Doellgast

Lienau

McNairy

Weiss

Fighting the spread of HIV around the world; studying how workplace restructuring affects European communications workers; exploring international law and international relations; and Asian foreign relations are among the scholarly priorities of Cornell’s second cohort of International Faculty Fellows.

The four faculty members – Virginia Doellgast, employment relations (ILR School); Odette Lienau, law (Law School); Dr. Margaret McNairy, medicine (Weill Cornell Medical College); and Jessica Chen Weiss, political science (Arts and Sciences) – will begin three-year terms as International Faculty Fellows this summer. They will contribute to the Einaudi Center for International Studies’ intellectual life by hosting workshops, interacting with international programs housed in the center and working across disciplines to foster cross-college connections.

Nominated by the deans of their respective colleges/schools and chosen by a faculty committee chaired by Vice Provost for International Affairs and Einaudi Center Director Fredrik Logevall, fellows are selected on the basis of their internationally focused research, teaching and scholarly achievements.

“Our new cohort of fellows is a terrific group, representing in their work and teaching a deep commitment to international studies,” said Logevall. “They bring records of accomplished interdisciplinary research and scholarship, and I'm confident they'll make connections to a broad array or departments and programs at Cornell.”

Doellgast, Ph.D. ’05, associate professor, analyzes the implications of corporate restructuring on workers in the communications sector in Europe and is studying human resource management in the global call center industry. She is author of “Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy” (Cornell University Press). She has been a visiting scholar in Germany, France, Australia and England. She is currently teaching at the London School of Economics and will join the ILR faculty as an associate professor in July 2015.

Lienau’s teaching and research focus on international economic law, international law and international relations, bankruptcy and debtor-creditor relations, and political and legal theory. She is author of “Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation, and Legitimacy in Modern Finance” (Harvard University Press). Prior to joining the Cornell Law School faculty, she practiced law with the financial restructuring and insolvency group at the Shearman & Sterling law firm in New York City.

McNairy’s research is devoted to the development and evaluation of new models of HIV care delivery to reduce HIV-related diseases/mortality and decrease its transmission. She is considered a leading authority on implementation science in the global health field. In collaboration with Cornell’s Center for Global Health, McNairy is exploring the implementation of HIV delivery systems in resource limited settings. Before her transition to WCMC, she was an associate research physician in the division of global health equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital 2009-14.

Weiss, assistant professor of political science at Yale University and research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, is the author of “Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations” (Oxford University Press). Her dissertation won the 2009 American Political Science Association Helen Dwight Reid Award for the top thesis in international relations, law and politics. She will become a member of the Government Department faculty July 1.