Faculty
Seema Golestaneh
Director, Southwest Asia and North Africa
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.
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- SWANA Director
- SWANA Core Faculty
- SWANA Steering Committee
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
Contact
Email: sg2327@cornell.edu
Martin Gilbert
Associate Professor of Practice, Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
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).
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- SAP Faculty Associate
- SEAP Faculty Associate
Contact
Email: m.gilbert@cornell.edu
Jeremy Foster
Emeritus/Retired Associate Professor, Architecture
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.
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Emily Detrick
Director of Horticulture, Cornell Botanic Gardens
Emily Detrick is the director of horticulture for the Cornell Botanic Gardens.
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Iwan Jaya Azis
Adjunct Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Iwan Jaya Azis is an adjunct professor of applied economics and policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
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Benjamin Anderson
Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies
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.
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- IES Faculty Associate
- SWANA Core Faculty
- SWANA Steering Committee
Contact
Email: bwa32@cornell.edu
Daniel Alpert
Adjunct Professor, Law
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.
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Begüm Adalet
Assistant Professor, Government
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.
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Duanyi Yang
Assistant Professor, Global Labor and Work
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
Details
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 last year.
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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Funding Type
- Award
Role
- Faculty