Kenneth Roberts teaches comparative and Latin American politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development and the politics of inequality. His research focuses on political parties, populism, labor and social movements, and democratic resilience. He is especially interested in the cases of Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Argentina.

He led the Einaudi Center's democratic threats and resilience global research priority in academic years 2022–25.

Candelaria Garay is an associate professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her research interests include social policy and redistribution, labor and social movements, and environmental and health policy. Her research has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Development.

Jean Bernard Cerin is a multifaceted artist and scholar who produces and performs in projects ranging from film, recital, oratorio, opera, and folk music. Praised for his “burnished tone and focused phrasing” (Chestnut Hill Local). Cerin performs extensively as a baritone with leading early music ensembles across the United States. He founded the Lisette Project in 2021, a research and performance platform focusing on early Haitian classical music, beginning with the oldest song in Haitian Creole, Lisette quitté la plaine. 

Santiago Anria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He studies the relationships between Latin American social movements, labor unions, and political parties. His current research project studies the causes and consequences of political polarization processes in the region.

Carolyn Fornoff is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research explores cultural responses to the environmental crisis in Latin America, with a particular focus on Mexico and Central America. It asks how art helps narrate and make sense of problems like climate change that are temporally expansive and often difficult to see with the naked eye.

Vanessa Gubbins is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She writes and teaches about Latin American literature of the Andean Region and the Southern Cone, poetics and poetologies, critical theory and critical theory in the Global South, Andean and European philosophies, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminist theories, and Third Cinema.

Liliana Colanzi's research focuses on popular genres in modern and contemporary Latin American literature (science fiction, horror, the fantastic); she also teaches creative writing workshops. She has edited La desobediencia, antología de ensayo feminista (2019) and is the co-editor of the volume Latin American Speculative Fiction (Paradoxa, 2018, with Debra A. Castillo). She is co-editing the volume Horror and the Supernatural in Latin America, published in 2022 by Hispanic Issues.

Natalie Melas' interests range across Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature and thought, modern Greek, modern French and modern English poetry, comparison, modernism and colonialism, modern reconfigurations of antiquity, Homer, Césaire, Cavafy, philosophies of time, decadence, barbarism, alexandrianism, comparative modernities, world literature in world history, postcolonial or decolonial studies, aesthetics and politics, critical theory.

Denise M. Osborne is a lecturer in Portuguese in the Department of Romance Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), and her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College Columbia University (New York, NY). Her main area of interest is second language acquisition, especially second language phonetics, both perception and production.

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.