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, Saint Louis University
Nori Katagiri is assistant professor of political science at Saint Louis University. He teaches and conducts research on international relations, security studies, and East Asia.
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…
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
Migrations Faculty Fellow
Gunisha Kaur coleads the Einaudi Center's Migrations research team, focused on advancing the health of U.S. refugee and immigrant populations.
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 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
Domestic Affiliate Scholar
Yaro T. Kulchyckyj holds a Doctor of International Affairs and a Masters of International Public Policy degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (JHU-SAIS). He wrote his doctoral dissertation on U.S.
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.
Andrew J. Nathanson Family Professor of Industrial Relations
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…
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.
Assistant Professor, International and Comparative Labor
Desirée LeClercq's research explores incoherence between international labor law and U.S. trade law and constitutional law. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Professor, 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).
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.
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.
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
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 …
Associate Professor, Clark University
Ken MacLean is an associate professor of international development and social change and a faculty member at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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
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.
Associate Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History
Veronica Martínez-Matsuda’s research agenda is motivated by the following central questions: How do those excluded from the legal and everyday rights of American citizenship because of their political status, racial identity, or class standing as low-wage workers,…
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, University of Leeds
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.
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.
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.
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
LACS Visiting Scholar
Originally from Quito, Ecuador, Martin Mejia Carrillo is a PhD Candidate (ABD) at Tulane University and a lecturer in Politics at Universidad de Palermo. In the LACS program, he is a visiting doctoral intern for fall 2023, working under the supervision of Kenneth…
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,…
Professor Emeritus, Horticulture
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.
CO+POS Director and Associate Professor, History
Mostafa Minawi studies different forms of imperialism in the Middle East and Northeast Africa. He is the director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) at the Einaudi Center.
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.
Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY-Oswego
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,…
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.
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Alex Nading is a medical and environmental anthropologist. His research, mostly focused on Nicaragua, has examined transnational campaigns against dengue fever, bacterial disease, and chronic kidney disease, as well as grassroots movements to address these issues.…
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 is 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 of Architecture
Jennifer Newsom coleads the Einaudi Center's inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority.
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
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.
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 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 and coeditor of Workers after Workers' States: Labor and Politics in Postcommunist Eastern Europe.
Ithaca Seminar Coordinator and Associate Professor
Shaianne Osterreich is an associate professor of economics at Ithaca College. Her research interests are international trade, poverty alleviation, and gender, and she has been working on/with Indonesia since 2006. In 2005-2006 she was a Senior Fulbright…
