More than 350 faculty from across Cornell come together at the Einaudi Center to imagine and conduct global research. Over 150 graduate and undergraduate students find resources, inspiration, and a global scholarly community through Einaudi's eight regional and thematic programs and minors.
Program Manager
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…
Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Harold van Es is a Professor of Soil and Water Management with extension, research and teaching duties.
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Matthew Velasco is an anthropological bioarchaeologist who studies ancient populations of the Peruvian Andes through the analysis of their skeletal remains.
LACS Graduate Fellow '25-'26
Gorka Villar Vásquez (Puerto Varas, Chile) is a PhD student in History. Fulbright- ANID Chile Scholarship. Author of the books Compromiso militante y producción historiográfica. Hernán Ramírez Necochea y Julio César…
Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Humanities, Performing and Media Arts
Amy Villarejo has published widely in cinema and media studies, with research on feminist and queer media, documentary film, Brazilian cinema, Indian cinema, American television, critical theory, and cultural studies.
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Sofia A. Villenas is interested in how people teach and learn across home, school and community contexts, and how difference is constituted and made consequential in these endeavors.
Professor, Literatures in English
Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories and two novels, Under the Feet of Jesus and Their Dogs Came with Them. A recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the John Dos Passos Award for Literature…
Professor, City and Regional Planning, and Global Development
Mildred Warner is an international expert on restructuring local government services, how to plan for more child- and age-friendly cities, and how to promote environmental sustainability at the local level.
Vice Provost for International Affairs
Vice Provost Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Kelly Zamudio is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and faculty curator of Herpetology at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.
