Peter Katzenstein is the Einaudi Center's Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies in the Department of Government, College of Arts and Sciences. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics.

Lori Khatchadourian examines the ongoing effort to grapple with the relationship between imperialism and the vast world of material things.

Raissa V. Krivitsky teaches in Cornell's Russian language program.

Philip Lorenz received his PhD from New York University. His teaching and research focus on English and Spanish literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in relation to problems of sovereignty and political theology.

Patchen Markell is a political theorist and historian of social and political thought whose research and teaching focuses on European (especially German-language), North American, and transatlantic politics, culture, and philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Patrizia McBride is director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies and professor in the Department of German Studies.

Mostafa Minawi studies different forms of imperialism in the Middle East and Northeast Africa.

Nicholas Mulder works on European and international history from 1870 to the present. His research focuses on political, economic, and intellectual history, with particular attention to the era of the world wars between 1914 and 1945.

Kelly Musick's research focuses on family change and social inequality in the contemporary United States and other industrialized countries.

Banu Ozer Griffin's academic interests include teaching Turkish as a second language, curriculum design and development, and the language learning process through intercultural competence. She is an advisor for Cornell's Turkish Student Association and Translator–Interpreter Program.