Our Team
CPC Leadership Team
Matt Hall
Director, Cornell Population Center
Professor, Public Policy and Sociology
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Sociology and Demography from Penn State University, 2010
Research interests: immigration; inequality; residential segregation; population redistribution; spatial demography
Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue
Associate Director, Cornell Population Center
Professor, Global Development
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Rural Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997
Research interests: sociology of education; demography of inequality; demographic transitions in sub-Saharan Africa
Erin York Cornwell
Development Director, Cornell Population Center
Associate Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 2008
Research interests: neighborhood context; health; aging; social networks; social inequality; survey methods; criminal justice
Bryan Sykes
Science Core Director, Cornell Population Center
Associate Professor of Sociology & Public Policy
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Sociology & Demography, University of California – Berkeley
Research interests: general demography, statistical & demographic methods, population health, research methodology, computational methods, law & society, criminology, inequality/social stratification
Vida Maralani
Training Director, Cornell Population Center
Associate Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
Research interests: social inequality; demography; gender; education; health
Sharon Sassler
Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Demography Minor
Professor, Public Policy and Sociology
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
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
Jan Vink
Senior Extension Associate, Program on Applied Demographics
M.S., Econometrics, University of Groningen, 1986
Research interests: applied demographics; population projections; population estimates; state and local demography