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 launch international studies research and activities that show promise to grow and secure external follow-on funding.
Tenured and tenure-track Cornell faculty are eligible to apply. All disciplines and topics are welcome. Read about recent research Einaudi seeded.
Building International Studies Capacity
Einaudi Center seed grants support international studies research and collaborations that reach across world regions and bring together researchers who have deep knowledge in different regions and disciplines. The awards launch early-stage interdisciplinary research projects with clear plans for scaling up and securing external funding support.
"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."
~ Ellen Lust, Einaudi Center Director
The Einaudi Center is dedicated to international studies. Our seed grants focus on complex global and regional issues and community-engaged methodologies across the social sciences, hard sciences, and humanities. Some research conducted abroad and international collaborations—while valuable—do not qualify for the awards.
Proposals must align with the mission and interests of at least one of our international studies programs. The application requires only your own thoughtful assessment of how your project might contribute to the work of one or more programs.
Proposals that engage with two or more geographical regions are eligible for larger awards of up to $25,000.
Eligibility
Tenured and tenure-track Cornell faculty in all colleges and schools are eligible to apply as individuals or teams. The Einaudi Center will not accept proposals from past awardees who failed to submit the required final report by the deadline stated in the award letter.
- Funding-eligible activities: Data collection, research assistance, travel, meetings
- Not eligible for funding: Salary offset, summer salary, computers and equipment, student stipends/tuition
Requirements
- All funds must be used within one year of the award date.
- You must submit a final report to the Einaudi Center director within one year of the award date. The report must include:
- A summary and assessment of the research and activities you accomplished.
- An update on your external follow-on funding proposal.
- A promotional paragraph written for nonspecialists (100 words maximum) describing the outcome and value of your project.
- The Einaudi Center must be acknowledged in all publications, promotion, and media coverage related to your funded research and activities. Please inform the Einaudi Center in advance of publications and other project outcomes.
How to Apply
Complete the seed grant funding application and submit a proposal including the following:
- Curricula vitae (CVs) for principal faculty
- Statement including objectives, activities, work plan, expected outputs, beneficiaries, and impact
- Human subjects approval, if relevant
- Detailed budget with justification of expenses
- Plans for pursuing future research and external funding support
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 clearly articulated deliverables.
- Includes a budget appropriate for planned activities.
- Includes a plan for obtaining full project funding to sustain and expand the research.
Questions?
Please email our academic programming staff if you have questions about the seed grant program or your application.
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- Award
Role
- Faculty