Graduate Student
Roderick Wijunamai
Graduate Student
Roderick Wijunamai is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. His PhD research focuses on forms of plantation, and its impact on Indigenous people in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands.
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: Sarah Besky
Discipline: Anthropology
Primary Language: Konyak, Nagamese
Research Countries: Myanmar
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Joshua Umansky-Castro
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: Spring 2024
Committee Chair/Advisor: Mason Peck
Discipline: Aerospace Engineering
Primary Language: English, Spanish
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Anke Wang
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Mara Du
Discipline: History
Primary Language: Chinese, Vietnamese
Research Countries: Vietnam, Thailand
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Song Han
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: Spring 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A
Discipline: Comparative Literature
Primary Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, Classical Chinese
Research Countries: Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore
Research Interests: Maritime capitalism and Sinophone/Anglophone literature in Asia
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Evelyn Fettes
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: Spring 2025
Committee Chair/Advisor: Sarah Murray
Discipline: Linguistics
Primary Language: Standard Indonesian
Research Countries: Indonesia
Research Interests: Morphology, lexical semantics, historical linguistics, reduplication in Malayic dialects
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The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
Details
The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State that enables American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities to intensively learn a language while experiencing cultural immersion. The program lasts from 8 to 10 weeks and includes intensive language instruction of one of 15 critical languages and cultural enrichment experiences aimed at promoting rapid language study. Participants are expected to continue learning a new language after the program finishes and apply newly gained language skills in their professional careers.
Eligibility
Must be a U.S. citizen or national and if undergraduate, complete at least one full year of study.
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Avishai Melamed
Reppy Institute Director's Fellow 2023-24
Avishai Melamed is a PhD Student at Cornell University’s Department of Government in the International Relations subfield. He has published in the Journal of Space Safety Engineering and is a graduate fellow at Cornell University’s Tech Policy Institute. Avishai's research focuses on the long-term evolution of foreign policy strategies. He explores how emerging technologies interact with shifting domestic and international conditions to influence patterns of international cooperation and competition.
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Yousuf Mahid
Graduate student
Yousuf's research agenda focuses broadly on climate change adaptation, forest resource management, conservation, and institutional mechanisms for climate policy formulation. His work investigates the synergies between ecosystem-based adaptation and sustainable development solutions for climate-vulnerable communities, particularly in South Asia. Before joining the program, he worked as a Program Coordinator in the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) based in Bangladesh.
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Trishna Senapaty
Graduate student
Trishna is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology. Her research interests include carceral institutions as well as practices of prison reform and rehabilitation in India.
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Ekta Joshi
Graduate student
Ekta Joshi is a PhD student in the field of applied economics and management. She is interested in studying how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development in developing countries. Prior to joining Cornell, Ekta worked with the International Rice Research Institute in their agri-food policy division. Her research focused on differential impact-assessment associated with the adoption of modern technology in agriculture.