Steven Pond's research interests include jazz, and music of the African Diaspora. He is an active percussionist and drummer and director of Cornell’s Brazilian music group, Deixa Sambar.

Alison Power's research interests include the ecology and epidemiology of plant pathogens transmitted by insects; disease systems in the northeast U.S., in Central America, and in Thailand.

David Powers is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies. 

Geographic Research Area: India, China, and other emerging markets

Teaching/Research Interests: Macroeconomics of financial globalization, financial regulation, and monetary policy frameworks and exchange rate policies…

Degree: PhD, Near Eastern Studies

Language: Persian

Research interests: Jewish and Muslim diasporas, Sufism, and Persian literature

Daniella Prieto is a PhD student of Spanish in the department of Romance Studies with a graduate minor in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on representations of violence against women in contexts of state violence in modern and…

Degree Pursued: MPA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Fikri Pitsuwan

Discipline: Public Policy

Research Countries:…

A political theorist of postcolonial modernity, Say Jye Quah draws on international relations, Southeast Asian studies and postcolonial studies to examine how Third World actors – especially in Southeast Asia – reshaped international order.

Kaori Quan is a PhD student in French History. Her research centers on the intellectual history of Revolutionary France, with a particular focus on Parisian insurrections and the ways in which the process of documenting them influenced the trajectory of both…

Ainav Rabinowitz was a Laidlaw Scholar and the Founder of the publication Women of MENA, Cornell’s premiere gender…

Robin Radcliffe is an associate professor of practice in wildlife and conservation medicine. His research focuses on infectious disease investigation for the rare Indonesian rhinos.

Geographic Research Interest: India-Pakistan

Teaching/Research Interest: Anthropology of the state, ethnographic film, minority citizenship, religious nationalism.

Mursal Rahim is a MPA student in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, concentrating on human rights and social justice. Holding a Bachelor of Law from Afghanistan, she has extensive experience in legal, educational, and refugee community support roles.…

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Steven Johnson

Discipline: Natural Resources and Environment

Goutham Raj Konda is a Ph.D. student in the City and Regional Planning program at Cornell University. His research investigates the ongoing urbanization of agrarian property around big Indian cities like Hyderabad.

Geographic Research Area: India and Bangladesh

Teaching/Research Interests: Research and technology transfers to promote agricultural innovations
 

Shruthi Ramani is a MS student in Data Science for Public Policy at Cornell University.

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: Feminist, postcolonial and queer theories, religion and secularism, medicine and the body

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee Chair/Advisor: Rachel Bezner Kerr 

Discipline: Global Development

Primary Countries:…

Kathleen Rasmussen's research interests include studies in experimental species, observational and intervention studies in human subjects in the US and several developing countries, and epidemiologic studies based on data from medical records and large cohorts.

Degree Pursued: MPA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Fikri Pitsuwan

Discipline: Public Policy

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: History of science and technology, British empire from the 17th through the 19th centuries, science and the state, East India Company and the India Office in the…

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Jenny Goldstein

Discipline: Global Development

Primary Countries: Indonesia

Mary K. Redmond's research interests include Spanish for heritage speakers, applied linguistics, the pedagogies of language teaching, second language acquisition theory, and issues of multilingualism.

Brett Reichert is a U.S. Army Goodpaster Fellow and PhD student in Public Policy at Cornell University. His research examines how emerging military technology affects conflict dynamics and the use of force.

Judith Reppy is professor emerita in science and technology studies. On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the Peace Studies Program was renamed to honor her long-term service and commitment to the program.

Sebastian Restrepo is a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning. His research interests focus on the institutional arrangements to improve the implementation of peace agreements in conflict or post-conflict regions.

Henry Richardson is a licensed architect, urban designer, and a nationally certified city and regional planner. Richardson conducts research on low-cost housing and urban settlement in developing countries, energy-conscious design, and the application of CAVE-based…

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2029

Committee Chair/Advisor: Saurabh Mehta

Discipline: International Nutrition

Amanda Rodewald’s research and interests focus on population and community responses to changes in land use, climate, invasive species, and disturbance regimes; socioecological dynamics and conservation in working landscapes; eco-evolutionary dynamics in human…

Eloy Rodriguez is a research scientist of chemical biology, ecology and medicinal chemistry, and toxicology of natural small molecules and glycoproteins from plants and arthropods that are important in ecological and biological interactions and human and animal…

Kristin Roebuck is drafting a book manuscript entitled Japan Reborn: Race and the Family of Nations after World War II.

