More than 350 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.
LB Korean Studies Research Scholar
Soyi Kim is the inaugural LB Korean Studies Research Scholar for the East Asia Program.
Assistant Director of Programs and Pedagogical Innovation, ILR
Stephen Kim’s research focuses on critical dialogue; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; ethnic studies; and early modern literature and culture.
Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay Jr. Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering
Professor, Natural Resource Policy and Management
Barbara Knuth is interested in the social science and policy dimensions of ecosystem-based management in Great Lakes and marine systems, risk communication and management associated with chemical contaminants in fish, and environmental stewardship related to…
Professor Emeritus, History
The focal point of Victor Koschmann's research is the nexus between political thought and action, primarily but not exclusively in twentieth-century Japan.
Graduate Student
Anna Koshcheeva researches visual culture of Cold War Laos. She focuses on cultural theories, visual representations of time, and temporality of Asian modernities - socialist, Buddhist, and others.
Visiting Scholar
Daniel Krähmer 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.
John L. Wetherill Professor
Sarah Kreps's teaching and research focus on the intersection of international politics, technology, and national security.
Graduate Student
Kavya is a PhD student in the field of Soil and Crop Sciences. Her primary research interests are studying soil health – particularly its effects on food security. For the fieldwork component of her PhD, she is working with India-based agricultural universities like…
Senior Lecturer, Comparative Literature
Associate Professor, House Professor, and Dean, Carl Becker House
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Urbanization, planning theory, research methods, transborder/transdiscipline engaged learning
Domestic Affiliate Scholar
Yaro T. Kulchyckyj holds a Doctor of International Affairs and a Masters of International Public Policy degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (JHU-SAIS). He wrote his doctoral dissertation on U.S.
Graduate Student
Satish Kumar, a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Doctoral Fellow at TCI, is a PhD student in public policy at IIT Bombay. His research focuses on agriculture-nutrition linkages and diversification in semi-arid regions. Previously, he pursued a Commonwealth split-site…
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Jennifer Kuo’s research focuses on how people learn linguistic sound patterns, and how cognitive biases influence this learning process. She draws heavily on insights from Austronesian languages, including the Formosan languages of Taiwan.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: Masters
Anticipated Degree Year: 2024
Discipline: Master of Industrial and Labor Relations (MILR)
Primary Language: Indonesian, English
Andrew J. Nathanson Family Professor of Industrial Relations
Sarosh Kuruvilla is Cornell University's Andrew J. Nathanson Family Professor of Industrial Relations, Asian Studies, and Public Affairs. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
Associate Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Steven Kyle is an associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He works in the areas of macroeconomic policy in the United States and in low-income countries.
Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor, Law
Ian Kysel is a core faculty member in Cornell Law School's Migration and Human Rights Program and codirects the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic. As a 2020–21 Global Public Voices fellow, he collaborated with Maya Sahli…
Program Initiatives and Media Coordinator
Amala Lane began at the East Asia Program in March of 2018 and since then has added responsibility for media production for OVPIA. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University.
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Stacey A. Langwick, College of Arts and Sciences, is an anthropologist of healing and medicine in Africa.
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Naomi Nakada Larson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Emeritus and Graduate School Professor, Natural Resources
James P. Lassoie is interested in international conservation and sustainable development in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Canada, and the United States.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027
Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A
Discipline: Development Studies
Primary Language:…
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Jane Marie Law received her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago, where her work in history of religions focused on Japanese ritual performance and ritual studies.…
Senior Lecturer and Stephen H. Weiss Provost’s Teaching Fellow, Romance Studies
Cecelia Lawless teaches both language and literature/film courses as a senior lecturer. For several years, she was the faculty fellow for the Spanish Language House at Alice Cook.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: MBA
Anticipated Degree Year: 2024
Committee Chair/Advisor: N/A
Primary Language: English
Research Countries:…
Assistant Professor, International and Comparative Labor
Desirée LeClercq's research explores incoherence between international labor law and U.S. trade law and constitutional law. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Professor, Applied Economics and Management
David Lee is interested in economic development, agriculture, and the environment, including food security, sustainable agriculture, technology adoption, environmental services, climate change, and agricultural and environmental policy.
Graduate Student, Near Eastern Studies
Amr Leheta is a PhD student in Cornell University's Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences
Johannes Lehmann is interested in soil biogeochemistry, fertility management, organic matter, and carbon and nutrient cycling from wastes; Soil carbon sequestration and biochar systems; Sustainable agriculture in the tropics.
Assistant Professor, Design and Environmental Analysis
Renata Leitão's research focuses on the empowerment and self-determination of Indigenous and marginalized communities. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
PACS Steering Committee Member
Lecturer, Asian Studies
Fangfang Li is a lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy
Shanjun Li is the Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He serves as the co-director of Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER).
