Florio Arguillas
f0a2@cornell.edu
Marie Joy Arguillas
mba6@cornell.edu
Emme Edmunds
ee59@cornell.edu
My research interests relate to exploring the barriers to Midwifery practice in New York State, and also to exploring the social barriers to, and promoters of, family planning funding and access in the US and India.
In the long term, I am working toward understanding the interplay between family planning utilization and environmental sustainability.
Sarah Giroux
sh104@cornell.edu
Broadly, my research interests reside in the areas of inequality, sociology of education and fertility. My thesis, “Competing for Urban Jobs:The Changing Significance of Education, Family Resources, and Rural Bias in a Developing Setting “, examines rural-urban inequality in educational and occupational attainment in Cameroon, while current work with my committee chair, Professor Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, is focused on fertility inequality among African countries.
Vongai Kandiwa
vk30@cornell.edu
My research focuses on the demography and sociology of inequality within sub-Saharan Africa. In line with this focus, my Masters thesis documented trends in between-country inequality within sub-Saharan Africa. I am extending this research to investigate inequality within countries. This work will follow two directions that involve (1) examining the disequalizing influences of demographic change and development projects and (2) assessing the buffering from informal institutions such as child fosterage. I focus on childhood inequality, which I see as a double lens that reflects previous inequality and projects future inequality. My field work will cover several countries, including participation in a multi-disciplinary project in Zambia where I explore change in wellbeing associated with rapid economic change in rural communities.
Fatou Jah
fj21@cornell.edu
Deladem Kusi-Appouh
dnk7@cornell.edu
Research Interests: adolescent sexual and reproductive health; sexually transmitted diseases/infections; gender and sexuality; intergenerational health communication and culture; population and development.
Languages: English, French, Ashanti (fluent); Spanish (proficient)
Naoko Mizuno
nm38@cornell.edu
Bharat Pathak
brp6@cornell.edu
Degrees earned: BS, BE, MPS
International development experience: Former Yugoslavia, Republic of Georgia, Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Kyrgyz Republic.
Research interest: Migration and Development
Current area of research: Migration and Agricultural land policies in the Kyrgyz Republic, Central Asia, former Soviet Union.
