House Fellows

House Fellows

House Fellows are active community members affiliated with a specific House in the West Campus House System.  House Fellows contribute to the intellectual and social life of the House through programs, activities, discussions, screenings, workshops, arts events, etc.

christopher
House Fellow

Research in the Alabi lab seeks to understand how the composition and sequence of a macromolecular chain affects its chemical and biological properties with an eye towards engineering effective and affordable biomolecular therapeutics.

christopher
House Fellow

Chris is an agricultural and development economist, the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and an International Professor of Agriculture, at the Charles H.

todd
House Fellow

The garden’s natural areas program stewards 3,600 acres of biologically diverse nature preserves, representing nearly all the natural community types and rarest plant habitats in the central Finger Lakes region.

garrick
House Fellow

Garrick Blalock is an associate professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management where he teaches managerial economics and firm strategy. His research interest is technology adoption in emerging markets.

Kate Bronfenbrenner
House Fellow

Kate Bronfenbrenner is the Director of Labor Education Research and a Senior Lecturer at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations where she does teaching and research on labor, race, and gender, and union and employer strategi

angela
House Fellow

Angela received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Washington in 1989. She is the founding director of the Labor Law Clinic and teaches Labor Law, Practice and Policy as well as related courses.

christa
House Fellow

Christa Downey is inspired by people who pursue their passions through work, service, and hobbies, and is passionate about helping others find ways to connect their strengths and interests through unique opportunities.

Julia Felippe
House Fellow

Julia Felippe is a professor of medicine at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine.

michael
House Fellow

Mike Fontaine wears two hats at Cornell, which he joined in 2004. As a Professor of Classics (the fancy name for the study of ancient Greece and Rome), he investigates Latin literature from ancient Rome through the Renaissance.

Alicia Kenaley, headshot, smiling
House Fellow

Alicia Kenaley was appointed Executive Director of Family and Children’s Service of Ithaca (F&CS) in March 2021.  Prior to joining F&CS, Alicia served as Chief

Andre Kessler
House Fellow

I am a chemical ecologist whose research focuses on the mechanisms, ecological consequences, and the evolution of plant-induced responses to herbivore damage. Conceptually, I study plant secondary metabolism as a vehicle of information transfer.

ryan
House Fellow

Ryan has served as the Vice President for Student & Campus Life at Cornell University since August 2015.

Vivek Matthew headshot
House Fellow

Vivek completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Princeton, after which he worked for almost ten years on Wall Street with a quantitative tradin

scott
House Fellow

Judge Scott Miller is a New York State judge and the senior presiding judge of the Tompkins County Court. He also serves as Acting County Court Judge of the Tompkins County Court. Judge Miller presides over trial level criminal and civil matters.

sean
House Fellow

Sean is a professor in the Department of Policy Analysis & Management (PAM) at Cornell University, the Director of the Sloan Program in Health Administration, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

mary
House Fellow

Mary George Opperman is president of The Opperman Consulting Group, which provides organizational assessments, individual coaching and advising, and a variety of other HR services and assistance.

kenneth
House Fellow

Professor Roberts is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government. He teaches comparative and Latin American politics, with an emphasis on party systems, populism, social movements, and the politics of inequality. He obtained his Ph.D.

shirley
House Fellow

Shirley Samuels was the first House Professor-Dean of Flora Rose House. She is currently the director of American Studies.

sharon sassler in multicolor shirt standing in front of a window
House Fellow

Sharon Sassler received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 1995 and joined the faculty at Cornell University in 2005.

daniel
House Fellow

Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He is a renowned teacher, scholar, and public intellectual.

Amy Somchanhmavong headshot
House Fellow

As Associate Director of Community Service-Learning and Partnership, Amy has dedicated herself to purposeful work that produces lasting impact.

laura
House Fellow

Laura Weiss is the Sexual Violence Prevention Program Director of the SHARE Office in the Skorton Center for Health Initiatives within Cornell Health.

yoon headshot
House Fellow

So-Yeon Yoon is an associate professor of Design and Environmental Analysis and the director of Design-User Experience-Technology (DUET) Research Lab

andrew
House Fellow

Andy is the Executive Director of the Finger Lakes Land Trust - an Ithaca-based non-profit conservation organization that works cooperatively with landowners and local communities to permanently protect undeveloped lands that are important to the