TJ Hinrichs is a historian of Song era (960-1279 c.e.) Chinese medical, political, and cultural history. Her forthcoming monograph, Shamans, Witchcraft, and Quarantine: The Medical Transformation of Governance and Southern Customs in Mid-Imperial China (Harvard East Asia Series), examines how the Song dynastic government made medicine an instrument of social reforms, and the ramifications of those policies for political and medical practice, knowledge, and authority.

Eli Friedman has a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and has been on the faculty of the ILR School since 2011. His primary areas of interest are China and Asia, development, social movements, urbanization, and work and labor. He is the author of "China in Global Capitalism" (Haymarket 2024) "The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City" (Columbia 2022) and "Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China" (Cornell 2014).

Magnus Fiskesjö's research concerns ethnic relations and political anthropology in China and Southeast Asia. His research and teaching interests include historical and political anthropology; civilizations and barbarians; sovereignty, citizenship, and state formations; autonomy and dependence; ethnopolitics, ethnicity, and ethnonymy in interethnic relations; cultural heritage and archaeology; museums and modernity; and East and Southeast Asia (including China and Burma).

Key Networks: Anthropology, Asian studies

Gary Fields is the John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor and Professor of Economics. His work focuses on Labor Economics, Development Economics, and Public Economics. He is especially interested in the cases of Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela. Fields is the 2014 winner of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, the top worldwide award in the field.

Pedro Erber is an Associate Professor at the School of International Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He is also associate editor of the journal ARTMargins. He specializes in Brazilian literature, intellectual history, and visual culture.

Mara Du’s research focuses on the history of modern China (17th century to the present), particularly on law, gender, and state-building.

Stephanie Divo received her PhD in modern Chinese literature at Cornell University. She has taught Mandarin Chinese in the Department of Asian Studies since 1999. Her teaching and research interests are modern Chinese (Mandarin) language, English as a second language, modern Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, and academic writing.

Brett de Bary holds a joint appointment with the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell. Her research interests include modern Japanese fiction and film, the Japanese postmodern, comparative literary theory, translation theory and post-colonial theory, and gender and philosophy.

Cochran joined the Cornell faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 1986.

Zhihong Chen received her BA in German language and literature from Beijing Foreign Language College, an MA in International History from Beijing Normal University, an MA in International Studies and an M.S. Ed in college teaching concentrating on Chinese language teaching at SIU in the United States. She also has a PhD in international history from Cologne University in Germany.

Chen is currently working on a comprehensive study on Borodin’s mission in China  (1923-1927) in both English and Chinese languages.