Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee Chair/Advisor: Jenny Goldstein

Discipline: Development Sociology

Primary Language: Indonesian, Balinese

Research Countries: Indonesia

Research Interests: Political ecology, agrarian change, development, environmental conflict and movement, the application of post-growth in the Global South

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A

Discipline: Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Primary Language: Vietnamese

Research Countries: Vietnam

Research Interests: She is interested in multispecies relations in aquaculture and mangrove ecologies in postsocialist states. Her geographical foci are Vietnam and China.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee Chair/Advisor: Jessica Weiss Chen

Discipline: International Relations

Primary Language: Burmese

Research Countries: Myanmar

Research Interests: Economic Statecraft

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2025

Discipline: Plant Breeding and Genetics

Primary Language: Thai

Research Countries: Thailand

Research Interests: Making cucurbits (squash, gourds, melons, cucumbers, pumpkins) from Southeast Asia and Africa more accessible in the US while preserving biodiversity through her initiative 'Cucurbits of the World Network'

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Jenny Goldstein

Discipline: Development Studies

Primary Language: Indonesian/Malay

Research Countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei

Amr Leheta is a PhD student in Cornell University's Department of Near Eastern Studies.

He was a research associate for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, from 2014 to 2018. There, he worked on numerous research projects related to U.S.-Middle East foreign policy, with a particular focus on Egypt and Turkey, as well as Middle Eastern history, politics, and society.

Ecem Sarıçayır is pursuing a PhD in history of architecture and urban development at Cornell University. Her dissertation analyzes the history of art, architecture, and urbanism in the South Caucasus with a particular focus on the displacements and resettlements of the peoples in the region, as well as the alternative solidarities existing among them.

Degree: PHD, Anthropology

Language: Urdu

Research Interests: Agriculture, apple cultivation and climate change in the Western Himalayas, and the social, environmental, and political-economic conditions surrounding labor migration in South Asia

Degree: PhD, City and Regional Planning Language: Malayalam Research Interests: Environment & migration, displacement & dispossession, land governance & human rights, managed retreat, reconciling rural livelihoods & biodiversity conservation, and mountain peoples & ecosystems

Leonardo Santamaría-Montero is a PhD student in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies. He is interested in the study of 19th century Central American visual and material culture, with a focus on indigenous aesthetics and their representations.