Leslie Rogne Schumacher, PhD, FRSA, FRHistS is a scholar of Europe and the Middle East. He currently holds affiliations at Harvard University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Additionally, Dr.…

Adolfho Romero is a PhD researcher in the ILR School who studies how worker centers and allied nonprofits build voice, dignity, and durable power for migrant and low-wage farmworkers. 

Bryn Rosenfeld's research interests include political behavior, development and democratization, protest, post-communist politics, and survey methodology.

Rui Xin is a professor of Comparative literature and World literature in School of Literature, Nankai University, China

Basil is responsible for providing senior leadership, planning and strategy development in support of the Einhorn Center to shape a wide range of projects and initiatives in community engagement.

Shree Saha is a PhD student in the field of applied economics and management. Her research interests include women’s empowerment, maternal and child nutrition, financial inclusion, and development.

David E. Sahn is an international professor of economics in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Department of Economics. Since 2015, he has been a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany.

Naoki Sakai teaches in the departments of Asian studies and comparative literature and is a member of the graduate field of history at Cornell University.

Rocío Salas-Lewin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. Her research interests include social movements, electoral behavior, populism, and public opinion in Latin America.

Juno Salazar Parreñas is a feminist science studies scholar who examines human-animal relations, environmental issues, and efforts to institutionalize justice. Parreñas’ book, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke UP,…

Javier Sánchez Mora. PhD student, Cornell University. His research has focused on the history of autonomous indigenous populations in southern Central America.

Rachel Sandwell is a historian of modern Africa and transnational solidarity movements, with a focus on late decolonization, national liberation movements, and international support for national liberation movements.

Paul Steven Sangren is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Taiwan and China. His earliest published work combines insights drawn from structuralist theory with practice-oriented critiques to illuminate Chinese ritual processes and…

Leonardo Santamaría-Montero is a PhD student in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies. He is interested in the study of 19th century Central American visual and material culture, with a focus on indigenous aesthetics and their representations.

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry’s research has focused on the unintended consequences, paradoxes, and contradictions generated in the articulation and deployment of ethnoracial identity constructs, particularly in the United States and in institutional settings, where they…

Ecem Sarıçayır is pursuing a PhD in history of architecture and urban development at Cornell University.

Mark A. Sarvary lectures in biology and science communication at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. His research focuses on evidence-based teaching practices and student-centered pedagogical methods in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics…

Maria Theresa C. Savella teaches all levels of Tagalog (Filipino). She is co-author with John Wolff and Der-Hwa Rau of Filipino Through Self-Instruction (1991, rev.

Jackie Sayegh is the senior program manager for the Institute for African Development and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.

Greta Schenke is a fourth-year PhD student in Comparative Politics in the Department of Government. Her research examines the political economy of state-building, nationalism, and democratic representation, combining historical and contemporary perspectives.

Averell Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. He studies international relations, with a focus on the politics of international law and organizations.

Casey Schmitt is a historian of early America and the Caribbean, with particular interests in human trafficking, colonization, and illicit economies over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Fred Schneider's research supports the construction of concurrent and distributed systems for high-integrity and mission-critical settings. 

Paul Schubert is a PhD student in International Relations and an officer in the United States Air Force. Prior to coming to Cornell, he has worked in a variety of fields from planning and analysis to special operations.

Caitlyn Sears (she/her) is a postdoctoral associate with the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) at Cornell University and is affiliated with the Department of Global Development.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Andrea Won, Natalie Bazarova

Discipline: Communication

Primary Language…

Priyanka Sen is a Ph.D. candidate in the HAUD program. Her research investigates architectural entanglements with spatial geographies, migration and environmental histories, focusing on the South Asian diaspora and its intertwinement with settlement,…

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Arnika Fuhrmann & Nick Salvato

Discipline: Performing and Media Arts (PMA)

Primary…

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2029

Committee Chair: Suyoung Son

Discipline: Asian Literature, Religion & Culture

Payal is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of Applied Economics and Management. Her work is primarily focused on development economics and applied econometrics.

