Director, 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
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.
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, 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, South Asia Program
Iftikhar Dadi is an associate professor of the history of art. He is also an artist. His research examines art as a global and networked practice from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Director, East Asia Program
Pedro Rabelo Erber is an associate professor of Luso-Brazilian studies in the Department of Romance Studies. He studies Brazilian and Japanese intellectual history, literature, and visual cultures; peripheral modernisms; Lusophone literature and culture; and articulations of humanistic enquiry and economic theory.
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.
Director, 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.
Interim Director, Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Judith Reppy is professor emerita in the Department of Science and Technology Studies. She continues to do research in the area of military technology and related issues.
Director, Latin American Studies Program
Kenneth M. Roberts is Richard J. Schwartz Professor in Cornell's Department of Government. He teaches comparative and Latin American politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development and the politics of inequality.
Director, Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (on leave fall 2018)
Rebecca Slayton is an associate director of science and technology studies. Her research and teaching examine the relationships between and among risk, governance, and expertise, with a focus on international security and cooperation since World War II.
Director, 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.
Director, International Relations Minor
Christopher Way is an associate professor of government. His research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, international relations, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Acting Director, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Wendy Wolford was named Cornell's vice provost for international affairs in March 2018 and became acting director of the Einaudi Center in July 2018. She is the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the Department of Development Sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.