Bryan L. Sykes is an Associate Professor in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. His research focuses on demography, mass incarceration, criminology/deviance, population health, and research methodology. His current work examines shadow costs (hidden financial punishments) in the criminal legal system, and he is leading a field experiment on the effects of economic, socioeconomic, and informational inequality on court-ordered rehabilitation program compliance.  In his free time, he loves to travel, ski, sing karaoke (badly), play board games, learn new words, and compete in intramural sports (softball, volleyball, and kickball).