Research Interest: Arts and Humanities
Affiliated Faculty
Istanbul FSC
Zainab Bahrani (Chair)
Edith Porada Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee, Istanbul Global Center
Research Interest
Rio-Santiago FSC
Nara Milanich
Professor of History, Barnard College; Chair, Santiago and Rio de Janeiro Faculty Advisory Committee
Research Interest
Tunis FSC
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Professor of French and Romance Philology; Chair Department of French and Romance Philology
Research Interest
Tunis FSC
Taoufik Ben Amor
Gordon Gray Jr., Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Research Interest
Mumbai FSC
Akeel Bilgrami
Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
Research Interest
Rio-Santiago FSC
Amy E. Chazkel
Bernard Hirschhorn Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Department of History
Research Interest
Tunis FSC
Mamadou Diouf
Chair, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies; Director of Institute of African Studies
Research Interest
Tunis FSC
Marwa Elshakry
Associate Professor of History, Department of History
Research Interest
Mumbai FSC
Katherine Ewing
Professor of Religion; Director, South Asian Institute, Department of Religion
Research Interest
Rio-Santiago FSC
Daniel Friedrich
Associate Professor of Curriculum, Teachers College, Columbia University
Research Interest
Paris FSC
Carol Gluck
George Sansom Professor of History, Department of History and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Faculty Steering Committee of Columbia Global Centers | Paris
Research Interest
Istanbul FSC
Carol Gluck
George Sansom Professor of History Emerita
Research Interest
Mumbai FSC
Rishi Goyal
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
Research Interest
Istanbul FSC
Valentina Izmirlieva
Director, Harriman Institute and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University
Research Interest
Istanbul FSC
Holger A. Klein
Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History and Archaeology
Research Interest
Tunis FSC
Gregory Mann
Professor, Department of History
Research Interest
Mumbai FSC
Sharon Marcus
Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Dean of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Interest
Rio-Santiago FSC
Yamile M. Martí
Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia School of Social Work
Research Interest
Paris FSC
Mark Mazower
Ira D. Wallach Professor of History and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); Director, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Research Interest
Mumbai FSC
Anupama Rao
Associate Professor of History, Barnard College
Research Interest
Paris FSC
Emmanuelle Saada
Professor of French and of History, Department of French and Romance Philology
Research Interest
Tunis FSC
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
University Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Research Interest
Tunis FSC
Ann Thornton
Vice Provost, University Librarian
Research Interest
Mumbai FSC
Gauri Viswanathan
Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of the South Asia Institute, English & Comp Literature
Research Interest
Athens FSC
Carol Becker
Professor of the Arts, Dean Emerita Columbia University School of the Arts
Research Interest
Athens FSC
Alexander Cooley (Chair)
Claire Tow Professor of Political Science and Vice Provost for Research and Academic Centers, Barnard College
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