EINAUDI - Key Persons
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- Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies Emerita
Valerie Bunce's research focuses on democratization, authoritarianism, state-building, state collapse, and U.S. foreign policy and its support of democratic and authoritarian regimes.
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- Visiting Scholar, and Former Professor, Department of Global Development
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- Assistant Professor
- Government
Alexandra Blackman's research focuses on the relationship between political regimes and religious institutions. She is a 2021-22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Alexandra Blackman's research focuses on the relationship between political regimes and religious institutions. As a 2021-22 Global Public Voices fellow, she would like to draw attention to obstacles that undermine women's political representation in countries worldwide.
Blackman has conducted research in Egypt, France, Tunisia, and the United States.
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- Associate Professor
- Government
Allen R. Carlson is an associate professor of government. He earned his PhD from Yale University's Department of Political Science. His undergraduate degree is from Colby College.
He is a core faculty member of the East Asia Program and affiliated with the South Asia Program and Comparative Muslim Societies Program.
Carlson is the Brittany and Adam J. Levinson China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) program director. He is currently working on a project exploring the issue of nontraditional security in China's emerging relationship with the rest of the international system.
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- Fellow
- Student at Cornell University 's Department of Government
Amelia C. Arsenault is a PhD student at Cornell University's Department of Government. Her research considers the effects of artificial intelligence on international politics, with a particular interest in the global proliferation of contemporary surveillance and smart city technologies. Recently, she has begun developing a project to analyze the factors that influence states' decisions to implement export restrictions on sensitive and emerging technologies. She has published academic articles in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, International Politics, International Studies, and the Harvard Business Review, and has co-authored chapters in books published by Oxford University Press and Routledge.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- History of Art
Ananda Cohen-Aponte works on the visual culture of colonial Latin America, with special interests in issues of cross-cultural exchange, historicity, identity, and anti-colonial movements. Her research and teaching explore legacies of colonialism in contemporary Latinx art as well as Latin American and Caribbean archaeology, visual and material culture in the Andes, and landscape, environment and archaeology of colonialism in Pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American art.
Dr. Cohen-Aponte was recently awarded the 2019 Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award for her commitment to undergraduate advising and has received recognition for ongoing efforts to create equity in the discipline of art history through a pilot project called "Pathways to Art History."
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- Professor
- Professor, Comparative Literature
Andrea Bachner is a professor of comparative literature. She was the director of the East Asia Program for the term 2019-22 and a member of the East Asia Program steering committee and the CEAS editorial board.
She holds an MA from Munich University, Germany, and a PhD from Harvard University. Her research explores comparative intersections between Sinophone, Latin American, and European cultural productions in dialogue with theories of interculturality, sexuality, and mediality.
Her first book, Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Cultures (Columbia University Press, 2014), analyzes how the Chinese script has been imagined in recent decades in literature and film, visual and performance art, design and architecture, both within Chinese cultural contexts and in different parts of the "West." She is the co-editor (with Carlos Rojas) of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures (2016) and has published articles in Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Concentric, German Quarterly, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Taller de Letras as well as in several edited volumes. Her second book is The Mark of Theory: Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories (Fordham University Press, 2017).
She is currently working on two projects: the first, Against Comparison? Latin America and the Sinophone World, reflects on the limits of comparison through an exploration of the rich history of cultural contact, exchange, and affinity between Latin American and Chinese cultures from the late nineteenth century to today; the second, Membranicity, constitutes a critique of the deployment of surface metaphors in contemporary theory.
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- Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Andrew Campana is a scholar of modern and contemporary Japanese literature and media. His research centers on exploring the possibilities and impossibilities of expression at moments of media transition, focusing in particular on poetry, digital media, and disability.
