Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: -

Committee Chair/Advisor: Nick Salvato

Discipline: Hip-Hop Studies, Sound Studies, Vietnamese Diasporic Studies, Performing Studies

Primary Language: Vietnamese, Thai, German, English

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: 2030

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.

Xintong Chen studies the auditory cultures of migration across the South China Sea from the 17th to 20th centuries. Her research uncovers how sound and listening practices created shared “cultural commons” among diverse groups of migrants and sojourners, offering a new perspective on migration as a lived and cultural process beyond political or economic frameworks.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2029

Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo

Discipline: Southeast Asian History

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: 2029

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.