Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty, the Cornell Chronicle will be publishing a series of brief, new-faculty profiles each week during the semester.

Teresa M. Gunn

Assistant professor, genetics
College: Veterinary Medicine
Academic focus: Research in developmental and physiological genetics using mouse pigmentation as a model system to study fundamental aspects of mammalian biology, particularly attractin and melanocortin signaling pathways.
Previous position: Postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Gregory Barsh, Stanford University Medical Center.
Academic background: B.Sc., biology, McGill University, 1990; Ph.D., genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1996.

Michael Jones-Correa

Associate professor, government
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Inter-ethnic conflict, negotiation and coalition building in U.S. urban areas; institutional approaches to urban politics and intergovernmental relations; immigrant naturalization and political mobilization; social movements; racial and ethnic identity in the United States.
Previous position: Associate professor, Harvard University, 1998-2000; visiting scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1998-99.
Academic background: B.A., political science, Rice University, 1987; Ph.D., politics, Princeton University, 1994.

Raymond R. Swisher

Assistant professor, policy analysis and management
College: Human Ecology
Academic focus: Swisher's work focuses on life-course research. Specifically, he examines how neighborhood, school and other social contexts influence educational outcomes and problem behavior during adolescence and the transition to adulthood. Particular attention is directed to the role of exposure to neighborhood violence and disorder. He also is interested in identifying the conditions under which social capital within the family and community promotes resilience among disadvantaged youth.
Previous position: Research associate, Bronfenbrenner Life Course Institute, Cornell, 1999-2001; postdoctoral fellow, National Consortium on Violence Research, 1999.
Academic background: B.A., urban geography, 1988, and M.C.R.P., city and regional planning, 1990, both from Ohio State University; and M.A., sociology, 1996; and Ph.D., sociology, 1999, both from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

C. Annique Un

Assistant professor, management and organizations
College: Johnson Graduate School of Management
Academic focus: Research focuses on areas of strategic and international management, knowledge and innovation capability development for competition.
Previous position: Doctoral student and instructor, technology and innovation processes, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Academic background: B.B.A., finance and B.A., Japanese studies, University of Notre Dame, 1992; MBA, finance, University of Notre Dame, 1993; Ph.D., strategy and international management, Sloan School of Management, MIT, 2001.

September 27, 2001