2024-2025 Columbia Global Emerging Scholars

Columbia Global welcomes nine scholars from around the world as part of the 2024-2025 Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program. The fellowship offers early-career scholars, who hold refugee status or have been forcibly displaced, the opportunity to enhance their research capabilities, expand professional networks, and support their reintegration into academia in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

Ashwaq Al-Quheef
Ashwaq Al-Quheef

Yemen

Research Topic: Revisiting the Roles and Boundaries of Yemeni Women in Mohammed Abdul Wali’s Collection of Short Stories, “They Die Strangers”

Columbia Global Center in Amman

Adel Dashela
Adel Dashela

Yemen

Research Topic: Yemeni Tribes and Post-Conflict Transitional Justice: Exploring Social Perspectives for National Reconciliation

Columbia Global Center in Amman

Khaled Mohammed Ahmed Emran
Khaled Mohammed Ahmed Emran

Yemen

Research Topic: Perceptions of Non-Native English Teachers in Educational Institutions

Columbia Global Center in Amman

Nedal Haj Darwich
Nedal Haj Darwich

Syria

Research Topic: Hybrid Beings on the Glyptic of Syria, Upper Mesopotamia, and Assyria in the Late Bronze Age

Columbia Global Center in Amman

Hajar Kabiri
Hajar Kabiri
Hajar Kabiri

Iran

Research Topic: Women, Life, Freedom, and the Question of Intersectionality in Iran

Columbia Global Center in Amman

Andhira Kara
Andhira Kara

Sudan

Research Topic: How the Failure to Support Refugee-led Organizations Highlights Current Systems-level Shortcomings and Potential Avenues for Change

Columbia Global Center in Nairobi

Ameena Mishael
Ameena Mishael
Ameena Mishael

Palestine

Research Topic: Oral Narratives of Displacement Among Palestinian Bedouin Women Refugees from Beersheba in Jordan

Columbia Global Center in Amman

 

David Petit Molano
David Petit Molano

Venezuela

Research Topic: Analysis of Inequality and Digital Gaps in the Valparaíso Region of Chile and How Innovation from a Historical-Social Perspective Can Positively Contribute to Public Policies for the Social Inclusion of Older Adults

Columbia Global Center in Santiago

Gerawork Teferra Gizaw
Gerawork Teferra Gizaw

Ethiopia

Research Topic: Examining Present Human Movement Through an Evolutionary Perspective

Columbia Global Center in Nairobi