2025-2026 Columbia Global Emerging Scholars

Columbia Global welcomes nine scholars from around the world as part of the 2025-2026 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.

Hanan Alawna
Hanan Alawna

Palestine

Research Topic: How Social Media Platforms Shape Narratives of Identity, Resistance, and Empowerment

Columbia Global Center: Amman

Razan Ali
Razan Ali

Sudan

Research Topic: Corporate Complicity in Conflict Gold in Sudan

Columbia Global Center: Nairobi

Amjad Alsoud
Amjad Alsoud

Syria

Research Topic: Assessing the Impact of Cumulative Social Capital on the Voluntary Return of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Columbia Global Center: Amman

Musa Al-Mudhaffari
Musa Al-Mudhaffari

Yemen

Research Topic: Constructing Argument in Scholarly Writing: Comparative Analysis of Research Niche by Novice and Experienced Writers

Columbia Global Center: Amman

Dilan Bozgan
Dilan Bozgan

Türkiye

Research Topic: Transnational Circulations, Resignifications, and Political Legitimacy of Indigenous Women’s Leadership in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives on Gender, Modernity, and Ethnicity/Indigeneity

Columbia Global Center: Santiago

Franklim José Colletti Montilla
Franklim José Colletti Montilla

Venezuela

Research Topic: Migration and Memory: The Impact of Forced Displacement on Identity and Resilience in the Venezuelan Community in Chile (Documentary and Cultural Material Analysis)

Columbia Global Center: Santiago

 

 

Mawahib Khalil M. Hassan
Mawahib Khalil M. Hassan

Sudan

Research Topic: The Importance of Social and Economic Capital in Protracted Displacement: A Case Study of Displaced Sudanese in Turkey

Columbia Global Center: Amman

Abdulqawi Hamood Hazaea
Abdulqawi Hamood Hazaea

Yemen

Research Topic: From Silence to Strength: The Resilience and Resistance of Yemeni Women in Peacebuilding During a Decade of War in the Works of Select Yemeni Writers

Columbia Global Center: Amman

Juan Carlos Rosillo-Villena
Juan Carlos Rosillo-Villena

Venezuela

Research Topic: Discursive Strategies of Chilean Female Parliamentarians Between 1990 and 2006 Regarding the Role of Women in the Socio-political Sphere

Columbia Global Center: Santiago