Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Thomas Pepinsky, Department of Government and Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University

Thomas Pepinsky is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor in the Department of Government and School of Public Policy at Cornell University and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He specializes in comparative politics and international political economy, with a focus on emerging markets in Southeast Asia. Among other works, he is the author of “Context and Method in Southeast Asian Politics,” “Migrants, Minorities, and Populism in Southeast Asia,” “Colonial Migration and the Origins of Governance: Theory and Evidence from Java," and Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam (with Bill Liddle and Saiful Mujani). He regularly teaches the Southeast Asian Politics course at Cornell, as well as general courses on comparative politics and political economy, and he is currently working on issues relating to identity, politics, and political economy in comparative and international politics.

For questions, please contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.

Gatty Lectures will be held in-person at the Kahin Center, with the option to attend virtually as well. To attend virtually, please register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtcu-hrjIoHddMh2NaIfnh3pu2g-….

Beverages will be served outside before the talk, and in accordance with current Cornell guidance we will be wearing masks indoors. Feel free to bring your own brownbag lunch and eat outside with us before the talk.