Laurent Dubreuil is the Director of the French Studies Program at Cornell. In his research, he aims to explore the powers of literary and artistic thinking at the interface of social thought, the humanities and the sciences. Dubreuil's scholarship is broadly comparative and makes use of his reading knowledge in some ten languages.

Julie Ficarra specializes in critically examining global issues of migration, social inclusion, and sustainable development, focusing on comparative and ethical frameworks to foster cross-cultural understanding, social policy analysis, and community engagement. She is interested in the role of education in the development of global citizenship, peace, and reconciliation in post-conflict regions. 

Alex Nading is a medical and environmental anthropologist in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research, mostly focused on Nicaragua, has examined transnational campaigns against dengue fever, bacterial disease, and chronic kidney disease, as well as grassroots movements to address these issues. 

He is the former editor (2021-24) of Medical Anthropology Quarterly and author of two books, "Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement" (2014) and "The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua" (2025).

Leslie Rogne Schumacher, PhD, FRSA, FRHistS is a scholar of Europe and the Middle East. He currently holds affiliations at Harvard University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Additionally, Dr. Schumacher is an Academic Director for Haverford College’s Great Books Summer Program, and he previously served as Director of the Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence at Wells College, where he also taught history and international studies. Dr.

Jennifer Germann has published widely on art and material culture and women, gender, and race in the eighteenth century. Her most recent publications include "'The Requisite Local Coloring': Painting The Washington Family in London," in American Art 35:3 (Fall 2021) and "'Other Women Were Present': Seeing Black Women in Georgian London" (Eighteenth-Century Studies 54:3 (Spring 2021)), both completed using the resources of Cornell libraries.

Jomarie Alano has taught at several area colleges, including Colgate University and Wells College and she has also taught History FWS 1335: Fascisms and History 3662: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, 1900-1950 at Cornell. Jomarie received her AB from Cornell in French Literature with an Italian minor. She then went on to receive an MA in French Literature from Boston University, an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Cornell, and a PhD in Modern European History from the University of Rochester.

David Ost is the author of Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Reform and Opposition in Poland Since 1968 (Temple University Press 1990) and The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe (Cornell University Press 2005) and co-editor of Workers after Workers' States: Labor and Politics in Postcommunist Eastern Europe (Rowman & Littlefield 2001).

Mathias Burton Kafunda's work is in the policy and human rights sectors, focusing on long-term development and humanitarian program management. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.

Duong Do focuses on multidimensional inequalities, including how gender, climate change, development doctrines, and energy transitions intersect and induce inequalities. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.

Patricia Stottlemyer is a human rights lawyer specializing in advocating for the U.S. to uphold its human rights obligations. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.