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.
Evangelista Fellow 2026-27
Mahasti Yuanita is an MPA student at Cornell University’s Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Her research interests focus on economic governance, emerging technologies, inequality, and conflict vulnerability in domestic, transnational, and global policy…
Graduate Student
Degree: Master of Regional Planning
Language: Nepali
Building on her past research on informal urbanism in Nepal, Cecilia is interested in questions surrounding rural-urban migration and the reconciliation between rural and urban land use practices…
Professor Emerita, 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.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2029
Discipline: ILR
Research Interests: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Culture; Perception; Decision Making…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Discipline: Asian Literature, Religion & Culture
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Discipline: History
Research Interests: Modern East and Southeast Asian history, Gender and sexuality, legal and social history,…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Discipline: Comparative Literature
Research Interests: translation, critical theory
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Committee Chair/Advisor: Tamara Loos
Discipline: History
Primary Language: Chinese…
Freeman Prize in Peace Studies Honorable Mention
Yingyun ‘Aurora’ Zhang is a graduating senior at Cornell University. She is a double major in Government and Information Science, with a minor in Law & Society.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2030
Discipline: Asian Studies
Pronouns: she/her/hers
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.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2030
Committee Chair/Advisor: Shaoling Ma
Discipline: Asian Studies
Primary Language(s):…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2029
Committee Chair/Advisor: Juno Parreñas
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Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2031
Discipline: Linguistics
IES Graduate Fellow 2025-26, 2026-27
Xinyu H. Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and holds an M.A. in Icelandic Literature from the University of Iceland.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Discipline: Linguistics
Research Interests: Linguistics, Speech Science
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Discipline: Science and Technology Studies
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2029
Discipline: City and Regional Planning
Research Interests: City and Regional Planning, regional economic development, local…
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.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: MA
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Discipline: Asian Studies
Research Interests: Contemporary Chinese Poetry in 1980s and 1990s
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Discipline: Communication
Primary Language: Chinese, English
Research Countries:…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Discipline: Anthropology
Faculty Facilitator, Dissertation Proposal Development Program
John Zinda is an associate professor of global development in CALS. He studies social and environmental change, primarily in rural China.
Associate 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.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2032
Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Discipline: History
