Current Fellows

Katherine Pratt Ewing has been Professor of Religion at Columbia University since 2011, after moving from Duke University’s Cultural Anthropology Department. She has done ethnographic fieldwork in Sou...

Ralph Ghoche is a historian of architecture and urbanism and Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University. His current research looks at the territoria...

James Graham is an adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where he is also the director of the Columbia Books on Architecture...

Emmanuel Gras is a director of documentary-inspired films. His films address social topics and rely on a method of radical formalism. His works are at once experiments on what cinema can produce and h...

Eduardo Halfón was born in Guatemala City in 1971. He moved to the United States with his family at the age of ten, went to school in Florida, studied Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State Un...

Roni Henig received her PhD in Hebrew and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2018. In 2020, she will join the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU as assistant professor of H...

Emlyn Hughes is a Professor of Physics at Columbia University and the founding director of the K=1 Project: Center for Nuclear Studies. He is an author of over 800 refereed publications in particle, n...

Born in Morocco and based in Berlin, Bouchra Khalili is an artist who works with film, installations, and prints. Her work has appeared in major international exhibitions including at documenta 14, th...

Edouard Louis is the author of three novels, History of violence, The End of Eddy, and Who killed my Father. He is also the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appea...

The author of several books on African history and politics, Achille Mbembe is a member of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. His p...

Debashree Mukherjee teaches film and media in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. Her current book manuscript, “Bombay Hustle: Practices of Modern...

Dina Nayeri was born during the Iranian revolution and fled the country when she was eight. She lived as a refugee for two years before being granted asylum in the United States. She writes fiction an...

Pauchi Sasaki is a composer, performer, and improviser who recreates intimate subjective landscapes through electro-acoustic sonorities, influenced by improvisational aesthetics and ethnic musical tra...

William Chapman Sharpe is professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, where he specializes in the literature, art, and culture of the modern city, particularly New York. His work has...

Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, literary translator, editor, and zheng harpist who writes and translates in English, French, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. She is the author of three books of poetry:...