Reppy Fellow 2023-24
Yulin Li is a student in the MA Historic Preservation Planning program. Her research focuses on the value of informal practice as a participator in urban development and collective memory and heritage for people’s everyday life.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Committee Chair/Advisor: Vida Maralani
Discipline: Sociology
Primary Language:…
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Rui Liu received her MA in Literary Theory in 2002 from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, and her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature in 1999 from Shaanxi Normal University in China.
Professor, History
Tamara Loos is professor of history and Asian studies. Her most recent book, Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur (2016), tells the story of Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935).
Associate Professor, English
Philip Lorenz received his PhD from New York University. His teaching and research focus on English and Spanish literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in relation to problems of sovereignty and political theology.
Visiting Scholar
Lu Xiaocong is a Ph.D. candidate of Yuelu Academy at Hunan University. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy and a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Discipline: Plant Breeding and Genetics
Primary Language: Thai
Research Countries:…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2025
Committee Chair/Advisor: Renata Leitao
Discipline: Apparel Design
Primary Language: Mandarin,…
Professor Emerita, Human Development
Geographic Research Area: Sri Lanka
Teaching/Research Interests: Cognitive science, developmental psychology, and linguistics
Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, and Clinical Program Director
Beth Lyon’s research focuses on deportation defense, migrant rights, and xenophobic hate speech.
Professor Emeritus, Economics
Tom Lyons studies China's recent economic history. He is especially interested in spatial aspects of development, including patterns of regional specialization and interregional trade, spatial disparities in output and consumption, and institutions and policies that…
Associate Professor
Shaoling Ma is an interdisciplinary scholar and critical theorist of global Chinese history, literature, and media.
Senior Research Associate
Ed Mabaya is a scholar and a development practitioner with more than two decades of experience working on development, agribusiness value chains and food security issues with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Senior Research Associate in the …
Associate Professor, Clark University
Ken MacLean is an associate professor of international development and social change and a faculty member at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Graduate student
Yousuf's research agenda focuses broadly on climate change adaptation, forest resource management, conservation, and institutional mechanisms for climate policy formulation.
Professor Emeritus, Economics
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Sustainable economic development, intertemporal decentralization, dynamical systems, and allocation theory and international trade theory
Graduate Student
Aparajita Majumdar is a PhD candidate in history. Her research brings together ideas concerning matter, space, and ecology in the histories of resource extraction. She works primarily on the accumulation of "wild" rubber in the northeastern tracts of British…
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
Senior Lecturer, Spanish and Romance Studies
Nilsa Maldonado-Mendez's interests include feminism and religion in Spanish-speaking countries, teaching Spanish to heritage speakers, history, and women writers in the Spanish-speaking Americas.
Professor Emerita, Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: Nepal and the Himalayas
Teaching/Research Interests: Gender, ethnicity, religion and culture
Professor, Government and Law
Department Administrator
Melanie Markusic supports both the Einaudi Center and Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs. She oversees operations of the Einaudi Center, manages academic appointments, internal controls/compliance, contracts, MOAs, and oversees IT and…
Professor Emeritus, Law
Peter W. Martin, the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law, emeritus, and former dean of Cornell Law School, writes, speaks, and consults on topics that concern the impact of technology on the functioning of law and legal institutions.
Associate Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History
Veronica Martínez-Matsuda’s research agenda is motivated by the following central questions: How do those excluded from the legal and everyday rights of American citizenship because of their political status, racial identity, or class standing as low-wage workers,…
Visiting Scholar
James Mason is a system scientist focused on the intersection of human capital, social capital, entrepreneurship, and economic development as a complex adaptive system.
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Center for Global Health at Weill Cornell Medicine
Geographic Research Area: India, Haiti and South Africa
Graduate Student
Ayesha Matthan is a PhD student in the department of History of Art and Visual Studies. She is interested in photojournalistic practices, popular visual culture and politics in the Indian subcontinent from the 19th century to the present day.
Senior Associate Dean, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs
Patrizia McBride is director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies and professor in the Department of German Studies.
Professor, University of Leeds
Although Duncan McCargo is best known for his agenda-setting contributions to current debates on the politics of Thailand, his work is centrally concerned with the nature of power. How do entrenched elites seek to retain power in the face of challenges from new…
Professor, Integrative Plant Science
Susan McCouch's research focuses on rice and includes publishing the first molecular map of the rice genome in 1988. She spent five years with the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines before joining the Cornell faculty.
