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
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
CPC Advisory Committee Members
Victoria Beard
Professor, Associate Dean of Research, Department of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D., Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia
Research interests: comparative urbanization and international development planning
Peter Enns
Robert S. Harrison Director, Cornell Center for Social Sciences
Executive Director, the Roper Center
Professor, Government
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007
Research interests: public opinion, representation, mass incarceration and inequality
Tristan Ivory
Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Labor Relations
Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University
Research interests: sub-Saharan African geographic, social, and economic mobility
Douglas Miller
Professor, Public Policy and Sociology
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 2000
Research interests: social policy; economic environment and health outcomes.
Kelly Musick
Professor, Public Policy and Sociology
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
Research interests: family demography; social inequality; public policy
Nicholas Sanders
Associate Professor, Public Policy and Sociology
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Davis
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Research interests: environmental policy and regulation, environmental quality, and health
Seth Sanders
Professor, Public Policy and Department of Economics
Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 1993
Research interests: labor economics and econometrics; population research
Richard Stedman
Professor and Department Chair, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
Ph.D., Sociology and Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interests: the challenges that rapid social and ecological changes pose for the sustainability of forested ecosystems, watersheds, and human communities