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Shaoling Ma
Associate Professor
Shaoling Ma is an interdisciplinary scholar and critical theorist of global Chinese history, literature, and media. At the broadest level, she is drawn to historical periods when geopolitical, socio-economic, and technological developments appear to provide external vantage points from which to navigate the landscape of cultural production, while, in fact, being resolutely embedded in the latter. Ma's teaching and research interests include late nineteenth-century to contemporary Chinese and Southeast Asian cultural productions, media studies, and critical theory.
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Ding Fei
Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
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Kaja Tally-Schumacher
Assistant Director, Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) Project
Kaja Tally-Schumacher’s research interests include ancient Mediterranean gardens and landscapes, comparative environmental history, and issues pertaining to sustainability and resiliency in the ancient Mediterranean world and in contemporary archaeological practice. Her secondary area of interest includes Classical Reception, especially as evidenced in urban planning, architecture, and design history.
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Jennifer Newsom
Assistant Professor of Architecture
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Kurt Waldman
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Development
Kurt Waldman is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. He studies judgment and decision making related to environmental sustainability, climate adaptation and food security. He uses interdisciplinary quantitative methods, drawing on behavioral experiments, econometrics, and often integrating social and environmental data.
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Santiago Anria
Assistant Professor Department of Global Labor at Work
Santiago Anria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He studies the relationships between Latin American social movements, labor unions, and political parties. His current research project studies the causes and consequences of political polarization processes in the region.
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Sergio García Magariño
Associate Professor, Public University of Navarra
Sergio García Magariño holds a PhD in sociology with an international mention and is a specialist in education and social development. He currently works as a lecturer (associate professor) at the Public University of Navarra and researcher at its Institute for Advanced Social Research: I-Communitas.
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Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić
Associate Professor, University of Sarajevo
Larisa Kasumagić- Kafedžić, a 2003-04 Cornell University Humphrey Fellow Alumni spent the 2022-23 academic year at Cornell as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow, where she focused on teaching a course on Global Citizenship Education and worked on her research project Teachers as Agents of Change: Education for Peace and Social Responsibility.
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Richard Fincher, Esq.
Mediator/Arbitrator
Richard Fincher is leading the Cambodia Winter Program in Winter 2024. He is a mediator and arbitrator, self-employed, beginning in 1998. He is a Faculty Associate in the College of Business at Arizona State University. He is co-author of new ADR textbook - Emerging Uses of Corporate ADR. He has practiced law and held senior executive roles in law and human resources in Fortune 50 firms - American Arbitration Association, Education and Training, Washington, DC.
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Sara A. Swenson
Visiting Fellow
Sara A. Swenson (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on contemporary Buddhism in Vietnam. During her time at SEAP, she will be completing her first book entitled Having Heart: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam. This study examines rising trends of Buddhist volunteerism in Vietnam’s fastest growing urban area, Ho Chi Minh City.