Peidong Sun is a social and cultural historian of the post-1949 period in China. Much of her research has centered on the history of and contemporary implications for Chinese everyday life by asking how quotidian practices such as clothing choices, underground reading, and mate choices of the sent-down generation were influenced by their lived experiences and memories under Mao’s socialism and Deng’s socio-economic transformation after 1978.

Casey Schmitt is a historian of early America and the Caribbean, with particular interests in human trafficking, colonization, and illicit economies over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In her research and teaching, she is interested in tracing individuals who crossed imperial boundaries—by choice and by coercion—in order to understand how processes like colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and trade functioned in the interstices of early modern empires.

Virginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution in the ILR School at Cornell University. Her research examines how employment relations institutions at national, industry, and organizational level affect organizational restructuring and HRM policies; as well as the impact these policies have on pay and job quality for different employee groups. She has a particular interest in studying the conditions under which workers are able to exercise effective collective voice to participate in management decision making.

Isabel Perera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. Her research, which earned the John Heinz Award from the National Academy of Social Insurance, examines health, labor, and social policy in comparative perspective. 

Jeanne Moseley is an Associate Professor of Practice with Cornell University's MPH Program in the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health, College of Veterinary Medicine. Prior to this position, Jeanne served as a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Director of the undergraduate Global Health Program at Cornell University.

Patricia Wasyliw is a senior associate director of international admissions, and an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Panagiotis Angelopoulos is a senior lecturer in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. 

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: Environment, sustainable livelihoods, forest governance

Geographic Research Interest: India, Nepal, Bangladesh

Teaching/Research Interest: sustainable agriculture, food security, rural livelihoods, ecosystem services, social change processes

Sasa Zivkovic directs Cornell AAP's Robotic Construction Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research group investigating robotic based construction technology. He is a coprincipal of HANNAH, an experimental architecture practice based in Ithaca, New York. HANNAH's research focuses on advancing traditional building construction techniques by implementing new technologies and processes of making, addressing subjects of construction, rapid urbanization, and mass customized housing design.