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Razvan-Ioan Dumitru
Postdoctoral Fellow, History Department
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.
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Caitlyn Sears
SEAP Postdoctoral Associate
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.
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Jeongsu Shin
LB Korean Studies Postdoctoral Associate
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.
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Liang Wu
SEAP Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. 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 Science & Technology Studies and the interdepartmental consortium Cornell Oceans. Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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Kota Watanabe
Visiting Scholar, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
Kota Watanabe is a diplomat-turned-political scientist studying the political economy of civil wars, humanitarian care, and transnational organized crime in contemporary Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on Myanmar. His current work is supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Overseas Research Fellowship. He earned his Ph.D. in Development Studies from SOAS University of London in 2025.
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Southeast Asian Qualitative Social Sciences Postdoctoral Associate
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We are seeking an independent and highly motivated social scientist with fieldwork and area expertise on one or more Southeast Asian countries. Scholars from a range of fields including geography, anthropology, sociology, data/information science, public and ecosystem health, planning, political science, and environmental social science are encouraged to apply. We especially welcome someone able to work across disciplinary boundaries and is interested in the intersections between research, public engagement, and policy making in the Southeast Asian context.
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Southeast Asian Environmental Humanities Postdoctoral Associate
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Potential topics may include and are not limited to humanistic or qualitative research approaches to climate breakdown, biodiversity, human-animal relations, plantations, environmental justice, commodity chains, extraction, and the cultural politics of food as they relate to Southeast Asia and/or Southeast Asian diasporas. We especially welcome applicants with PhDs in the humanities, interpretive social sciences such as anthropology, or interdisciplinary degrees such as religious studies, Southeast Asian studies, ethnic studies, feminist studies, or science and technology studies.
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Vincent Intondi
Affiliated Scholar
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.
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Agnieszka Nimark
Affiliated Scholar
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Yaro T. Kulchyckyj
Affiliated Scholar
Yaro T. Kulchyckyj holds a Doctor of International Affairs and a Masters of International Public Policy degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (JHU-SAIS). He wrote his doctoral dissertation on U.S. Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Obama and Trump’s Administrations' Decisions Regarding Lethal Aid to Ukraine, 2014-2017. He has over 25 years of experience in diplomacy, development, and defense. He is a career public servant with the Department of State and a Senior Fellow with the Partnership for Public Service.