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.
Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
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.
Lecturer, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: Nepal
Teaching/Research Interests: Teaching Nepali as a second language
Assistant Professor, Government
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.
Programs and Campaigns Lead, Oxfam in Ghana
Mohammed-Anwar Sadat Adam focuses on strategy, policy analysis, research, campaign, and advocacy leadership for Ghana's social and economic justice issues. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies
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.
Associate Professor, Colorado State University
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…
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature and the past director of the Contemporary China Initiative.
Professor, Entomology
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.
Professor, Architectural Theory
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.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
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.
Ph.D., Lecturer in History
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…
Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies
Annetta Alexandridis' research interests include Roman sculpture, Greek myth and iconography, archaeology and its media (photography, plaster casts), gender studies, animal studies.
Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College
Matthew Amster is a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker with extensive experience working in Borneo and, more recently, has started a new project in Denmark.
Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies
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,…
Senior Lecturer, Performing and Media Arts
Panagiotis Angelopoulos is a senior lecturer in the Department of Performing and Media Arts.
Assistant Professor Department of Global Labor at Work
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.
Professor, African and African Diaspora
N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is a professor of Africa and the African diaspora, comparative and international education, social institutions, African social history, and gender studies.
Research Fellow, Australian National University
Rini Astuti's research focuses on Indonesia's extensive peat fires, deforestation, and climate politics. She 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Adjunct Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Iwan Jaya Azis is an adjunct professor of applied economics and policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
Faculty Director, International Relations Minor
Oumar Ba's research focuses on international criminal justice and human rights for globally marginalized people. He is faculty director of the Einaudi Center's international relations minor. He is a 2024 Global Public Voices freedom of expression fellow.
Professor, Law
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…
Senior Lecturer, Polish Language
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,…
Professor, Comparative Literature
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.
Associate Professor, Performing and Media Arts and Asian American Studies
Christine Bacareza Balance's research focuses on performance studies, popular music/culture studies, critical Filipino/Filipino American studies, and transnational Asian American studies.
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Geographic Research Area: Russia, Eurasia, and India
Teaching/Research Interests: Technology and culture, energy and the environment, media studies, and migration studies
Professor, History
Edward Baptist's research focuses on the history of the 19th-century United States, and in particular on the history of the enslavement of African Americans in the South.
William Nelson Cromwell Professor Emeritus, Law School
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.
Associate Professor, Classics
Caitlín Eilís Barrett is an archaeologist who investigates everyday life, religious experience, and cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean.
Professor, Applied Economics and Management
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.…
Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Ernesto Bassi Arevalo is an associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the role circulation (of goods, people, news, and ideas) plays in the configuration of geographic spaces and political allegiances.
Visiting Scholar, and Former Professor, Department of Global Development
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
Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Development economics, field experiments, information economics, international trade, and labor economics
Carl Marks Professor of International Studies
Kaushik Basu is the Einaudi Center's Carl Marks Professor of International Studies and professor of economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is is cofounder of Cornell Research Academy of Development, Law, and Economics (CRADLE), one of Einaudi's…
Professor, City and Regional Planning
Victoria Beard is interested in the relationship between community-based planning and poverty in the global south. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Schleifer Family Associate Professor of Sustainability, Global Development
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.
Director, Institute for European Studies
Mabel Berezin is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Sociology at Cornell University. Her expertise lies in the area of extreme and exclusionary forms of nationalism, such as fascism and right-wing populist politics, in Europe and worldwide.
Assistant Professor, Music
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).
Director, South Asia Program
Sarah Besky is Professor of the Anthropology of Work in the Department of Global Labor & Work at the ILR School. Her research explores the intersection of inequality, nature, and capitalism in the Himalayas.
Director, Institute for African Development
Rachel Bezner Kerr is a professor of global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Her research interests converge on the broad themes of sustainable agriculture, food security, health, nutrition, and social inequalities.
Professor, Vassar College
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.
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Asian Studies
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…
Assistant Professor, Government
Alexandra Blackman's research focuses on the relationship between political regimes and religious institutions. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Associate Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Garrick Blalock's research interests include management of technology, firm strategy, and emerging markets.
