IES Core Faculty
Cristina Florea

Assistant Professor, History
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Role
- Faculty
- IES Core Faculty
- IES Steering Committee
- PACS Steering Committee
- Global Public Voices Fellow 2022-23
Contact
Email: cf476@cornell.edu
Virginia Doellgast

Anne Evans Estabrook Professor, International and Comparative Labor, ILR School
Virginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution in the ILR School at Cornell University. Her research examines how employment relations institutions at national, industry, and organizational level affect organizational restructuring and HRM policies; as well as the impact these policies have on pay and job quality for different employee groups. She has a particular interest in studying the conditions under which workers are able to exercise effective collective voice to participate in management decision making.
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Isabel M. Perera

Assistant Professor of Government
Isabel Perera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. Her research, which earned the John Heinz Award from the National Academy of Social Insurance, examines health, labor, and social policy in comparative perspective.
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- Faculty
- IES Core Faculty
- IES Steering Committee
Contact
Email: isabel.m.perera@cornell.edu
Bryn Rosenfeld

Associate Professor, Government
Bryn Rosenfeld's research interests include political behavior, development and democratization, protest, post-communist politics, and survey methodology. Her first book, The Autocratic Middle Class (Princeton University Press, 2020), explains how middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience.
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Nicholas Mulder

Assistant Professor, History
Nicholas Mulder works on European and international history from 1870 to the present. His research focuses on political, economic, and intellectual history, with particular attention to the era of the world wars between 1914 and 1945.
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Role
- Faculty
- IES Core Faculty
- IES Steering Committee
- PACS Steering Committee
Contact
Email: njm226@cornell.edu
Christopher Way

Associate Professor of Government
Christopher Way is an associate professor of government. He is also a member of the peace studies minor faculty in the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
Way's research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, international relations, and nuclear proliferation. His current research focuses on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the effectiveness of the non-proliferation regime, topics on which he has published several journal articles and book chapters.
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Role
- Faculty
- IES Core Faculty
- IES Steering Committee
- PACS Minor Field Instructor
Contact
Email: christopher.way@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-3549
Mabel Berezin

Director, Institute for European Studies
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Role
- Faculty
- IES Core Faculty
- IES Director
- PACS Minor Field Instructor
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
- Executive Committee
Contact
Email: mabel.berezin@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-4042