Introducing new members of the faculty

Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the university's faculty -- almost 60 new tenured or tenure-track faculty members have joined Cornell since July 1, 1999 -- the Cornell Chronicle will publish brief, new-faculty profiles each week for the rest of the semester.

William Y. Arms

Professor, computer science
College: Engineering, Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Special interest in digital libraries and digital publishing as an alternative to conventional journals. Working with the Library of Congress on ways to collect, maintain and distribute the growing mass of material being created in digital form. Last year he was chair of the National Science Foundation's workshop on a National Digital Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education.
Previous position: Vice president, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Reston, Va.; vice president for computing services, Carnegie Mellon University.
Academic background: B.A., mathematics, Balliol College, Oxford University, 1966; M.Sc., operational research, London School of Economics, 1967; and Ph.D., operational research, University of Sussex, 1973.

J.S. Butler

Professor, policy analysis and management
College: Human Ecology
Academic focus: Economics, specifically econometrics, with a special interest in policy analysis. Butler has worked on labor economics, finance, macroeconomics and related topics.
Previous position: Professor, economics, Vanderbilt University.

Academic background:B.A., economics, Rice University, 1973; M.A., economics, 1980; and Ph.D., economics, 1982, Cornell.

David Grusky

Professor, sociology
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: As the head of a new Center for the Study of Social Inequality that Cornell is establishing, Grusky brings a long-standing interest in studying the structure of social inequality, with special focus on inequalities of class, gender and race. His two books are Social Stratification: Class, Race and Gender in Sociological Perspective and Social Differentiation and Social Inequality (with Donald Treiman and James Baron).
Previous position: Professor, sociology, Stanford University.
Academic degrees: B.A., Reed College, 1980; M.S., sociology, 1983; and Ph.D., sociology, 1987, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Elizabeth "Beta" Mannix

Associate professor, organizational behavior
College: Johnson Graduate School of Management
Academic focus: Her research focuses on multi-party, international and cross-cultural negotiations and decision making; coalition formation within teams; and power dynamics. She is the faculty director of the Johnson School's new Center for Leadership in Dynamic Organizations.
Previous position: Associate professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University.
Academic background: B.A., psychology, Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1983; and Ph.D., social and organizational psychology, University of Chicago, 1989.

Quinetta M. Roberson

Assistant professor, human resource studies
College: Industrial and Labor Relations
Academic focus: Organizational justice and diversity and recruitment.
Previous position: Ph.D., management and organization, University of Maryland, College Park, 1999.
Academic background: B.S., finance and accounting, University of Delaware, 1992; and MBA, finance and strategic planning, University of Pittsburgh, 1993.

Praveen Sinha

Associate professor, accounting
College: Hotel Administration
Academic focus: Examining the role of analysts' forecasts in capital markets; forecasting ability of financial analysts; the properties of analysts' forecasts during regulatory events; and econometric modeling.
Previous position: Assistant professor, accounting, College of Business Administration, University of Cincinnati.
Academic background: B.A., mathematics and psychology, Lucknow University, India, 1979; M.A., psychology, Lucknow University, 1981; M.Phil. 1991 and Ph.D., accounting and policy analysis, 1992, Carnegie Mellon University.

September 16, 1999