Răzvan Dumitru studies the visual culture of nineteenth-century Europe, focusing on how global textile circulation shaped local identities and aesthetic sensibilities in rural societies. His work intersects public history, oral history & memory, rural history, visual culture, and digital humanities. He is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department.

Patrick Daly has recently started an appointment as Research Scientist (Sustainability & Resilience) in the Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis. His previous research and teaching appointments include the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, the Asia Research Institute, the National University of Singapore, and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Caitlyn Sears (she/her) is a postdoctoral associate with the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) at Cornell University and is affiliated with the Department of Global Development. Her work combines economic and development geography to focus on and analyze south-south relationships of trade, cooperation and regulation, and how they shape and reinforce axes of uneven development. 

Jeongsu Shin is the LB Korean Studies Postdoctoral Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University. As an ethnographer of Korea, Shin’s work has been shaped by interdisciplinary conversations in Environmental Studies, Asian Studies, and Science and Technology Studies.

Liang Wu is a Postdoctoral Associate of Environmental Humanities in the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) as part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. He is also affiliated with the Department of Asian Studies, Department of Science and Technology Studies, and the inter-departmental consortium Cornell Oceans.

Kota Watanabe is a diplomat-turned-political scientist studying contested state building and civil war in contemporary Myanmar, currently based in New York City. He earned his PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London in February 2025.

Vincent Intondi is a nuclear disarmament expert whose research focuses on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons. He was most recently a senior lecturer in the International Relations department at Webster University-Leiden in the Netherlands. A co-host of the Minds Blown podcast, from 2013-2023, Intondi was a professor of history and founder and director of the Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. 

Nimark has been affiliated with PACS since 2014, first as a long-term Visiting Scholar (2014-2025) then as Affiliated Scholar.