What is your area of research? I study the sociology of families and relationships. Specifically, I investigate how gender dynamics in romantic relationships manifest in inequalities at home and in the workplace. In my dissertation, I am examining the process of transitioning from cohabitation into marriage, with a focus on engagement proposals. This work analyzes…

Maxim Shcherbakov is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2018. Maxim Shcherbakov is from Pushchino, Moscow Oblast, Russia and has a PhD in laser physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. He conducts research in the field of nanophotonics in Gennady Shvets’ lab in Applied and Engineering Physics. What is your area of emphasis?…

Luisa Cortesi is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2018. Luisa Cortesi is a Stanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies and Anthropology at Cornell University. What is your degree, field, and hometown? My academic background is somewhat convoluted—not so infrequent for anthropologists. I have a postgraduate degree in Diplomacy…

Josh Strable is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2018. Josh Strable is from rural Iowa and has a PhD in Plant Biology from Iowa State University in Erik Vollbrecht’s lab. He conducts research in the field of plant biology in Michael Scanlon’s lab in the School of Integrated Plant Science. What is…

Laura Giurge is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2018. Laura Giurge is from Baia Mare, Romania, and has a PhD in management from Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is affiliated with the Management and Organizations program at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, in Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business. What…

Daniel Mutyambai is featured as part of Cornell’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2018. Daniel Mutyambai is from Kitui, Kenya and has a PhD in Environmental Science from North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. He conducts research in the field of chemical ecology as an Atkinson Center for Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellow. What is your area of emphasis? I am…

What is your area of research? My dissertation examines the politics of dead bodies and space in 20th century India and Pakistan in order to answer the question: what was the political role of the dead in the articulation of national identities in modern South Asia? Studying both the late colonial and early postcolonial states’…

What is your area of research? I am a Ph.D. candidate in English with minor fields in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies. My research seeks to help develop a vocabulary for discussing race in texts from Renaissance England. This project is tricky because much of what we know and think…

What is your area of research? I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology and I am currently writing my dissertation. My work is concerned with the ways art, media, and performance are used by marginalized communities to make meaning in the world and how the arts are used to illuminate disenfranchised voices.…

What is your area of research?  In general, my area of research concerns cognitive theory and neuroscience, with a specific focus on neuroeconomics and decision-making. Currently, my immediate work focuses on the decision-making and perception of risks within the context of sports, as well as the cognitive and neural effects of concussive and sub-concussive injuries.…