Yingyun ‘Aurora’ Zhang is a graduating senior at Cornell University. She is a double major in Government and Information Science, with a minor in Law & Society. Raised on the China-Myanmar border, she has been exposed to rich ethical and religious diversity, along with the complexities of ongoing conflicts in the neighboring region.

Henry Cheng (he/they) is a first-year Ph.D. student at Cornell's history department. As a social historian in training, Henry focuses on the history of radicalism in the global 1960s-70s with a specific concentration on the cases of China and Asian American communities. Before joining Cornell, Henry graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 2020 and the University of Chicago in 2022.

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

Kaitlin Findlay is a PhD candidate in the History Department. Her research examines the enactment of international norms of 'humane' confinement in the early twentieth century. Drawing from international, state, and community archives in five countries, Kaitlin examines the history of international humanitarian law, the politics of internationalism, and liberal empire. It interrogates the activity of international actors, like the Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross and Spanish consular officials, in monitoring detention practices.

Yulin Li is a student in the MA Historic Preservation Planning program. Her research focuses on the value of informal practice as a participator in urban development and collective memory and heritage for people’s everyday life. She looks into the degrading industrial cities in China and USA and explores how collective memories are being destroyed with the industrial buildings, and discusses how to regenerate past industrial cities with the preservation of industrial memories.

Maria Alejandra is a JSD Candidate at Cornell Law School. Her research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to law, environmental justice, and human rights. Her dissertation focuses on examining the intersection between rights-based climate litigation, climate movements, and climate governance at the global level.

Becca Culbertson is pursuing a master's degree in animal science. She hopes to explore questions of environmental social justice to make our food systems more sustainable and equitable. Becca's thesis research focuses on enteric methane mitigation in dairy cows using different nutritional strategies with the larger goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to support climate health. She explores this area of interest through her hands-on research trials at the Cornell University Ruminant Center in Harford, NY.

Ayesha Umaña Dajud is a J.S.D. student (Ph.D. in Law) focused on International Criminal Law and Human Rights Litigation. Her research focuses on political genocides. She does a comparative study of International Criminal Law and Latin American National Criminal Law, comparing the historical and political processes pursued in the International and Latin American systems. From critical international studies, she focuses on the pros and cons of each system towards improving the legitimacy and cultural diversity in international human rights law.

André Nascimento is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Studies. His work examines how literature becomes an operative peacebuilding/peacekeeping instrument in times of armed conflicts, guerrilla warfare, or insurrections in Latin American contexts. Post 2007, the growing presence of organized crime has been accompanied by a sharp increase in rates of kidnappings, executions, and territorial encroachment.