Current Fellows

Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, Columbia University....

Alessandra Ciucci is an ethnomusicologist and Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University....

William (Bill) Dougherty is a composer, writer, and sound artist....

Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and her second novel, Enter Ghost, is forthcoming in 2023....

Nadia Yala Kisukidi was born in Brussels, from a Congolese (DRC) father and a Franco-Italian mother....

Brian Larkin teaches classes on media, urban Africa, religion and technology, and infrastructure in the department of anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University....

Melina León is a Peruvian film director.

A South African documentary photographer and visual artist who exhibited “The Royal House of Allure” recently at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Sabelo Mlangeni is a graduate of the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg....

John Phan is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, at Columbia University....

Katharina Pistor is Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation....

Hannah Reyes Morales is a Filipina photo-journalist whose work focuses on community, resiliency, and the effects of poverty and hardship....

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....

Yasmine Seale is a British-Syrian writer and translator....

Ersi Sotiropoulos is a poet and novelist who lives in Athens, Greece....

Eliza Zingesser is a specialist of medieval French and Occitan literature, with a particular focus on animal studies, cultural and linguistic contact, and gender and sexuality....