Margarita Tsoutsoura is an associate professor and Smith Family Business Professor of Finance at the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management. She is also a faculty research fellow at the NBER Corporate Finance Program and a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Tsoutsoura has several research projects studying family firms and privately held firms.

Seema Golestaneh is an associate professor in Cornell’s Department of Near Eastern Studies. Her research, situated at the nexus of anthropology and religious studies, is focused on expressions of contemporary Islamic thought in the Persian-speaking world.

Martin Gilbert is interested in pursuing health-related research that has direct relevance to the conservation of wildlife, particularly carnivores and scavengers. This includes approaches to understand how endangered species are impacted at a population level by infectious disease (such as canine distemper virus in free-ranging Amur tigers), as well non-infectious agents (such as the pharmaceutical diclofenac in Asian vultures).

Jeremy Foster is interested in the opportunities landscape thinking offers for environmental understanding, interpretation, and design practice. His publications explore how built/grown landscapes of varying scales—historical and contemporary—are produced and reproduced through the entanglement of cultural discourses, representational regimes, environmental processes, and sociomaterial practices.

Emily Detrick is the director of horticulture for the Cornell Botanic Gardens.

Iwan Jaya Azis is an adjunct professor of applied economics and policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. 

Benjamin Anderson studies the visual and material cultures of the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent landmasses, with a particular focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. His first book, Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art, addresses the reception of Greco-Roman astronomical imagery in the Byzantine, Frankish, and Islamic states.

Daniel Alpert is a member of Einaudi's CRADLE research team. He is a senior fellow in financial macroeconomics at Cornell Law School, working within the Clarke Program on the Law and Regulation of Financial Institutions and Markets of the Clarke Business Law Institute. Alpert is a founding managing partner of Westwood Capital, LLC, and its affiliates.

Begüm Adalet is Associate Professor in the Department of Government. She is a political theorist with research and teaching interests in infrastructures and ideologies of empire, racism, anti-colonialism, and transnationalism, with a focus on the Cold War period. Their writings have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and South Atlantic Quarterly, among others.

Duanyi Yang joined the faculty of the ILR School’s Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History after completing her Ph.D. at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research investigates how organizational policies operate within different institutional contexts. Her research integrates theory and research from labor relations, sociology, and human resources management, and currently covers three distinctive national regimes – the United States, China, and Germany.