Adhy Kim (he/they)* is an assistant professor in the Literatures in English Department and the Asian American Studies Program. His research is situated at the intersection of Asian and Asian American literary studies, with a focus on Korea, Japan, and their diasporas. Adhy’s book project, Speculative Natural Histories, examines the tightly connected and contested relationship between geopolitical realism and literary speculation in post-1945 Northeast Asian/American cultural production.

Yu Wang is a historian of sound, data, and technology, with a focus on the twentieth-century China. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Toronto in 2019 and has taught there and the University of Macau before moving to Cornell.

Hyun-ho Joo’s research and teaching interests lie in modern Korean history from a comparative East Asian perspective, the history of Sino-Korean relations, cultural interactions between China and Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and modern Chinese and Korean intellectual history. Before he joined Cornell in 2024, he was a Professor at Yonsei University in South Korea. At Yonsei, he published two dozen academic articles and won the Outstanding Teaching Award twice (2012, 2014).

Drisana Misra is a scholar of the Japanese archipelago and its transregional connections with the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to excavate traditionally obscured routes of transregional exchange, revealing the manifold ways in which Japanese and New World chroniclers, mapmakers, and artists participated in knowledge creation. She also studies Japanese literary and visual engagement with foreign realms, objects, and knowledges during the Edo Period (1603-1868).

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interest: Applied Economics & Policy, International Development, Economic Theory

Andrew Mertha is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Director of the China Studies Program, and Director of the SAIS China Research Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). From 2019 to 2021, Mertha served as the Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at SAIS. He is formerly a professor of Government at Cornell University and an assistant professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis.

Ellen Lust is Einaudi's John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and a professor in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and Department of Government (A&S).

Farzin Lotfi-Jam is an architect whose work explores the politics of technology and cities. He is an assistant professor in architecture at Cornell University where he directs the Realtime Urbanism Lab. The lab uses and invents new spatial media and technologies to visualize and simulate how algorithms, models, and notions of ''real time'' govern urban life.  He is also director of Farzin Farzin, an interdisciplinary design studio working across architecture, urbanism, computation, and media.

Jacqueline Gerson is an aquatic biogeochemist. She is interested in understanding how human activity alters the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and contaminants across the watershed. Her interdisciplinary approach recognizes humans as part of the ecosystem and investigates the impact of ecosystem perturbations on humans and wildlife. She has worked in vineyards in California, the Adirondack Mountains of New York, mountaintop coal mining areas of West Virginia, and gold mining areas of the Peruvian Amazon and Senegal.

Candelaria Garay is an associate professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her research interests include social policy and redistribution, labor and social movements, and environmental and health policy. Her research has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Development.