In his current book project on Japanese poetry across media, he engages with expanded poetic practice from the 1920s to the present as a site where poets in Japan embraced and grappled with new media technologies like film, tape recording, television, and the internet. He is also working on a second project-on questions of digitality in electronic literature, video games, and disability arts in contemporary Japan-drawing from his experiences as part of the Trope Tank at MIT, a lab dedicated to developing new understandings of computation and literary practice. He has performed and published widely in both English and Japanese as a multimedia poet and translator.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Asian Studies
- Professor
Anne M. Blackburn the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities of South Asia studies and Buddhist studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. She received her BA from Swarthmore College and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. Blackburn studies Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, with a special interest in Buddhist monastic culture and Buddhist participation in networks linking Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia before and during colonial presence in the region.
Annetta Alexandridis' research interests include Roman sculpture, Greek myth and iconography, archaeology and its media (photography, plaster casts), gender studies, animal studies.
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- Associate Professor at Ithaca College
- Visiting Scholar
Annette is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College where she teaches courses on Latin American literature, theatre, and translation.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Professor, Applied Economics and Management
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- Contributor
- Professor, Entomology
Arthur Agnello is the primary contributor to the development and implementation of the fruit program area plan of work that addresses the needs of diverse audience groups.
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- Assistant Professor
- Government
Begüm Adalet is a political theorist with research and teaching interests in anti-colonial thought, transnationalism, the Cold War, development, land, and the built environment. She is the author of Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey, which locates the travels of developmental thought and infrastructures between Turkey and the United States during the early phases of the Cold War.
Benjamin Anderson studies the visual and material cultures of the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent landmasses, with a particular focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. His first book, Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art, addresses the reception of Greco-Roman astronomical imagery in the Byzantine, Frankish, and Islamic states.
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- Program Director, Oxfam in Kenya
Blandina Bobson's work focuses on the development and humanitarian sector, with an emphasis on program design and implementation. She is a 2021-22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Blandina Bobson's work focuses on the development and humanitarian sector, with an emphasis on program design and implementation. As a 2021-22 Global Public Voices fellow, she plans to draw attention to gender inequalities and the patriarchal biases entrenched within formal systems and structures, which keep women and girls from realizing their full potential, participating, and contributing meaningfully to public life.
Brad Alderman manages the Einaudi Center's website and oversees sites across the Global Cornell web portfolio.
Caitlín Eilís Barrett is an archaeologist who investigates everyday life, religious experience, and cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean. Her most recent book, Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (Oxford University Press, 2019), is the first book on Egyptian imagery in Roman domestic contexts.
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- Carl Marks Professor of International Studies
- Professor of International Studies
Kaushik Basu is the Einaudi Center's Carl Marks Professor of International Studies and professor of economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is is cofounder of Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law, and Economics (CRADLE), one of Einaudi's interdisciplinary research teams.
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- Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
Carolyn Fornoff's research explores cultural responses to the environmental crisis in Latin America, with a particular focus on Mexico and Central America. It asks how art helps narrate and make sense of problems like climate change that are temporally expansive and often difficult to see with the naked eye. She is the coeditor of two volumes in the environmental humanities: Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2021).
Cecelia Lawless teaches both language and literature/film courses as a senior lecturer. For several years, she was the faculty fellow for the Spanish Language House at Alice Cook. For five years, she helped to found and then serve as Director of the Foreign Language Across the Curriculum Program (FLAC) that offers Spanish language sections in conjunction with established courses in a variety of disciplines. Lawless has participated in and is now Director of the successful Summer Program in Madrid.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Senior Lecturer and Stephen H. Weiss Provost 's Teaching Fellow, Romance Studies
Cecelia Lawless teaches both language and literature/film courses as a senior lecturer. For several years, she was the faculty fellow for the Spanish Language House at Alice Cook. For five years, she helped to found and then serve as Director of the Foreign Language Across the Curriculum Program (FLAC) that offers Spanish language sections in conjunction with established courses in a variety of disciplines. Lawless has participated in and is now Director of the successful Summer Program in Madrid.
