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.
Oxfam in Southern Africa Program Director
Dailes Judge's work focuses on building networks and strategic alliances with local movements, national and regional organizations. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Professor of History, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Matt Kadane is the author of The Enlightenment and Original Sin (Chicago, 2024), The Watchful Clothier (Yale, 2013), and articles and essays that have appeared in The American Historical Review, Past and…
Just Economies Program and Policy Manager, Oxfam in Southern Africa
Mathias Burton Kafunda's work is in the policy and human rights sectors, focusing on long-term development and humanitarian program management. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs
Ravi Kanbur is well-known for his role in policy analysis and engagement in international development. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank.
Assistant Professor, Design and Environmental Analysis
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao is an assistant professor in the College of Human Ecology and a field faculty in Information Science. She founded and directs the Hybrid Body Lab, which focuses on the invention of culturally-inspired materials, processes, and tools for…
Associate Director, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Sabrina Karim is an associate professor in the Department of Government. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, particularly state building in the aftermath of civil war.
Geographic Research Area: Sub-Saharan Africa,…
Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management
Andrew Karolyi's research focuses on investment management and international financial markets.
International Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies
Karim-Aly Kassam's research interests include human and environmental relations and indigenous ways of knowing.
Associate Professor, University of Sarajevo
Larisa Kasumagić- Kafedžić, a 2003-04 Cornell University Humphrey Fellow Alumni spent the 2022-23 academic year at Cornell as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow, where she focused on teaching a course on Global Citizenship Education and worked on her research…
Professor, Saint Louis University
Nori Katagiri is a professor of political science at Saint Louis University. He teaches and conducts research on international relations, security studies, and East Asia.
Stephen and Evalyn Professor of American Studies Emerita
Geographic Research Area: India and United States
Teaching/Research Interests: Incarceration, political activism, ethnic activism, and gender
Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies
Peter Katzenstein is the Einaudi Center's Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies in the Department of Government, College of Arts and Sciences. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and…
Medical Director, Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights
Gunisha Kaur is an anesthesiologist specializing in global health and human rights, particularly among displaced populations. She serves as medical director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights and as director of the Anesthesiology Global Health Initiative…
Associate Professor, SUNY-Brockport
Neal Keating is a cultural anthropologist interested in the problems of structural power in the contemporary world.
Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer’s research focuses on immigration and human rights.
Professor, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology
Andre Kessler is a chemical ecologist in the College of Arts and Sciences, whose research focuses on the mechanisms, ecological consequences, and the evolution of plant induced responses to herbivore damage.
Senior Lecturer, Burmese
Yu Yu Khaing has been teaching Burmese at Cornell since 2015 and has developed a variety of teaching materials including multimedia courses. She continues to expand her offerings on the Web Audio Lab platform.
Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies
Lori Khatchadourian examines the ongoing effort to grapple with the relationship between imperialism and the vast world of material things.
Assistant Professor
Adhy Kim (he/they)* is an assistant professor in the Literatures in English Department and the Asian American Studies Program. His research is situated at the intersection of Asian and Asian American literary studies, with a focus on Korea, Japan, and their…
Assistant Director of Programs and Pedagogical Innovation, ILR
Stephen Kim’s research focuses on critical dialogue; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; ethnic studies; and early modern literature and culture.
Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay Jr. Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering
Professor, Natural Resource Policy and Management
Barbara Knuth is interested in the social science and policy dimensions of ecosystem-based management in Great Lakes and marine systems, risk communication and management associated with chemical contaminants in fish, and environmental stewardship related to…
Professor Emeritus, History
The focal point of Victor Koschmann's research is the nexus between political thought and action, primarily but not exclusively in twentieth-century Japan.
John L. Wetherill Professor
Sarah Kreps's teaching and research focus on the intersection of international politics, technology, and national security.
Senior Lecturer, Comparative Literature
Associate Professor, House Professor, and Dean, Carl Becker House
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Urbanization, planning theory, research methods, transborder/transdiscipline engaged learning
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
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.
Acting Director, Southeast Asia Program (Spring 2025)
Sarosh Kuruvilla is Cornell University's Andrew J. Nathanson Family Professor of Industrial Relations, Asian Studies, and Public Affairs. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
Associate Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Steven Kyle is an associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He works in the areas of macroeconomic policy in the United States and in low-income countries.
Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor, Law
Ian Kysel is a core faculty member in Cornell Law School's Migration and Human Rights Program and codirects the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic. As a 2020–21 Global Public Voices fellow, he collaborated with Maya Sahli…
Assistant Professor, Economics
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interest: Applied Economics & Policy, International Development, Economic Theory
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Stacey A. Langwick, College of Arts and Sciences, is an anthropologist of healing and medicine in Africa.
