Faculty
Duanyi Yang
Assistant Professor
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.
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Seed Grants
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The Einaudi Center's faculty seed grants advance international research and education at Cornell and support international activities and events.
Read about the research Einaudi seeded in 2024.
Priority: Bringing Researchers Together
Einaudi seed grants promote the work of internationally engaged Cornell faculty. The awards seed faculty's interdisciplinary research and educational initiatives and support international studies workshops and seminars organized under faculty leadership. All disciplines and topics are welcome.
"If you think about the issues of nationalism, climate change, threats to humanitarian aid—a lot of the things that are foremost on our minds these days are affecting not only the U.S. They really are very global. And at the same time as they’re global threats and interests, the forms they take and the abilities to address them differ a lot across different regions and across different peoples and places."
Program Alignment
Our seed grants aim to encourage research and thinking that reach across world regions and bring together researchers who have deep knowledge in different regions and disciplines.
Proposals must indicate alignment with at least one of our international studies programs. The program director's acknowledgment of alignment does not guarantee the proposal will be funded or that the program will provide logistical or administrative support.
Applicants: Please initiate a discussion with the faculty program director(s) in advance of submitting your application. We encourage discussing any necessary program support before submitting your proposal.
Proposals that engage two or more programs are eligible for larger awards of up to $25,000.
Eligibility
Tenured and tenure-track Cornell faculty are eligible to apply as individuals or as a team. Faculty-led programs and centers across campus, in all Cornell colleges and schools, are also eligible for the awards.
- Funding-eligible activities include data collection, travel, meetings, research assistance, public engagement initiatives, curricular development, conferences/workshops, and virtual networks.
- Activities not eligible for funding include salary offset, summer salary, computers/equipment, student stipends, and tuition.
Note: The Einaudi Center will not accept proposals from previous awardees whose projects are still in progress or recipients who failed to submit a final report by the deadline stated in the award letter.
Period of Activity
All funds must be used within one year of the award date.
Proposal Evaluation
All successful proposals will meet these criteria. The proposal:
- Shows a high likelihood of generating new knowledge of key economic, environmental, social, cultural, or political problems in the world.
- Includes a detailed dissemination and/or public engagement strategy.
- Includes a methodologically sound assessment plan and clearly articulated deliverables.
- Includes a budget appropriate for planned activities.
- Includes a sustainable future funding plan.
Research Criteria
Successful research proposals will also meet the following criteria. The research project:
- Aligns with one or more Einaudi international studies programs and produces long-term benefits to international studies at Cornell.
- Engages faculty from different disciplines and colleges. Creates networks that connect scholars across the university and around the world.
- Generates new knowledge of key economic, environmental, social, cultural, or political questions in the world.
- Will launch external funding requests with high potential of securing follow-on funding.
Workshop and Event Criteria
Successful proposals for event support will also meet the following criteria. The event:
- Aligns with one or more Einaudi international studies programs and produces long-term benefits to international studies at Cornell.
- Increases the global understanding and competence of faculty, students, international partners, and/or the general public.
- Generates valuable discussion and knowledge of key economic, environmental, social, cultural, or political questions in the world.
How to Apply
Complete the seed grant funding application. Applicants must submit a proposal including the following:
- Statement including objectives, activities, work plan, expected outputs, beneficiaries, and impact
- Detailed budget with justification of expenses
- Curricula vitae (CVs) for principal faculty
- For research proposals:
- Plans for pursuing future research and external follow-on funding
- Human subjects approval, where relevant
Questions?
Please email our academic programming staff if you have questions about the seed grant program or your application.
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- Award
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- Faculty
Program
Emiko Stock
Faculty Associate in Research
Emiko Stock is a visual and historical anthropologist. Working with Chams (Cambodian Muslims) and Sayyids (descendants of the Prophet Muhammad), she traces passages between Sunnism and Shi’ism and Cambodia and Iran as a practice of history refracted in still and moving images. Her projects, embedded in experimental ethnography, grow from the theorization and practice of analog as well as digital photography and videography. She is currently based in Phnom Penh, developing two projects, a film and a book, each asking how we see history in affective and haptic manners.
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Ian Kysel
Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor, Law
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Linda Shi
Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
Linda Shi's research and professional practice focus on urban environmental governance and advancing planning policies to manage the urban climate transition in ways that improve social equity. As a 2020–21 Global Public Voices fellow, she collaborated with Colleen Chiu-Shee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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Juno Salazar Parreñas
Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Juno Salazar Parreñas is a feminist science studies scholar who examines human-animal relations, environmental issues, and efforts to institutionalize justice. Parreñas’ book, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke UP, 2018) received the 2019 Michelle Z.
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Joshua Plotnik
Associate Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York
Joshua Plotnik is a comparative psychologist and conservation behavior researcher who has studied elephant cognition and conservation in Thailand since 2007. Recently, Josh has been working with students and colleagues in Thailand and Myanmar to understand how research on animal behavior and cognition can be applied directly to the mitigation of human-wildlife conflict.
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Role
- Faculty
- SEAP Faculty Associate in Research
Contact
Email: jp3037@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 396-6442
Edward Mabaya
Senior Research Associate
Ed Mabaya is a scholar and a development practitioner with more than two decades of experience working on development, agribusiness value chains and food security issues with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Global Development where his teaching, research and outreach work focuses on economic development in Africa.
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Role
- Faculty
- IAD Core Faculty
- IAD Advisory Council
Contact
Email: em37@cornell.edu
Phone: (607) 280-0264
Saida Hodžić
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Saida Hodžić studies women’s rights activism, NGO advocacy, humanitarianism, and civic environmental activism.
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Gunisha Kaur
Medical Director, Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights
Gunisha Kaur is an anesthesiologist specializing in global health and human rights, particularly among displaced populations. She serves as medical director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights and as director of the Anesthesiology Global Health Initiative.