
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue
Professor; Department Chair; Associate Director, Cornell Population Center
Email:
pme7@cornell.edu
Department of Development Sociology Chair
Courses Taught: DSOC 1101 - Introduction to Sociology
Research Focus: The sociology of education, social change, and the demography of inequality.
Outreach Focus: Strengthening social and demographic research in sub-Saharan Africa.
Courses Taught: DSOC 1101 - Introduction to Sociology
Research Focus: The sociology of education, social change, and the demography of inequality.
Outreach Focus: Strengthening social and demographic research in sub-Saharan Africa.

Courses Taught: DSOC 2010 - Population Dynamics
Research Focus: Workers' self-management, local self-government, new global social movements, and commons.
Outreach Focus: Supporting workers' self-management (research and practice), supporting community projects in Latin America (project evaluation and funding), promoting discussion and practice on commons on a global level with social movements and institutions.
Research Focus: Workers' self-management, local self-government, new global social movements, and commons.
Outreach Focus: Supporting workers' self-management (research and practice), supporting community projects in Latin America (project evaluation and funding), promoting discussion and practice on commons on a global level with social movements and institutions.

Courses Taught: DSOC 4230 - Gender and Health
Research Focus: Reproduction, health and survival, social and cultural impacts on behavior including gender.
Outreach Focus: Evidence-driven advocacy and applied research on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Research Focus: Reproduction, health and survival, social and cultural impacts on behavior including gender.
Outreach Focus: Evidence-driven advocacy and applied research on sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Courses Taught: DSOC 3400 - Agriculture, Food, Sustainability and Social Justice
Research Focus: Sustainable agriculture, food security, health, nutrition and social inequalities.
Outreach Focus: Fostering transformation in food systems through applied research and capacity building with community organizations.
Research Focus: Sustainable agriculture, food security, health, nutrition and social inequalities.
Outreach Focus: Fostering transformation in food systems through applied research and capacity building with community organizations.

Program Manager, Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI)
Research Focus: community development and the use of demographic data for strategic planning and informed decision-making.
Outreach Focus: Informing practice in community development, capacity building, and fostering dialogue across new York state.
Research Focus: community development and the use of demographic data for strategic planning and informed decision-making.
Outreach Focus: Informing practice in community development, capacity building, and fostering dialogue across new York state.

Research Focus: Spatial inequality, political economy of rural and regional development, social mobility and demographics.

Director, Cornell Institute for Climate Smart Solutions (CICSS)
Research Focus: stakeholder beliefs and actions, climate change adaptation policies and local climate action plans, and the effectiveness of climate change policies and governance mechanisms.
Outreach Focus: Cooperative Extension teams that are developing resources and tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Research Focus: stakeholder beliefs and actions, climate change adaptation policies and local climate action plans, and the effectiveness of climate change policies and governance mechanisms.
Outreach Focus: Cooperative Extension teams that are developing resources and tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Mary Jo Dudley
Senior Extension Associate; Director, Cornell Farmworkers Program
Email:
farmworkers@cornell.edu
Director, Cornell Farmworker Program
Courses Taught: DSOC 3060 - Farmworkers: Contemporary Issues and Their Implications
Research Focus: Farmworker contributions, farmworker perceptions about life in their new communities, farmworker empowerment, and gender and participation.
Outreach Focus: Addressing the needs of farmworkers and their families in New York State.
Courses Taught: DSOC 3060 - Farmworkers: Contemporary Issues and Their Implications
Research Focus: Farmworker contributions, farmworker perceptions about life in their new communities, farmworker empowerment, and gender and participation.
Outreach Focus: Addressing the needs of farmworkers and their families in New York State.

Coordinator, Undergraduate Education Minor
Courses Taught: EDUC 3110 - Educational Psychology, EDUC 4040 - Engaging Youth in Learning
Outreach Focus: Using university class projects as a tool to facilitate transformations in student education across American schools.
Courses Taught: EDUC 3110 - Educational Psychology, EDUC 4040 - Engaging Youth in Learning
Outreach Focus: Using university class projects as a tool to facilitate transformations in student education across American schools.

Courses Taught: DSOC 1100 - Perspectives on International Agriculture and Rural Development, DSOC 3130 - Social Indicators and Introduction to Social Science Research
Research Focus: intersection of demography and inequality in the modern world, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
Outreach Focus: Strengthening social and demographic research in sub-Saharan Africa.
Research Focus: intersection of demography and inequality in the modern world, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
Outreach Focus: Strengthening social and demographic research in sub-Saharan Africa.

