Josefina Rodríguez Pletikosic is a PhD student in development studies. Her research examines how transnational labor migration and agrarian capitalist expansion reshape social reproduction, communal land government, and peasant livelihoods in the Peruvian Andes.

Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the director of the Einaudi Center's Southeast Asia Program, and a core faculty member of the Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program.

Adwoa Tiwaah Ofori Atakorah is a PhD student in Literatures in English. Her work interrogates how migration reshapes belonging and cultural displacement in 20th- and 21st-century African and African diasporic literature, focusing especially on women’s lives and language politics.

Vice Provost Wendy Wolford is the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.