Brooks Graduate Field Faculty

Amanda Agan
aya34@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Brooks & Economics
crime policy, labor markets, discrimination

Sule Alan
sa2428@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Economics
education, education and social policy evaluations, human and social capital formation and gender

Rosemary Avery
rja7@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks
adolescents, at-risk children or youth, foster care, child welfare, consumer behavior, pharmaceutical advertising, regulation

Colleen Barry
cbarry@cornell.edu
Inaugural Dean of Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
health policy, mental health, addiction, and gun violence

Christopher Barrett
cbb2@cornell.edu
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
dab465@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Brooks & Government
democratic institutions, legislatures and political rights, ideas and ideologies of democracy, race, and racism

Michèle Belot
mb2693@cornell.edu
Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics
applied microeconomics, with a special interest in experimental work in areas related to labour, health and education

Kendra Bischoff
kb536@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Sociology
segregation, education, income inequality

Nicolas Bottan
nicolas.bottan@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, Brooks & Economics
public finance, behavioral economics, labor economics, urban economics and economics of education

Colleen Carey
cmc528@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Brooks & Economics
industrial organization of health care, health economics

John Cawley
jhc38@cornell.edu
Professor; Director of Cornell in Washington, Brooks & Economics
economics, health economics, health policy, public policy, obesity

Benjamin Cornwell
btc49@cornell.edu
Professor, Sociology
social networks, health, social stratification

Erin York Cornwell
eyc46@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Sociology
neighborhoods, law, health, aging, social networks

Moon Duchin
md68@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Mathematics
discrete geometry and randomized models, with applications to the study of voting and democracy

Rachel Dunifon
red26@cornell.edu
Dean of the College of Human Ecology, Professor, Psychology & Brooks
child and family policy, social policy, maternal employment, welfare reform, grandparents, children’s living arrangements

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue
pme7@cornell.edu
Professor, Department of Global Development & Brooks
global inequality, food security, youth employment, sustainable development

Peter Enns
peterenns@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Government
public opinion, representation, criminal justice system, survey research, time series analysis

Maria Fitzpatrick
mdf98@cornell.edu
Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Brooks & Economics
public economics, labor economics, child education

Gustavo Flores-Macias
gaf44@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Government
the politics of economic reform, and taxation and state capacity

William Lodge
wl766@cornell.edu 
Assistant Professor, Brooks
health equity, gender and sexual minority health, global health & policy, and behavioral and social health interventions

Ellen Lust
eml256@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Government
social institutions, local authorities, governance

Richard Geddes
rrg24@cornell.edu
Professor & Director CPIP, Brooks & Economics
infrastructure investment, public-private partnerships, transportation policy, postal service, corporate governance, women’s property rights

Shannon Gleeson
smg338@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & ILR
bureaucracies and workplace protections, worker rights, labor unions and other community organizations, play in advocating on their behalf

David Just
drj3@cornell.edu
Susan Eckert Lynch Professor in Science and Business, Dyson School & Economics
applied economics and policy, food and agricultural economics

Max Kapustin
kapustin@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, Brooks & Economics
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
dsk10@cornell.edu
Andrew Dickson White Professor, Brooks & Economics
health economics, public health, tobacco control, cost-benefit analysis

Philipp Kircher
pk532@cornell.edu
Professor, Economics
labor economics

Cathy Kling
clk228@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Applied Economics and Management
environmental, energy and resource economics and policy

Sarah Kreps
sarah.kreps@cornell.edu
Professor, Director Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Center, Brooks & Government
international relations, international conflict and cooperation, alliance politics, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

Douglas L. Kriner
kriner@cornell.edu
Professor, Faculty Director Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, Brooks & Government
American political institutions and the separation of powers, US foreign policy, science and health policy

Sadé Lindsay
sll228@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, Brooks & Sociology
criminal justice, punishment, racial inequality, and public policy

Pauline Leung
pleung@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, Brooks & Economics
public economics, labor economics, public policy

