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IES Graduate Fellow 2025-2026

Angela Kothe is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in the Department of Government. Her research interests include queer politics and religion in Europe and the United States.

Senior Lecturer, Comparative Literature

Raissa V. Krivitsky teaches in Cornell's Russian language program.

Student Administrative Assistant
IES Graduate Fellow 2025-2026

Madeleine is a historian of modern Europe focused on Spain. Her research focuses on understanding the relationship between fascism and the international via formal and informal political means.

IES Graduate Fellow 2026-27

Boyang Liu is a PhD student specializing in Comparative Politics with a regional focus of the former-Soviet region. His research interests include public opinion, political behavior, and state legitimacy, In addition, he is also interested in the relationship between politics and religion.

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.

Associate Professor, Government

Patchen Markell is a political theorist and historian of social and political thought whose research and teaching focuses on European (especially German-language), North American, and transatlantic politics, culture, and philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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.

Associate Professor, History
Mostafa Minawi studies different forms of imperialism in the Middle East and Northeast Africa.
IES Graduate Fellow 2023-24, IES Director's Fellow 2024-25

Chris Mingo is a PhD student in the History Department specializing in modern and contemporary European history. He is broadly interested in the histories of fascism, nationalism, and European imperialism, as well as political economy, and literary studies.