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- Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Chris Barrett is Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management. He is an international professor of agriculture at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and a professor in the Department of Economics.…
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- Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Christopher Alabi's research focuses on the assembly of new sequence-defined macromolecules that can be used to create stimuli-responsive materials, develop efficient drug delivery bioconjugates, and design potent antimicrobial agents.
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- Professor, Vassar College
Christopher Bjork earned his PhD in educational anthropology at Stanford University. Certified to teach both elementary and secondary school, he has worked as a classroom teacher in Japan and the United States.
His research interests include international and comparative education, educational reform in Asia, educational decentralization, and teacher education. He is the author of High-Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform (Chicago, 2015) and Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy (Routledge, 2005). His work has appeared in journals such as Comparative Education Review, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Phi Delta Kappan, Comparative Education, and International Review of Education.
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- Adjunct Professor, Law
- Member of Einaudi 's CRADLE Research Team
Daniel Alpert is a member of Einaudi's CRADLE research team. He is a senior fellow in financial macroeconomics at Cornell Law School, working within the Clarke Program on the Law and Regulation of Financial Institutions and Markets of the Clarke Business Law Institute. Alpert is a founding managing partner of Westwood Capital, LLC, and its affiliates.
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- Program Manager
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian
Daniel Bass also serves as an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology and Asian studies.
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- Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Daniel Boucher's research focus is Buddhist studies, particularly the early development of the cluster of Indian Buddhist movements called the Mahayana and their transmission to China in the first few centuries of the Common Era. Related interests include translation as a religious genre, with special focus on the earliest translations of Buddhist texts into Chinese; Buddhist Middle Indo-Aryan; art historical, epigraphical, and archeological sources for the study of religion.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Visiting Scholar
David Flaten is a LACS visiting scholar and History professor at Tompkins Cortland Community College. He is researching the opportunities to create a global history course centered around the Caribbean for students at our partner institution Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3).
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- Faculty Advisor, Migration Studies Minor
Debra Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Chair of Hispanic Studies and professor of comparative literature. She is faculty director of the Einaudi Center's migration studies minor.
She is a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow-Cornell University's highest teaching award, granted for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
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- Associate Professor of History and Asian American
- History
Derek Chang is an associate professor of history and Asian American studies. He is author of Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century as well as a number of book chapters on the intersection of race and religion.
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- Student in City and Regional
Dieter Bouma is a PhD student in City and Regional Planning, with research interests in environment & migration, displacement & dispossession, land governance & human rights, reconciling rural livelihoods & biodiversity conservation, and mountain ecosystems.
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- Coordinator of Scholar Services
Edward Baptist coleads the Einaudi Center's inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority.
Elizabeth Brundige's research focuses on law/gender justice, and international human rights.
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- Manager of Student Grants and Programs
Elizabeth Edmondson oversees all office functions at the Einaudi Center and administers the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program.
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- Chairman of Hispanic Studies
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- Associate Professor
- Director
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Ernesto Bassi Arevalo is an associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the role circulation (of goods, people, news, and ideas) plays in the configuration of geographic spaces and political allegiances.
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- Professor, Architectural Theory
Esra Akcan is the Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture. Her scholarly work on a geopolitically conscious global history of urbanism and architecture inspires her teaching.
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- Senior Lecturer, Polish Language
Ewa Bachminska teaches all levels of Polish and two film courses: East European Film and Animals in Global Cinema. Her current research focuses on the most threatened mammalian species in Poland: their conservation, welfare, and their place in education, culture,…
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- Associate Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Garrick Blalock's research interests include management of technology, firm strategy, and emerging markets.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Professor, Government
Gustavo Flores-Macías' research and teaching interests include a variety of topics related to political and economic development. Currently, his research focuses on the politics of economic reform and taxation and state capacity.
