Visiting and Affiliated Scholars
2024-25 Affiliated Scholars
Gizem Nur Aydemir is a PhD candidate and research assistant in the Building Science program at the Middle East Technical University Department of Architecture. Her dissertation research centers on the development of a building energy performance workflow tailored to extreme climate conditions.
Larisa Kasumagić- Kafedžić, a 2003-04 Cornell University Humphrey Fellow Alumni spent the 2022-23 academic year at Cornell as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow, where she focused on teaching a course on Global Citizenship Education and worked on her research project Teachers as Agents
Recent Past Visiting Scholars
Tamás Bartucz 2024
Tamás Bartucz is a PhD student at the Institute of Aquaculture and Environmental Safety in Hungary. His research interests include alternative protein sources in fish nutrition.
Daniel Krähmer 2023-2024
Daniel is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. His dissertation project focuses on the reproducibility and robustness of observational social science research. Other research interests include open science, computational social science, and data visualization. While at Cornell, Krähmer worked with Professor Cristobal Young on multiverse analysis to assess the credibility and boundary conditions of social research findings.
Simon Parker 2023
Simon Parker works in the fields of urban studies and urban theory, socio-spatial informatics, the politics of asylum and immigration; and comparative European politics (with particular reference to Italy). He is the author of Cities, Politics and Power (Routledge 2010) and Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City (Routledge, 2004; second edition 2015) as well as co-editor of The New Italian Republic (Routledge, 1996).
Dmitry Bykov 2022-2023
Russian dissident Dmitry Bykov was an Open Society University Network fellow and visiting critic based in the Einaudi Center’s Institute for European Studies (IES). One of Russia’s best-known public intellectuals, he is a novelist, poet, critic, satirist, and university professor.
Melik Karagöz 2022-2023
Melik is a PhD candidate at Istanbul University in the Political Science program. His research focuses on comparative politics, and in particular populism in Turkey and in global perspective. At Cornell, he is mentored by Prof. Kenneth Roberts (Government) and Prof. Mabel Berezin (IES and Sociology).
Oscar Mazzoleni 2022
Professor of Social and Political Sciences at Lausanne University. His main research interests are nationalism, regionalism, party politics, and populism, focusing on an adaptive and multifaceted perspective that addresses changing realities across Europe and the U.S.
Giulia Clarizia 2022
Ph.D. candidate in History of International Relations, Department of Political Science at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre. She worked with Professors Matthew Evangelista and Mabel Berezin on her dissertation project focused on the relations between Italian antifascists, American secret services, and Italo-American activists from World War II to the Early Cold War, using a mixed methodology of historical research and Social Network Analysis.
Tamas Dezso Ziegler 2022
Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University. His major is in EU law and European studies (including the interdisciplinary analysis of public policies and political aspects of legislation), international business law and private international law. Read more about Tamas.
Anna Unger 2022
Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Eötvös Loránd University. Her main research interests are democracy as a theory and a method, with a special focus on direct democracy, the politics of elections, and American politics. As an expert of democracy and elections, she is a regular guest of public events organized by NGOs and think tanks, and of the media.
Manuela Caiani 2022
Associate Professor of Political Science, Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy. Her research interests focus on: Europeanization and social movements, right wing extremism in Europe and the USA, political mobilization and the Internet, qualitative methods of social research and political violence & terrorism. Read more about Manuela.
Past Luigi Einaudi Chairs for European and International Studies
Marina Cervera Alonso de Medina 2019-2020, Ebru Öztürk 2018-2019, Paolo Graziano 2018-2019, Ozgur Cicek 2017-2018, Tiziana Caponio 2016-2017, Łukasz Pawłowski 2016-2017, Amara Lakhous 2014-2015, Stefano Sacchi 2013-2014, Enzo Traverso 2011-2012, Paolo Silvestri 2010-2011, Dr. Joanna Krzeminska-Vamvaka 2010-2011, Cas Mudde 2010-2011
The Luigi Einaudi Chair visiting scholar program ended in 2020.
Past Scholars at Risk
Beginning in early 2016, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and the Einaudi Center, IES has worked closely with the International Institute of Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) to provide sanctuary for scholars at risk of persecution in their home countries. For these scholars, Cornell offers the opportunity to continue their research and teaching in a welcoming, safe, and supportive scholarly community as they pursue a more permanent situation for themselves and their families.
Ozgur Cicek, Simten Coşar, Özlem Erkarslan, Azat Gundogan, Dilan Okcuoglu, Ebru Öztürk, Ceyhun Mahmudlu
From 2022 to 2024, IES supported Turkish sociologist Serap Kavas' visit to Cornell's Brooks School of Public Policy.
Past Regional Visiting Fellows
Regional Visiting Fellows are faculty and staff members from colleges and universities in upstate New York that have a research or teaching interest in European Studies.
Maria DiFrancesco, Andrew Utterson, Delia Popescu, Juan Arroyo