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.

Geographic Research Area: Nepal

Teaching/Research Interests: Teaching Nepali as a second language

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.

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.

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…

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee Chair/Advisor: Jenny Goldstein

Discipline: Development Sociology

Primary…

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…

Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature and the past director of the Contemporary China Initiative.

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.

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.

Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Kabul University, Master’s in Agriculture, and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology of Japan.

Degree: MRP, Regional Planning

Language: Urdu

Research Interests: Historic Planning, Heritage and Cultural Preservation, Indigenous Planning

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.

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…

Brad Alderman manages the Einaudi Center's website and oversees sites across the Global Cornell web portfolio.

Annetta Alexandridis' research interests include Roman sculpture, Greek myth and iconography, archaeology and its media (photography, plaster casts), gender studies, animal studies. 

Basim Ali is a second-year Master of Public Administration student at the Brooks School of Public Policy, concentrating in International Development Studies with a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. 

Daniel Alpert is a member of Einaudi's CRADLE research team.

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…

Matthew Amster is a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker with extensive experience working in Borneo and, more recently, has started a new project in Denmark.

Maria Alejandra is a JSD Candidate at Cornell Law School. Her research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to law, environmental justice, and human rights.

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,…

Panagiotis Angelopoulos is a senior lecturer in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. 

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.

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…

Degree Pursued: MHA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024

Committee Chair/Advisor: Sean Nicholson

Discipline: Health Administration

Primary…

Sabrina Axster holds a PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University.

Gizem Nur Aydemir is a PhD candidate and research assistant in the Building Science program at the Middle East Technical University Department of Architecture. Her dissertation research centers on the development of a building energy performance workflow tailored to…

Iwan Jaya Azis is an adjunct professor of applied economics and policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. 

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…

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,…

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. 

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024-25

Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A

Discipline: Performing and Media Arts

Primary Language…

Geographic Research Area: Russia, Eurasia, and India

Teaching/Research Interests: Technology and culture, energy and the environment, media studies, and migration studies

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.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026-2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Shorna Allred

Discipline: Global Development

Primary…

Caitlín Eilís Barrett is an archaeologist who investigates everyday life, religious experience, and cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean.

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’…

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.…

Degree: MPA, Public Administration

Language: Bengali

Research Interests: Conflict Studies, Migrant/Refugee Studies, International Development, Transnational Identity

Daniel Bass is the program manager for the South Asia Program. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology and Asian studies.

Geographic Research Area: Sri Lanka, India, and South Asian diasporas

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: Population studies, reproductive health and family planning, gender and development, child health and mortality, and culture and demographic behavior

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: Development economics, field experiments, information economics, international trade, and labor economics

Degree Pursued: MEng

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024

Committee Chair/Advisor: Peter G. Jessel

Discipline: Engineering

Primary Language:…

Andrew Reid Bell is the inaugural Schleifer Family Professor of Sustainability in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. His work draws on agent-based modeling tools, informed by field and behavioral experiments.

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).

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.…

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…

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.

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…

Garrick Blalock's research interests include management of technology, firm strategy, and emerging markets.

Esam Boraey is a PhD student in the Department of Government at Cornell University, specializing in Comparative Politics with a minor focusing on International Relations.

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.

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. 

Mary Pat Brady is interested in Chicana and latinx literature, film, and culture; American literature; critical geography; and queer and critical race theory.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2023-24

Committee Chair/Advisor: Steven Ward

Discipline: Government, international relations

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Jack Brown is a Ph.D. student of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Romance Studies. He is interested in modern and contemporary Latin American fiction, especially Gothic fiction and its relation to sociopolitical issues in the region.

Geographic Research Area: Nepal, Tibet, China

Teaching/Research Interests: Geophysics, seismology, ground-penetrating radar, and geotectonics
 

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.

Taylor Burk is the Administrative Assistant in the Institute for European Studies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Global and International Studies from Pennsylvania State University. She served in Peace Corps Ecuador as an English Education Volunteer. 

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.

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…

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.

McKenzie Carrier was a double major in government and Spanish with minors in law and society, English, Latin American studies, and European studies. While at Cornell, she engaged in research as a Laidlaw Scholar and research assistant with the Xenophobia Meter…

Pilapa Esara Carroll is an associate professor of anthropology at SUNY-Brockport.

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.

Frances Cayton's research focuses on questions surrounding democratic backsliding, civil society, and political communication.

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.

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…

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.

Julia Chang is an associate 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…

Misako Chapman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. 

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 …

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027-2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo

Discipline: Southeast Asian History

Primary Language:…

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…

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…

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…

Degree Pursued: MPH

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024

Committee Chair/Advisor: Alexander J. Travis

Discipline: Public Health

Primary Language…