Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: Tamil literature and literary theory, Hinduism and literature, Poetry and poetics, Translation theory and practice, Colonialism and missionization in South Asia, South Asian manuscript and print cultures, Comparative and world literatures

Diana Fu is associate professor of Chinese politics and director of the Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies.  She is a non-resident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and a public intellectual fellow with the National Committee on US-China Relations.  Her research examines popular contention, repression, civil society, and authoritarian citizenship in contemporary China. Her most recent co-a

Piyada Chonlaworn is a Visiting Scholar at SEAP for the fall semester. She is currently a professor of Thai and Thai language studies at Tenri University in Japan. 

Rui Xin is a professor of Comparative literature and World literature in School of Literature, Nankai University, China

Yang Hui is a professor of Chinese Modern Literature in School of Literature, Nankai University, China

Johannes Haushofer is a professor of economics and public policy and faculty fellow for the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program.

Patrick J. Stevens is curator of the Fiske Icelandic Collection in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. He is also bibliographer for Jewish Studies for Cornell University Library.

Haidir Algi Gaffar Faridha is a 2026–2027 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) from Indonesia, placed in the Department of Asian Studies. Originally from the Kutainese land of East Kalimantan, he currently serves as a lecturer at Universitas Kutai Kartanegara and Universitas Negeri Malang. His teaching and research focus on language learning, educational technology, inclusive pedagogy, and supporting students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs).

Wen-Pin Lin is the founding chair of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Taiwan. Trained in political science and comparative political economy, he has long worked across East Asian and Southeast Asian studies, with research interests including international political economy, developmental states, financial reform, energy policy, science and technology policy, foreign aid, microfinance, ethnic politics, and Taiwan’s relations with Southeast Asia.

Averell Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. He studies international relations, with a focus on the politics of international law and organizations. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2024, and joined Cornell in 2025 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University.