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Core Faculty

The core faculty is the heart of the CIPA structure. It serves as both the academic foundation and the central policy-making body of the program. With broad representation from across the university, the core faculty brings an academic richness to CIPA that transcends disciplinary boundaries. With a former dean, two former department chairs, three former program directors, and four former directors of graduate study, it also brings an extraordinary amount of university administrative experience to the program. The breadth and depth of their professional experience outside the university contributes greatly to the pragmatic nature of their teaching.

 

Richard Booth, Professor of City and Regional Planning
Nancy Brooks, Visiting Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning
Nancy Chau, Associate Professor of Applied Economics and Management
Gary Fields, Professor of Labor Economics
Ralph Dean Christy, Professor of Emerging Markets
Neema Kudva, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning
Daniel P. Loucks, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Theodore J. Lowi, John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions
Kathryn S. March, Professor of Anthropology
Norman Uphoff, Professor of Government
Jerome M. Ziegler, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management

Richard Booth
J.D. George Washington University , 1972
Professor of City and Regional Planning 

117 Sibley Hall
607.255.4025
RSB6@cornell.edu

Richard Booth is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. He teaches the core foundation course CRP 6012: Legal Aspects of Public Agency Decision-Making. A lawyer by training, he specializes in land use and environmental law, critical area preservation, environmental politics, and regional land-use planning. He joined Cornell as a faculty member in 1977. From 1991 to 1995, Booth served as a member of the New York State Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Commission. He was elected alderperson on the City of Ithaca ’s Common Council in 1985 and served for a decade, including six years as chair of the city’s Budget and Administration Committee. In 2001, he was elected to the first of two four-year terms on the Tompkins County Legislature (he was again elected in 2005). However, in November, 2007, he resigned from the county legislature in order to take a position on the eleven-member New York State Adirondack Park Agency, which holds major responsibilities regarding the use and protection of the six million–acre Adirondack Park in northern New York . Booth was appointed to the agency by New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer. In many ways, his service on the Adirondack Park Agency is the continuation of a journey he began a long time ago, having served as a lawyer on the agency’s original staff from 1972 to 1975. In addition, from 1975 to 1977, he served as a lawyer for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, rising to the position of assistant counsel dealing with land-use affairs. Professor Booth is currently writing a book dealing with the failure of American politics to confront a rising tide of global environmental problems. He received his J.D. from George Washington University in 1972 and his bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1968.

 

 Nancy Brooks
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania , 1995
Visiting Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning

212 Sibley Hall
607.255.2186
NB275@cornell.edu

Nancy Brooks’s research centers on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical microeconomics with an emphasis on environmental and urban/regional economics. Her focus is multidisciplinary, overlapping with geography, regional science, and sociology. Specifically, she is interested in the implications, for equity and efficiency, of various types of ‘externalities’—instances where the costs or benefits of an economic transaction are imposed on someone who is not part of the transaction. Prior to coming to Cornell, Professor Brooks was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at the University of Vermont (U.V.M.). At U.V.M., she was active in service-learning teaching on the topic of local economic development and is currently co-editing the Oxford University Press Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning. She has published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Journal of Economic Education. Professor Brooks teaches the CIPA core foundation courses CRP 5120: Microeconomics for Public Policy and Administration , and CRP 5450: Inferential Statistics for Planning and Public Policy . She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.

 

Nancy Chau
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1995
Associate Professor of Applied Economics and Management   

212 Warren Hall
607.255.4463 | 607.255.9984 (fax)
HYC3@cornell.edu
Nancy Chau is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Management. She brings faculty leadership to the international component of CIPA. In an increasingly globalized world, students seek expertise in international trade and the global flow of information, a need addressed by Professor Chau’s extensive background in international economics. Her research interests lie in three main areas: international trade, regional economics, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the economics of information and uncertainty. Recent research focuses on index measurement of trade restrictiveness that accounts for second-best argumentation of trade policies, market-based approaches to foster labor and environmental standards via international trade, and the impact of direct farm payments and import barriers on export promotion. She was the recipient of a 2007 Humboldt Research Fellowship and spent the year in Bonn , Germany , researching globalization and labor markets in developing countries. She has published widely, including articles in International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Labor Economics, Brookings Trade Forum, and European Economic Review. Professor Chau teaches the CIPA core foundation course, AEM 4300: International Trade Policy. She received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1995.



Ralph Dean Christy
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1980
Professor of Emerging Markets and Director of Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development (CIIFAD)

31 Warren Hall
607.255.0831
RDC6@cornell.edu

In addition to serving as a professor of emerging markets in the Department of Applied Economics Management, Ralph Christy is the director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD). He teaches and conducts food marketing research and educational programs on the economic performance of markets and distribution systems. He has worked as an agricultural economist in Hungary, South Africa, Cameroon, Jamaica, Kenya, Slovakia and Zimbabwe. He served as president of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1995-96 and is currently on the board of Winrock International, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and the African Agribusiness Capital Fund. Professor Christy earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University in 1980 and joined the Cornell faculty in 1991. In 2007 he was awarded the Kaplan Fellowship Award through the Cornell Public Service Center. He teaches the CIPA core foundation course AEM 4420—Emerging Markets. This course also serves as the cornerstone of the CIPA concentration in International Development.

Kieran Donaghy
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987
Professor of City and Regional Planning

315 W. Sibley
607.254.4865 
KPD23@cornell.edu

Kieran Donaghy is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, where he currently serves as chair. In his teaching, research, and subsequent publications, Professor Donaghy often focuses on constructing, estimating, and simulating nonlinear dynamic systems models to test theoretical propositions, evaluate policy interventions, and support planning decisions. Much of this work has been of an applied nature, addressing such issues as housing, transportation, land use, the physical environment, employment, public finance, climate change and migration.

A prolific writer and editor, Professor Donaghy is currently editing the Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning along with two colleagues, including fellow CIPA core faculty member Nancy Brooks. In addition, he is working with four Cornell faculty members on a three-year research project to investigate the impact of freight movement evolution on regional air quality.

Gary Fields
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1972
Professor of Labor Economics, ILR School

270 Ives Faculty Building
607.255.4561 | 607.255.4496 (fax)
GSF2@cornell.edu

Professor Fields teaches and conducts research on labor economics, workplace management and development economics for the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), the Department of Economics, and The Johnson School.  He teaches the CIPA core foundation course ILRLE 5400: Labor Economics.  Named one of the 25 most widely-cited economists under the age of 40, Professor Fields has served as a consultant for a variety of organizations including Deloitte and Touche and Citigroup.  A prolific writer and researcher, he has published more than 100 books and articles.  His book Retirement, Pensions, and Social Security was designated an outstanding book of the year by Princeton University.  He is the recipient of numerous grants from international organizations including the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank.  Most recently, he served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on International Labor Standards. 

 
 

Robert Harris, Jr.
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Director of the Africana Studies and Research Center
Professor of Africana Studies
211 Africana Studies and Research Center
607.255.8536 
RLH10@cornell.edu

Robert Harris Jr. has been a professor of African-American history at Cornell since 1975. The vice provost for diversity and faculty development from 2000 to 2008, he was recently reappointed director of the Africana Studies and Research Center (ASRC) for a five-year term; he previously served in this capacity from 1986 to 1991.

Professor Harris is interested in how African-Americans have come to their current cultural, socio-economic and political position in the United States; how they have coped with enslavement, segregation, discrimination and poverty; and how they have developed the rich heritage that has challenged and improved the country. His course ASRC 3304—African American History: From Booker T. Washington to Barack Obama will serve as a foundation course in the area of Administrative, Political and Policy Processes. “This class examines human and civil rights, as well as public policy during the 20th century,” says Harris.

The author of more than 50 academic articles and book chapters, Harris’ most recent book is The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939, co-edited with Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. He received his PhD in US history from Northwestern University.

Neema Kudva
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning

217 W. Sibley
607.255.3939 
NK78@cornell.edu

Neema Kudva, an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, is trained as an architect and a planner with both U.S. and international expertise. Her research focuses on institutional structures for planning and development, particularly the role of NGOs in political and economic change, and on urbanization processes in the global South with an emphasis on rapidly growing small cities and towns. Current projects include a study of transformations in a small urban region in southwestern coastal India, and a collaborative research/internship project focused on urban livelihoods and shelter in three African cities with Mercy Corps, an international NGO. She has published widely in both books and journals, and is the co-editor (2005, with Lourdes Beneria) of Rethinking Informalization: Precarious Jobs, Poverty, and Social Protection ( Ithaca : Internet First University Press). Professor Kudva teaches the course, CRP 6150: Current Issues and Debates on NGOs. She received her Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001, and masters degrees in both city planning and architecture from Berkeley in 1993.


Daniel P. Loucks

Ph.D. Cornell University, 1965

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

311 Hollister Hall

607.255.4896

DPL3@cornell.edu

Daniel (Pete) Loucksteaches and directs research in the application of economic theory, ecology, environmental engineering, and systems analysis methods. A professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, he has been a research fellow at Harvard University and a visiting professor at numerous universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the universities of technology in Aachen, Germany, and Delft, The Netherlands. Professor Loucks served as an economist at the Development Research Center of the World Bank, a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria , and as a consultant for various international organizations and government agencies including the U.N. and NATO, on issues related to natural-resource management and regional development. Professor Loucks teaches the CIPA core foundation course, CEE 6930: Public Systems Modeling. He received his M.A. in forest management from Yale University and his Ph.D. in environmental systems engineering from Cornell University .

