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). Cerin performs extensively as a baritone with leading early music ensembles across the United States. He founded the Lisette Project in 2021, a research and performance platform focusing on early Haitian classical music, beginning with the oldest song in Haitian Creole, Lisette quitté la plaine. 

Jennifer Kuo’s research focuses on how people learn linguistic sound patterns, and how cognitive biases influence this learning process. She draws heavily on insights from Austronesian languages, including the Formosan languages of Taiwan. 

Originally from Quito, Ecuador, Martin Mejia Carrillo is a PhD Candidate (ABD) at Tulane University and a lecturer in Politics at Universidad de Palermo. In the LACS program, he is a visiting doctoral intern for fall 2023, working under the supervision of Kenneth Roberts, professor of political science.

Shaoling Ma is an interdisciplinary scholar and critical theorist of global Chinese history, literature, and media. At the broadest level, she is drawn to historical periods when geopolitical, socio-economic, and technological developments appear to provide external vantage points from which to navigate the landscape of cultural production, while, in fact, being resolutely embedded in the latter. Ma's teaching and research interests include late nineteenth-century to contemporary Chinese and Southeast Asian cultural productions, media studies, and critical theory.

Ding Fei received her Ph.D. from the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. 

Kaja Tally-Schumacher’s research interests include ancient Mediterranean gardens and landscapes, comparative environmental history, and issues pertaining to sustainability and resiliency in the ancient Mediterranean world and in contemporary archaeological practice. Her secondary area of interest includes Classical Reception, especially as evidenced in urban planning, architecture, and design history.

Jennifer Newsom coleads the Einaudi Center's inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority.

Kurt Waldman is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. He studies judgment and decision making related to environmental sustainability, climate adaptation and food security. He uses interdisciplinary quantitative methods, drawing on behavioral experiments, econometrics, and often integrating social and environmental data.

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. His current research project studies the causes and consequences of political polarization processes in the region.

Sergio García Magariño holds a PhD in sociology with an international mention and is a specialist in education and social development. He currently works as a lecturer (associate professor) at the Public University of Navarra and researcher at its Institute for Advanced Social Research: I-Communitas.