Dr. Wendong Zhang
Assistant Professor
Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
SC Johnson College of Business
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University
461 Warren Hall
137 Reservoir Ave
​Ithaca, NY 14853
​Phone: (607) 254-3231
Email: wendongz@cornell.edu

Welcome to my website!

I am an Assistant Professor and Extension Economist in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. My research seeks to better understand U.S. farmland market, agricultural water conservation and Chinese agriculture. 

I am currently Faculty Affiliate at Cornell Center for China Economic Research (CICER), Faculty Fellow at Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and am selected as 2022-2023 Global Public Voices Fellow at Cornell Einaudi Center for International Studies.

I am also an Associate Professor (on leave 2022-2023) in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University, where I am a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) and co-founder of the ISU China Ag Center. 

I am currently an Associate Editor of American Journal of Agricultural Economics as well as the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

Curriculum Vitae

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