Courses Taught: DSOC 3020 - Political Ecologies of Health
Research Focus: Environmental conservation and development in the tropics; intersections of data infrastructure and land governance; human health impacts of ecological change.
Outreach Focus: Contributing to critical geographical knowledge-making in southeast Asian conservation practice.
Research Focus: Environmental conservation and development in the tropics; intersections of data infrastructure and land governance; human health impacts of ecological change.
Outreach Focus: Contributing to critical geographical knowledge-making in southeast Asian conservation practice.

Classes Taught: DSOC 1101 - Introduction to Sociology, DSOC 3700 - Comparative Social Inequalities
Research Focus: social stratification, class and poverty, demography and youth development
Outreach Focus: Addressing poverty and economic hardship in the southern tier, creating publicly accessible educational tools for better understanding poverty risk.
Research Focus: social stratification, class and poverty, demography and youth development
Outreach Focus: Addressing poverty and economic hardship in the southern tier, creating publicly accessible educational tools for better understanding poverty risk.

Research Focus: sustainable and resilient community development, participatory community design, service learning.
Outreach Focus: Co-learning and participatory processes for urban planning, landscape architecture, and place-making in upstate New York.
Outreach Focus: Co-learning and participatory processes for urban planning, landscape architecture, and place-making in upstate New York.

Program Manager, Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI)
Research Focus: Land use planning, energy transition, community and economic development.
Outreach Focus: Informing and advising New York state communities on Land Use Planning, Community Energy Choices, and Community and Economic Development.
Research Focus: Land use planning, energy transition, community and economic development.
Outreach Focus: Informing and advising New York state communities on Land Use Planning, Community Energy Choices, and Community and Economic Development.

Director, Polson Institute for Global Development
Courses taught: DSOC 2030 - Global Garbage
Research Focus: development projects as propositions about how to live and as modes of governing, the movement of waste.
Outreach Focus: Working with local organizations and student groups to focus on issues of food waste in Tompkins county.
Courses taught: DSOC 2030 - Global Garbage
Research Focus: development projects as propositions about how to live and as modes of governing, the movement of waste.
Outreach Focus: Working with local organizations and student groups to focus on issues of food waste in Tompkins county.

Courses Taught: DSOC 3010 - Theories of Society and Development, DSOC 6030 - Classical Sociological Theory
Research Focus: History and theory of uneven and combined development, society-nature relations, development trajectories in Northeast Africa.
Outreach Focus: Collaborations with universities in Northeast Africa to develop frameworks for understanding and addressing development issues in the region.
Research Focus: History and theory of uneven and combined development, society-nature relations, development trajectories in Northeast Africa.
Outreach Focus: Collaborations with universities in Northeast Africa to develop frameworks for understanding and addressing development issues in the region.

Courses Taught: DSOC 2050 - International Development, DSOC 6060 - Sociological Theories of Development
Research Focus: Food regimes, agrarian and food sovereignty movements, the implications of land grabbing and bio-fuels for food systems.
Outreach Focus: Working with the civil society mechanism for relations to the UN Committee on World Food Security.
Research Focus: Food regimes, agrarian and food sovereignty movements, the implications of land grabbing and bio-fuels for food systems.
Outreach Focus: Working with the civil society mechanism for relations to the UN Committee on World Food Security.

Program Manager, Rust2Green Utica and the Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI)
Research Focus: Strategies communities can use to cultivate a commitment civic engagement, a sense of place and a sense of community, among citizens, particularly young people.
Outreach Focus: technical assistance and collaborative research, trainings, tools, and resources to assist with community and economic development goals.
Research Focus: Strategies communities can use to cultivate a commitment civic engagement, a sense of place and a sense of community, among citizens, particularly young people.
Outreach Focus: technical assistance and collaborative research, trainings, tools, and resources to assist with community and economic development goals.

Courses Taught: EDUC 2410 - The Art of Teaching, EDUC 3350 - Youth Organizations and Leadership Development, EDUC 4010 - Special Methods of Instruction in Agricultural Science Education, EDUC 4050 - Perspectives in Collegiate Teaching and Learning
Research Focus: Discovering the variations in emergency preparedness as it relates to community resiliency in the upstate counties of New York.
Outreach Focus: Supporting the NY Agricultural Education teachers and their students state-wide.
Research Focus: Discovering the variations in emergency preparedness as it relates to community resiliency in the upstate counties of New York.
Outreach Focus: Supporting the NY Agricultural Education teachers and their students state-wide.

