Einaudi Center for International Studies
Rapidly Closing Window to Address Climate
Einaudi Faculty Contributes to IPCC Report
Rachel Bezner Kerr, part of the Einaudi Center's qualities of life research team, contributes to a new UN climate report on climate change impacts.
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Migrations Grants: Apply Now
Focus on Racism and Dispossession
A new cycle of Migrations initiative grants for faculty supports migrations-related research, pedagogy, and engagement. Applications due April 25.
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N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba
Professor, African and African Diaspora
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- Faculty
- IAD Core Faculty
- IAD Advisory Council
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Email: n.assie-lumumba@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-7839
Esra Akcan
Professor, Architectural Theory
Esra Akcan is the Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture. Her scholarly work on a geopolitically conscious global history of urbanism and architecture inspires her teaching. She is the author of Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey and the Modern House (Duke University Press, 2012); Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with S.
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Kenneth Roberts
Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Kenneth Roberts is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government. Kenneth Roberts teaches comparative and Latin American politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development and the politics of inequality. His research focuses on political parties, populism, labor and social movements, and democratic resilience. He is especially interested in the cases of Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Argentina.
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- Faculty
- LACS Core Faculty
- LACS Director
- LACS Steering Committee
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
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Email: kr99@cornell.edu
Abby Cohn
Professor, Linguistics
Abby Cohn is a professor of linguistics and Southeast Asian studies. Her research interests include the Austronesian languages of Indonesia, with a particular focus on their phonetics, phonology, and morphology.
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Rebecca Slayton
Director, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
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- Faculty
- PACS Core Faculty
- PACS Director
- PACS Steering Committee
- PACS Minor Field Instructor
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
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Email: rs849@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-8914
Eric Tagliacozzo
Director, Southeast Asia Program
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.
His research centers on the history of people, ideas, and material in motion in and around Southeast Asia, especially in the late colonial age.
Geographic Research Area: Southeast Asia, South Asia
Teaching/Research Interests: Migration and trade, material history, Silk Road, Indian Ocean
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- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Director
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
- Executive Committee
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Email: et54@cornell.edu
Iftikhar Dadi
John H. Burris Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies
Geographic Research Area: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Middle East
Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary art, methodology and intellectual history, and film, media, and popular cultures
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- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SAP Steering Committee
- SAP Advisory Council
- Executive Committee
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Email: mid1@cornell.edu
Stacie Goddard (Wellesley College) at the PACS Seminar
November 19, 2026
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
I am the Betty Freyhof Johnson ‘44 Professor of Political Science and Associate Provost for
Wellesley in the World. My research and teaching focuses on questions of great power competition
and international order. My latest book, When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order was
published by Cornell University Press in 2018. Here I examine how a rising power’s legitimation
strategy affects whether a great power confronts or accommodates a potential challenger. If a rising
power can portray its ambitions as legitimate, it can make the case that, far from being a
revolutionary power, its advances will only preserve, and perhaps even protect, the prevailing status
quo, then great power accommodation is likely. In contrast, if a rising power’s claims are
illegitimate—if they are inconsistent with prevailing rules and norms—then great powers will see its
actions as threatening, making containment and confrontation likely.
At Wellesley, I teach a number of courses rooted in this research, including a seminar on great power
competition, a course on “dangerous ideas” and international order, and a course on nuclear politics.
I also enjoy writing for public outlets, and my work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, the New York
Times and the Washington Post.
Outside of Wellesley, I’m an avid fan of hiking, choral singing, all things golden retriever, and
“adventuring” with my family.
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Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Einaudi Center for International Studies
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies