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 South Asia and among Muslims in Europe and the United States focused on...

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 territorial interventions of the Catholic Church in Algiers in the 19th century...

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 and the City imprint. His edited volumes include Climates: Architecture and...

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 how it can address a particular subject...

Eduardo Halfon 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 University, and then returned to...

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 Hebrew literature. Her research focuses on language...

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, nuclear, and atomic physics. Among other distinctions...

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, the 55th Venice Biennale, the 18th Sydney Biennale, and...

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 appeared in the...

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 Modernity in a Colonial Cine-Ecology,” presents a practitioner's eye view of the...

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 and nonfiction on displacement, the...

A filmmaker, curator, and writer, Nora Philippe has directed Like Dolls, I’ll Rise (2018), which was selected in over thirty festivals in fifteen countries, Job Center, Please Hang On (2014), and The Ensorcery of James Ensor (2011). Pursuing her work...

Pauchi Sasaki is a composer, performer, and improviser who recreates intimate subjective landscapes through electro-acoustic sonorities, influenced by improvisational aesthetics and ethnic musical traditions. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates musical composition with the design of multimedia performances, the application of new...

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 been supported by grants and fellowships from the Mellon...

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: Water the Moon (2010), My Funeral Gondola (2013), and...