THE MARIO EINAUDI CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies was established in 1961 to encourage, coordinate, and support comparative and interdisciplinary research on international subjects and was named for its founder in 1991. It is one of the largest and most diverse centers in the United States. Currently it oversees six Title VI National Resource Centers (East Asia, Latin American Studies, Slavic and East European Studies Program, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Societies), as well as sixteen topical programs and the university study-abroad program. More than 500 faculty members voluntarily collaborate in the center's programs and well over 300 graduate students are involved directly in its international programs. Undergraduate concentrations in International Relations and Modern European Societies serve 285 students.
Cornell is committed to the application and expansion of its resources to study the global community in all its complexity. These resources include a faculty of preeminent scholars and teachers, excellent research facilities, ability to teach forty-five languages, and a library system with more than 2,500,000 volumes on topics related to international and comparative studies.
As the world changes, Cornell's international programs change to study those developments. In addition to area studies, these programs focus on topics as varied and vital as international marketing, agriculture, nutrition, population, law, planning, politics, rural development economics, and world peace. These areas and topics change as interest, demand, and potential warrant. As one program gains enough momentum and recognition to attract its own resources, the center applies its resources to another pilot activity that brings faculty and students together across customary professional and departmental boundaries.
In addition, the Einaudi Center was recently given responsibility by the university to redesign and expand foreign study options for Cornellians, which has resulted in our Cornell Abroad Program. The center also encourages international research and travel by graduate students through its annual Travel Grant Program.
Although the center has both an endowment and an appropriation from the university to support interdisciplinary international studies, Cornell monies are only a fraction of the total funds involved in international studies at Cornell. Programs seek funding from foundations, the federal government, alumni, and international agencies, a process that the center assists with as necessary. When particular programs are in a low budget cycle, rather than allowing them to lapse, the center continues to support those that show promise to keep the voluntary faculty groups operating together until new outside funding can be acquired. The center is also responsible for the International Students and Scholars Office.
For additional information on current programs, publications, and courses, contact
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Cornell University
170 Uris Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-7601
USA 607/255-6370
FAX 607/254-5000
The Einaudi Center Area Programs and Topical Studies Programs
Center Administration:
Ron Herring, director
David Lelyveld, executive director
170 Uris Hall
(607)255-6370
East Asia Program (formerly China-Japan Program):
Victor Koschmann, director
140 Uris Hall
Latin American Studies Program:
Debra Castillo, director
190 Uris Hall
South Asia Program:
Shelley Feldman, director
170 Uris Hall
Southeast Asia Program:
John Wolff, director
180 Uris Hall
Institute for African Development:
David Lewis, director
170 Uris Hall
Institute for European Studies:
--Slavic and East European Studies Program
--Western Societies Program
Jonas Pontusson/Valerie Bunce, co-directors
120 Uris Hall
International Agriculture:
Norman Uphoff, director
B31 Warren Hall
Berger International Legal Studies:
John Barcelo, director
309 Myron Taylor Hall
International Political Economy:
Philip McMichael, director
436 Warren Hall
Population and Development Program:
Douglas Gurak, director
200 West Sibley Hall
Peace Studies Program:
Barry Strauss, director
130 Uris Hall
Program in International Nutrition:
Jere Haas, co-director
Jean Pierre Habicht, co-director
218 Savage Hall
Program on Comparative Economic Development:
Erik Thorbecke, director
458 Uris Hall
Program for Contemporary Near Eastern Studies:
Shibley Telhami, director
104 McGraw Hall
Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development:
Norman Uphoff, director
B31 Warren Hall
Gender and Global Change:
N'Dri Assie-Lumumba, director
310 Triphammer Rd.
Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program:
David Sahn, director
308 Savage Hall
Current programs coordinated by the Einaudi Center include the following:
Master of Professional Studies in International Development:
Norman Uphoff, field representative
B31 Warren Hall
A program intended for midcareer practitioners is sponsored by the center and leads to a Master of Professional Studies in International Development. Interested individuals should apply through the Graduate School.
Program on International Relations:
Matthew Evangelista, director
160 Uris Hall
Undergraduates interested in an international relations concentration should see Professor Evangelista or Mr. Christoph Kunkel.
Cornell Abroad:
[TBA], director
474 Uris Hall
International Students and Scholars:
Jerry Wilcox, director
B50 Caldwell Hall
