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.
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.
Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Alex Nading is a medical and environmental anthropologist in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research, mostly focused on Nicaragua, has examined transnational campaigns against dengue fever, bacterial disease, and chronic kidney disease, as well as grassroots…
Assistant Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History
Tejasvi Nagaraja's research and teaching focus on how class, gender, and race evolve within a changing global division of labor and geopolitics. He was a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Country Director, Oxfam in Senegal
Ndeye Khar Ndiaye works with key actors for systemic change, such as grassroots organizations, civil society, government, and the private sector. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law
Muna Ndulo, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law, is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of constitution making, governance and institution building, international criminal law, African legal systems, and human…
Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Sociology
Victor Nee's current research interests in economic sociology examines the role of networks and norms in the emergence of economic institutions and organizations.
Professor, Integrative Plant Science
My interests and objectives pertain to plant pathology, plant breeding and international agriculture. I serve as Scientific Director for The McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP), a competitive grants program that funds agricultural research…
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Jennifer Newsom's research lies in the space between real, tangible bodies made of flesh, steel, glass, etc. and the perception of these bodies through vision.
Associate Professor, Literatures in English
Professor, Cornell Tech
Helen Nissenbaum is a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Information Science.
Professor, Linguistics and Classics
Geographic Research Area: South Asia
Teaching/Research Interests: Indo-European linguistics, and Greek and Latin comparative and historical linguistics
Professor Emeritus, Art History and Asian Studies
In 1964, before he completed his PhD, Stan O'Connor was invited to become an instructor in the Department of the History of Art; this was the first university-level appointment in America of a specialist in the field of Southeast Asian art. In 1971, he was…
Zubrow Professor of Economics
Ted O'Donoghue is the Zubrow Professor of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor, Law
Lecturer, Asian Studies
Mayu Okawara Muller received her M.A. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction Major from Otterbein University, and B.A. in Liberal Arts, Global Studies in English Major from Hiroshima Jogakuin University.
Visiting Scholar
Yoshiko Okuyama (PhD, University of Arizona) is a professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Languages at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. Her areas of specialization include Japanese popular culture, disability studies, deaf studies, second language…
Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning, Professor
Sophie Oldfield is internationally recognized for her research on cities in the Global South through her theoretical and primary research. From 2016 to 2021, she held the University of Cape Town and the University of Basel Professorship in urban studies.…
Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law
Saule Omarova, Cornell Law School, specializes in the regulation of financial institutions, banking law, international finance, and corporate finance.
Senior Lecturer, Romance Studies
Denise M. Osborne is a lecturer in Portuguese in the Department of Romance Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), and her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College Columbia…
Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health and Health Policy
Steven Osofsky is the Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health and Health Policy in the College of Veterinary Medicine. His current interests include conservation of free-ranging wildlife; relationships among sustainable conservation, system resilience,…
Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
David Ost is the author of Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Reform and Opposition in Poland Since 1968 (Temple University Press 1990) and The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe (Cornell…
Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies
Banu Ozer Griffin's academic interests include teaching Turkish as a second language, curriculum design and development, and the language learning process through intercultural competence. She is an advisor for Cornell's Turkish Student Association and…
Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies
An-Yi Pan researches Buddhist Art with special interest in the relation between Chinese intellectual participation in Buddhism and Buddhist painting, Buddhist architecture in relation to precepts, monastic hieratical structure, liturgical as well as spiritual spaces…
Senior Lecturer, Indonesian
Jolanda Pandin joined the Department of Asian Studies in August 2006.
Associate Professor, CUNY-Brooklyn College
Kosal Path is assistant professor of political science. He is a survivor of the Cambodian genocide (1975-79).
Distinguished Professor, Romance Studies
Edmundo Paz-Soldan is winner of the Bolivian National Book Award (1992 and 2003), and the Juan Rulfo Short Story Award (1997).
Professor Emerita, Animal Science
Walter F. LaFeber Professor, Government
Thomas Pepinsky is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
Assistant Professor of Government
Isabel Perera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. Her research, which earned the John Heinz Award from the National Academy of Social Insurance, examines health, labor, and social policy in comparative perspective.
Senior Lecturer, Applied Economics and Management
Pedro David Perez is interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, ethics, active learning and the "flipped" classroom, methodologies, and case study methodology.
Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Art, Architecture, and Planning
Geographic Research Area: India, Nepal, China, and United States
Teaching/Research Interests: Observation and interpretation, multimedia art, and science and art
Professor Emeritus
Max Pfeffer's research interests include community development, international migration, agricultural labor, rural labor markets, land use and environmental planning, and primary data collection and field research with a particular emphasis on rural/urban fringe…
Senior Lecturer, Khmer
Hannah Phan received her MA from Cornell University's professional studies program for international development in 1998.
