Director of the Cornell Institute for European Studies
Esra Akcan is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture. Her research on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism foregrounds the intertwined histories of Europe and West Asia.
Carl Marks Professor of International Studies
Kaushik Basu is a professor of economics at Cornell and president of the International Economic Association. From 2012 to 2016 he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank.
International Faculty Fellow
Victoria Beard is an associate professor of city and regional planning in Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Her research explores the intersection of collective action, social movements, transnational processes, and planning.
Director of the South Asia Program
Anne M. Blackburn is a professor of South Asian and Buddhist studies in the Department of Asian Studies. Much of her work focuses on Buddhist monastic cultures, and Buddhist participation in networks linking Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia before and during the colonial period.
Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies
Valerie Jane Bunce is a professor of government whose work addresses democratization, the origins and consequences of imperial decline, international democracy promotion, interethnic cooperation and conflict, peacemaking, and the diffusion of capitalism.
Director of the Southeast Asia Program
Abigail C. Cohn is a professor of linguistics and Southeast Asian studies whose research interests include the phonetics, phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistics of the languages of Indonesia.
Director of the Latin American Studies Program
Raymond B. Craib is a professor of history whose research focuses primarily on the modern histories of Mexico and Chile. His most recent book, The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
International Faculty Fellow
Virginia Doellgast is an associate professor of employment relations at the ILR School. She analyzes the implications of corporate restructuring on workers in the communications sector in Europe. She also studies human resource management in the global call center industry.
Director of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and the International Relations Minor
Matthew Anthony Evangelista is a professor of government who studies international humanitarian law, separatist movements, and gender and conflict. His most recent books are Italy from Crisis to Crisis and Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies
Peter J. Katzenstein is a professor of government whose research and teaching lie at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics. His interests include the politics of civilizational states, public diplomacy, anti-imperialism, regionalism, and German politics.
International Faculty Fellow
Rachel Bezner Kerr is an associate professor of development sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She researches sustainable agriculture, food security, health, nutrition, and social inequalities, with a primary focus on southern Africa.
International Faculty Fellow
Odette Lienau is an associate professor of law at Cornell Law School, where she also co-directs the International Law/International Relations Colloquium and is a faculty member in the graduate field of government.
International Faculty Fellow
Molly McNairy, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine and Bonnie Johnson Sacerdote Clinical Scholar in Women's Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is also an assistant attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Director of the East Asia Program
Robin McNeal is associate professor of pre-modern Chinese literature and history in the Department of Asian Studies. He previously served as associate director of East Asia Program's China initiatives and director of graduate studies for Asian literature, religion, and culture.
Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Hirokazu Miyazaki is a professor of anthropology and the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies. He is focused on strengthening the Einaudi Center's function as a cross-campus hub for interdisciplinary international research and education, and on increasing its impact beyond the university.
Director of the Institute for African Development
Muna B. Ndulo is a professor of law at Cornell Law School. He is an authority on African legal systems, human rights, constitutions, election monitoring, international development, and legal aspects of foreign investments in developing countries.
International Faculty Fellow
Thomas Pepinsky is an associate professor in the government department and a faculty member of the Southeast Asia Program. He studies comparative politics and political economy, with a focus on emerging market economies in Southeast Asia.
Director of Meridian 180
Annelise Riles is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies and a professor of anthropology. She is the founder and director of Meridian 180, a transnational platform for policy solutions.
Director of the Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Eric Tagliacozzo is a professor in the Department of History. Much of his work has centered on the history of people, ideas, and material in motion in and around Southeast Asia, especially in the late colonial age.
International Faculty Fellow
Jessica Chen Weiss is a political scientist and associate professor of government. She studies China's foreign relations with an emphasis on nationalism, popular sentiment, and more broadly on the role of domestic politics in international relations.