The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies is directed by a member of the steering committee who serves a three-year term. The current director is:
Rebecca Slayton, Associate Professor, Department of Science & Technology Studies.
Associate Director
Sabrina Karim, Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence.
Steering Committee
Members of the steering committee assist the program director with oversight and management of the Reppy Institute.
Directory
This directory includes contact information for faculty, staff members, Reppy fellows, and visitors associated with the institute.
Please note that only professional contact data is provided. In case of an emergency or should you need to reach a person listed outside of normal business hours, please refer to Cornell People Search for additional contact information. Choose from the categories below to view directory listings.
Debra Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Chair of Hispanic Studies, professor of comparative literature, and former director of the Einaudi Center's Latin American Studies Program.
Frances Cayton is a second year Ph.D. student in Cornell University’s Department of Government with a primary concentration in comparative politics and minors in methodology and international relations.
Priyanka Chakravarty is the Program Manager for the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Oslo, Norway, and MPhil (Master of Philosophy) in Law and Governance from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India.
Musckaan is a PhD student in the Department of Government. Her research explores how postcolonial statecraft is bound up in the parameters of political imagination inscribed by the historical event of decolonization.
Henry Cheng (he/they) is a first-year Ph.D. student at Cornell's history department. As a social historian in training, Henry focuses on the history of radicalism in the global 1960s-70s with a specific concentration on the cases of China and Asian American communities.
Becca Culbertson is pursuing a master's degree in animal science. She hopes to explore questions of environmental social justice to make our food systems more sustainable and equitable.
Ayesha is a J.S.D. student (Ph.D. in Law) focused on International Criminal Law and Human Rights Litigation. Her research focuses on political genocides.
Prize for Best Essay in Technology and International Security Policy Winner 2023-24
Michael Dekhtyar is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, minoring in International Trade and Development. On campus, he served as Vice President of The Cornell Diplomat and Managing Editor for the Cornell International Affairs Review.
Songtao Duan is a first-year master’s student at the Brooks School of Public Policy. His research interests include the comparative and international political economy of development, foreign aid, state building, authoritarian politics, and democratization.
President White Professor of History and Political Science
Matthew Evangelista's current teaching and research interests focus on the relationship between gender, nationalism, and war; ethical and legal issues in international affairs (particularly just war theory and international humanitarian law); transnational relations; and separatist movements.
