Faculty
N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba
Professor, African and African Diaspora
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Role
- Faculty
- IAD Core Faculty
- IAD Advisory Council
Contact
Email: n.assie-lumumba@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-7839
Esra Akcan
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. She is the author of Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey and the Modern House (Duke University Press, 2012); Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with S.
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- Faculty
- IES Core Faculty
- Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies
- IIJ Faculty Steering Committee
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Email: ea369@cornell.edu
Kenneth Roberts
Richard J. Schwartz Professor, Government
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Role
- Faculty
- LACS Core Faculty
- LACS Steering Committee
- DTR Faculty Steering Committee
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
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Email: kr99@cornell.edu
Abby Cohn
Professor, Linguistics
Abby Cohn is a professor of linguistics and Southeast Asian studies. Her research interests include the Austronesian languages of Indonesia, with a particular focus on their phonetics, phonology, and morphology.
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Rebecca Slayton
Director, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
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Role
- Faculty
- PACS Core Faculty
- PACS Director
- PACS Steering Committee
- PACS Minor Field Instructor
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
Contact
Email: rs849@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-8914
Andrea Bachner
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.
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Role
- Faculty
- EAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Faculty Associate
Contact
Email: asb76@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-6795
Eric Tagliacozzo
Director, Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the director of the Einaudi Center's Comparative Muslim Societies Program and a core faculty member of the Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program.
He also serves as co-director of the Migrations initiative.
His research centers on the history of people, ideas, and material in motion in and around Southeast Asia, especially in the late colonial age.
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Role
- Faculty
- CMSP Director
- SAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Core Faculty
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
- Executive Committee
Contact
Email: et54@cornell.edu
Iftikhar Dadi
John H. Burris Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies
Geographic Research Area: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Middle East
Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary art, methodology and intellectual history, and film, media, and popular cultures
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- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SAP Steering Committee
- SAP Advisory Council
- Executive Committee
Contact
Email: mid1@cornell.edu
Patchen Markell
Associate Professor, Government
Patchen Markell is a political theorist and historian of social and political thought whose research and teaching focuses on European (especially German-language), North American, and transatlantic politics, culture, and philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His interests include the power and limits of the idea of democracy; the intersections among geopolitics, capitalism, and racial hierarchy in the postwar world; and the connections among politics, art, aesthetics, and literature.
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Mark A. Sarvary
Senior Lecturer, Biology and Science Communication
Mark A. Sarvary is a senior lecturer in biology and science communication at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. His research focuses on evidence-based teaching practices and student-centered pedagogical methods in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). He directs the Investigative Biology Teaching Laboratories, where students learn experimental design, the scientific process, science literacy, and communication. He is the founding faculty advisor of the Science Communication and Public Engagement undergraduate minor.