Staff
Donna Pinnisi
Coordinator of Scholar Services
Donna Pinnisi oversees the Einaudi Center's engagement with visiting scholars.
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Sydni Tung
Administrative Assistant and Funding Coordinator
Sydni Tung is the Administrative Assistant in the East Asia Program. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies and Political Science from Mount Holyoke College.
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Maeve Coughlin
Academic Programs Coordinator
Maeve Coughlin coordinates events, promotion, and programming to support the administrative side of academic programs at the Einaudi Center. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from Stetson University and was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Germany in 2018-2019.
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Judy Small
Administrator and HR Manager
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Patricia Young
Program Manager
Patricia Young is the Program Manager for the Institute for European Studies and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has a doctorate in Political Science from Rutgers University and a master's in Economics from the University of Victoria, Canada. She wrote her dissertation on market and democratic reforms in Eastern Europe and the process of European Union enlargement. She came to Cornell in 2019 as a lecturer in Sociology and Government, teaching on the Transformation of Socialist Societies. Patricia has previously lectured at Stanford since 2010.
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Matthew Morgan
Administrative Coordinator
Matthew Morgan provides direct administrative support for the Manager of Finance and the Administrator/HR Manager.
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Alexis Shimon
Editor, Cornell East Asia Program
Alexis Shimon is the editor of the Cornell East Asia Series. They first came to Cornell in June 2019 as an acquisitions assistant and Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow at Cornell University Press. Alexis has a PhD in History, with a focus on the history of Chinese law, and works in both Chinese and Japanese. Some of their other interests include disability rights, comics, and queer speculative fiction.
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Jackie N. Sayegh
Program Manager
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Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Oxford Exchange Fund
Details
The purpose of the Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Oxford Exchange Fund is to facilitate academic exchanges between Cornell and Oxford University (UK).
The awards are designed to promote scholarly interchange between Cornell and Oxford colleges, primarily in the social sciences and humanities. Cornell scholars from all colleges are invited to apply.
Criteria
Successful grant applicants will receive funding to support research stays at Oxford. The award is also open to faculty and faculty-student research teams to travel to Oxford for collaborations and to make use of Oxford’s extensive research and library resources. Appropriate uses of the fund include thesis or dissertation research, workshop participation, and initiating or sustaining research partnerships. Projects that foster ongoing, close collaborations between Cornell and Oxford are given priority.
Requirements
- Four to five-page (double-spaced) research proposal with bibliography
- Detailed budget (does not count towards proposal page limit)
- Proposed research timeline (does not count towards proposal page limit)
- One Cornell faculty letter of recommendation (for students)
- One Oxford faculty letter of support (for students)
The online application form requires applicants to provide the names and email addresses of faculty recommenders. The online system automatically generates a notification email to the recommenders with instructions on how to log in and upload a recommendation letter. The submission deadline for a letter of recommendation is March 16, 2025. The letters of support from Oxford faculty can be mailed directly to IES Program Manager Patricia Young, pty6@cornell.edu.
Contact IES with questions about this award.
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Leah Marx
Administrative Assistant