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Faculty
Gali Racabi Receives 2025 Carpenter Advising Award
Cornell Chronicle
Gali Racabi is one of four Cornell faculty members to win a Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, which recognizes the sustained and distinguished contributions of tenure-track faculty and senior lecturers to advising undergraduates.
Avgar, CAROW Awarded Grant to Document Home Care Worker Power
The ILR School and Weill Cornell Medicine have received a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to administer a worker-focused survey of home health aides across the North and the South of the United States.
Forrest Briscoe, who joined the ILR faculty in the fall of 2024, is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations. He teaches and researches organization theory and strategic management.
Kricky Ksiazek, MPA ’13 Honored for Community-Engaged Innovation
Cornell Chronicle
Kricky Ksiazek, Civic Researcher and High Road Fellowship Coordinator at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, is one of 13 faculty members from across Cornell being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year’s Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards.
Santiago Anria came to the ILR School's Department of Global Labor and Work following an assistant professorship in the Department of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Dickinson College. His research focuses on social movements and parties in Latin America.
Russell Weaver analyzes data and builds tools to help the public and policymakers see patterns and make informed decisions around equality and sustainability issues.
Gleeson Book Illustrates What Houston Can Teach US Cities About Immigrant Rights
Cornell Chronicle
In a new book, “Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston,” Shannon Gleeson and co-author Els de Graauw (City University of New York) argue that Houston offers important insights as a city distinct from more established and progressive gateway cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.
WI Faculty Awarded Einhorn Center Fellowship to Publish Research on Domestic Workers
Zoë West, senior researcher for worker rights and equity at Cornell ILR’s The Worker Institute (WI), has been selected as one of the Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year.
CAROW Affiliate Nicola Dell Named MacArthur Fellow
Cornell Chronicle
Nicola Dell has been awarded a 2024 MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her work developing technology interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations, including home health care aides and survivors of intimate partner violence.
James T. Carter received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2023 and has held numerous education and human resource services positions. He joined ILR’s Department of Organizational Behavior in Fall 2023.
Professor Paul Ortiz Featured in ‘Game-Changing’ PBS Series about Latinos
Cornell Chronicle
One of ILR's recently hired professors, Paul Ortiz, served as an adviser and on-camera expert for “American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos,” a three-part docuseries premiering Sept. 27 on PBS.
After 50 years of teaching in the Ivy League, Gary Fields retired this year as the John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor. His work has taken him to many countries, earned him the acclaimed IZA Prize and stretches to 14 pages on his CV.
Cornell Keynotes Podcast: Neurodiversity Inclusion Policies and Practices at Work
Cornell Chronicle
In a new episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Susanne Bruyère, director of the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, joins host Chris Wofford to discuss the growing number of corporate affirmative hiring programs to recruit individuals who are neurodivergent.
John Windmuller created ILR’s first international and comparative relations course in 1951 and taught it for 36 years, inspiring generations of students to think globally.
An ILR emeritus professor has “transformed the government’s capacity to improve the accuracy and availability of vital statistical and data resources,” according to the Association for Computing Engineering.
Matt is fascinated by the law and its relationship to disability and criminal justice. He is an energetic teacher and researcher in Cornell University’s ILR School, and he has taken on roles involving equity in employment.
ILR Faculty, Staff Win 2024 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence
Cornell Chronicle
Four members of the ILR community – RuthAnn Rushmer, James DelRosso, Associate Professor Rebecca Kehoe and Assistant Professor Evan Riehl – were among 20 honorees.
Elizabeth Karns launched Integrated Ethics in Data Science in response to what she viewed as a disconnect between statisticians and the high-powered, high-consequence statistical models they are asked to build.
Four Faculty Receive 2024 Carpenter Advising Awards
Cornell Chronicle
Associate Professor Emily Zitek is one of four Cornell faculty members to receive the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, which recognizes sustained and distinguished contributions of faculty members to advising undergraduates.
Get to know Andrew Wolf, an assistant professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work, whose research centers around how the labor movement and governments are responding to emerging labor market forms such as the gig economy.
Celebrating Cornell Luminaries in Mathematics and Statistics
In honor of Math and Statistics Awareness Month, we’re celebrating luminaries from the last century-plus, like ILRie Phil McCarthy, whose excellence helped establish Cornell as a leader in the field.
Faculty Awarded for Creative, Innovative Community Engagement
Cornell Chronicle
Esta Bigler, director, ILR's Labor & Employment Law Program, has received Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