Program Director, Oxfam in Kenya
Blandina Bobson's work focuses on the development and humanitarian sector, with an emphasis on program design and implementation. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
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.
Professor, Near Eastern Studies
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.
Associate Professor, Literatures in English
Mary Pat Brady is interested in Chicana and latinx literature, film, and culture; American literature; critical geography; and queer and critical race theory.
Sidney Kaufman Professor in Geophysics
Geographic Research Area: Nepal, Tibet, China
Teaching/Research Interests: Geophysics, seismology, ground-penetrating radar, and geotectonics
Clinical Professor, Law
Elizabeth Brundige’s research focuses on law/gender justice, and international human rights.
Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies Emerita
Valerie Bunce's research focuses on democratization, authoritarianism, state-building, state collapse, and U.S. foreign policy and its support of democratic and authoritarian regimes.
Professor, History
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.
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
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…
Associate Professor, Government
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.
Associate Professor, Anthropology, SUNY-Brockport
Pilapa Esara Carroll is an associate professor of anthropology at SUNY-Brockport.
Director of Graduate Studies, Regional Science; Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning
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.
Senior Lecturer of Management; Director, Emerging Markets Institute, S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
Lourdes Casanova’s work focuses on environmental policy, government, politics, and policy studies as well as emerging multinationals from Brazil and Latin America.
Faculty Advisor, Migration Studies Minor
Debra Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Chair of Hispanic Studies and professor of comparative literature. She is faculty director of the Einaudi Center's migration studies minor.
Retired Professor, Graduate School
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.
Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asia Law & Director of Clarke Program in East Asian Law & Culture, Cornell Law School
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.
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
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…
Associate Professor, History
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…
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Misako Chapman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor, Applied Economics and Policy
Nancy H. Chau's research interests fall under three main areas: international trade, regional economics, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the economics of information and uncertainty.
Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Associate, History
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…
Associate Professor, Architecture
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…
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: Bangladesh and India
Teaching/Research Interests: Teaching Bangla as a second language
Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Ralph Dean Christy teaches and conducts food marketing research and educational programs on the economic performance of markets and distribution systems.
Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning
Geographic Research Area: India, China, Ukraine, Fiji, and United States
Teaching/Research Interests: Historic cements, modernist architecture, cultural exchange, and sustainable development
Assistant Professor, Department of Government
Richard Clark’s research focuses on international organization, international political economy, and international relations.
Research Associate, K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics
Dena Clink's principal scientific interests are in the behavioral ecology and evolution of acoustic signals. Her research focuses on primate acoustic communication from a comparative and evolutionary perspective.
Hu Shih Professor Emeritus
Cochran joined the Cornell faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 1986.
International Professor Emeritus of Plant Breeding and Genetics
Geographic Research Area: South Asia
Teaching/Research Interests: Agricultural biotechnology, intellectual property, international agriculture, international development, and plant breeding and genetics
Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies
Ananda Cohen-Aponte works on the visual culture of colonial Latin America, with special interests in issues of cross-cultural exchange, historicity, identity, and anti-colonial movements.
Professor, Linguistics
Abby Cohn is a professor of linguistics and Southeast Asian studies. Her research interests include the Austronesian languages of Indonesia, with a particular focus on their phonetics, phonology, and morphology.
Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature
Liliana Colanzi's research focuses on popular genres in modern and contemporary Latin American literature (science fiction, horror, the fantastic); she also teaches creative writing workshops. She has edited La desobediencia, antología de ensayo…
Senior Lecturer, Labor Relations, Law, and History
Lance Compa is interested in international law, human rights, worker’s rights, and studies of workers' rights in the United States. He has conducted workers' rights investigations and reports on Cambodia, Chile, China, Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico, and Sri Lanka among…
Professor Emeritus, International and Comparative Labor
Maria Cook is interested in labor rights and labor law reform in Latin America; labor unions and democratization in Mexico; transnational movements, trade, and regional integration; unauthorized migration and migrant advocacy; and comparative immigration policies.…
Visiting Scholar ’22-’25
David Cordero-Heredia, J.S.D. ’18 is an Associate Professor of Law, at Universidad Católica del Ecuador currently visiting Cornell University as Visiting Fellow of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.
