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goldstein@cornell.edu

Jenny is an assistant professor in the department of global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, an Atkinson Center for Sustainability faculty fellow, and a core faculty member of Cornell's Southeast Asian Studies Program. She is currently the elected Chair of the Cultural and Political Ecology specialty group of the American Association of Geographers. From 2016-17 she was an Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future postdoctoral associate at Cornell, based in the Science & Technology Studies department. She is interested in environmental conservation and development in the tropics; intersections of data infrastructure and environmental governance; the financialization of land; and the role of scientific knowledge in climate change politics and agrarian change.

She received a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016, a M.A. in Geography from UCLA in 2009, and a B.A. in Architectural History & Theory from Barnard College, Columbia University in 2005. A native of New York, Jenny has conducted fieldwork in Indonesia, Myanmar, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Japan, and California.