What Makes us Human?

Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning, shows how inequality can be tracked across America simply by looking at ZIP codes.

Noliwe Rooks, professor of Africana studies and director of American studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, explains the history of educational inequities in the U.S.

Anna Haskins, assistant professor of sociology in Cornell's College of Arts & Sciences, explores the impact of incarcerated parents on their children’s education.

Carole Boyce Davies, professor of Africana studies and English in the College of Arts & Sciences, explores global racial hierarchies and their remedies.

Jamie Lyn Perry, assistant professor of management and organization in the SC Johnson College of Business, explores power and status in the workplace.

Peter Lepage, Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative, examines how active learning helps students succeed.

Kelly Musick, director of the Cornell Population Center and professor and chair of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, examines persistent inequalities in parenting and the earnings penalties that go along with them.

Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Science, explores how “sociological” storytelling can change health outcomes.

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia examines how climate change causes economic and political upheaval.

Kiowa filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer, assistant professor of performing and media arts at Cornell University, examines how Indigenous stories are misrepresented by the media.