Einaudi Center for International Studies
Announcing 2023 Awards
Einaudi Seed Grants Finding Fertile Soil
Read about new awards and research funded in 2022, including Alex Flecker (Amazon aquaculture) and Victoria Beard (Global Survey of City Leaders).
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13 Cornellians Awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Awards
Thirteen Cornell students have been selected to research and teach English abroad with funding from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Cornell's 2023–24 Fulbright students include six graduate students and seven graduating undergraduates whose time abroad will increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
They will join the ranks of over 500 Cornellians who have traveled across the globe as Fulbrighters since the 1940s.
Fulbright Students 2023–24
Graduate Students
Michael Cary, Development Sociology
Paraguay
Project Title: Remaking Ñeembucú: Infrastructure, Rice Production, and Wetland Conversion in Paraguay
Duncan Eaton, History
Slovak Republic
Project Title: Nation-Building and Agrarian Politics in Interwar Eastern Slovakia
Jarvis Fisher, Development Sociology
Senegal
Project Title: Rice Production and Agroecology in the Senegal River Valley
Giselle Hobbs, Painting and Print Making
France
Project Title: The Aftermath of the Lockdown: Comparative Study of Paris, France, and the U.S.
Sasha Prevost, Religious Studies
Israel
Project Title: On the Path of Two Abrahams: Contemporary Jewish Sufism in Israel
David Rubinstein, History
Poland
Project Title: Coal Town Cosmopolitanism: Jews, Germans, and Poles's Visions of Home in Postwar Walbrzych
Undergraduate Students
Laura Chang '23, Anthropology
Ecuador
Project Title: Intersections in Reproductive Health: The Integration of Kichwa and Western Medicines
Maria DiGiovanni '23, Development Studies
Italy
Project Title: How Young Italians in Cosenza, Calabria Maintain Sustainable Rural Livelihoods
Farzana Hossain '23, Architecture
India
Project Title: Cultivated Landscapes: The Making and Remaking of Agriculture
Sarah Hughner '23, Government and English
Timor-Leste
English Teaching Assistantship
Catherine Kopp '23, Applied Economics and Management
Czech Republic
English Teaching Assistantship
Dylan Rodgers '23, Agriculture
Nepal
Project Title: Feasibility of Small-Scale Recirculating Aquaculture Systems in Nepal
Evan Sierra '23, Government
Kazakhstan
English Teaching Assistantship
Will you be next?
Fulbright at Cornell is administered by the Einaudi Center. There are opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent Cornell alumni to apply—Einaudi supports you throughout the process!
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Ideas, and Coffee, Robust Enough for the Climate Crisis
Rachel Bezner Kerr, Einaudi
Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor of global development, says of farmers in Malawi, “People here can be really innovative and inspiring. Not only at the individual level but in their cooperation with each other, too.”
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China’s Tightening Grip on Foreign Firms Risks Hitting Investment
Eswar Prasad, SAP
Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy and economics, notes, “China does not yet have the capacity to generate a great deal of innovation.”
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The Sun the Banking World Revolves Around
Robert Hockett, CRADLE
Robert Hockett, professor of law and finance, assesses the recent banking crises.
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Faculty Research Spotlight: How can big tech serve small farms?
Ed Mabaya, IAD
“I believe in the power of technologies in transforming agriculture and rural development,” said Ed Mabaya, research professor in global development. “Beyond the ability of agriculture and food systems to feed and nourish us, they are also the pathway to development, prosperity and peace.”
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The Chronically Online Third Culture Is Redefining Asian America
Christine Bacareza Balance, SEAP / GPV
“They’re moving through the world in a way where they don’t feel like they have to explain themselves,” says Christine Bacareza Balance, associate professor of performing & media arts and Asian American studies. “There’s an enjoyment of being Asian American.”
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Lund Debate 2023 on Video
The April 24 Lund Debate is available on video! Watch it now.
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Even China Isn’t Convinced It Can Replace the U.S.
Jessica Chen Weiss, EAP
Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of law, discusses the notion that China aims to supplant the U.S. as the leading world power in this opinion piece.
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Afghanistan Ranks Most Insecure Country in the World
Sharif Hozoori, SAP
Sharif Hozoori, an Afghan political historian, writes on Taliban rule since August 2021. He is an IIE-SRF fellow and visiting scholar based in Einaudi’s South Asia Program.