Professor, Romance Studies
Simone Pinet's teaching and research focus on medieval and early modern Spanish literatures and cultures, from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries, especially in relation to spatiality, economics, poetics, and translation.
Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Prabhu Pingali is director of Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition.
Geographic Research Area: India, Philippines, and Mexico
Teaching/Research Interests: Agricultural policy, nutrition, poverty,…
Professor of the Practice, Comparative Literature
Sophie Pinkham’s research focuses on post-Soviet and post-socialist literature, culture, and politics, primarily in Russia and Ukraine. Her current project is a history of the forest in the Russian imagination.
Associate Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York
Joshua Plotnik is a comparative psychologist and conservation behavior researcher who has studied elephant cognition and conservation in Thailand since 2007.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Steven Pond's research interests include jazz, and music of the African Diaspora. He is an active percussionist and drummer and director of Cornell’s Brazilian music group, Deixa Sambar.
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Alison Power's research interests include the ecology and epidemiology of plant pathogens transmitted by insects; disease systems in the northeast U.S., in Central America, and in Thailand.
Professor, Near Eastern Studies
David Powers is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies.
Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy
Geographic Research Area: India, China, and other emerging markets
Teaching/Research Interests: Macroeconomics of financial globalization, financial regulation, and monetary policy frameworks and exchange rate policies…
Associate Professor of Practice, Wildlife and Conservation Medicine
Robin Radcliffe is an associate professor of practice in wildlife and conservation medicine. His research focuses on infectious disease investigation for the rare Indonesian rhinos.
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Geographic Research Interest: India-Pakistan
Teaching/Research Interest: Anthropology of the state, ethnographic film, minority citizenship, religious nationalism.
Adjunct Professor, Plant Breeding and Genetics
Geographic Research Area: India and Bangladesh
Teaching/Research Interests: Research and technology transfers to promote agricultural innovations
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Feminist, postcolonial and queer theories, religion and secularism, medicine and the body
Professor Emeritus, Maternal and Child Nutrition
Kathleen Rasmussen's research interests include studies in experimental species, observational and intervention studies in human subjects in the US and several developing countries, and epidemiologic studies based on data from medical records and large cohorts.…
Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: History of science and technology, British empire from the 17th through the 19th centuries, science and the state, East India Company and the India Office in the…
Senior Lecturer, Global Development
Annalisa Raymer directs the Community Learning and Service Partnership (CLASP). She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Senior Lecturer, Spanish Language
Mary K. Redmond's research interests include Spanish for heritage speakers, applied linguistics, the pedagogies of language teaching, second language acquisition theory, and issues of multilingualism.
Professor Emerita, Science and Technology
Judith Reppy is professor emerita in science and technology studies. On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the Peace Studies Program was renamed to honor her long-term service and commitment to the program.
Professor, Architecture
Henry Richardson is a licensed architect, urban designer, and a nationally certified city and regional planner. Richardson conducts research on low-cost housing and urban settlement in developing countries, energy-conscious design, and the application of CAVE-based…
Former Director, Einaudi Center
Rachel Beatty Riedl served as the Einaudi Center's director from 2019 to 2024.
Teaching Associate, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India and Pakistan
Teaching/Research Interests: All levels of Urdu and advanced level of Hindi
Richard J. Schwartz Professor, Government
Kenneth Roberts teaches comparative and Latin American politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development and the politics of inequality. His research focuses on political parties, populism, labor and social movements, and democratic resilience.…
Garvin Professor of Ornithology
Amanda Rodewald’s research and interests focus on population and community responses to changes in land use, climate, invasive species, and disturbance regimes; socioecological dynamics and conservation in working landscapes; eco-evolutionary dynamics in human-…
Professor Emeritus
Eloy Rodriguez is a research scientist of chemical biology, ecology and medicinal chemistry, and toxicology of natural small molecules and glycoproteins from plants and arthropods that are important in ecological and biological interactions and human and animal…
Assistant Professor, History
Kristin Roebuck is drafting a book manuscript entitled Japan Reborn: Race and the Family of Nations after World War II.
Associate, History Department, Harvard University
Leslie Rogne Schumacher, PhD, FRSA, FRHistS is a scholar of Europe and the Middle East. He currently holds affiliations at Harvard University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Additionally, Dr…
Associate Professor, Government
Bryn Rosenfeld's research interests include political behavior, development and democratization, protest, post-communist politics, and survey methodology.
Executive Director, Einhorn Center for Community Engagement
Basil is responsible for providing senior leadership, planning and strategy development in support of the Einhorn Center to shape a wide range of projects and initiatives in community engagement.
Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences
David E. Sahn is an international professor of economics in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Department of Economics. Since 2015, he has been a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts in Asian Studies
Naoki Sakai teaches in the departments of Asian studies and comparative literature and is a member of the graduate field of history at Cornell University.
Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Juno Salazar Parreñas is a feminist science studies scholar who examines human-animal relations, environmental issues, and efforts to institutionalize justice. Parreñas’ book, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke UP,…
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Rachel Sandwell is an historian of modern Africa and transnational solidarity movements, with a focus on late decolonization, national liberation movements, and international support for national liberation movements.
Emeritus, Hu Shih Distinguished Professor
Paul Steven Sangren is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Taiwan and China. His earliest published work combines insights drawn from structuralist theory with practice-oriented critiques to illuminate Chinese ritual processes and…
Associate Professor Emerita, Anthropology
Vilma Santiago-Irizarry’s research has focused on the unintended consequences, paradoxes, and contradictions generated in the articulation and deployment of ethnoracial identity constructs, particularly in the United States and in institutional settings, where they…
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…
Senior Lecturer, Tagalog
Maria Theresa C. Savella teaches all levels of Tagalog (Filipino). She is co-author with John Wolff and Der-Hwa Rau of Filipino Through Self-Instruction (1991, rev.
Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning
Stephan Schmidt's research interests concern land-use policy, patterns, and processes.
Assistant Professor, History
Casey Schmitt is a historian of early America and the Caribbean, with particular interests in human trafficking, colonization, and illicit economies over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Associate Professor, Sociology
Landon Schnabel's research focuses on the intersection of inequality, gender, sexualities, religion, public opinion, and social change.
Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science
Fred Schneider's research supports the construction of concurrent and distributed systems for high-integrity and mission-critical settings.
Horace White Professor in Biology, Professor Emeritus
Thomas Seeley, College of Arts and Sciences, teaches courses on animal behavior and does research on the behavior and social life of honey bees.
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Ronojoy Sen is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. He has worked for over a decade with leading Indian newspapers, most recently as an editor for …
Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science
Suman Seth works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of science and medicine. His interests include the history of medicine, race, and colonialism, the physical sciences (particularly quantum theory), & gender and science.
Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
Linda Shi's research and professional practice focus on urban environmental governance and advancing planning policies to manage the urban climate transition in ways that improve social equity.
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology and Asian Studies
James Siegel retired from full-time teaching in 2007. He is the last of the second-generation SEAP faculty to retire. Like other emeritus SEAP faculty, he retains an office at the Kahin Center and is available to help mentor future scholars of Southeast Asia.…
Associate Professor, German Studies
Elke Siegel's research is in German literature from 1900 to the present, literary theory, and psychoanalysis.
Professor of Practice, Systems Engineering
Semida Silveira is a Professor of Practice in the Systems Engineering Program and a member of the CEET Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition.
Executive Director, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW), Shenandoah University
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: All levels of Hindi language
Director, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Rebecca Slayton is an associate professor of science and technology studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research and teaching focus on international security, governance, and cooperation since World War II.
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology
The central preoccupation of Adam Smith's research and writing is the role that the material world—everyday objects, representational media, natural and built landscapes—plays in our political lives.
Professor, Integrative Plant Science, Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Since August 2020, Margaret Smith has served as the director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station and associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research is primarily on field corn, but also includes work on sweet corn.…
Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
Dotsevi Sogah's research covers the design and synthesis of new polymers, preparation of protein-based polymers, and application of living polymerization methods to surface functionalization of nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes.
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Suyoung Son is a literary and cultural historian of early modern China (1500-1900). Her research focuses on the narrative tradition and social practice of writing and reading in the historical conditions of print culture, commercialization, and urbanization.
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Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Meejeong Song has experience teaching all levels of Korean at Cornell. Her research interests include Second Language Acquisition, web-based teaching material development, interactive student group project development, and technology-aided teaching methodology.
Associate Professor, Literatures in English
Derrick Spires is an associate professor of literatures in English and affiliate faculty in American, visual, and media studies. He specializes in early African American and American print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history.…
Professor, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Kathryn Stam is a professor of anthropology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. She serves as the coordinator of the online master’s program in information design and technology, and she teaches undergraduate anthropology.
Associate Professor of Playwriting, Department of Theatre Studies, Ithaca College
Saviana Stanescu is a Romanian-born poet and writer, and an award-winning playwright and ARTivist based in NY. She is the winner of New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Script, Samuel French OOB Festival, Best Romanian Play of the Year UNITER Award, and…
Professor, Near Eastern Studies
Deborah Starr is Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Film in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan.