For Graduate Students
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies is a place for graduate students to ask critical questions, grow as scholars and leaders, and build relationships on campus and around the world.
Connect with us. You’ll find the ideas, support, and infrastructure you need.
Welcome to the Einaudi Center
Stop in to see us when you’re on campus! We’re on the ground floor of Uris Hall behind Rusty’s Café.
At Einaudi you’ll find opportunities—opportunities to build connections with faculty and graduate students across disciplines, apply for research funding, learn languages essential to your fieldwork, attend events to shape your thinking, and more. Explore this page and our website to discover what’s in store at the Einaudi Center.
Connect with Our Programs
The Einaudi Center has eight regional and thematic programs, and each program has core faculty researchers, energetic graduate students, and regular opportunities to get involved. Reach out to any program to get started!
Get Involved in Research
The Einaudi Center’s global research priorities are one of the ways our researchers cooperate across disciplines to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems. Graduate students collaborate with faculty fellows leading research priorities and faculty members at work in these vital research areas. Meet our Global Racial Justice Graduate Fellows, part of Einaudi’s inequalities, identities, and justice research priority.
Many grad students find productive research connections with core faculty in the programs and develop their own research agenda with program support.
We’re proud of Einaudi graduate students and postdocs who inspire the next generation of researchers by mentoring undergraduates, including the undergraduate Migrations scholars and Laidlaw scholars.
Global Research Priorities
Inequalities, Identities, and Justice
Global inequalities and advocacy for access and accountability
Summer 2023: Einaudi Travel Grants
This year's travel grants will send Cornell graduate students to research and fieldwork locations around the world—from Brazil to Bangladesh, United Kingdom to Uganda, and Indonesia to Israel.
Below: Check out what two of our travel grant recipients have planned this summer.
Sophia Taborski (Classics)
IES: Greece, Italy, and United Kingdom
“I am so excited to examine curse tablets, magical texts written on lead meant to harm or kill targets, from the 1st to 4th centuries CE. I have to admit I am a bit terrified, as well: two of the curses I am investigating have my name, Sophia, on them in ancient Greek!”
Shivani Aysola (Regional Planning)
SAP: India
“I will be in Bangalore for nine weeks to collect data on construction and demolition waste in the city. I've been researching this issue at various scales and geographies and am so excited to talk firsthand with the people who are the linchpins of waste management.”
Check Out Funding Opportunities
For Your Fieldwork, Languages, Dissertation Proposal, and Beyond
We offer a range of funding opportunities to support you throughout your graduate career—from your first year to your final semester.
Select Opportunities from Einaudi’s Programs
Don’t miss out on dozens of additional fellowships and awards from our programs!
- East Asia fellowships from the East Asia Program
- Bouriez Fellowship for Francophone Students from the Institute for African Development
- Luigi Einaudi Dissertation Fellowship from the Institute for European Studies
- Graduate funding from the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
- Fieldwork fellowships from the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
- Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships from the South Asia Program
- Graduate funding from the Southeast Asia Program
Attend Einaudi Events
We offer daily in-person, hybrid, and virtual events on local and global topics—from Grad Chats professional development sessions, to lectures featuring world leaders and top experts, to friendly seminars for researchers who share your interests.
Don’t miss a thing! Subscribe to our weekly events digest today. Watch past events on YouTube.
