https://www.bryanlsykes.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eec325feddcbb679a959be1/1592543448396-HIUO0XNF8WV5EXG8OGNA/bryan-sykes-5.jpg Home - Educational Courses and Training Learning happens within the context of an educational community and a particular knowledge base. Dr. Sykes believes in building the scholar the world needs by teaching students how to think about past and current social problems, with the goal of evaluating, reforming, repealing, and/or creating policies and programs that can reduce structural inequities, racial disparities, and economic inequalities. His published work creates a knowledge-based approach to help students become more educated about race and class inequality in America and abroad. Learn more about his courses and teachings by clicking on the box below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eec325feddcbb679a959be1/c4f9e8d9-6ae9-4f1a-af64-032a31ae460f/Cornell2.jpg Home - Professional Background & Networks Bryan L. Sykes is an Associate Professor in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and Department of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the Science Core Director for the Cornell Population Center (CPC), an Affiliate of the Cornell Center for Social Science (CCSS), a Research Affiliate in the Berkeley Population Center at the University of California-Berkeley, an External Affiliate in the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) at the University of Washington, a member of the Scholars Strategy Network (SSN), and a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network (RDCJN) at the University of Maryland. He serves as a Senior Associate Editor for Science Advances (the open-access version of Science) and was a former Academic Editor of Public Library of Science (PLoS) One and a former Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Perspectives. Dr. Sykes is currently the Treasurer-Elect of the Law & Society Association (LSA), Chair-Elect of the Crime, Law & Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and Chair of the Scientific Integrity Committee for the American Society of Criminology (ASC). He has also recently served as Chair of the Race and Ethnicity Subcommittee of the Program Committee for 2026 Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. Professor Sykes’ research has appeared in general and multidisciplinary science, social science, and medical journals. Learn more about his published work by clicking on the box below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eec325feddcbb679a959be1/1592543389250-WS2VP1DBW5TFSXOFBOZN/bryan-sykes-4.jpg Home - Research Foci Professor Sykes’ research focuses on demography and criminology, broadly defined, with particular interests in fertility, mortality, population health, mass imprisonment, social inequality, and research methodology. He is currently collaborating on four research projects. Learn more about his research agenda by clicking on the box below. https://www.bryanlsykes.com/materials-for-learning daily 0.75 2020-06-19 https://www.bryanlsykes.com/news daily 0.75 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eec325feddcbb679a959be1/1593751985767-2QZ656ZJWT5UTGDE3KXE/news-2.jpg News - Changing Minds, Changing Policy Professor Sykes co-organized a conference on “Mortality and Criminal Legal System Contact" at Cornell University in September 2025. He is co-editing a special issue of Population Research and Policy Review on the topic, which will appear in print in 2027. Professor Sykes speaks at the O’Neill Institute of Georgetown University’s School of Law on “Democracy and Health”, as a panelist for a symposium on Memory, Medicine, and Law: Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina; September 11-13, 2025. Panel discussions were featured on C-SPAN. Professor Sykes presents his work on monetary sanctions and hidden financial punishments to the California Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code; June 23, 2023 https://www.bryanlsykes.com/contact1 daily 0.75 2024-03-29 https://www.bryanlsykes.com/courses daily 0.75 2025-06-10 https://www.bryanlsykes.com/projects daily 0.75 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eec325feddcbb679a959be1/1593284509801-WEXCT9JX2V26FRZXEQVQ/projects-4.jpg Projects - Research Reflections My research focuses on institutions and social inequality. The four research areas above (and the projects described therein) detail the many ways institutions create, maintain, and reproduce socioeconomic inequality, and the methods social scientists use to document these inequities and disparities. Individually, these bodies of work demonstrate the many facets of institutional inequality in the lives of disadvantaged men, women, and children. Collectively, my research agenda seeks to uncover new insights into the changing and persistent nature of poverty and social inequality in America and abroad. https://www.bryanlsykes.com/publications daily 0.75 2025-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eec325feddcbb679a959be1/b4a5d407-438f-4b20-b31d-41b935708cca/google-scholar4372.jpg https://www.bryanlsykes.com/support-for-communities daily 0.75 2024-03-29 https://www.bryanlsykes.com/education-for-teachers daily 0.75 2024-03-29 https://www.bryanlsykes.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-03-29 https://www.bryanlsykes.com/working-papers daily 0.75 2024-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eec325feddcbb679a959be1/1713042731415-7014CH5B3QVHNCGYIBHT/image-asset.jpeg Working Papers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eec325feddcbb679a959be1/1713042911892-3EEFA2VZ38WH9CT1Y83A/image-asset.jpeg Working Papers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eec325feddcbb679a959be1/1713043027331-0I6WULJTMGPN32TU4BPC/image-asset.jpeg Working Papers