2017 - 2018

Valeria G. Castelli received her PhD in Italian Studies from New York University in 2016, with a dissertation on the rhetoric, ethics, and politics of contemporary Italian documentary film. Her current project examines Italian documentary films made over...

Jonathan Connolly received his PhD in History from Stanford University, as well as his JD from Stanford Law School, in 2017. His research interests involve antislavery, emancipation, and empire, and histories of race, law, labor, and freedom. His current...

Onur Günay holds a PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University (2017). His book project, Becoming Kurdish: Migration, Urban Labor, and Political Violence in Turkey, examines the processes by which displaced Kurdish migrants become urban laborers in...

Sumayya Kassamali holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University (2017), where her dissertation focused on the lifeworlds of migrant workers in contemporary Lebanon. Her book project, tentatively titled Black Beirut, examines an informal labor...

Neelam Khoja is a doctoral candidate in Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department at Harvard. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “The Power of Politics in 18th century Punjab: Space, Culture...

Matthew Kruer is Assistant Professor of Early North American History at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. His book project, The Time of Anarchy: Colonial Rebellions and the Wars of the...

Argyro Nicolaou is a filmmaker and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University. Her dissertation project, titled "Europe and the Cultural Politics of Mediterranean Migrations," examines case studies of...

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi received a PhD in the History of Art and Archaeology from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and her historical and ethnographic research focuses on spatial politics, urbanisms, and modernist culture and discourses...