Henry Cheng (he/they) is a first-year Ph.D. student at Cornell's history department. As a social historian in training, Henry focuses on the history of radicalism in the global 1960s-70s with a specific concentration on the cases of China and Asian American…
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- Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Héctor D. Abruña is interested in development and characterization of new materials using a wide variety of techniques for fuel cells, batteries, and molecular assemblies for molecular electronics.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Office Manager
- Receptionist
Indira White serves as receptionist and all-around office support for the Einaudi Center. She holds a B.S. in speech-language pathology and audiology from Ithaca College.
Isha is a MS/PhD student in the Department of Global Development. Her research interests include the study of gender, as a system of knowledge and as practice, specifically in relation to patterns of fertility and the family, with a regional focus on India.…
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Iwan Jaya Azis is an adjunct professor of applied economics and policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
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- East Asia Law & Director of Clarke Program in East Asian Law & Culture, Cornell Law School
Yun-chien Chang is Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law at Cornell Law School and also directs the Clarke Program in East Asian Law & Culture.
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- Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies
Leslie Adelson's teaching and research concentrate on German literature from 1945 to the present and additionally reflect interdisciplinary as well as transnational approaches to culture and history.
James Gill supports day-to-day operations for the Einaudi Center. He coordinates administrative and project activities that include facilities, environmental health and safety, AV services and systems, equipment, and inventory management.
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- Professor of Applied Economics
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- Artist
- Assistant Professor, Music
Jean Bernard Cerin is a multifaceted artist and scholar who produces and performs in projects ranging from film, recital, oratorio, opera, and folk music. Praised for his "burnished tone and focused phrasing" (Chestnut Hill Local).
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- William Nelson Cromwell Professor Emeritus, Law School
John Barceló is interested in international commercial arbitration, trade agreements, European Union law, and international law. He has been principally responsible for developing Cornell's international legal studies program over several decades.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies
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- Director of Graduate Studies, Regional Science Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning
John I. Carruthers's current scholarship is focused on evaluating environmental remediation projects in the Puget Sound region of Washington State and the value of public education and other amenities in the Seoul Metropolitan Area.
Jomarie Alano has taught at several area colleges, including Colgate University and Wells College and she has also taught History FWS 1335: Fascisms and History 3662: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, 1900-1950 at Cornell. Jomarie received her A…
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- Professor of Modern Jewish Studies
- Professor, Near Eastern Studies
Jonathan Aaron Boyarin is the Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies. His work centers on Jewish communities and on the dynamics of Jewish culture, memory, and identity.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Professor, History
Judith Byfield's primary research focus is women's social and economic history in Nigeria. Her research includes in-depth studies on tie-dye production, World War II, Nigerian women's political activism and nationalism.
Judy Small supports the Einaudi Center and Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs. She has worked at Cornell since 1985 in administration and human resources positions.
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- Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
- Assistant Professor of Spanish
Julia Chang is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies, a member of the core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Southeast Asia…
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Associate Professor of the Practice, Global Development
Julie Ficarra specializes in critical approaches to partnership development centered on mutuality, reciprocity, and solidarity-building, particularly in university/community relationships that support engaged learning.
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- Sidney Kaufman Professor in Geophysics
Leila Ben Abdallah is the Einaudi Center's postdoctoral fellow in…
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- Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies
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- Associate Professor, Architecture
Lily Chi's teaching covers topics in contemporary design research, 18th to 21st-century theory and criticism, and architectural drawing/representation in western history. She is completing a writing project on city-building, war, and propaganda in 20th-century…
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Senior Lecturer of Management Director, Emerging Markets Institute, S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
Lourdes Casanova's work focuses on environmental policy, government, politics, and policy studies as well as emerging multinationals from Brazil and Latin America.
Luke Urbain (they/them, él/ellx) received their Ph.D. from UW-Madison, where they focused on art, literature, and visual culture of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora and were an affiliated graduate student in the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program.
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- Director, Institute for European Studies
- Distinguished Professor
Mabel Berezin is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Sociology at Cornell University.
