David Ost is the author of Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Reform and Opposition in Poland Since 1968 (Temple University Press 1990) and The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe (Cornell University Press 2005) and co-editor of&

Banu Ozer Griffin's academic interests include teaching Turkish as a second language, curriculum design and development, and the language learning process through intercultural competence. She is an advisor for Cornell's Turkish Student Association and Translator–Interpreter Program.

Maria Luisa Palumbo is a scholar, architect, and curator working at the intersection of architectural history and theory to question and promote notions of social, environmental, and gender justice.

Isabel Perera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. Her research, which earned the John Heinz Award from the National Academy of Social Insurance, examines health, labor, and social policy in comparative perspective. 

Victoria E. Pihl Sørensen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. Her doctoral research examines population control and eugenics in Danish popular culture from an anti-racist feminist point of view.

Simone Pinet's teaching and research focus on medieval and early modern Spanish literatures and cultures, from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries, especially in relation to spatiality, economics, poetics, and translation.

Sophie Pinkham’s research focuses on post-Soviet and post-socialist literature, culture, and politics, primarily in Russia and Ukraine. Her current project is a history of the forest in the Russian imagination.

Kaori Quan is a PhD student in French History.

Leslie Rogne Schumacher, PhD, FRSA, FRHistS is a scholar of Europe and the Middle East. He currently holds affiliations at Harvard University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Additionally, Dr.

Bryn Rosenfeld's research interests include political behavior, development and democratization, protest, post-communist politics, and survey methodology.