Migrations Program
Global Impact Graduate Fellowships
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We're looking for graduate students to join the Einaudi Center's inequalities, identities, and justice team as they map out a new global studies curriculum. Apply now to be a fellow in the spring 2024 semester!
Graduate fellows receive a stipend of $1,000 for the semester.
New in 2024: Global Impact Fellows
Launching in spring 2024, this opportunity is open to grad students from all research disciplines with a demonstrated interest in interdisciplinary and/or international work. Selected fellows will form a focus group to develop a global studies curriculum for a future Einaudi Center graduate certificate.
Global Impact Fellows will meet regularly through the spring 2024 semester with faculty fellows Edward E. Baptist and Jennifer Newsom. You'll play a crucial role in designing syllabi and presenting a showcase of graduate research with global impact.
Inequalities, Identities, and Justice
The Einaudi Center supports public scholarship and thought leadership to address inequalities experienced across the globe, including cleavages in society like race, religion, gender and sexuality, class, caste, language, and ethnicity. We seek to identify opportunities for transformative change and increased justice in migration and citizenship regimes, climate and land policy, economic opportunities, food systems, health, politics, and policing.
Deadline
January 24, 2024
Amount
Stipend of $1,000 for the spring semester.
How to Apply
Email a letter of interest to Sarah Pattison, associate director of academic programs. Selected students will be notified by February 2, 2024. Your letter should outline the following:
- Your background in interdisciplinary and/or international work (through research projects, coursework, or other experiences);
- How the fellowship will advance your research, graduate studies, or career goals;
- What interests you about global studies and Einaudi's planned curriculum development (see blue box above).
Questions?
If you have questions about the fellowship or your application, email Einaudi Center academic programs.
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Landmark African Migrant Rights Principles
GPV Fellow Presents Rights-based Framework at 77th Ordinary Session
The Guiding Principles emerged from a Global Public Voices collaboration between Ian Kysel (Cornell Law) and Maya Sahli-Fadel.
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Undergraduate Global Scholars
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Undergraduate Global Scholars are student leaders in the campus community. Join our next cohort of students to contribute to the campus conversation on the future of international aid.
This competitive fellowship program is open to students from all colleges and majors with a passion for big global questions and speaking across differences. We will provide a toolkit of resources for weighing challenging questions as you build your practical skills in global public discourse.
Your unique skills—whether you are a writer, scholar, activist, artist, poet, or hands-on practitioner—play an important role in imagining the future. By the end of the program, you'll be an active global citizen and champion for social impact.
Is (Cutting) International Aid Good?
The work of this year's Global Scholars contributes to the Einaudi Center's 2025–26 theme: Is (Cutting) International Aid Good?
Large cuts to U.S. foreign aid threaten global health, education, people who are migrating, peace and stability, the environment, democratic governance, food security, and more. As the landscape of international aid evolves, the world faces new questions about the impact of aid on communities, what makes international aid effective, and how to move forward.
Our Global Scholars will grapple with these questions in their capstone projects, considering the multiple perspectives that shape the global landscape of international aid and the communities impacted.
What You'll Learn
The Einaudi Center creates a space for studying and practicing how individuals and communities can engage about, with, and across difference and disagreement to work toward collective understanding and action on challenging global issues. Our focus will be on skills of discourse, empowering you to thoughtfully address big questions on campus and beyond. You will learn how to:
- Analyze complex global issues.
- Understand issues from multiple perspectives.
- Test your ideas through research.
- Respectfully interact with communities impacted by an issue.
- Responsibly engage in advocacy.
- Craft and share a capstone project with the campus community.
Mentors and Networking
As a Global Scholar, you'll meet and engage with prominent experts and leaders visiting the Einaudi Center, including this year's speakers at the Bartels World Affairs Lecture and Lund Critical Debate.
You'll attend participatory workshops led by our Einaudi Center practitioner in residence Paul Kaiser and faculty mentor Ed Mabaya—who are expert researchers and practitioners on international development. You'll also help plan and contribute to a campus showcase about the future of international aid.
Deadline
Applications for 2025-26 are due September 14, 2025.
Amount
$500 stipend
How to Apply
Fill out the online application. Selected students will be notified by early October and the program will begin mid-October.
Questions?
Visit us at the International Fair on August 27 or join us for an information session on September 4.
If you have questions about the Global Scholars program or your application, email Einaudi Center academic programs.
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- Fellowship
Role
- Student
Program
Why Upstate NY Counties Should Welcome, Not Ban, Migrants
Estelle McKee and Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, GPV
Estelle McKee and Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, both professors of law, discuss recent migrant bans in this opinion essay.
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Threatened Artists Speak at Johnson Museum
Free Expression is Political and Personal
A panel featuring artists from Nicaragua and Afghanistan kicked off our contribution to this year’s campuswide freedom of expression theme.
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Xintong Chen
Graduate Student; Migrations Graduate Fellow
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
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‘My Goals in Life Vanished’: Afghan Students Rocked by US Visa Denials
Stephen Yale-Loehr, Migrations
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, explains the impact of the US visa process on Afghan students.
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Ron DeSantis Gets Boost over Florida Anti-immigration Law
Stephen Yale-Loehr, Migrations
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says, “People like immigrants they know, but worry about overall immigration levels. For that reason, it is easy for politicians to demonize immigrants by mouthing simple soundbites rather than tackling the complexity of the issue.”
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40 New York State Teachers Attend ISSI
Testimonies of Migration in the Classroom
Forty elementary, middle, and high school educators from across New York State participated in the 2023 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI), hosted annually by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
This year’s theme, “Testimonies of Migration,” explored personal narratives from migrants and offered resources for teachers to engage with migrant stories and students in a culturally responsive way.
Teachers learned from scholars and experts in panel discussions, networked with each other in breakout groups, and engaged in hands-on activities around the Cornell campus.
Panels and workshops included scholars and experts from the Migrations initiative, who cosponsored the event, and community partners who work with migrant populations in the state.
A morning panel discussion on ethical and culturally responsive engagement preceded a conversation with Mary Jo Dudley of the Cornell Farmworker Program on supporting immigrant families in schools.
"I personally felt this was the best workshop I have attended. The material was so tangible and relatable regardless of population taught."
Afternoon sessions brought teachers together in small groups to explore migrant narratives using hands-on, project-based learning. A session led by Nausheen Husain, a journalist and assistant professor in the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, shared tools for exploring data sets with students to better understand people’s experience of migration.
The final session of the day took place at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Inspired by a past museum exhibit called "how the light gets in," museum staff displayed artwork on migration ranging from a collaborative handmade dress to that might influence curriculum in teachers' classrooms.
Among artworks from Ai Weiwei, Mohamad Hafez, and Meschac Gaba, participants were especially struck by the collaborative fabric piece “DAS KLEID / THE DRESS” by Elisabeth Masé. A group of immigrant women created this piece, embroidering their hopes for the future with red thread on tan cloth, which was then sewn into a dress.
"I am excited to incorporate what I have learned into my lessons. I also feel more at ease teaching about other cultures. I realize I don't have to know everything and can learn with my students about new cultures."
View more photos from the institute on Facebook.
ISSI was sponsored by the Einaudi Center, East Asia Program, Institute for African Development, Institute for European Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program, Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, the South Asia Center at Syracuse University, TST-BOCES, and the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Program.
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Commentary Calls for Equal Access to Healthcare for DACA Recipients and All Immigrants
Gunisha Kaur and Stephen Yale-Loehr, Migrations
Recent uncertainties regarding the legal status of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program underscore the urgency for policymakers to reassess long-standing restrictions on government-sponsored healthcare subsidies for all immigrants.