Cornell Academic Leadership Series
The Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity hosts the Cornell Academic Leadership Series for tenured faculty holding leadership positions, such as chairs and associate deans, and those aspiring to advance into leadership positions.
Meeting several times a semester, the Academic Leadership Series gives participants opportunities to engage with university leaders discussing such topics as strategic planning, funding a university enterprise, career pathways, and managing conflict. Each session is designed with an action-learning pedagogy.
Participants are nominated by their deans and may self-nominate with their chair and dean’s approval. Nominations for the 2025-26 academic year will be available in March 2025.
Listed below are participating faculty:
2024 Participants
Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Jeff Niederdeppe, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development; Co-Director, Cornell Center for Health Equity, and Professor of Communication, Department of Communication, CALS
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Lori Leonard, Chair and Professor, Department of Global Development
Drew Margolin, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
College of Arts and Sciences
Christy Goodale, Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Environmental Science, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Deborah Starr, Chair and Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
Thorsten Joachims, Associate Dean for Research, and Jacob Gould Schurman Professor, Department of Computer Science
Fred Schneider, Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Eva Tardos, Chair and Jacob Gould Schurman Professor, Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Christopher A. Alabi, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Ilana Brito, Associate Professor, Mong Family Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in Biomedical Engineering, Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Jonathan Butcher, Professor, Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Chris Schaffer, Professor, Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Zhiting Tian, Associate Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
David P. Williamson, Professor, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and Information Science
College of Human Ecology
Angela Odoms-Young, Associate Professor, Division of Nutritional Science, College of Human Ecology; Director, Food and Nutrition Education in Communities Program; and Director, New York State Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
ILR School
Shannon Gleeson, Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Labor Relations, Law and History, and Chair, Department of Global Labor and Work, and Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy
SC Johnson College of Business
Suzanne Shu, John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and Dean of Faculty and Research
College of Veterinary Medicine
Paula Cohen, Professor of Genetics; Director, Center for Reproductive Genomics and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
Diego Diehl, Associate Professor in Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Science, and Director, Animal Health Diagnostic Center
2023
Brooks School of Public Policy
Kelly Musick, Senior Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Public Policy and Sociology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Robin Dando, Associate Professor of Mycology, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant Microbe Biology Section
Lee Humphreys, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication
Siu Sylvia Lee, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Corrie Moreau, Martha N. and John C. Mosser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity
Linda Nicholson, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Havs and James M. Clark Director, Office of Undergraduate Biology
Gregory Peck, Associate Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Sustainable Fruit Horticulture Section
Jocelyn Rose, Professor and Director, School of Integrative Plant Science
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Paul Ramirez Jonas, Professor and Chair, Department of Art
College of Arts and Sciences
Gustavo A. Fores-Macias, Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs, and Professor of Government and Public Policy
Chiara Formichi, Associate Professor and H. Stanley Krusen Professor of World Religions, Department of Asian Studies
Courtney Roby, Associate Professor, Department of Classics
Kim Weeden, Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Director, Center for the Study of Inequality
Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
Alexandra Silva, Professor, Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
Jeffrey Varner, Professor, Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
College of Human Ecology
Yasser Gowayed, Lau Family Professor and Chair, Department of Human Centered Design
College of Veterinary Medicine
Renata Ivanek, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Praveen Sethupathy, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Alexander J. Travis, Chair, Department of Public & Ecosystem Health; Director, Master of Public Health Program, and Professor of Reproductive Biology
SC Johnson College of Business
Li Chen, Breazzano Family Term Professor of Management, Area chair and Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management
2021
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Caroline O’Donnell, Edgar A. Tafel Associate Professor of Architecture and Chair, Department of Architecture
College of Art and Sciences
Dan Barbash, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Tara Holm, Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics
Tamara Loos, Professor and Chair, Department of HIstory
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Sahara Byrne, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Strategic Programs, and Professor, Department of Communication
Carmen Moraru, Professor and Chair, Department of Food Science
Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
David Bindel, Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences
College of Engineering
Lena F. Kourkoutis, Associate Professor, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, and Rebecca Q. and James C. Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
Sarah Hormozi, Associate Professor, Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
José F. Martinez, Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Academic Affairs, and Lee Teng-hui Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chris Xu, IBM Professor of Engineering and Director, School of Applied Engineering and Physics
SC Johnson College of Business
Glenn Dowell, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Shanjun Li, Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy;Director of the Graduate Studies Program, Faculty Co-Director of the Cornell Institute for China Economic Research
Cornell Tech
Matthew D’Amore, Associate Dean for Professional Programs, and Professor of Practice, Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School
Mukti Khaire, Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of the Practice
Moor Naaman, Professor of Information Science, and Associate Dean for Technical Progams