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- Academic Programs Coordinator
Maeve Coughlin coordinates events, promotion, and programming to support the administrative side of academic programs at the Einaudi Center. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from Stetson University and was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Germany in 2018-2019.
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- Manager of Undergraduate International Experiences
Maja Anderson coordinates the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Scholars program and student academic experiences at the Einaudi Center.
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- Manager of Academic Engagement Programs
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Marie Underhill Noll Professor, History
Raymond Craib's research and teaching interests revolve around the intersections of space, politics, and everyday practice. He is especially interested in Latin America and/as global history, critical geography/cartography, the left, and theory and history.
Political theorist Mario Einaudi was born into one of the most influential intellectual families in Italy. After completing his dissertation at the University of Turin, he taught in Berlin and London. He moved to the United States in 1933 as a protest against fascist rule in Italy. He taught at Harvard and then at Fordham University, where he was active in the struggle against fascism during World War II.
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- Associate Professor, Literatures in English
Mary Pat Brady is interested in Chicana and latinx literature, film, and culture; American literature; critical geography; and queer and critical race theory.
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- Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College
Matthew Amster is a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker with extensive experience working in Borneo and, more recently, has started a new project in Denmark.
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Administrative Support for the Manager of Finance
Matthew Morgan provides direct administrative support for the Manager of Finance and the Administrator/HR Manager.
Mavis graduated from Rutgers University-Camden with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Gender Studies. During her undergraduate program, she participated in the inaugural AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associate program with the Center for Family…
Melanie Markusic supports both the Einaudi Center and Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs. She oversees operations of the Einaudi Center, manages academic appointments, internal controls/compliance, contracts, MOAs, and oversees IT and facilities management.
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Misako Chapman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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- Programs and Campaigns Lead, Oxfam in Ghana
Mohammed-Anwar Sadat Adam focuses on strategy, policy analysis, research, campaign, and advocacy leadership for Ghana's social and economic justice issues. He is a 2021-22 Global Public Voices fellow.
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- Professor, African and African Diaspora
N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is a professor of Africa and the African diaspora, comparative and international education, social institutions, African social history, and gender studies.
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- Professor, Applied Economics and Policy
Nancy H. Chau's research interests fall under three main areas: international trade, regional economics, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the economics of information and uncertainty.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Assistant Professor, Anthropology
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Associate Professor, House Professor, and Dean, Carl Becker House
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- Associate Professor of Chinese
- Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature and the past director of the Contemporary China Initiative.
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- FLAS Fellow / Degree: MPA, Public Administration / Language: Bengali / Research Interests: Conflict Studies, Migrant / Refugee Studies, International Development, Transnational Identity
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- Executive Director
- Executive Director of the Einaudi Center
Nishi Dhupa is executive director of the Einaudi Center and serves as Cornell's associate vice provost for international affairs.
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, Performing and Media Arts
Panagiotis Angelopoulos is a senior lecturer in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. Read about his background and work with theater and film students.
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- Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY - Brockport
Pilapa Esara Carroll is an associate professor of anthropology at SUNY-Brockport.
Riedl's research interests include institutional development in new democracies, local governance and decentralization, and authoritarian regime legacies in Africa.
Riedl was a fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study and a Fulbright scholar. Previously, she was director of the Program of African Studies and an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.
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- Director, Institute for African Development
- Professor
Rachel Bezner Kerr is a professor of global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research interests converge on the broad themes of sustainable agriculture, food security, health, nutrition, and social inequalities.
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- Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Ralph Dean Christy teaches and conducts food marketing research and educational programs on the economic performance of markets and distribution systems.
Rama is a PhD student in Human Computer Interaction. His primary interests lie in the areas of education and development contexts (ICT4D). In particular, he tries to understand ways in which various communities use technologies for achieving their goals and design impactful solutions.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Marie Underhill Noll Professor, History
Raymond Craib's research and teaching interests revolve around the intersections of space, politics, and everyday practice. He is especially interested in Latin America and/as global history, critical geography/cartography, the left, and theory and history.
