Nancy H. Chau's research interests fall under three main areas: international trade, regional economics, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the economics of information and uncertainty.

Caitlín Eilís Barrett is an archaeologist who investigates everyday life, religious experience, and cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean. Her most recent book, Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (Oxford University Press, 2019), is the first book on Egyptian imagery in Roman domestic contexts.

Valerie Bunce's research focuses on democratization, authoritarianism, state-building, state collapse, and U.S. foreign policy and its support of democratic and authoritarian regimes.

Ralph Dean Christy teaches and conducts food marketing research and educational programs on the economic performance of markets and distribution systems. He has advised industry leaders and public policymakers on food marketing strategies, economic development, and the organization of the global food economy. 

Chip Gagnon is a professor of politics at Ithaca College and an affiliated scholar at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. His research focuses on ethnic conflict, political demobilization, democracy promotion, the politics of the former Yugoslavia and its successor states, and how images of a dangerous outside world are used as a domestic political resource. 

Terry Tucker is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Global Development. He serves as Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the MPS – Global Development program. His teaching and outreach work focuses on smallholder agriculture, especially farmers' adaptation to change, as well as their roles in research, innovation and social learning processes. He also collaborates on institution strengthening initiatives with universities and post-secondary educational institutions in South and Southeast Asia, particularly initiatives related to outreach and multi-institution dev

Alexander Travis is director of the Master of Public Health program in the College of Veterinary Medicine. His research explores a diverse set of subjects related to one health: interdisciplinary work that links the functions and well-being of people, animals, and the environment. His interests include animal health and fertility, as well as efforts to help alleviate poverty and hunger in developing countries, work that indirectly benefits local wildlife. 

Annalisa Raymer directs the Community Learning and Service Partnership (CLASP). She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.

Robin Radcliffe is an associate professor of practice in wildlife and conservation medicine. His research focuses on infectious disease investigation for the rare Indonesian rhinos.

Susan McCouch's research focuses on rice and includes publishing the first molecular map of the rice genome in 1988. She spent five years with the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines before joining the Cornell faculty.