New faculty

Introducing New Members of the Faculty

To help introduce to the Cornell community the new members of the faculty, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles through December.

Camp

Hochberg

Sherwin

Stroock

Zussman

William G. Camp

Professor, education
College: Agriculture and Life Sciences
Academic focus: Camp has conducted the "National Study of the Supply and Demand for Teachers of Agricultural Education in the United States" since 1985, an important, continuing policy-related study available to education leaders. He conducts research into teacher induction and professional development, and he examines the relationship between theory and both research and professional practice.
Previous position: Professor, agricultural and extension education, and director, Governor's School for Agriculture, 2001-2003, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
Academic background: B.S., 1968, and M.Ed., 1970, agricultural education, both from the University of Georgia; Ed.S., 1975, and Ph.D., 1977, vocational and career development, both from Georgia State University.
Last book read: The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown; currently reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling.

Yael Hochberg

Assistant professor, finance and entrepreneurship
College: Johnson Graduate School of Management
Academic focus: Research and teaching interests are in corporate finance as it pertains to young entrepreneurial firms and the financial intermediaries who fund them. Her research focuses on venture capital, corporate governance, earnings management and compensation policies. Her research papers include work on venture capital and the corporate governance of the newly public firm and firm returns, insider trading and the time-dynamics of earnings management.
Previous position: Teaching assistant and venture capital game administrator, Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Academic background: B.Sc., industrial engineering and management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1997; M.A., economics, Stanford University, 2000; Ph.D., finance, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 2003.
Last book read: Longitudes and Attitudes, by Thomas L. Friedman.

Emily Sherwin

Professor, law
College: Law School
Academic focus: Research and teaching interests are in property, remedies, legal theory, trusts and estates, feminist jurisprudence and legal history. A prolific scholar, she has co-authored (with Larry Alexander) The Rule of Rules: Morality and the Dilemmas of Law (Duke University Press, 2001) and has contributed numerous book chapters, articles and professional papers.
Previous position: Professor, University of San Diego School of Law, where she taught since 1989; former visiting professor at Cornell Law School (1998, 1999-2000), University of Pennsylvania School of Law (1995-96) and Boston University School of Law (1993).
Academic background: B.A., international relations, Lake Forest College, 1977; J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1981.
Last book read: Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown.

Abraham D. Stroock

Assistant professor, chemical and biomolecular engineering
College: Engineering
Academic focus: Fluidic and material systems in which the control of structure and chemistry on microscopic scales leads to interesting behavior and function. For example, he intends to investigate the use of concepts from thermodynamics and colloid science for self-assembling composite materials from microfabricated particles.
Academic background: B.S., physics, Cornell, 1995; M.S., solid state physics, University of Paris, 1997; Ph.D., chemical physics, Harvard University, 2002.
Last book read: The Château, by William Maxwell.

Asaf Zussman

Assistant professor, economics
College: Arts and Sciences
Academic focus: Real exchange rate behavior and historical perspectives on globalization.
Previous position: Doctoral student and instructor, Stanford University, 2002-03.
Academic background: B.A., economics and international relations, 1994, and M.A., economics and international relations, 1998, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ph.D., economics, Stanford University, 2003.
Last book read: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, by William Easterly.

October 23, 2003