Clinical Professor, Cornell Law School
Angela Cornell is the founding director of the Labor Law Clinic and teaches Labor Law, Practice and Policy as well as related courses. She has extensive experience in the field of labor and employment law, immigrant workers and international labor law.
Marie Underhill Noll Professor, History
Raymond Craib's research and teaching interests revolve around the intersections of space, politics, and everyday practice. He is especially interested in Latin America and/as global history, critical geography/cartography, the left, and theory and history.
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Assistant Professor, Policy Analysis and Management
Jamein Cunningham is interested in the intersectionality of institutional discrimination, access to social justice, crime and criminal justice, and race and economic inequality. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
John H. Burris Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies
Geographic Research Area: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Middle East
Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary art, methodology and intellectual history, and film, media, and popular cultures
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Professor Emerita, Asian Studies, Comparative Literature
Brett de Bary holds a joint appointment with the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell.
Professor Emeritus, Crop and Soil Sciences
Stephen DeGloria is interested in resource inventory, mapping, and analysis; remote sensing; geographic information science and technology; and soil survey, interpretations, and conservation.
Assistant Professor, Information and Computer Science
Nicola Dell is an assistant professor based at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City. Her research interests are in human-computer interaction and information and communication technologies and development.
Director of Horticulture, Cornell Botanic Gardens
Emily Detrick is the director of horticulture for the Cornell Botanic Gardens.
Professor, Psychology
Timothy Devoogd studies how the brains of birds encode learned behaviors like song or memory for food locations. Particular questions now being studied include the neural basis for female song discrimination, and the interplay between the hippocampus and other brain…
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
A scholar of sexuality, race, biopolitics, and postcoloniality, Diabate’s research explores African, African American, Caribbean, and Afro-Hispanic literatures, cultures, cinema, and new media.
Associate Professor, Department of Public & Ecosystem Health
Kate Dickin conducts formative, implementation, and evaluation research to enhance the effectiveness of programs to improve nutritional status and reduce health inequities in the U.S. and globally.
Senior Lecturer, Chinese language
Stephanie Divo received her PhD in modern Chinese literature at Cornell University. She has taught Mandarin Chinese in the Department of Asian Studies since 1999.
Governance and Research Specialist, Oxfam Novib in Vietnam
Duong Do focuses on multidimensional inequalities, including how gender, climate change, development doctrines, and energy transitions intersect and induce inequalities. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Anne Evans Estabrook Professor, International and Comparative Labor, ILR School
Virginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution in the ILR School at Cornell University.
South Asia Program Associate Faculty
Tobias Doerr earned his PhD in Molecular Microbiology from Northeastern University, working in the lab of Dr. Kim Lewis. Doerr then conducted postdoctoral training as an HHMI fellow in molecular pathogenesis in the lab of Dr. Matthew Waldor at Harvard Medical School…
Associate Professor, Architecture
Timur Dogan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and the director of the M.Arch. Program and the Environmental Systems Lab. Dogan holds a Ph.D. from MIT, an MDES from Harvard GSD, and a Dipl. Ing. in Architecture with distinction from the…
Professor Emeritus, City and Regional Planning
Kieran Donaghy's research and teaching focus on issues of globalization, development ethics, climate change and environmental policy, macroeconomic modeling, regional planning, infrastructure systems, and international conflict resolution.
Professor of French, Francophone & Comparative Literature
Laurent Dubreuil is the Director of the French Studies Program at Cornell. In his research, he aims to explore the powers of literary and artistic thinking at the interface of social thought, the humanities and the sciences.
Director, Cornell Farmworker Program; Senior Extension Associate, Global Development
Mary Jo Dudley is the Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program (a collaborative effort of CALS, CHE and CCE), and a faculty member of the Department of Global Development.
Associate Professor, History
Mara Du’s research focuses on the history of modern China (17th century to the present), particularly on law, gender, and state-building.
Professor of the Practice, Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy
Alexandra Dufresne's research focuses on law and policy, children's rights, refugee rights, and state-level policy and advocacy. She is a 2024 Global Public Voices freedom of expression fellow.
