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Field Description

The field of global development offers the master of professional studies (M.P.S.) in global development program. Featuring senior faculty advisors with strong global experience and international reputations, the global development M.P.S. program provides opportunities for critically analyzing development strategies and learning about practices, technologies, approaches, and trends in development worldwide.

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Field Manual

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Degree Programs

Concentrations by Subject

Global Development

• global development

Faculty

Maricelis Acevedo

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: plant pathology, plant breeding

Jenny Carson Aker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Development economics, impact evaluation, agriculture

Yosef Al Shoffe

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Food loss and waste on farm, at harvest, and in postharvest chain; postharvest physiology, biology, and technology; food safety; sustainability.

N'Dri Assie-Lumumba

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: African and African diaspora education; gender issues; family and social structure

Christopher Brendan Barrett

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: development policy; economic analysis

Arnab Basu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: labor markets, crop pricing and adoption, eco-labeling, trade

Andrew Reid Bell

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Focus on rural livelihoods decision-making, using i) games and behavioral experiments to understand what people do and how they consider options, and ii) agent-based models to examine the consequences of these decision strategies at scale.

Aaron Seth Benanav

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Automation, technology, unemployment, informality, alternative economic systems.

Rachel Bezner Kerr

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development

Ho Yan (Nancy) Chau

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: international trade; economic development; regional economics

Debbie J. Cherney

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development

Ralph Dean Christy

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: agricultural economics; development policy

Mark Alexander Constas

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: resilience dynamics, measurement and evaluation design, food and nutrition security

Sarah Nell Davidson Evanega

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests:

Parfait M Eloundou-Enyegue

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: development policy

Julie Ficarra

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Decolonizing international education, University/community partnerships, Culture, society, and development, Refugees and migration

Julia L. Finkelstein

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development

Kathryn Fiorella

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development

Alexander S Flecker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: animal ecology; community and ecosystem ecology; limnology

Sarah Carissa Giroux

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: population and development, fertility, inequality, research methods, stratification and mobility

Jenny Elaine Goldstein

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Political ecology, human-environment geography, Southeast Asia, environmental politics

Miguel I. Gomez

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: food marketing and distribution; supply chain analysis

Siba Grovogui

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: theory, law, globalization, development, political economy

Mario Herrero Acosta

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: food systems, climate change, mitigation, adaptation, farming systems, sustainability, transition pathways

Thomas A Hirschl

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Social stratification; demography; community; theory and research methods

Peter R. Hobbs

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: agronomy; cropping systems; traditional agriculture; research and development in South Asia

Heather J Huson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development

Karim-Aly S. Kassam

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: indigenous rights; sustainable development; gender analysis; climate change

Ndunge Kiiti

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: mobile technology, development communication, public health, agribusiness in emerging markets

Marianne Elizabeth Krasny

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: environmental education, global online learning, civic ecology/environmental stewardship

Sarosh C Kuruvilla

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: collective bargaining; labor law; labor history; Asian industrial relations transformations

Christopher Johannes Lehmann

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: soil fertility and nutrient management; ecosystems ranges from agriculture; agroforestry to forest successions

Lori Leonard

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development

Christine Leuenberger

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Science Studies, Border and Migration Studies, Middle East Studies, Science Policy

Chuan Liao

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Sustainability; Food Systems; Spatial Data Science; Human-Environment Systems

Edward Mabaya

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Agriculture and Rural development, Food Security, Africa, Economic Development

Daniel Mason-D'Croz

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Anticipatory governance, food system transformation, food security, resilience and sustainability, climate action, technology and innovation

John R. Mathiason

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: governance of climate change; internet government

Andrew James McDonald

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: international cropping systems, sustainable intensification, environmental information systems for enhancing decision-making in agriculture

Mark B. Milstein

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Sustainable enterprise, strategic management, market and enterprise development, technology commercialization, sustainability-related finance and investment, social enterprise/entrepreneurship/innovation

Fridah Mubichi-Kut

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Gender & Entrepreneurship Development in Sub-Saharan Africa; Diffusion of Innovation; Monitoring & Evaluation

Muna Baron Ndulo

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development

Rebecca Judith Nelson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: improvement and management of resistance for resource-poor farmers; linking agricultural research and extension

Steven A. Osofsky

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: wildlife: health, conservation; one health; planetary health; biodiversity; sustainable agriculture; rural development; science policy

Scott J Peters

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: community-university engagement; community organizing; democracy, science, and education; history of American higher education; action research; narrative inquiry

Prabhu L. Pingali

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development

Alison G Power

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: agriculture ecology; pest management; ecological interactions between natural and agricultural ecosystems

Marvin P Pritts

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: sustainability of fruit production

Anusuya Rangarajan

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Sustainable vegetable production; small-scale agriculture; urban food systems

Joe Mac Regenstein

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: food chemistry; waste management; religious (kosher and halal) and ethnic foods; fish technology

Syed S H Rizvi

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: engineering and processing of food systems; processing technologies; packaging and international food developments

Todd M. Schmit

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Agribusiness Management, Rural Development, Cooperatives

John W. Sipple

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Sociology of education and communities; policy implementation; rural community vitality; educational and social policy; mixed and quantitative research methods

Rebecca Slayton

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: History of computing; peace and conflict studies; history of science and technology; risk; expertise

Margaret Elizabeth Smith

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: varieties for smallholders farmers; farmer variety selection and conservation; participatory plant breeding; tropical crop production systems

Tammo S Steenhuis

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: innovative ways of integrated watershed management

Erika Styger

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: tropical cropping systems, system of rice intensification, agrobiodiversity, agroecology, agroforestry

Janice E Thies

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: soil microbial ecology

Keith G. Tidball

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: natural resources in post conflict/post disaster, Social - ecological systems resilience, Human - nature interactions and dichotomies, Therapeutic values of conservation and recreation for returning combatants

Terry W. Tucker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: farmer-led innovation; alternative extension approaches and institutional arrangements; diverse partnerships for development

Hale Ann Tufan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: priority setting for plant breeding, gender research, participatory plant breeding

Harold Mathijs Van Es

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: soil and water conservation; precision agriculture; environmental protection

Kurt B Waldman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Areas of interest include judgment and decision making related to climate adaptation, food security, and environmental sustainability. My research draws on the disciplines of decision science, environmental psychology, and environmental science and involves quantitative analysis of social and environmental data.

Mildred Elaine Warner

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: community development; economic development; state and local government policy

Wendy W. Wolford

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: political economy of development; social movements and resistance; agrarian societies; political ecology and conservation; land use; land reform; critical ethnography all in Latin America

Yu Connie Yuan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: intercultural communication, knowledge management

John Aloysius Zinda

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Global Development: global development
• Research Interests: Environmental Sociology; Risk and Disaster; Flood Management; Community; Livelihoods; Agriculture; Land Use Change; Mixed Methods; Spatial Data Analysis; Contemporary China