Announcing Our 2024-25 Class of Fellows

We are delighted to announce our next class of Fellows, arriving in September 2024. The cohort blends Columbia faculty and post-docs with creative artists of global renown, from Cannes prize-winning animated filmmaker João Gonzalez to the Mexican novelist and short-story writer Guadalupe Nettel.

The new Fellows are working on a range of topics, including the symbiotic relationship between humans and bees, artificial intelligence in music composition, early modern ideas of race and classical revival, and the terrifying sublime in landscape photography. The full list of Fellows is below.

The Institute for Ideas and Imagination is a residential fellowship program housed at Columbia’s Reid Hall in Paris, offering support for faculty and recent doctoral students from all departments and schools to work alongside writers and artists from around the world. It was launched as a presidential initiative just six years ago and now forms part of Columbia Global, which brings together global initiatives at the university, including Columbia World Projects, the Columbia Global Centers, and the Committee on Global Thought.

The 2024-25 Visiting II&I Professor will be the award-winning translator and former Fellow, Yasmine Seale, who will be teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on the Morningside campus.

Columbia University faculty and researchers are encouraged to apply to the Faculty Visitorship program at Reid Hall, jointly supported by the Paris Columbia Global Center and the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Visitors are invited to stay for one to three weeks over the course of the academic year. The deadline for 2024- 25 is April 30, 2024. For more details about the visitorship program and how to apply, please visit our website.

In addition, the Institute’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative provides opportunities to Columbia students and faculty to work closely with artists and cultural activists in Greece. The Institute welcomes enquiries and more details about its offerings can be found on its website.