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. House Fellows are assigned to a member of our student staff (either a Graduate Resident Fellow or an undergraduate Student Assistant) who serves as the liaison to the student body.

lorenzo
House Fellow

Lorenzo is a Professor of Computer Science. His research investigates the theory and practice of distributed computing, the discipline behind everything “cloud”.

samuel
House Fellow

Sam Buggeln is a Canadian theater director and translator, and the founding Artistic Director of the Cherry Arts.

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House Fellow

Sarah is the Director of our Campus Sustainability Office with a vision for Cornell as a carbon-neutral living laboratory for sustainability innovation.

steve
House Fellow

Steve Ceci received his doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Exeter, England, where he studied children’s recollections—a topic that would later be expanded to include children’s eyewitness testimony in criminal cases.

irene
House Fellow

Irene Eibenstein-Alvisi is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies where she teaches writing. Her expertise is in Medieval and Renaissance Italian
literature with an emphasis on women writers and gender issues.

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House Fellow

Dr. Greeshma Gadikota is an Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a field appointment in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University.

emily
House Fellow

Emily is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Nutritional Sciences where she also directs the Dietetic Internship.

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House Fellow

Dr. Jada Hamilton, MD, a Buffalo native and enthusiastic Bills fan, serves as Cornell Health Interim Medical Director. 

Natasha Holmes
House Fellow

Natasha studies teaching and learning in college physics courses, particularly instructional labs.

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House Fellow

Benjamin Z. Houlton is the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a Cornell University professor in the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as Global Development.

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House Fellow

Steve is an Associate Professor of Information Science and Science and Technology Studies, former Chair of the Cornell Information Science Department, and former House Professor-Dean at Keeton House.

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House Fellow

Gilly Leshed is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science, where she also directs the professional masters degree program (MPS).

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House Fellow

Ofer Leshed is the Associate Dean for Administration and Finance at Cornell Law School.

Karl Lewis headshot
House Fellow

Dr. Karl Lewis joined the Meinig School as an assistant professor in July 2020. Dr. Lewis’s research interests center on understanding the interplay of mechanical cues and biological changes in musculoskeletal tissues. 

felix
House Fellow

Felix Litvinsky is a Managing Director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Cornell University, an experiential university wide entrepreneurship program offering coaching, ideation and venture creation support to students, alumni, staff and faculty.

henriette
House Fellow

Henriette Lundgren is an international scholar-practitioner in the field of human resource development (HRD). As talent manager at Corning Inc., Henriette helps people to learn, expand and work together with better results and more fun.

beth
House Fellow

Beth is a Clinical Professor of Law and founder of Cornell’s Farmworker’s Legal Assistance Clinic.

vida
House Fellow

Vida is a professor in the Sociology Department and studies social inequality and how it comes about.

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House Fellow

Alan Martinez is Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability where he focuses on building and managing partnerships that connect the expertise and research capacity at Cornell with sustainability partne

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House Fellow

Jessica Levin Martinez is the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. She is a leading advocate for museum-based interdisciplinary teaching with global collections.

doug
House Fellow

Doug McKee is a senior lecturer in Economics where he teaches a variety of big intermediate level courses and runs the department’s Active Learning Initiative

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House Fellow

Mostafa Minawi is an Associate Professor of history. Broadly, his research focuses on the study of Ottoman imperialism at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

markeisha
House Fellow

As Dean of Students at Cornell Law School, Markeisha J. Miner guides all aspects of the student experience from Orientation to Convocation, in addition to supervising the Academic Support, Career Development and Registrar’s Offices.

robert
House Fellow

Bob Sternberg is a professor of human development in the School of Human Ecology at Cornell. He spent 30 years as a professor of psychology and education at Yale.

wendy
House Fellow

Wendy M. Williams is a Psychology Professor, studying real-world intelligence (and how to increase it), the culture of academic institutions (and how they are changing), and women’s and girls’ experiences and career trajectories in science.

Malte Ziewitz
House Fellow

Malte Ziewitz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Science & Technology Studies.