, Dept. of Government Professor, Dept. of Philosophy	Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Policy, World Hunger and U.S. Development Assistance, The Moral Significance of National Boundaries, Nuclear Deterrence, Global Environment and International Justice, Intervention and Sovereignty
John Sipple personal site	Associate Professor, Department of Education	Sociological and Political Functions of the American Educational System; Equity Implications of Local, State, and Federal Policy; School Organization and Reform.
Sarah A. Soule personal site	Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Social Movements and Collective Action, Political Sociology, Organizations
Katherine Stone personal site	Professor of Law, Cornell Law School Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Dispute Resolution, Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations	Labor and Employment Law and Policy, Legal History, Dispute Resolution
David Strang personal site	Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Political Sociology, Organizations, Models and Methods for Dynamic Processes
Sidney Tarrow personal site	Maxwell Upson Professor of Government, Dept. of Government; Dept. of Sociology	Comparative Politics, Social Movements, Political Parties and Collective Action, Political Sociology
Erik Thorbecke personal site	Emeritus Babcock Professor of Economics and Food Economics, Economics Department, Division of Nutritional Sciences	Economic and Agricultural Development; Impact of Macroeconomic and Agricultural Policies and Projects on Food Consumption; Determinants of Poverty and Income Distribution
Pam Tolbert personal site	Professor and Chair, Dept. of Organizational Behavior, School of Industrial and Labor Relations	Formal Structure of Organizations, Organiztional Change Processes, Organizations and Social Stratification, Occupations
Norman Uphoff	Director, Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development (CIIFAD) Director, International Agriculture Program Professor, Dept. of Government	Politics of Rural Development, Administration of Agricultural and Rural Development, Public Policy Analysis, Agrarian Change in South Asia, Socio-Technical Aspects of Irrigation, Ethics in Development, Political Economy of Power, Rural Development
Nicolas van de Walle personal site	Director, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies The John S. Knight Professor of International Studies Professor, Dept. of Government	Comparative politics; Political Economy of Development, with a special focus on Africa; on Democratization, and on the Politics of Economic Reform.
Maureen Waller personal site	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management	Low-income Fathers and Families; Welfare and Child Support Policy; Qualitative and Mixed Methods; Cultural Sociology
Kim Weeden personal site	Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of Sociology	Social Stratification, Social Demography, Organizations, Gender
Elaine Wethington personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Medical Sociology, Sociology of the Family, Gender and Life Course
Andrew Willford personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology	Sociocultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Political Economy, Globalization, Symbolism, Religious Revivalism
Linda Williams personal site	Associate Professor, Dept. of Development Sociology	Population Dynamics, Development Sociology; Sociology of the Family; Gender and Global Change; Life Course; Area Focus - Southeast Asia
Frank Young personal site	Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Development Sociology	Structural Theory of Development