Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Committee Chair/Advisor: Renata Leitao

Discipline: Apparel Design

Primary Language: Mandarin, English

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Discipline: Economics

Primary Language: Vietnamese, English

Research Interest: My research area is public policy and development economics. My past works include (1) productivity improvement from land consolidation program in Viet Nam, and (2) comparison of Covid policies in Asia. My future plan involves universal basic incomes in the Southeast Asia area.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: -

Committee Chair/Advisor: Derek Chang

Discipline: (Asian) American History

Primary Language: Vietnamese

Research Interest: Saomai is interested in US empire and militarism, Third World struggles and imaginations, and intergenerational refugee repertoires of storytelling as competing but interconnected projects of knowledge production.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027-2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo

Discipline: Southeast Asian History

Primary Language: Chinese, Indonesian, Hindi

Research Countries: TBD

Research Interests: Human-Place Relations, Oceanic History, Trans-regional Connections, the Positioning of Southeast Asia in Asia and the Global South

Priyanka Sen is a Ph.D. candidate in the HAUD program. Her research investigates architectural entanglements with spatial geographies, migration and environmental histories, focusing on the South Asian diaspora and its intertwinement with settlement, citizenship, and the transnational immigrant experience.

Degree: PhD, Near Eastern Studies

Language: Persian

Research interests: Jewish and Muslim diasporas, Sufism, and Persian literature

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Juno Parreñas

Discipline: Science & Technology Studies

Primary Language: Tagalog/Filipino

Research Countries: Philippines, United States

Henry Cheng (he/they) is a first-year Ph.D. student at Cornell's history department. As a social historian in training, Henry focuses on the history of radicalism in the global 1960s-70s with a specific concentration on the cases of China and Asian American communities. Before joining Cornell, Henry graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 2020 and the University of Chicago in 2022.

Kaitlin Findlay is a doctoral candidate in the Cornell History Department. Her current research examines forced displacement, humanitarianism, liberal internationalism, and memory in the mid-twentieth century.

Yulin Li is a student in the MA Historic Preservation Planning program. Her research focuses on the value of informal practice as a participator in urban development and collective memory and heritage for people’s everyday life. She looks into the degrading industrial cities in China and USA and explores how collective memories are being destroyed with the industrial buildings, and discusses how to regenerate past industrial cities with the preservation of industrial memories.