Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the director of the Einaudi Center's Southeast Asia Program, and a core faculty member of the Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program.

His research centers on the history of people, ideas, and material in motion in and around Southeast Asia, especially in the late colonial age.

Geographic Research Area: Southeast Asia, South Asia

Teaching/Research Interests: Migration and trade, material history, Silk Road, Indian Ocean

Geographic Research Area: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Middle East

Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary art, methodology and intellectual history, and film, media, and popular cultures

Geographical Research Area: India and Pakistan

Teaching/Research Interests: digital humanities, commemoration, religion & identity

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interest: Applied Economics & Policy, International Development, Economic Theory

Geographic Research Area: South Asia, Brazil, Tanzania, Somalia, Nigeria, and the United States.

Teaching/Research Interests: William Lodge is a behavioral and social scientist specializing in HIV primary and secondary prevention, focusing on gender and sexual minority health both domestically and internationally. While his work has primarily focused on South Asia, he has also worked on projects in Brazil, Tanzania, Somalia, Nigeria, and the United States.

Geographic Research Area: South Asia and Latin America

Teaching/Research Interests: Sarah Thompson utilizes causal inference methods (particularly field experiments and quasi-experimental methods) in her research on the politics of marginalized groups. She also works closely with policymakers in the field. She asks how key institutions can intervene to increase the political agency of women and indigenous populations, who are systematically excluded from state politics around the globe.

Aditya Vashistha's research focuses on creating social computing technologies that empower underserved communities worldwide.

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: Environment, sustainable livelihoods, forest governance

Geographic Research Interest: India, Nepal, Bangladesh

Teaching/Research Interest: sustainable agriculture, food security, rural livelihoods, ecosystem services, social change processes

Geographic Research Interest: India-Pakistan

Teaching/Research Interest: Anthropology of the state, ethnographic film, minority citizenship, religious nationalism.