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Program Management

Director

The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies is directed by a member of the steering committee who serves a three-year term. The current director is:

Rebecca Slayton, Associate Professor, Department of Science & Technology Studies.

Steering Committee

Members of the steering committee assist the program director with oversight and management of the Reppy Institute. 

Directory

This directory includes contact information for faculty, staff members, graduate student fellows, and visitors associated with the institute.

Please note that only professional contact data is provided. In case of an emergency or should you need to reach a person listed outside of normal business hours, please refer to Cornell People Search for additional contact information. Choose from the categories below to view directory listings.

Associate Teaching Professor

Julie Ficarra specializes in critically examining global issues of migration, social inclusion, and sustainable development, focusing on comparative and ethical frameworks to foster cross-cultural understanding, social policy analysis, and community engagement.

IES Graduate Fellow 2025-26

Kaitlin Findlay is a PhD candidate in the History Department. Her research examines the enactment of international norms of 'humane' confinement in the early twentieth century.

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Magnus Fiskesjö's research concerns ethnic relations and political anthropology in China and Southeast Asia.

Associate Professor, History
Cristina Florea’s research revolves around nationalism, empire, statehood, war, and regime change in nineteenth and twentieth-century Eastern Europe.
Reppy Fellow 2025-26; Evangelista Fellow 2026-27

Cassidy Fowler is a PhD student in the Department of Government. Her research focuses on international security, with a particular interest in nuclear weapons strategy and operations, IR theory, and security studies.

Reppy Fellow 2025-26

Miriam Frank is a M.S. student at the ILR school in the Department of Global Labor and Work and is the Emerson Fellow. Her practice and research focuses on the influence of peace processes on institutional social protection for workers.

Affiliated Scholar

Chip Gagnon is a professor of politics at Ithaca College and an affiliated scholar at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

Evangelista Fellow Spring 2027; IES Graduate Fellow 2026-27

Filip Galic is a PhD candidate in architectural history whose research examines how architectural ideology shifted as transformations in the transnational political economy and conflicts reshaped the conditions of architectural practice between Europe and post-Ottoman Non-Aligned geographie

Professor, History

Geographic Research Area: India and Pakistan

Teaching/Research Interests: History of British colonialism, popular and radical political movements, and gender and sexuality

Freeman Fellowship in Peace Studies Recipient 2023-24

Molly Goldstein is a rising junior in the School of Arts & Sciences, double majoring in Government and Near Eastern Studies and minoring in dance.