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, History
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, 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…
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Development
Kurt Waldman is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. He studies judgment and decision making related to environmental sustainability, climate adaptation and food security.
Director of Collections, Cornell Library
Director, East Asia Program and Professor, Government
Jeremy Wallace is a professor in the Department of Government. He is the director of the East Asia Program for the term 2022-2025.
Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government
Nicolas van de Walle's primary field is comparative politics. His teaching and research focuses on the political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa, on democratization, and on the politics of economic reform.
Professor Emeritus, Economics
Henry Wan's research focuses on development under globalization, the economics of East Asia, industrial policy, and welfare economics of international trade.
Professor of Human Development, Psychology, and Cognitive Science
Qi Wang is professor of human development, psychology, and cognitive science at Cornell University. She is the past associate director of the Cornell East Asia Program and former department chair of human development.
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.
Stephen H. Weiss Junior Fellow
Sara Warner is an associate professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences. The current director of Cornell's LGBT Studies Program, Warner is an affiliate faculty member in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexual Studies Program; Africana…
Senior Associate Director of International Admissions, College of Arts and Sciences
Patricia Wasyliw is a senior associate director of international admissions, and an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Associate Professor
Christopher Way is an associate professor of government. He is a member of the peace studies minor faculty in the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Indonesia is a major focus of Andrew Weintraub's research, particularly the musical, narrative, and theatrical practices of Sundanese people in West Java.
Michael J. Zak Chair of China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Government
Professor, SUNY-Albany
Meredith Weiss's research is in the field of comparative politics, focusing on Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.
Professor, Linguistics
Geographic Research Area: South Asia
Teaching/Research Interests: Indo-European linguistics, especially the historical phonology and morphology of Greek, Latin and the Sabellic languages
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Welker's research centers on the ethical relationship between business and society. Her first project was an ethnographic study of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) industry that creates and installs voluntary social and environmental codes of conduct and…
Associate Professor, SUNY-Cortland
Future teachers often travel in Orvil White’s science methods class. Some go back in time to their elementary school days and some head to Thailand, both studying forces of motion through roller coaster models and properties of water through optical illusions.…
Professor, Linguistics
Whitman's main interest is the problem of language variation: its limits (how much specific subsystems can vary across languages) and predictors (what typological features co-occur systematically).
Professor, Anthropology
Andrew C. Willford is a professor of anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University.
Faculty Director, Migration Studies Minor
Lindy Williams is a professor emerita in the Department of Global Development.
Senior Lecturer, Romance Studies
Kora E. Bättig von Wittelsbach is director of the Cornell-in-Turin Summer Program in modern European politics and the recipient of the Carpenter Award for Distinguished Advising and Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Associate Professor
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Environment, sustainable livelihoods, forest governance
Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and Asian Studies
Research Interests: Historical linguistics, lexicography, Austronesian linguistics
Assistant Professor, SC Johnson College of Business
Sarah Wolfolds is the Andrew M. Paul Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow and assistant professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Wolfolds's research examines the interaction between for-profit and nonprofit organizations in industries…
Vice Provost for International Affairs
Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research includes work on international development, land use and distribution, social mobilization, agrarian societies, and critical…
Professor Emerita, Architecture
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary urbanism and architecture and comparative modernities in the global south and global north
Professor, Asian Studies
Ding Xiang Warner's research interests include Chinese literature and literary thought from Han dynasty through the early Song, early and medieval Chinese intellectual history, and the study of textual production and text culture in premodern China.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Government
XU Xin is the program manager for the China and Asia-Pacific Studies program (CAPS). His research and teaching focus on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian international relations.
Migrations Faculty Fellow
Stephen Yale-Loehr coleads the Einaudi Center's Migrations research team, focused on advancing the health of U.S. refugee and immigrant populations.
Assistant Professor
Duanyi Yang joined the faculty of the ILR School’s Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History after completing her Ph.D. at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research investigates how organizational policies operate within different institutional contexts.…
Assistant Professor
Ivanna Sang Een Yi is a scholar of Korean literature, culture, and performance. Her research focuses on the performative dimensions of living oral traditions as they interact with written literature and the environment from the late Chosŏn period to the present.…
Associate Professor, Sociology
Cristobal Young is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. He works in the overlapping fields of economic sociology, stratification, and quantitative methodology.
Retired Associate Director, Food and Nutrition Policy Program
Stephen Younger is currently a scholar in residence at Ithaca College's Department of Economics.
Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor in Chinese Law
Xingzhong Yu's academic interests include Chinese law and legal history, social theory, comparative legal philosophy, constitutional law, and cultural studies of law.
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.
Assistant Professor, Applied Economics and Policy
Wendong Zhang’s research focuses on agricultural and environmental economics, Chinese agriculture, agricultural trade, water conservation, and farmland markets.
Curator Wason East Asian Collection
Liren Zheng is the curator of the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at the Cornell University Library. Previously he was the curator of the Dr. Shao You-Bao Overseas Chinese Research and Documentation Center, Ohio University Library.
Assistant Professor, Global Development
John Zinda studies social and environmental change, primarily in rural China.
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Sasa Zivkovic directs Cornell AAP's Robotic Construction Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research group investigating robotic based construction technology. He is a coprincipal of HANNAH, an experimental architecture practice based in Ithaca, New York.
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Lecturer, Yale University
Eve Zucker’s research focuses on the aftermath of mass violence in Cambodia through the lenses of social memory, morality, the imagination, trust and everyday practices.