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Su Yin Htun
Visiting Scholar
Su Yin Htun is an Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) fellow and visiting scholar in the Einaudi Center for International Studies’ Southeast Asia Program.
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Jarra Jagne
Professor of Practice
Jarra Jagne is a professor of practice in common diseases of poultry, including avian influenza (AI), Newcastle disease virus (NDV), Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG), infectious bronchitis (IBV) and infectious bursal disease (IBD( and epidemiology and pathology of poultry diseases in the tropics
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Sophie Oldfield
Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning, Professor
Sophie Oldfield is internationally recognized for her research on cities in the Global South through her theoretical and primary research. From 2016 to 2021, she held the University of Cape Town and the University of Basel Professorship in urban studies.
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Rachel Sandwell
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Rachel Sandwell is an historian of modern Africa and transnational solidarity movements, with a focus on late decolonization, national liberation movements, and international support for national liberation movements.
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Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed (pronouns: she/her) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She is the author of Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana (Rutgers University Press, 2025). She is also co-editor of the book, African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora (2023).
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Mayu Okawara Muller
Lecturer, Asian Studies
Mayu Okawara Muller received her M.A. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction Major from Otterbein University, and B.A. in Liberal Arts, Global Studies in English Major from Hiroshima Jogakuin University.
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Jyun-hong Lu
Lecturer, Asian Studies
Jyun-hong Lu received his M.A. in Chinese language pedagogy from the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University, and a B.A. in Chinese literature from National Chengchi University.
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Eriko Akamatsu
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Eriko Akamatsu received her MA in Secondary Education from Marshall University, an MA in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Maryland, and a BA in English Education from Hiroshima University.
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Paul Kaiser
Einaudi Center Practitioner in Residence
Paul Kaiser joins the Einaudi Center in fall 2025 as Einaudi's practitioner in residence. He moderated the Lund debate in October and is mentoring this year's Undergraduate Global Scholars.
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Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit
Assistant Professor, Music
Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit's research focuses on music, race, and imperialism in nineteenth-century Siam. He is interested in issues of aesthetic commensurability in colonial encounter, comparativism and the production of knowledge about non-European musics, and opera as a racializing global-colonial form.