Faculty
Kelly Zamudio
Professor Emerita, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Kelly Zamudio is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and faculty curator of Herpetology at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. Her research interests lie in the fields of population biology, population genetics, systematics, and the genetics of conservation.
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Helena María Viramontes
Professor, Literatures in English
Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories and two novels, Under the Feet of Jesus and Their Dogs Came with Them. A recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, and a United States Artist Fellowship, her short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and her writings have been adopted for classroom use and university study.
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Sofia A. Villenas
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Sofia A. Villenas is interested in how people teach and learn across home, school and community contexts, and how difference is constituted and made consequential in these endeavors.
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Amy Villarejo
Professor Emerita
Amy Villarejo has published widely in cinema and media studies, with research on feminist and queer media, documentary film, Brazilian cinema, Indian cinema, American television, critical theory, and cultural studies.
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Harold van Es
Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Harold van Es is a Professor of Soil and Water Management with extension, research and teaching duties. He works on approaches to precision soil management, with current emphases on a holistic soil health management framework, and a computational tool for precision nitrogen management (Adapt-N) that was recently commercialized.
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Brisa Teutli
Senior Lecturer, Spanish Language
Brisa Teutli's areas of interest include web-enhanced and computer-assisted instruction, material development, teaching methods, learning strategies, language lab operation, teacher training, and study abroad.
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Tammo Steenhuis
Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Tammo Steenhuis’s research is carried out over a trillion-fold scale range, from the transport of micro particles in soil pores to the effect of human interventions in the landscape on transport of water and sediment in large river basins. He is also one of the faculty members leading the dynamic and innovative Soil and Water Group.
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Margaret Smith
Professor, Integrative Plant Science, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Since August 2020, Margaret Smith has served as the director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station and associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research is primarily on field corn, but also includes work on sweet corn.
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Eloy Rodriguez
Professor Emeritus
Eloy Rodriguez is a research scientist of chemical biology, ecology and medicinal chemistry, and toxicology of natural small molecules and glycoproteins from plants and arthropods that are important in ecological and biological interactions and human and animal health and medicine.
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Nilsa B. Maldonado-Mendez
Senior Lecturer, Spanish and Romance Studies
Nilsa Maldonado-Mendez's interests include feminism and religion in Spanish-speaking countries, teaching Spanish to heritage speakers, history, and women writers in the Spanish-speaking Americas.