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In February 2023, IES started a new initiative with the implementation of Research Pod funding for faculty collaboration meant to encourage the creation of a close research community with IES at the center. The first IES research pod was led by our affiliated faculty Isabel Perera (Government), in collaboration with Virginia Doellgast (ILR) and several other researchers from Cornell’s CALS and ILR schools. This research team explored how different occupational groups and public policies are responding to technological change (in particular the introduction of Artificial Intelligence technologies) in two key sectors – health care and telecommunications – in the United Kingdom and United States. The broader team also included several UK-based researchers at King’s College London, a Cornell partner through the Global Hubs initiative.

If you would like to apply for IES Faculty Pod Funding, please email IES Program Manager Patricia Young at pty6@cornell.edu.

Featured IES Research Pod

In February 2024, IES awarded our second faculty research pod: “Of Plants, Place, and Politics” [Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union]”. The pod brought together several faculty from across Cornell departments and colleges whose work focuses on the region(s) covered by the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). The pod team met monthly to workshop draft research papers in an interdisciplinary setting. They also organized a symposium of faculty research related to Soviet/post-Soviet history and politics and the environment/landscape.

More broadly, under the rubric “Of Plants, Place, and Politics,” the pod focused on the intersection of environmental, cultural and political themes, discussing how the changing climate (in all senses of the word) relates to their research, teaching, collegial networks and collaborations, public scholarship and advocacy, and the institutional support available to international and interdisciplinary studies of this region.

Participating Faculty: 

• Maria C. Taylor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Assistant Professor
• Cristina Florea, History, Assistant Professor
• Mari F. Jarris, German Studies, Provost New Faculty Fellow and incoming Assistant Professor
• Lori Khatchadourian, Department of Near Eastern Studies & Anthropology, Associate Professor
• Sophie Pinkham, Comparative Literature, Professor of Practice
• Bryn McCammon Rosenfeld, Government, Assistant Professor
• Leila Wilmers, Sociology, Postdoctoral Associate