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Senior Associate Director of International Admissions, College of Arts and Sciences

Patricia Wasyliw is a senior associate director of international admissions, and an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Director, Institute for European Studies

Christopher Way is the Director of the Institute for European Studies, and an associate professor of government. He is also a member of the peace studies minor faculty in the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

Full Teaching Professor of Italian Language and Romance Studies

Kora E. Bättig von Wittelsbach is the recipient of the Carpenter Award for Distinguished Advising and Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Professor, Sociology

Cristobal Young works in the overlapping fields of economic sociology, stratification, and quantitative methodology. His research has examined religion and economic growth in Europe, the effects of the Schengen Agreement on European migration, and comparisons of social capital in the U.S.

Senior Program Manager

Patricia Young is the Senior Program Manager for the Institute for European Studies and the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has a doctorate in Political Science from Rutgers University and a master's in Economics from the University of Victoria, Canada.

IES Graduate Fellow 2025-26, 2026-27

Xinyu H. Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and holds an M.A. in Icelandic Literature from the University of Iceland.

Associate Professor, Architecture

Sasa Zivkovic directs Cornell AAP's Robotic Construction Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research group investigating robotic based construction technology. He is a coprincipal of HANNAH, an experimental architecture practice based in Ithaca, New York.