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Program Faculty

• City and Regional Planning 
• Economics 
• Government 
• Human Development 
• Industrial and Labor Relations 
• Law 
• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 
• Natural Resources 
• Nutrition 
• Policy Analysis and Management 
• Science and Technology Studies 
• Sociology
   

 Susan Christopherson
A professor in  the Department of City and Regional Planning, Susan Christopherson's research interests focus on sources of industry restructuring in different national contexts, women's employment, labor flexibility, and contemporary service industries. She teaches CRP 417/517: Economic Development: Firms, Industries, and Regions; CRP 448/548: Social Policy and Social Welfare; and CRP 631: Local Economic Policy - Field Workshop.

Economics

Ravi Kanbur
Ravi Kanbur is the T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and holds joint positions in the Department of Economics and the Department of Applied Economics and Management. From 1989-1997 he was on the staff of the World Bank. His research focuses on public economics and development economics - bridging the worlds of rigorous analysis and practical policy-making. He teaches AEM 667: Topics in Economic Development; and AEM 735: Public Finance: Resource Allocation and Fiscal Policy.


Uri Possen
Uri Possen is a Professor of Economics. His research interests include tax evasion, occupational choices, taxation when markets are incomplete, and social security. He teaches ECON 336: Public Finance: Resource Allocation and Fiscal Policy.

 

Richard E. Schuler
Richard E. Schuler is a a professor of Economics (College of Arts and Sciences) and professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (College of Engineering). He served as the director of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs from 1995 to 2001. His research emphasizes the micro-planning, management, and pricing of infrastructure and utilities, as well as the societal issues of institutional structure, regional economic impacts, and environmental consequences.  He has written extensively on the changing institutional and regulatory needs of the electric industry, including its deregulation. He teaches ECON 354 - The Economics of Regulation and CEE 594/ ECON 494 - Economic Methods for Engineering and Management.

Government

Human Development

Elaine Wethington
An associate professor of Human Development and Sociology, Elaine Wethington is also co-director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center.  Among  other topics, she studies situational determinants of exposure to stress, access to social support, and successful coping. She teaches HD 250/ SOC 250: Families and the Life Course, HD 457/SOC 457: Health and Social Behavior, and HD 685: The Life Course and Health.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Ronald Ehrenberg 
The Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics and a professor of labor economy, Ronald Ehrenberg also directs the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. From 1995-1998 he served as Vice President of Academic Programs, Planning and Budget. His research interests include economic analyses of higher education, incentive effects of compensation policies, and analysis of social programs legislation. He teaches the popular course, ILRLE 648/ ECON 342: Economic Analysis of the University.

Gary S. Fields
Gary S. Fields is the Chairman of the Department of International and Comparative Labor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations; professor of labor economics; and professor of economics. His current research focuses on poverty, inequality, and economic development; economic mobility; employment and earnings dynamics in South Africa; labor market models of developing countries; and labor economics for managers. He teaches ILRIC 635: Labor Markets and Income Distribution in Developing Countries; and ILRIC 730: Research Seminar on Labor Markets and Economic Development.

Robert Hutchens
A professor of labor economics and the associate editor of the ILR Review, Professor Hutchen's research interests include econometrics; economics and economic policy; income distribution and security; occupational segregation; aging and pensions; and social insurance and welfare. He teaches ILRLE 441/ ECON 455: Income Distribution; and ILRLE 642/ ECON 460: Economic Analysis of the Welfare State.

Law

George Hay 
The Edward Cornell Professor of Law and a professor of economics, George Hay came to Cornell after serving as the Director of Economics in the Anti-Trust Division of the Justice Department. He has lectured widely on his research into antitrust law and policy. He teaches LAW 610: Antitrust Law; and ECON 404: Economics and Law.

Muna Ndulo
Muna Ndulo is the Director of the Institute for African Development and a professor of law.  He has served as a legal officer for the UN Commission on International Trade Law. His research interests focus on human rights, legal aspects of foreign investment in developing countries, constitution making, and governance and development.   He has recently consulted on election systems in Bosnia, East Timor, and Afghanistan.  He teaches LAW 657: International Organizations and International Human Rights Institutions; LAW 688: Legal Aspects of Foreign Investment in Developing Countries; and LAW 711: The Common Law in the African Legal Systems.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Zellman Warhaft
Zellman Warhaft is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research centers on fundamental studies of turbulence and turbulent mixing with applications to atmospheric mixing and pollution. He teaches M&AE 400/ 401: Components and Systems: Engineering in a Social Context, and M&AE 501: Future Energy Systems.

Natural Resources

Barbara Knuth
Barbara Knuth is a professor and chairperson in the Department of Natural Resources and co-leader of the Human Dimensions Research Unit. She is currently involved in research with the New York Great Lakes Research Consortium, the New York Sea Grant Institute, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. She teaches NTRES 308: Natural Resources Planning and Management and NTRES 402: Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Processes.

Nutrition

David Pelletier
An associate professor of nutrition policy in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, David Pelletier's research interests relate to food and nutrition problems in developing countries, as well as the roles of risk assessment and public participation in the development of regulations related to genetically engineered foods, dietary supplements, and food fortification in the U.S.  He teaches NS 450: Public Health Nutrition; NS 650: Assessing Food and Nutrition in a Social Context; and NS 651: Food and Nutrition Action in a Social Context.

Rosemary Avery
Rosemary Avery is the chair of the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. Her professional career has focused on public policy as it relates to family formation via adoption of special-needs children, and on the impact of media images on comsumer choice. She teaches PAM 223: Consumer Marketing, PAM 230: Introduction to Policy Analysis, and PAM 323: Consumer Behavior.

Richard Burkhauser
Richard Burkhauser is the Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor and chair of the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. His current research interests include the influence of government policies on the employment behavior and economic well-being of vulnerable groups - low-skilled workers, workers with disabilities and older workers. He teaches ECON 101:  Introductory Microeconomics; and PAM 346/ECON 447: Economics of Social Security.

Don Kenkel
Don Kenkel is a professor of the Department of Policy Analysis and Management and acting director of The Sloan Program in Health Services Administration. He studies the economics of consumer health behavior, including both medical care purchases, and health promotion and disease prevention choices made outside of the medical care sector. He teaches PAM 204: Economics of the Public Sector; PAM 330: Intermediate Policy Analysis; PAM 647: Microeconomics for Management and Policy; and PAM 661: Economics of Health and Medical Care.

Science and Technology Studies

Stephen Hilgartner
Stephen Hilgartner is an associate professor of Science and Technology Studies. His research revolves around issues in biology, ethics, and values and the social studies of biology. He teaches S&TS 490: The Integrity of Scientific Practice, S&TS 645: Genetics: Politics and Society in Comparative Perspective, and S&TS 711/ HIST 711: Introduction to Science and Technology Studies.
 


Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch is a professor of Science and Technology studies. His research interests include biology and society, ethnomethodology and conversational analysis, social theory and philosophy of social science, and the sociology of mental disorders. He teaches S&TS 301/ B&SOC407 - Law, Science, and Public Values; S&TS 625 - Visualization and Discourse in Science; and S&TS 664 - Constructionism in Social Science.

Sociology

Steven Caldwell
Steven Caldwell is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. From 1995-2001, Professor Caldwell served as a member of the CIPA core faculty. He studies large-scale models, microsimulation, life-course choices, and evaluation and policy research. He teaches SOC 303: Design and Measurement; SOC 326/526: Social Policy; and SOC 340: Health, Behavior and Health Policy.