Current Fellows

Founded in 2010, Abounaddara is a collective of Syrian filmmakers who work together under conditions of anonymity....

A Sri Lankan Tamil novelist, Anuk Arudpragasam received his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University in 2019....

Karimah Ashadu is a British-Nigerian visual artist based in Hamburg....

Yasmine El Rashidi is the author of The Battle for Egypt, Dispatches from the Revolution, and Chronicle of a Last Summer, A Novel of Egypt....

Lamia Joreige is a visual artist and filmmaker living and working in Beirut....

Ana Paulina Lee is a cultural historian and assistant professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University where she teaches courses on modern Brazilian literature, film, and visual cultures....

Sky Macklay is a composer, oboist, and installation artist and is Assistant Professor of Music at Valparaiso University in Northwest Indiana....

John Phan is Assistant Professor of Vietnamese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University....

A photographer, João Pina explores global socio-political changes and human rights abuse through the language of visual memory....

Joseph R. Slaughter teaches postcolonial literature and theory, human rights, and literary approaches to international law in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University....

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

Mila Turajlić is a documentary filmmaker and archive scholar born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia....

Lynnette Widder is Associate Professor of Practice in Columbia University’s Masters of Sustainability Management program....

Clair Wills is a cultural historian who writes about lived experience in twentieth century Britain and Ireland....