More than 450 faculty from across Cornell come together at the Einaudi Center to imagine and conduct global research. Over 150 graduate and undergraduate students find resources, inspiration, and a global scholarly community through Einaudi's eight regional and thematic programs and minors.
Global Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Lecturer, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: Nepal
Teaching/Research Interests: Teaching Nepali as a second language
Professor, Africana and Romance Studies
Assistant Professor, Government
Begüm Adalet is a political theorist with research and teaching interests in anti-colonial thought, transnationalism, the Cold War, development, land, and the built environment.
Programs and Campaigns Lead, Oxfam in Ghana
Mohammed-Anwar Sadat Adam focuses on strategy, policy analysis, research, campaign, and advocacy leadership for Ghana's social and economic justice issues. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies
Leslie Adelson’s teaching and research concentrate on German literature from 1945 to the present and additionally reflect interdisciplinary as well as transnational approaches to culture and history.
Graduate Student
Rama is a PhD student in Human Computer Interaction. His primary interests lie in the areas of education and development contexts (ICT4D). In particular, he tries to understand ways in which various communities use technologies for achieving their goals and design…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Jenny Goldstein
Discipline: Development Sociology
Primary Language: …
Associate Professor, Colorado State University
Ryadi Adityavarman is an associate professor in the Interior Architecture program at Colorado State University. He has a multidisciplinary background in architecture, interior design, and historic preservation with a particular focus in Indonesian architectural…
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Nick Admussen is an associate professor of Chinese literature and the past director of the Contemporary China Initiative.
LACS Graduate Fellow ’21-‘22
Angelica Aguirre is a PhD student in the History Department. Her studies focus on space and politics surrounding counterinsurgency in Southern Mexico.
Graduate Student
Farhana is a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell. Her research intersects the fields of adaptation planning, water, and institutional reform in Bangladesh.
Professor, Architectural Theory
Esra Akcan is the Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture. Her scholarly work on a geopolitically conscious global history of urbanism and architecture inspires her teaching.
Graduate Student
Manasicha is pursuing a PhD in Asian literature, religion, and culture from the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Christopher Alabi's research focuses on the assembly of new sequence-defined macromolecules that can be used to create stimuli-responsive materials, develop efficient drug delivery bioconjugates, and design potent antimicrobial agents.
Ph.D., Lecturer in History
Jomarie Alano has taught at several area colleges, including Colgate University and Wells College and she has also taught History FWS 1335: Fascisms and History 3662: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, 1900-1950 at Cornell. Jomarie received her A.B.…
Web Manager
Brad Alderman manages the Einaudi Center's website and oversees sites across the Global Cornell web portfolio.
Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies
Annetta Alexandridis' research interests include Roman sculpture, Greek myth and iconography, archaeology and its media (photography, plaster casts), gender studies, animal studies.
Professor, Natural Resources
Shorna Allred's research blends human factors and natural sciences to improve resource management and conservation.
Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College
Matthew Amster is a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker with extensive experience working in Borneo and, more recently, has started a new project in Denmark.
Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies
Benjamin Anderson studies the visual and material cultures of the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent landmasses, with a particular focus on late antique and Byzantine art and architecture. His first book, Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art,…
Senior Lecturer, Performing and Media Arts
Full Professor of International Relations, University of Turin
Fabio Armao is a founding member of the Turin World Affairs Institute (T.wai), a member of the Standing Group on Organized Crime of the European Consortium for Political Research and of the Editorial Board of "Global Crime".
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics at Ithaca College
Juan Arroyo is an advisor to the Model European Union and Model United Nations teams. His teaching interests include European Politics, the European Union, International Organizations, Political Parties and Ideologies, Comparative Welfare States, Catholics and…
Director, Institute for African Development
N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is a professor of Africa and the African diaspora, comparative and international education, social institutions, African social history, and gender studies.
Research Fellow, Australian National University
Rini Astuti's research focuses on Indonesia's extensive peat fires, deforestation, and climate politics. She 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Adjunct Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Iwan Jaya Azis is an adjunct professor of applied economics and policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
Assistant Professor, Government
Oumar Ba's research focuses on international criminal justice and human rights for globally marginalized people. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Professor, Law
Sandra Babcock specializes in international human rights litigation, access to justice, death penalty defense, international gender rights, and the application of international law in U.S. courts. She is the faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death…
Senior Lecturer, Polish Language
Ewa Bachminska teaches all levels of Polish and two film courses: East European Film and Animals in Global Cinema. Her current research focuses on the most threatened mammalian species in Poland: their conservation, welfare, and their place in education, culture,…
Director, East Asia Program
Andrea Bachner is a professor of comparative literature. She is the director of the East Asia Program for the term 2019-22 and a member of the East Asia Program executive committee.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2024-25
Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A
Discipline: Performing and Media Arts
Primary Language: Tagalog,…
Professor, Finance
Warren Bailey's research interests include international finance, international securities markets, investments, and emerging capital markets, particularly in Asia. He teaches in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Associate Professor, Performing and Media Arts and Asian American Studies
Christine Bacareza Balance's writings on former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, Asian American YouTube artists, Bruno Mars, Glee’s karaoke aesthetics, and spree killer Andrew Cunanan have been published in Women and Performance, Journal of…
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Geographic Research Area: Russia, Eurasia, and India
Teaching/Research Interests: Technology and culture, energy and the environment, media studies, and migration studies
Professor, Cornell Law School
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026-2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: Shorna Allred
Discipline: Global Development
Primary Language: …
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural Economics and Asian Studies
Randy Barker is professor emeritus in the Department of Applied Economics and Management. He spent half of his career conducting research and teaching in Asia.
Graduate Student
Whitman Barrett is a PhD student in the Soil and Crop Sciences Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science. His research focuses on the reuse of human excreta in agriculture, with the goal of improving public health outcomes along with smallholder farmers’…
Associate Professor, Classics
Caitlín Eilís Barrett is an archaeologist who investigates everyday life, religious experience, and cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean.
Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Chris Barrett is Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management. He is an international professor of agriculture at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and a professor in the Department of Economics.
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Associate Professor, Economics
Panle Jia Barwick is an associate professor in the economics department at Cornell University and a faculty research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are empirical industrial organization, applied econometrics, and the…
Computer Systems Manager
Walt Baschnagel maintains the networking and computer systems for the Einaudi Center.
Program Manager
Daniel Bass also serves as an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology and Asian studies.
Geographic Research Area: Sri Lanka, India, and South Asian diasporas
Research Interests: Ethnicity, citizenship, tea…
Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (on leave SP'22)
Ernesto Bassi's research interests coalesce around two significant questions: How do people develop geographic and cultural identifications? How do geographic regions come into being?
Professor, Applied Economics amd Management
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Development economics, field experiments, information economics, international trade, and labor economics