Courses Taught: DSOC 4400 - Community Food Systems Capstone, DSOC 4820 - Agents of Change: Community Organizing for the Public Good, DSOC 6820 - Community Organizing and Development
Research Focus: Community-based processes of research, civic studies, and advancing democratic varieties of public engagement in the academic profession.
Outreach Focus: Action research providing opportunities and resources for people and organizations to reflect on and learn from their public engagement work and experiences.
Research Focus: Community-based processes of research, civic studies, and advancing democratic varieties of public engagement in the academic profession.
Outreach Focus: Action research providing opportunities and resources for people and organizations to reflect on and learn from their public engagement work and experiences.

Executive Dean, Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Research Focus: Community development, international migration, agricultural labor, rural labor markets, land use and environmental planning.
Outreach Focus: Advising on water-related issues in New York State.
Research Focus: Community development, international migration, agricultural labor, rural labor markets, land use and environmental planning.
Outreach Focus: Advising on water-related issues in New York State.

Director, Community Learning and Service Partnership program (CLASP)
Classes Taught: EDUC 2200 - Introduction to Adult Learning, EDUC 2210 - Methods and Contexts of Adult Learning: Leading and Teaching with Purpose
Research Focus: Learning cities, organizational change, instructional design.
Outreach Focus: Adult education through the CLASP program.
Classes Taught: EDUC 2200 - Introduction to Adult Learning, EDUC 2210 - Methods and Contexts of Adult Learning: Leading and Teaching with Purpose
Research Focus: Learning cities, organizational change, instructional design.
Outreach Focus: Adult education through the CLASP program.
Deputy Executive Director, The Rural Schools Association (RSA) of New York State
Research Focus: Translation of evidence to issue-relevance for schools at local, state, and national level.
Outreach Focus: Extension with the NY Rural Schools program and RSA of NYS.
Research Focus: Translation of evidence to issue-relevance for schools at local, state, and national level.
Outreach Focus: Extension with the NY Rural Schools program and RSA of NYS.

Classes Taught: DSOC 2710 - America's Promise: Social and Political Context of American Education, DSOC 4700 - Schools, Community and Policy Reform, DSOC 4710/6710 Quantitative Research Methods
Research Focus: responses of public school districts to changes in state and federal policy, socio-economic impacts of changes to education systems.
Outreach Focus: Working with the New York State Education Department on applied research to diagnose and respond to issues in school districts.
Research Focus: responses of public school districts to changes in state and federal policy, socio-economic impacts of changes to education systems.
Outreach Focus: Working with the New York State Education Department on applied research to diagnose and respond to issues in school districts.

Executive Director, LEAD NY
Research focus: Social capital building effect of leadership development initiatives, including network development and community capacity building.
Outreach Focus: Leadership-related workshops in addition to the administration of the LEAD New York Program.
Research focus: Social capital building effect of leadership development initiatives, including network development and community capacity building.
Outreach Focus: Leadership-related workshops in addition to the administration of the LEAD New York Program.

Courses taught: DSOC 6150 - Qualitative Research Methods
Research Focus: Family formation, attitudes and experiences surrounding fertility in the US and the Philippines, overseas labor migration.
Outreach: Applied research on flood risk in new York state.
Research Focus: Family formation, attitudes and experiences surrounding fertility in the US and the Philippines, overseas labor migration.
Outreach: Applied research on flood risk in new York state.

Vice-Provost of International Affairs, Cornell University
Research Focus: political economies of development, social movements and resistance, agrarian societies, political ecology, land use, land reform, and critical ethnography,
Outreach Focus: Supporting and coordinating the emancipatory rural politics initiative (ERPI) and their programs.
Research Focus: political economies of development, social movements and resistance, agrarian societies, political ecology, land use, land reform, and critical ethnography,
Outreach Focus: Supporting and coordinating the emancipatory rural politics initiative (ERPI) and their programs.

Courses Taught: DSOC 3140 Spatial Thinking, GIS, and Related Methods, DSOC 3240 - Environmental Sociology, DSOC 6210
Foundations of Environmental Sociology
Research Focus: how state policies and community practices intersect to shape livelihoods and landscapes in contexts of agricultural development programs, afforestation efforts, biodiversity conservation, tourism operations, and labor migration.
Outreach Focus: Applied research on flood risk in new York state, social science collaborations in cash crop projects in China.
Foundations of Environmental Sociology
Research Focus: how state policies and community practices intersect to shape livelihoods and landscapes in contexts of agricultural development programs, afforestation efforts, biodiversity conservation, tourism operations, and labor migration.
Outreach Focus: Applied research on flood risk in new York state, social science collaborations in cash crop projects in China.