Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and holds a joint appointment with the Brooks School of Public Policy. 

Geographic Research Area: South Asia, Brazil, Tanzania, Somalia, Nigeria, and the United States.

Teaching/Research Interests: William Lodge is a behavioral and social scientist specializing in HIV primary and secondary prevention, focusing on gender and sexual minority health both domestically and internationally. While his work has primarily focused on South Asia, he has also worked on projects in Brazil, Tanzania, Somalia, Nigeria, and the United States.

Patchen Markell is a political theorist and historian of social and political thought whose research and teaching focuses on European (especially German-language), North American, and transatlantic politics, culture, and philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His interests include the power and limits of the idea of democracy; the intersections among geopolitics, capitalism, and racial hierarchy in the postwar world; and the connections among politics, art, aesthetics, and literature.

Mark A. Sarvary lectures in biology and science communication at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. His research focuses on evidence-based teaching practices and student-centered pedagogical methods in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). He directs the Investigative Biology Teaching Laboratories, where students learn experimental design, the scientific process, science literacy, and communication. He is the founding faculty advisor of the Science Communication and Public Engagement undergraduate minor.

Aleksandr Michuda is an assistant research professor at the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. He studies how machine learning and big data can be used to solve problems in development economics. He is particularly interested in the role of ride-share applications in transforming the labor market in emerging markets. He has worked with various corporate partners to make rigorous and policy-relevant research.

Richard Geddes researches the funding, financing, permitting, operation, and maintenance of heavy civil and social infrastructure, with a focus on the adoption of new technologies. His research has examined networkwide road pricing, infrastructure resilience, and innovative infrastructure financing via public-private partnerships.

Geddes is the founding director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) in the Brooks School of Public Policy.

Timur Dogan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and the director of the M.Arch. Program and the Environmental Systems Lab. Dogan holds a Ph.D. from MIT, an MDES from Harvard GSD, and a Dipl. Ing. in Architecture with distinction from the TU Darmstadt, Germany. Dogan's research aims to accelerate building decarbonization in the North American and European context through educational programming and strategic research at the intersection of design, computer science, building performance simulation, and urban geospatial analysis.

Julia Chang is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies, a member of the core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Southeast Asia Program. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Language and Literatures with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Chang has also taught courses at Brown University and San Quentin State Prison with the Prison University Project (currently Mount Tamalpais College).

Mari Jarris works across German- and Russian-language literature and theory, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their research areas include feminist and queer theory, transnational socialisms, and Critical Theory. They are currently completing a book manuscript, Utopia as Revolution: Marxism’s Queer Pasts and Futures.

Maria C. Taylor is a historian and theorist of landscape design, environmental relations and international urban planning. Taylor was awarded her PhD at University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), where she received the Distinguished Dissertation in Architecture Award for her 2019 dissertation on Soviet urban environmental design. Taylor also earned a Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington and a MA in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University.