Student
Eve Devillers
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2031
Primary Language: Indonesian
Research Countries: Indonesia
Research Interests: Natural resource governance, energy transitions, food commoning, land and resource grabbing
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Kyaw Hsan Hlaing
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028-29
Committee Chair/Advisor: Thomas Pepinsky
Discipline: Political Science
Primary Language: Arakanese, Burmese
Research Countries: TBD
Research Interests: Regime Changes, Political violence, Contentious Politics, Authoritarianism,
Democratic Backsliding, and Rebel Politics.
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Win Kyaw
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Committee Chair/Advisor: Anne Blackburn
Primary Language: Chinese, French, Thai
Research Countries: Myanmar
Research Interests: Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Konbaung Empire, Pali/Sanskrit Cosmopolis
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Migrations Creative Writing and Art Competition
Details
Submit your creative work to this year's creative writing and art competition. Open to Cornell students and staff, the competition asks you to reflect on migration in your own life and the life of your community.
Winning submissions will receive a cash prize and be published on our website. View the work of last year's winners.
The photo displayed on this page is À la République by Victoria Abunaw '24, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Her work is one of the winning submissions of the 2023 creative writing and art competition.
Eligibility
The competition is open to currently enrolled students at any level and non-faculty staff members. Your submission should answer the question: How does migration shape life in your community?
Our Stories in Motion
You can view past winners of the creative competition in the lobby of Mann Library this fall. Our exhibit tells the stories of students and staff whose lives have been influenced by migration. Migrations influence the food they eat, the languages they speak, where their families live, and how they view the world.
How to Submit
Complete the submission form below by February 15, 2026.
Requirements
Please use the project title as the file name. Do not use your name as the file name. Submission limited to one person and netID.
Questions? Email the Migrations Program.
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Aleia Manning
Graduate Student
Aleia Manning is an MHA candidate in Cornell’s Sloan Program in Health Administration and a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow with the South Asia Program. Her academic and professional interests focus on health equity, maternal and reproductive health, and solving challenges facing large health systems. Through her FLAS fellowship, she studies South Asian language and culture to deepen her understanding of how cultural context shapes care delivery and patient experience.
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Noah Wunanyun
Reppy Fellow 2024-25, 2025-26
Noah Wunanyun is a PhD student in the Department of Government specializing in international relations with a minor in Comparative Politics.
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Jack Brown
LACS Graduate Fellow '24-'25
Jack Brown is a Ph.D. student of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Romance Studies. He is interested in modern and contemporary Latin American fiction, especially Gothic fiction and its relation to sociopolitical issues in the region.
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Rocío Salas-Lewin
LACS Graduate Fellow '24-'25
Rocío Salas-Lewin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. Her research interests include social movements, electoral behavior, populism, and public opinion in Latin America. She focuses on the relationship between institutional and extra-institutional political participation, and the effect of social movements on public opinion and elections.
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Isabel Padilla Carlo
LACS Graduate Fellow '24-'25
Isabel Padilla Carlo (she/her/ella) is a dance scholar pursuing a Ph.D. in Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. At the intersection of memory and body studies, Isabel’s research examines how dance and performance play a role in challenging or reinforcing particular social imaginaries in the Hispanophone Caribbean, helping shape collective identity on the archipelago and the diaspora.
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Harry Churchill
LACS Graduate Fellow '24-'25
Harry Churchill is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. His research focuses on the political economy and cultural history of alcohol in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chile, Argentina and Southern Brazil. He interrogates economic processes of trade, immigration, urbanization, and agricultural production.