Suman Seth works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of science and medicine. His interests include the history of medicine, race, and colonialism, the physical sciences (particularly quantum theory), & gender and science.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Discipline: Sociology

Research Interests: Social Change, Development, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Economic Sociology, Cultural Sociology …

Degree Pursued: PhD

Discipline: Sociology 

Research Interests: Political Sociology, Social Change, Development, Economic Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Social Theory

Degree Pursued: PhD

Discipline: Sociology

Research Interests: Political Sociology, Social Change, Development, Economic Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Social Theory

Linda Shi’s research concerns how to plan for urban climate adaptation in ways that improve environmental sustainability and social justice.

Alexis Shimon is the editor of the Cornell East Asia Series. They first came to Cornell in June 2019 as an acquisitions assistant and Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow at Cornell University Press. Alexis has a PhD in History, with a focus on the history of…

Jeongsu Shin is the LB Korean Studies Postdoctoral Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University. As an ethnographer of Korea, Shin’s work has been shaped by interdisciplinary conversations in Environmental Studies, Asian Studies, and Science and…

Elke Siegel's research is in German literature from 1900 to the present, literary theory, and psychoanalysis.

Nora Siena's dissertation, “Inoperative Brevitas: The Contamination of Short Literary and Philosophical Forms and the Twentieth-century Italian Racconto,” identifies a paradigmatic mode of…

Semida Silveira is a Professor of Practice in the Systems Engineering Program and a member of the CEET Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Steve Grodsky

Discipline: Natural Resources

Primary Language:…

Ermin Sinanović is the executive director of the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) at Shenandoah University, where he is also a Scholar in Residence.

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: All levels of Hindi language

Upasana Singh is a J.S.D. candidate at the Cornell Law School. She is also working as a research assistant with Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, Dr. Kaushik Basu. She holds an LL.M. from Cornell Law School with a focus on conflict…

Elisha Smith has a BS in supply chain management from the University of Texas in Dallas. For the past five years, he has worked in global development and agriculture in post-conflict regions in Iraq and Syria. He is currently pursuing an MPS in Global…

Since August 2020, Margaret Smith has served as the director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station and associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research is primarily on field corn, but also includes work on sweet corn.

The central preoccupation of Adam Smith's research and writing is the role that the material world—everyday objects, representational media, natural and built landscapes—plays in our political lives.  

Dotsevi Sogah's research covers the design and synthesis of new polymers, preparation of protein-based polymers, and application of living polymerization methods to surface functionalization of nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes.

Waleska Solorzano is a PhD candidate in Latin American studies. Her interdisciplinary research revolves around questions of aesthetics, domestic culture, migration, ontology, oral histories and testimonies, and the politics of representation.

Suyoung Son is a literary and cultural historian of early modern China (1500-1900). Her research focuses on the narrative tradition and social practice of writing and reading in the historical conditions of print culture, commercialization, and urbanization.

Derrick Spires is an associate professor of literatures in English and affiliate faculty in American, visual, and media studies. He specializes in early African American and American print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history.

Kathryn Stam is a professor of anthropology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. She serves as the coordinator of the online master’s program in information design and technology, and she teaches undergraduate anthropology.

Sinziana Stanciu is a PhD student in the History Department at Cornell. She is studying European intellectual and economic history of the 19th and early 20th century. Her latest research projects explore the history of oil in Romania as a space of European…

Saviana Stanescu is a Romanian-born poet and writer, and an award-winning playwright and ARTivist based in NY. She is the winner of New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Script, Samuel French OOB Festival, Best Romanian Play of the Year UNITER Award, and…

Deborah Starr is Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Film in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan.

As a faculty member in resource policy and management, Richard Stedman’s teaching, outreach, and research focus on the interaction between social and ecological systems.

Tammo Steenhuis’s research is carried out over a trillion-fold scale range, from the transport of micro particles in soil pores to the effect of human interventions in the landscape on transport of water and sediment in large river basins.  He…