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Eric Tagliacozzo

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Director, Comparative Muslim Societies Program and Southeast Asia Program

Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the director of the Einaudi Center's Comparative Muslim Societies Program and 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

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  • CMSP Director
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Iftikhar Dadi

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John H. Burris Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies

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

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William Lodge

William Lodge

Assistant Professor of Health Equity and Public Policy

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.

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Sarah F. Thompson

Sarah Thompson

Assistant Professor of Government

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.

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Sarah Besky

Sarah Besky

Binenkorb Director, South Asia Program

Sarah Besky is Professor of the Anthropology of Work in the Department of Global Labor & Work at the ILR School. Her research explores the intersection of inequality, nature, and capitalism in the Himalayas.

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