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Naomi Nakada Larson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Emeritus and Graduate School Professor, Natural Resources
James P. Lassoie is interested in international conservation and sustainable development in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Canada, and the United States.
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Jane Marie Law received her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago, where her work in history of religions focused on Japanese ritual performance and ritual studies.…
Senior Lecturer and Stephen H. Weiss Provost’s Teaching Fellow, Romance Studies
Cecelia Lawless teaches both language and literature/film courses as a senior lecturer. For several years, she was the faculty fellow for the Spanish Language House at Alice Cook.
Professor Emeritus, Applied Economics and Management
David Lee is interested in economic development, agriculture, and the environment, including food security, sustainable agriculture, technology adoption, environmental services, climate change, and agricultural and environmental policy.
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences
Johannes Lehmann is interested in soil biogeochemistry, fertility management, organic matter, and carbon and nutrient cycling from wastes; Soil carbon sequestration and biochar systems; Sustainable agriculture in the tropics.
Assistant Professor, Design and Environmental Analysis
Renata Leitão's research focuses on the empowerment and self-determination of Indigenous and marginalized communities. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
PACS Steering Committee Member
Lecturer, Asian Studies
Fangfang Li is a lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy
Shanjun Li is the Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He serves as the co-director of Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER).
Assistant Professor, Global Development
Chuan Liao is an interdisciplinary sustainability and environmental social scientist. Chuan’s research interest lies at the intersection of environment, development, and justice.
Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies
Nancy P. Lin is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Studies. She specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese art and architecture with a particular interest in the relationship between art and urbanism.
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Rui Liu received her MA in Literary Theory in 2002 from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, and her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature in 1999 from Shaanxi Normal University in China.
Assistant Professor of Health Equity and Public Policy
Geographic Research Area: South Asia, Brazil, Tanzania, Somalia, Nigeria, and the United States.
Professor, History
Tamara Loos is professor of history and Asian studies. Her most recent book, Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur (2016), tells the story of Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935).
Associate Professor, English
Philip Lorenz received his PhD from New York University. His teaching and research focus on English and Spanish literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in relation to problems of sovereignty and political theology.
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Farzin Lotfi-Jam is an architect whose work explores the politics of technology and cities. He is an assistant professor in architecture at Cornell University where he directs the Realtime Urbanism Lab.
Einaudi Center Director
Ellen Lust is Einaudi's John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and a professor in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and Department of Government (A&S).
Professor Emerita, Human Development
Geographic Research Area: Sri Lanka
Teaching/Research Interests: Cognitive science, developmental psychology, and linguistics
Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, and Clinical Program Director
Beth Lyon’s research focuses on deportation defense, migrant rights, and xenophobic hate speech.
Professor Emeritus, Economics
Tom Lyons studies China's recent economic history. He is especially interested in spatial aspects of development, including patterns of regional specialization and interregional trade, spatial disparities in output and consumption, and institutions and policies that…
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Shaoling Ma is an interdisciplinary scholar and critical theorist of global Chinese history, literature, and media.
Senior Research Associate
Ed Mabaya is a scholar and a development practitioner with more than two decades of experience working on development, agribusiness value chains and food security issues with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Senior Research Associate in the …
Professor, Clark University
Ken MacLean is a professor of international development and social change and a faculty member at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Irving Porter Church Professor in Engineering
Professor Mahowald has undergraduate degrees in German and physics from Washington University, an M.S. in natural resource policy from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in meteorology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Emeritus, Economics
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Sustainable economic development, intertemporal decentralization, dynamical systems, and allocation theory and international trade theory
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
Senior Lecturer, Spanish and Romance Studies
Nilsa Maldonado-Mendez's interests include feminism and religion in Spanish-speaking countries, teaching Spanish to heritage speakers, history, and women writers in the Spanish-speaking Americas.
Professor Emerita, Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: Nepal and the Himalayas
Teaching/Research Interests: Gender, ethnicity, religion and culture
Professor, Government and Law
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…
Professor Emeritus, Law
Peter W. Martin, the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law, emeritus, and former dean of Cornell Law School, writes, speaks, and consults on topics that concern the impact of technology on the functioning of law and legal institutions.
Visiting Scholar
James Mason is a system scientist focused on the intersection of human capital, social capital, entrepreneurship, and economic development as a complex adaptive system.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Center for Global Health at Weill Cornell Medicine
Geographic Research Area: India, Haiti and South Africa
Senior Associate Dean, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs
Patrizia McBride is director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies and professor in the Department of German Studies.
Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Although Duncan McCargo is best known for his agenda-setting contributions to current debates on the politics of Thailand, his work is centrally concerned with the nature of power. How do entrenched elites seek to retain power in the face of challenges from new…
Professor, Integrative Plant Science
Susan McCouch's research focuses on rice and includes publishing the first molecular map of the rice genome in 1988. She spent five years with the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines before joining the Cornell faculty.