Professor, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Sanskrit poetics, text interpretation, and Buddhist studies
LACS Graduate Fellow ‘23-‘24
Steven McCutcheon Rubio is a Ph.D. Student in Development Studies. His research focuses on agrarian change and rural social movements in contemporary Latin America, particularly Mexico. He is also a book review editor for the Journal of Agriculture,…
Associate Professor, Soil & Crop Sciences
Geographic Research Interest: India, Nepal, Bangladesh
Teaching/Research Interest: sustainable agriculture, food security, rural livelihoods, ecosystem services, social change processes
Associate Professor, History of Art
Kaja McGowan’s studies the reciprocal relationships between neighboring countries in South and Southeast Asia.
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Peter Mcintyre is an aquatic conservation ecologist and the Dwight Webster Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. Working with a wide range of collaborators, he develop management approaches that balance human interests with protecting biodiversity.
Clinical Professor, Law
Estelle McKee has practiced immigration law for two decades and teaches the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Daniel McKee's research interests include verbal-visual relations, Tokugawa period art and literature, comedy in Japanese art and literature, and kyōka and haikai poetry.
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Robin McNeal received his PhD from the University of Washington in ancient Chinese history. His teaching at Cornell includes classical Chinese language, text studies, and history and thought of the pre-imperial and early imperial eras.
Reppy Institute Freeman Prize Winner 2023-24
Patrick J. Mehler is an M.S. candidate in Industrial and Labor Relations. He graduated with a B.S. with Honors in 2023.
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Frances Yufen Lee Mehta is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
Associate Professor, Global Health, Epidemiology, and Nutrition
Geographic Research Area: India, Kenya, and Ecuador
Teaching/Research Interests: Infectious disease, nutrition, and epidemiology
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2023-2024
Committee Chair/Advisor: Maria Cristina Garcia
Discipline: History
Primary Language…
LACS Visiting Scholar
Originally from Quito, Ecuador, Martin Mejia Carrillo is a PhD Candidate (ABD) at Tulane University and a lecturer in Politics at Universidad de Palermo. In the LACS program, he is a visiting doctoral intern for fall 2023, working under the supervision of Kenneth…
Reppy Institute Director's Fellow 2023-24
Avishai Melamed is a PhD Student at Cornell University’s Department of Government in the International Relations subfield. He has published in the Journal of Space Safety Engineering and is a graduate fellow at Cornell University’s Tech Policy Institute.
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature; Institute of Comparative Modernities; Literatures in English
Natalie Melas' interests range across Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature and thought, modern Greek, modern French and modern English poetry, comparison, modernism and colonialism, modern reconfigurations of antiquity, Homer, Césaire, Cavafy,…
Professor Emeritus, Horticulture
Assistant Research Professor, CIS/Dyson
Aleksandr Michuda is an assistant research professor at the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. He studies how machine learning and big data can be used to solve problems in development economics.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2024
Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Discipline: History
Primary Language:…
Senior Lecturer, Music
Christopher Miller is a scholar and musician whose interests and activities revolve around two points of focus: experimental music, and the music of Indonesia, especially Central Javanese gamelan.
CO+POS Director and Associate Professor, History
Mostafa Minawi studies different forms of imperialism in the Middle East and Northeast Africa. He is the director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) at the Einaudi Center.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2023-2024
Committee chair/advisor: Holger Klinck
Discipline: Natural Resources
Primary Language:…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2023-2024
Committee chair/advisor: Marina Welker
Discipline: Anthropology
Primary Language:…
Professor, English
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Critical theory, 20th-century literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, and modernism and postmodernism
Visiting Critic
Nicaraguan political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina was an Artist Protection Fund fellow in the Einaudi Center’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) and continues his engagement as a visiting critic.
Professor, Food Science
Carmen Moraru's research and teaching interests are in the areas of physical and engineering properties of foods, food/dairy processing, and food safety engineering.
Administrative Coordinator
Matthew Morgan provides direct administrative support for the Manager of Finance and the Administrator/HR Manager.
Senior Lecturer
Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner is a senior lecturer and teaching faculty at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech
Greg Morrisett is the dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech, a New York City–based campus focused on graduate education that integrates technology, business, law, and design in service of economic impact and societal good.
Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY-Oswego
Micah F. Morton earned his PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015.
Associate Professor of Practice, Public & Ecosystem Health, Veterinary Medicine
Jeanne Moseley is an Associate Professor of Practice with Cornell University's MPH Program in the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health, College of Veterinary Medicine.
Associate Professor Emeritus, Horticulture
Jane Mt. Pleasant's research interests include indigenous agriculture and plants and well-being. She is a national expert in Iroquois agriculture.
Associate Professor, Onondaga Community College
Mark Muhammad is a member of the Nation of Islam, which influences his research. He is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.
Assistant Professor, History
Nicholas Mulder works on European and international history from 1870 to the present. His research focuses on political, economic, and intellectual history, with particular attention to the era of the world wars between 1914 and 1945.
