CAU Faculty

Meet our faculty

Cornell faculty design and teach every CAU experience, from education vacations around the globe, to on-campus CAU Summer seminars.

Jim Alexander

Professor of Physics and Director of the Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics

CAU Study Tour 2022: Switzerland: Einstein, Art & a Visit to CERN

Warren D. Allmon

Hunter R Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology and Director of the Paleontological Research Institution

CAU Summer 2023 Gorgeous Gorges: The Prehistoric Past of the Finger Lakes

Expedition to Antarctica

Kathleen Arnink

Senior Lecturer, Viticulture and Enology

CAU Summer 2023 Wine and Food: The Principles and Pleasures of Pairing

Ellen Avril

Chief Curator and the Judith H. Stoikov Curator of Asian Art

Japan: East Asian Art Through the Ages

Edward Baptist

Professor of American Studies

CAU Study Tour 2022: Turning Point: The Battle of Gettysburg

Matt Baughan

Head Varsity Coach for Men’s Golf

CAU Summer 2023 The Golf Clinic for All Players

Catherine K. Blumenkamp

Lecturer in Human Centered Design

CAU Summer 2023 Sculpting Wearable Art with Free Draping

Alexandra Cirone

Assistant Professor of Government

CAU Study Tour 2022: New Paltz, NY: The 2022 Elections

Raymond Craib

Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History

CAU Summer 2023 Chile, the Pacific, and the World

CAU Study Tour 2024: Spain (More info coming soon!)

Corey Ryan Earle '07

Visiting Lecturer in American Studies

CAU Summer 2023 How to Build a University

Evan Fay Earle '02, MS '14

Dr. Peter J. Thaler '56 University Archivist

CAU Summer 2023 How to Build a University

Emily Wilcox Gier

Associate Professor of Practice and Dietetic Internship Director for the Division of Nutritional Sciences

CAU Summer 2023 Delicious and Nutritious: Food for Healthy Living

Cole Gilbert

The former Hays & James M. Clark Director of Undergraduate Studies in Entomology & Professor of Entomology

Borneo: A Celebration of Earth’s Biodiversity

Charlie Green

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English

CAU Summer 2023 The Personal Essay: A Writing Workshop

Nancy Green

Gale and Ira Drukier Curator, Johnson Museum of Art (retired)

CAU Summer 2023 Art for Its Time: Reflections of Recent American Movements

CAU Study Tour 2022: Scandinavia: An Exploration of Masterful Art & Design

Charles Greene

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

CAU Study Tour 2022: Hawaii: The Big Island—Coral, Creatures & Climate Change

Drew Harvell

Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

CAU Study Tour 2022: Hawaii: The Big Island—Coral, Creatures & Climate Change

Mark Holton

Lindseth Co-Director of Cornell Outdoor Education

CAU Summer 2023 Bicycling the Byways: Ithaca and Beyond

Steve Israel

Director, Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs

CAU Study Tour 2022: New Paltz, NY: The 2022 Elections

Holger Klinck

John W. Fitzpatrick Director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

CAU Summer 2023 Nature’s Rhapsody: How Animal Sounds Can Advance Conservation

Expedition to Antarctica

Jessica Levin Martinez

Richard J. Schwartz Director, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Japan: East Asian Art Through the Ages

Scott MacDonald

The Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies

Ancient Cities of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula

Annemarie Morse

International Wine Judge, Educator, and Manager of the Johnson College of Business' Student Learning Center

CAU Summer 2023 Wine and Food: The Principles and Pleasures of Pairing

Maryterese Pasquale-Bowen

Assistant for School Programs, Johnson Museum of Art

CAU Summer 2023 Art for Its Time: Reflections of Recent American Movements

Linda Rayor

Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate

Borneo: A Celebration of Earth’s Biodiversity

Vanya Rohwer

Curator of Birds and Mammals, Lab of Ornithology

CAU Summer 2023 Natural History Collections: A Crucial Cornerstone for Science and Society

Ivan Sagel

Director and Senior Instructor, Merril Sailing Center

CAU Summer 2023 The Sailing Clinic

Elliot Shapiro

Senior Lecturer, Knight Institute and the Knight Foundation Director of Writing in the Majors

CAU Summer 2023 Jews on Film: Movie Musicals

David Silbey

Associate Director, Cornell in Washington

Breaking the Walls of Fortress Europe: World War II and D-Day in London, Normandy, Paris

CAU Study Tour 2022: Turning Point: The Battle of Gettysburg

Deborah A. Starr

Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Film and Director of the Jewish Studies Program

CAU Study Tour 2022: Egypt: A Cruise up the Nile

Barry Strauss

Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies

Undiscovered Greece

Laurel Symes

Assistant Director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Lab of Ornithology

CAU Summer 2023 Nature’s Rhapsody: How Animal Sounds Can Advance Conservation

Eric Tagliacozzo

Professor of History and Director of the Comparative Muslim Societies Program

The Flow of History: A Journey Upon the Mekong River through Vietnam and Cambodia

David Todd

eCornell Course Facilitator and Visiting Lecturer, Art as Experience, Department of Art

CAU Summer 2023 Nature Photography

Jennifer Gioffre Todd

Art and Photography Studio Manager

CAU Summer 2023 Nature Photography

Sara Warner

Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Director of the LGBT Studies Program

CAU NYC Spring Theater Seminar