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- Research Fellow, Australian National University
Rini Astuti's research focuses on Indonesia's extensive peat fires, deforestation, and climate politics. She 2021-22 Global Public Voices fellow.
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- Associate Director for Grant Writing and Assessment
Robert Cantelmo oversees Einaudi's proposal development and program evaluation and manages the Democratic Threats and Resilience research priority.
Rohil holds a bachelor's degree in engineering and biotechnology. He completed his master's degree in food science from Cornell. His doctoral research is focused on developing novel iron-rich microalgae composites and exploring their utility as potential…
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- Associate Professor in the Interior Architecture Program at Colorado State University
Ryadi Adityavarman is an associate professor in the Interior Architecture program at Colorado State University. He has a multidisciplinary background in architecture, interior design, and historic preservation with a particular focus in Indonesian architectural…
Sandra Babcock specializes in international human rights litigation, access to justice, death penalty defense, international gender rights, and the application of international law in U.S. courts. She is the faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death…
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- Manager of Finance, Budget, and Research Compliance
Sandy Dennis-Conlon supports both the Einaudi Center and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs. She has worked at Cornell since 1990.
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- Assistant Professor
- Department of Global
Santiago Anria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He studies the relationships between Latin American social movements, labor unions, and political parties.
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- Associate Professor
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Director, South Asia Program
Sarah Besky is an associate professor of international and comparative labor and labor relations, law, and history in the ILR School. Her research explores the intersection of inequality, nature, and capitalism in the Himalayas.
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- Associate Director for Academic Programs at the Einaudi Center
- Associate Director, Academic Programs
Sarah Pattison is the associate director for academic programs at the Einaudi Center. She is a seasoned professional in international higher education with experience developing and managing area and international studies programs.
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- Student Engagement and Community Outreach Coordinator
Sarah Plotkin works with students, staff, and faculty to create meaningful programming that engages K-12 students and teachers.
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- Senior Associate Director of Communication
Sheri Englund oversees communication for the Einaudi Center and other units across Global Cornell. She has worked with higher education audiences and faculty writers around the world, from Ithaca to Sweden, Taiwan, and Mexico.
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- Sidney Kaufman Professor in Geophysics
Tanuj Chawla is a Tata-Cornell Scholar and a graduate student at the Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. He has been working with the Tata-Cornell Institute since 2019 and has developed India's first and only …
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- Retired Professor, Graduate School
Thak Chaloemtiarana retired from the Department of Asian Studies and as director of the Southeast Asia Program in 2010. He retains appointments in the Graduate School in the fields of Asian literature, religion and culture, and Asian studies.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Professor, Psychology
Timothy Devoogd studies how the brains of birds encode learned behaviors like song or memory for food locations. Particular questions now being studied include the neural basis for female song discrimination, and the interplay between the hippocampus and other brain areas in spatial memory.
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- Professor, City and Regional Planning
Victoria Beard is interested in the relationship between community-based planning and poverty in the global south. She is a 2021-22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Vincent is a PhD candidate in the Asian Religions doctoral program of the Department of Asian Studies. He has received a 2016-17 Fulbright Student Fellowship to conduct his research over the next year in India.
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- Operations and Project Manager
Walt Baschnagel maintains the networking and computer systems for the Einaudi Center.
Whitman Barrett is a PhD student in the Soil and Crop Sciences Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science. His research focuses on the reuse of human excreta in agriculture, with the goal of improving public health outcomes along with smallholder farmers'…
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- William Nelson Cromwell Professor Emeritus, Law School
John Barceló is interested in international commercial arbitration, trade agreements, European Union law, and international law. He has been principally responsible for developing Cornell's international legal studies program over several decades.
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- Senior Research Associate, History
Zhihong Chen received her BA in German language and literature from Beijing Foreign Language College, an MA in International History from Beijing Normal University, an MA in International Studies and an M.S. Ed in college teaching concentrating on Chinese…