South Asia Program
Eric Tagliacozzo
Director, Southeast Asia Program
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
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Role
- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Director
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
- Executive Committee
Contact
Email: et54@cornell.edu
Iftikhar Dadi
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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Role
- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SAP Steering Committee
- SAP Advisory Council
- Executive Committee
Contact
Email: mid1@cornell.edu
EU Fails to Finalize US Trade Deal
Eswar Prasad, SAP
Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy, discusses how the U.S.-European geopolitical tensions and supply shocks are affecting global economic dynamics.
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Why Trump’s China Trip Is Set up to Fail
Allen Carlson, EAP/SAP
Allen Carlson, a China expert at Cornell University, comments on the extremely low likelihood of meaningful outcomes from the Trump-Xi summit.
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How Can India Produce AI, Instead of Becoming its Tenant?
Rohit Lamba, SAP
The deeper danger is that India’s public conversation is too quick to convert constraint into strategy. Because we cannot yet win at the frontier, we tell ourselves the frontier does not matter.
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Mini-Crises Sparked by the Iran War May Add up to a Big Collapse
Eswar Prasad, SAP
Eswar Prasad, a Cornell University professor of trade policy, is quoted on the resilience of the world economy in the face of significant shocks.
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Why AI Alone Cannot Fix Social Problems
Aditya Vashista, SAP
Even sophisticated AI systems need human support and institutional capacity to succeed in addressing social problems.
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No Nation Is Spared in This War
Eswar Prasad, SAP
Eswar Prasad, a Cornell University professor, critiques the impact of global crises on low-income nations.
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Bartels Lecture: Samantha Power
Former USAID Director Calls for Rebuilding Foreign Aid
Samantha Power challenged students to “build what comes next” during the Bartels World Affairs Lecture on April 16.