Faculty
Julie Ficarra

Senior Lecturer, Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Julie Ficarra specializes in critically examining global issues of migration, social inclusion, and sustainable development, focusing on comparative and ethical frameworks to foster cross-cultural understanding, social policy analysis, and community engagement. She is interested in the role of education in the development of global citizenship, peace, and reconciliation in post-conflict regions.
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Role
- Faculty
- LACS Core Faculty
- LACS Steering Committee
- PACS Faculty Associate
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Email: jmf389@cornell.edu
Alex Nading

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Alex Nading is a medical and environmental anthropologist. His research, mostly focused on Nicaragua, has examined transnational campaigns against dengue fever, bacterial disease, and chronic kidney disease, as well as grassroots movements to address these issues. In all his work, he uses ethnographic methods to bring the theoretical concerns of medical anthropology together with those of critical environmental studies and science and technology studies. His teaching includes courses on the anthropology of global health, anthropological methods, and international development.
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Leslie Rogne Schumacher

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Leslie Rogne Schumacher, PhD, FRSA, FRHistS is a scholar of Europe and the Middle East. He currently holds affiliations at Harvard University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Additionally, Dr. Schumacher is an Academic Director for Haverford College’s Great Books Summer Program, and he previously served as Director of the Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence at Wells College, where he also taught history and international studies. Dr.
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Jennifer Germann

PhD, Affiliated Scholar
Jennifer Germann has published widely on art and material culture and women, gender, and race in the eighteenth century. Her most recent publications include "'The Requisite Local Coloring': Painting The Washington Family in London," in American Art 35:3 (Fall 2021) and "'Other Women Were Present': Seeing Black Women in Georgian London" (Eighteenth-Century Studies 54:3 (Spring 2021)), both completed using the resources of Cornell libraries.
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Jomarie Alano

PhD, Lecturer in History
Jomarie Alano has taught at several area colleges, including Colgate University and Wells College and she has also taught History FWS 1335: Fascisms and History 3662: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, 1900-1950 at Cornell. Jomarie received her AB from Cornell in French Literature with an Italian minor. She then went on to receive an MA in French Literature from Boston University, an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Cornell, and a PhD in Modern European History from the University of Rochester.
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David Ost

Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
David Ost is the author of Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Reform and Opposition in Poland Since 1968 and coeditor of Workers after Workers' States: Labor and Politics in Postcommunist Eastern Europe. Ost also publishes articles in magazines including The Nation, Dissent, and Tikkun.
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Mathias Burton Kafunda
Just Economies Program and Policy Manager, Oxfam in Southern Africa
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Duong Do

Governance and Research Specialist, Oxfam Novib in Vietnam
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Patricia Stottlemyer

Senior Domestic Policy Advisor, Oxfam America
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Nick Galasso

Economic Inequality and Governance Lead, Oxfam America