Professor, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Sanskrit poetics, text interpretation, and Buddhist studies
Associate Professor, Soil & Crop Sciences
Geographic Research Interest: India, Nepal, Bangladesh
Teaching/Research Interest: sustainable agriculture, food security, rural livelihoods, ecosystem services, social change processes
Associate Professor, History of Art
Kaja McGowan’s studies the reciprocal relationships between neighboring countries in South and Southeast Asia.
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Peter Mcintyre is an aquatic conservation ecologist and the Dwight Webster Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. Working with a wide range of collaborators, he develop management approaches that balance human interests with protecting biodiversity.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Daniel McKee's research interests include verbal-visual relations, Tokugawa period art and literature, comedy in Japanese art and literature, and kyōka and haikai poetry.
Clinical Professor, Law
Estelle McKee has practiced immigration law for two decades and teaches the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Robin McNeal received his PhD from the University of Washington in ancient Chinese history. His teaching at Cornell includes classical Chinese language, text studies, and history and thought of the pre-imperial and early imperial eras.
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Frances Yufen Lee Mehta is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
Associate Professor, Global Health, Epidemiology, and Nutrition
Geographic Research Area: India, Kenya, and Ecuador
Teaching/Research Interests: Infectious disease, nutrition, and epidemiology
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature; Institute of Comparative Modernities; Literatures in English
Natalie Melas' interests range across Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature and thought, modern Greek, modern French and modern English poetry, comparison, modernism and colonialism, modern reconfigurations of antiquity, Homer, Césaire, Cavafy,…
Visiting Fellow, George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Mertha is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Director of the China Studies Program, and Director of the SAIS China Research Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Professor Emeritus, Horticulture
Assistant Research Professor, CIS/Dyson
Aleksandr Michuda is an assistant research professor at the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. He studies how machine learning and big data can be used to solve problems in development economics.
Senior Lecturer, Music
Christopher Miller is a scholar and musician whose interests and activities revolve around two points of focus: experimental music, and the music of Indonesia, especially Central Javanese gamelan.
Associate Professor, History
Mostafa Minawi studies different forms of imperialism in the Middle East and Northeast Africa.
Assistant Professor
Drisana Misra is a scholar of the Japanese archipelago and its transregional connections with the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Professor, English
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Critical theory, 20th-century literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, and modernism and postmodernism
Visiting Critic
Nicaraguan political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina was an Artist Protection Fund fellow in the Einaudi Center’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) and continues his engagement as a visiting critic.
Professor, Food Science
Carmen Moraru's research and teaching interests are in the areas of physical and engineering properties of foods, food/dairy processing, and food safety engineering.
Senior Lecturer
Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner is a senior lecturer and teaching faculty at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech
Greg Morrisett is the dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech, a New York City–based campus focused on graduate education that integrates technology, business, law, and design in service of economic impact and societal good.
Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University
Micah F. Morton earned his PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015.
Associate Professor of Practice, Public & Ecosystem Health, Veterinary Medicine
Jeanne Moseley is an Associate Professor of Practice with Cornell University's MPH Program in the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health, College of Veterinary Medicine.
Associate Professor Emeritus, Horticulture
Jane Mt. Pleasant's research interests include indigenous agriculture and plants and well-being. She is a national expert in Iroquois agriculture.
Associate Professor, Onondaga Community College
Mark Muhammad is a member of the Nation of Islam, which influences his research. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Assistant Professor, History
Nicholas Mulder works on European and international history from 1870 to the present. His research focuses on political, economic, and intellectual history, with particular attention to the era of the world wars between 1914 and 1945.
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Asian American Studies
Viranjini Munasinghe's research interests focus on nationalism, race and ethnicity, creolization and indigeneity, Asian American Studies, South Asian Diaspora, Labor and Political Economy of Plantation Societies, Historical Anthropology, Anthropological Theory,…
Assistant Professor, Performing and Media Arts
Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz’s research is at the intersection of performance studies, illegality and citizenship, borderlands studies, critical phenomenology, and critical dance studies.
Advisory Council Member
Rohan Murty is a technology entrepreneur. He holds a PhD in computer science from Harvard and a BS from Cornell. His dissertation work on white spaces networking was seminal in opening up a new area of research.
Professor, Policy Analysis and Management
Kelly Musick's research focuses on family change and social inequality in the contemporary United States and other industrialized countries. It has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Russell Sage…
Associate Professor, Mahidol University
Sudarat Musikawong teaches Social Impact of Mass Media, Global Cities: Urban Sociology, Globalization/International Studies, Sociology of Southeast Asia, Qualitative Research Methods, US Immigration & International Migration, and Sociological Theory.