Michael Lovenheim
mfl55@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Economics
economics of education, local taxation and regulation, cigarette and alcohol taxes and regulation on health outcomes

Vida Maralani
vm343@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Sociology
social inequality, demography, social stratification

Alan Mathios
adm5@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Economics
advertising, food and drug administration, federal trade commission, health outcomes, health disparities, cigarettes, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, direct-to-consumer advertising, cigarette taxes

Jamila Michener
jm2362@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Public Engagement, Director of Cornell Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures, Brooks & Government
American politics; poverty and inequality; public policy; political participation; race and ethnic politics; urban politics

Douglas Miller
dlm336@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Economics
public economics, labor economics, applied microeconometrics, economic environment and health outcomes

Kelly Musick
musick@cornell.edu
Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Research, Brooks & Sociology
family demography, marriage, fertility, social class, inequality

Sean Nicholson
sn243@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Economics
health economics, pharmaceuticals, physicians

Jeff Niederdeppe
jdn56@cornell.edu
Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, Co-Director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, Brooks & Communications
communication, public health, health policy, health disparities

Sheila Olmstead
solmstead@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks
environmental economics, environmental policy, water pollution, climate change, water scarcity, market-based policy instrument

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
ao332@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Brooks & Applied Economics and Management
environmental, energy and resource economics and policy, food and agricultural economics, international and development economics and policy, quantitative modeling, climate change

Eleonora Patacchini
ep454@cornell.edu
Professor, Economics
urban economics, labor economics, law and economics, political economy, policy evaluation, public policy

Zhuan Pei
zp53@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Brooks & Economics
labor economics, applied econometrics, public policy

Thomas Pepinsky
pepinsky@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Government
comparative politics and political economy, emerging market economies in Southeast Asia

Karl Pillemer
kap6@cornell.edu
Professor, Psychology, Sociology, & Weill Cornell Medicine
gerontology, life course studies, sociology of the family, long-term care, public policy, translational research

Adriana Reyes
amr454@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, Brooks & Sociology
family demography, health disparities

Michael Richards
michael.richards@cornell.edu
Professor; Director, Sloan Program in Health Administration, Brooks & Weill Cornell Medicine
health care provider responses to public policies and evolving market environments. structure and delivery of public insurance programs, health care workforce issues

Rachel Beatty Riedl
rbeattyriedl@cornell.edu
Professor, Director of Center on Global Democracy, 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
er488@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Economics
labor economics, development economics, education

Peter Rich
pmr86@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, Brooks & Sociology
segregation, education, inequality, demography

David Sahn
des16@cornell.edu
Professor, Nutritional Sciences & Economics
health economics, nutrition and poverty

Nicholas Sanders
njs224@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Brooks & Economics
environmental economics, health economics, labor economics, environmental policy

Seth Sanders
ss3977@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Economics
labor economics and econometrics with a specialization in population research

Sharon Sassler
ss589@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Sociology
family, adolescents, gender issues, marriage, cohabitation, immigrants, relationships, young adult transitions

Bryan Sykes
bls244@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Brooks & Sociology
demography, criminology, mass incarceration, global population health, social inequality, law & society, and research methodology

Laura Tach
lmt88@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Sociology
poverty & public policy; family demography; neighborhood inequality & housing

Sharon Tennyson
st96@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Economics
consumer policy, government regulation, insurance, financial services, law and economics

Chantal Thomas
ct343@cornell.edu
Professor, Brooks & Law
law and development and international economic law

Maureen Waller
mrw37@cornell.edu
Professor, Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Brooks & Sociology
poverty, family, social policy

Kim Weeden
kw74@cornell.edu
Professor, Sociology, Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality
education, income inequality, gender inequality in labor markets, social class

Eleanor Wilking
ew473@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, Law & Economics
tax administration, particularly questions concerning individual income and consumption tax structuring, distribution, and compliance

Cristobal Young
cristobal.young@cornell.edu
Associate Professor, Sociology
tax policy, economics sociology, big data, quantitative methods