 

Theodore J. Lowi
Ph.D. Yale University, 1961
John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions
Professor of Government and American Studies

115 White Hall
607.255.6205 | 607.255.4530 (fax)
TJL7@cornell.edu

Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions and a professor in the Department of Government, taught at the University of Chicago before coming to Cornell. He has contributed significantly to the study of politics in areas including political theory, public-policy analysis, and American political institutions. He has written or edited a dozen books, among them The Pursuit of Justice with Robert F. Kennedy (1964). His 1985 book, The Personal President—Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled, won the 1986 Neustadt prize for the best book published on the presidency. He is co-author of one of the leading American government texts, American Government—Power and Purpose, 10th ed. (1990, 2008). His most widely cited book is The End of Liberalism (1969,1979). Professor Lowi was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1977), and served as president of the International Political Science Association from 1997 to 2000. He is also a past president of the American Political Science Association and the Policy Studies organization. In 2006, he was awarded the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Lowi teaches the CIPA core foundation course, GOVT 7281: Government and Public Policy. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1961.

 

Kathryn S. March
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1979
Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology
Professor of Anthropology

224 McGraw Hall
607.255.6779 | 607.255.3747 (fax)
KSM8@cornell.edu

Kathryn S. Marchis a professor in the departments of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She has worked on questions of anthropology, gender, and social change in Himalayan Asia since 1973. Her present interests in the political and economic pressures on local ethnic communities have evolved directly from earlier commitments to understanding how society and culture interact through time, and how individual’s lives are framed within these contexts, with particular reference to gender, women’s lives, and social justice. She has done research across much of north-central Nepal , among Sherpa and, especially, Tamang communities there. Professor March founded and continues to supervise the Cornell–Nepal Study Program, a joint research and training initiative with the national Tribhuvan University ; she has led CIPA’s involvement with this program. Her writings include a book on gender and development, a multi-authored bilingual cross-cultural diary, and a new book on women’s life histories and song compositions. In 2004, she was the recipient of Cornell’s Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award. She also received a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Research Award, and grants from the U.S. Department of Education; the National Science Foundation; the Woodrow Wilson, Mellon, and Fulbright Foundations; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Cornell University in 1979.


Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1969
J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy
305 Savage Hall
607.255.9429 | 607.254.8505 (fax)
PP94@cornell.edu

Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy; he shares a joint appointment with the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Department of Applied Economics and Management.

In 2001, Pinstrup-Andersen was awarded the World Food Prize for his contribution to the improvement of agricultural research, food policy, and the lives of the poor. Widely considered the Nobel Prize of the agricultural world, this award came as a result of his work at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC, where he served as director general from 1992 to 2002. There he launched the 2020 Vision Initiative, which is credited with bringing about policies and programs that have reduced the hunger and suffering of more than 8 million people.

At Cornell, Pinstrup-Andersen’s research interests are focused on government policy related to food, nutrition, and agriculture. Currently, he is examining the impact of globalization on the nutritional status of low-income people in developing countries. He is also interested in the impact of agricultural research and technological change on poverty and nutrition in developing countries.



Photo of Professor UphoffNorman Uphoff 
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1970
CIPA Acting Director
Professor of Government and International Agriculture
 
292 Caldwell Hall
607.255.0177

Norman Uphoff is a professor in the Department of Government and the former director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development. His work has focused on development administration, irrigation management, local participation, and strategies for broad-based rural development. His current development interests have expanded beyond the social sciences to include agro-ecology and particularly the system of rice intensification. His numerous publications include two books co-authored with Warren Ilchman, The Political Economy of Change (1969) and The Political Economy of Development (1972). Other books include Puzzles of Productivity in Public Organizations (1992), Local Institutional Development (1986), and Reasons for Success: Learning from Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (1997). His most recent book is an edited volume on Biological Approaches to Sustainable Soil System (2006). He has served on USAID’s Research Advisory Committee and the South Asia Committee of the U.S. Social Science Research Council, and has been a consultant for the World Bank, USAID, the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, and other agencies. Professor Uphoff teaches the CIPA core foundation course, GOVT 6927: Planning and Management of Agricultural and Rural Development. He received his M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1966, and his Ph.D. in political science, public administration, and development economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970.

 
 
Jerome M. Ziegler 
Professor Emeritus
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
 
392 Caldwell Hall
607.255.9347 | 607.255.5240 (fax)
JMZ4@cornell.edu 

Jerome Ziegler is a professor emeritus in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management and former dean of the College of Human Ecology. He is interested in ethics and public-policy leadership, professional development for public school officials, urban education, and urban social/economic development. He has served as a public administrator at the federal, state, and local levels. He is a former commissioner of higher education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and former chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania State Colleges and University. His current research investigates why students drop out of high school and the effects of raising the minimum age for leaving high school in New York State. He is also examining the prospects for reform in American education. Professor Ziegler teaches the CIPA core foundation courses, PAM 6310: Ethics, Public Policy in American Society, and PAM 6320: The Intergovernmental System: Analysis of Current Policy Issues. He earned his M.A. in political science and anthropology from the University of Chicago and did his doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.


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