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.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Mara Du
Discipline: History
Primary Language: Chinese,…
Professor, City and Regional Planning, and Global Development
Mildred Warner is an international expert on restructuring local government services, how to plan for more child- and age-friendly cities, and how to promote environmental sustainability at the local level.
Stephen H. Weiss Junior Fellow
Sara Warner is an associate professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences. The current director of Cornell's LGBT Studies Program, Warner is an affiliate faculty member in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexual Studies Program; Africana…
Senior Associate Director of International Admissions, College of Arts and Sciences
Patricia Wasyliw is a senior associate director of international admissions, and an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Associate Professor
Christopher Way is an associate professor of government. He is a member of the peace studies minor faculty in the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Indonesia is a major focus of Andrew Weintraub's research, particularly the musical, narrative, and theatrical practices of Sundanese people in West Java.
Professor, SUNY-Albany
Meredith Weiss's research is in the field of comparative politics, focusing on Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.
Michael J. Zak Chair of China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Government
Professor, Linguistics
Geographic Research Area: South Asia
Teaching/Research Interests: Indo-European linguistics, especially the historical phonology and morphology of Greek, Latin and the Sabellic languages
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Welker's research centers on the ethical relationship between business and society. Her first project was an ethnographic study of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) industry that creates and installs voluntary social and environmental codes of conduct and…
Associate Professor, SUNY-Cortland
Future teachers often travel in Orvil White’s science methods class. Some go back in time to their elementary school days and some head to Thailand, both studying forces of motion through roller coaster models and properties of water through optical illusions.…
Communications and Outreach Coordinator
Ava oversees SEAP's outreach activities, both in the local community and in collaboration with national outreach partners. She also manages SEAP's communications portfolio, including the SEAP website, social media presence, and the biannual…
Office Manager
Indira White serves as receptionist and all-around office support for the Einaudi Center. She holds a B.S. in speech-language pathology and audiology from Ithaca College.
Professor, Linguistics
Whitman's main interest is the problem of language variation: its limits (how much specific subsystems can vary across languages) and predictors (what typological features co-occur systematically).
Graduate Student
Roderick Wijunamai is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. His PhD research focuses on forms of plantation, and its impact on Indigenous people in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands.
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated…
Professor, Anthropology
Andrew C. Willford is a professor of anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University.
Faculty Director, Migration Studies Minor
Lindy Williams is a professor emerita in the Department of Global Development.
Postdoctoral Associate, Sociology
Leila Wilmers studies nationalism, nationhood, identity, memory, narratives and contexts of ethnic and racial diversity, particularly in post-Soviet states, with a current focus on Russia. She teaches a course on nationalism and identity and leads a research…
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: MA
Anticipated Degree Year: 2024-25
Committee Chair/Advisor: Magnus Fiskesjö
Discipline: Performing and Media Arts
Primary…
Senior Lecturer, Romance Studies
Kora E. Bättig von Wittelsbach is director of the Cornell-in-Turin Summer Program in modern European politics and the recipient of the Carpenter Award for Distinguished Advising and Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Associate Professor
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Environment, sustainable livelihoods, forest governance
Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and Asian Studies
Research Interests: Historical linguistics, lexicography, Austronesian linguistics
Assistant Professor, SC Johnson College of Business
Sarah Wolfolds is the Andrew M. Paul Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow and assistant professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Wolfolds's research examines the interaction between for-profit and nonprofit organizations in industries…
Vice Provost for International Affairs
Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research includes work on international development, land use and distribution, social mobilization, agrarian societies, and critical…
Professor Emerita, Architecture
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary urbanism and architecture and comparative modernities in the global south and global north
Professor, Asian Studies
Ding Xiang Warner's research interests include Chinese literature and literary thought from Han dynasty through the early Song, early and medieval Chinese intellectual history, and the study of textual production and text culture in premodern China.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Government
XU Xin is the program manager for the China and Asia-Pacific Studies program (CAPS). His research and teaching focus on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian international relations.
Migrations Faculty Fellow
Stephen Yale-Loehr coleads the Einaudi Center's Migrations research team, focused on advancing the health of U.S. refugee and immigrant populations.
Assistant Professor
Duanyi Yang joined the faculty of the ILR School’s Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History after completing her Ph.D. at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research investigates how organizational policies operate within different institutional contexts.…
Program Manager
Alice Yeh is the Program Manager of the East Asia Program. She received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, in Classics and Anthropology and her MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.
Assistant Professor
Ivanna Sang Een Yi is a scholar of Korean literature, culture, and performance. Her research focuses on the performative dimensions of living oral traditions as they interact with written literature and the environment from the late Chosŏn period to the present.…
Program Manager
Patricia Young is the Program Manager for the Institute for European Studies and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has a doctorate in Political Science from Rutgers University and a master's in Economics from the University of Victoria, Canada.…
Associate Professor, Sociology
Cristobal Young is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. He works in the overlapping fields of economic sociology, stratification, and quantitative methodology.
Retired Associate Director, Food and Nutrition Policy Program
Stephen Younger is currently a scholar in residence at Ithaca College's Department of Economics.
Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor in Chinese Law
Xingzhong Yu's academic interests include Chinese law and legal history, social theory, comparative legal philosophy, constitutional law, and cultural studies of law.
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Kelly Zamudio is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and faculty curator of Herpetology at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.
Freeman Prize in Peace Studies Honorable Mention
Yingyun ‘Aurora’ Zhang is a graduating senior at Cornell University. She is a double major in Government and Information Science, with a minor in Law & Society.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: TBD
Committee Chair/Advisor: TBD
Discipline: Development Sociology
Primary Language:…
Assistant Professor, Applied Economics and Policy
Wendong Zhang’s research focuses on agricultural and environmental economics, Chinese agriculture, agricultural trade, water conservation, and farmland markets.
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2027-2028
Committee Chair/Advisor: Tamara Loos
Discipline: History
Primary Language: …
Curator Wason East Asian Collection
Liren Zheng is the curator of the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at the Cornell University Library. Previously he was the curator of the Dr. Shao You-Bao Overseas Chinese Research and Documentation Center, Ohio University Library.
Visiting Scholar
Shuai Zhou is an associate professor at the School of International Economics and International Relations, Liaoning University in Shenyang, China. He is also the deputy secretary general of Liaoning Society of World Economy. He has received his PhD, MA, and BA…
Visiting Scholar
Zhoubin Zhu is a professor in the Chinese language and culture college of Sichuan International Studies University. His research fields mainly include: Literary theory and criticism, Comparative literature. His performance is particularly outstanding in the research…
Assistant Professor, Global Development
John Zinda studies social and environmental change, primarily in rural China.
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Sasa Zivkovic directs Cornell AAP's Robotic Construction Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research group investigating robotic based construction technology. He is a coprincipal of HANNAH, an experimental architecture practice based in Ithaca, New York.
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Lecturer, Yale University
Eve Zucker’s research focuses on the aftermath of mass violence in Cambodia through the lenses of social memory, morality, the imagination, trust and everyday practices.