Xiong Hui is a professor of comparative literature in the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University, China. His research interests include translated literature and transcultural studies, compilation and research of historical materials on Modern Chinese Writers Studying Abroad. He once visited Cornell as a Fulbright Research Scholar. 

Aung Thura Ko Ko is a visiting scholar at the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) for the spring semester. He was previously a research fellow at the Pacific Forum, a U.S. policy think tank based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, and an affiliate scholar at the East-West Center from 2024 to 2026. Aung previously worked at the University of Oxford’s Global Security Programme, and his research focuses on wartime and postwar governance, China–Myanmar relations, and Indo-Pacific regional security issues.

Karen Lalrindiki Donoghue teaches in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. She holds a PhD from the North Eastern Hill University, which is focused on media representation of Northeast India in mainstream Indian media, and her research interests include Media Representation, Media and Culture and Oral History. She is currently a member of the executive committee of the Oral History Association of India.

Patrick Daly has recently started an appointment as Research Scientist (Sustainability & Resilience) in the Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis. His previous research and teaching appointments include the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, the Asia Research Institute, the National University of Singapore, and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Su Yin Htun is an Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) fellow and visiting scholar in the Einaudi Center for International Studies’ Southeast Asia Program. 

Paul Kaiser joins the Einaudi Center in 2025–26 as Einaudi's practitioner in residence.

Sadia Mahmood holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Arizona State University. Her research investigates religious difference and the production and governance of postcolonial minorities in South Asia. Grounded in fieldwork among Hindu communities in the Tharparkar region of Sindh and archival work in Pakistan and Bangladesh, her work examines the governance of minorities through legal and bureaucratic regimes in Pakistan, caste and identity politics along the Sindh-Rajasthan borderlands and Dalit strategies of assertion in Sindh. 

Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Kabul University, Master’s in Agriculture, and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology of Japan. He conducts research on groundwater resources investigation, climate change impacts on water resources, climate change mitigation through renewable energy resources, peacebuilding, climate change, and migration. He is also an AGU Global Engagement Committee member.

Yoshiko Okuyama (PhD, University of Arizona) is a professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Languages at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. Her areas of specialization include Japanese popular culture, disability studies, deaf studies, second language acquisition, and technology-mediated communication.

Andrew Harding is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies. His research analyzes fiction written by ethnically Korean writers who were born and raised in Japan after World War II. His dissertation provides a new perspective on these writings and delves into questions of national identity and its limits.