Aftershocks

Ann Simmons is the Moscow bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal and the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts & Sciences for Fall 2022. Ms. Simmons served in Moscow for Time Magazine in the 1990s, where she reported on the aborted coup against then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the ascension of Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin. She then moved to Time’s Washington, D.C., bureau, where her first beat was as a diplomatic correspondent, a role that included covering the U.S. State Department and the Middle East peace initiatives of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher. While based in Washington, Ms. Simmons also covered the intervention of U.S. forces into Haiti and was embedded in the U.S. Army when American troops were sent to the Balkans.

Ms. Simmons later joined the Los Angeles Times as bureau chief in Nairobi and Johannesburg. Her reporting on the continent took her to more than 30 African nations. Ms. Simmons was also part of a Los Angeles Times team that won a 2004 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for their coverage of wildfires in Southern California.

In her role as Moscow bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, Ms. Simmons covers Russia’s domestic and foreign policy, Moscow’s relationship with Washington, and life in the former Soviet state under the authoritarian leadership of President Vladimir Putin. The bureau she manages also covers events in ex-Soviet republics, including Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Born and raised in London, Ms. Simmons holds a double honors Bachelor’s degree in Russian and Norwegian from the University of East Anglia and a Master’s from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Jessica Chen Weiss is the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University. From August 2021 to July 2022, Professor Weiss served as senior advisor to the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS).

Professor Weiss is the author of “Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations” (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her research appears in International Organization, China Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and Review of International Political Economy, as well as in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Quarterly.

Professor Weiss was previously an assistant professor at Yale University and founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange, at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 2008, where her dissertation won the 2009 American Political Science Association Award for best dissertation in international relations, law and politics. Professor Weiss is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mark Landler is the London bureau chief of The New York Times. In three decades at the Times, Mr. Landler has been the bureau chief in Hong Kong and Frankfurt, White House correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, and European economic correspondent. He began his career as a business reporter in New York.

Mr. Landler won an Overseas Press Club prize in 2007 for his work on a series about China and the environment. He is the author of “Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Twilight Struggle over American Power” (Random House), which was named a best book of the year by the Financial Times in 2016.

A 1987 graduate of Georgetown University, Mr. Landler was a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in 1997. He was a public policy fellow at Wilson Center in 2015 and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Peter Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies in the Department of Government in the College of Arts & Sciences. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics. Professor Katzenstein’s work addresses issues of political economy, security, and culture in world politics. His current research interests focus on the politics of civilizations and regions in world politics, power, and German and European politics. In 2020, Professor Katzenstein was named the 26th recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize.

Professor Katzenstein’s recent books include “Uncertainty and Its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics” (Cambridge University Press 2022); “Downfall: The End of the American Order” (Cornell University Press, 2022), co-edited with Jonathan Kirshner; and “Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics” (Cambridge University Press, 2018), co-edited with Lucia Seybert. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over 40 books, edited volumes, and monographs as well as over 100 articles and book chapters.

Professor Katzenstein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1987, the American Philosophical Society in 2009, and the British Academy in 2015. He holds six honorary degrees from Renmin University (2008), the University of Piräus (2010), Peking University (2011), the University of Antwerp (2012), the University of Leiden (2015), and China Foreign Affairs University (2015). Professor Katzenstein is the winner of the Susan Strange Award (2011) of the International Studies Association; an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Swiss Political Science Association; and recipient, together with Nobuo Okawara, of the 1993 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.

Ray Jayawardhana is the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and a Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. As the leader of the largest and most academically diverse college at Cornell, Professor Jayawardhana is responsible for an institution with over 520 professorial faculty, 400 academic professionals and staff, 4,500 undergraduates, and 1,300 graduate students. The College offers 40 undergraduate majors and 35 graduate fields and boasts a network of over 65,000 alumni. For Fall 2020 admission, the College received the largest number of applicants in its history, for both early decision and regular decision.