What an amazing year it has been for our doctoral students! From field research fellowships to write-up awards, the department is proud to announce their accomplishments.
Three recent graduates will be taking up new positions in the Fall. Aamer Ibraheem will join the Heyman Society of Fellows for the coming year, before assuming his new position as Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. Jasmine Pisapia is leaving her postdoctoral position at the ICI in Berlin to take up a new position Ca' Foscari University, in Venice, Italy. And Fern Thompsett was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Tufts.
Antara Chakrabarti has received a fellowship at the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
Kiara Houston received a Wenner Gren dissertation fellowship for fieldwork in Guam. Phoebe Whiteside obtained an NSF doctoral dissertation research improvement grant for fieldwork in on investitigations into deaths at Irish Mother and Baby Homes.
Nikita Karbasov, Marino Lanni, and Taylor Mitchell have been granted GSAS Summer language fellowships. Tabitha Payne also received a fellowship from the Weatherhead Institute for Khmer language study. Taylor Mitchell was also awarded a Center for Science and Society Environmental Humanities Grant (with Crina E. Tañongon, Assistant Professor at University of the Philippines Cebu) for their project "Restoring/Restorying: Sugbo Seed Archive"
Asprey Liu and Brendon Murray won GSAS traveling fellowships.
Marini Thorne received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects. The grant will underwrite ongoing research on gig work and new forms of labor in contemporary India.
Jorge Rodriguez Solorzano was admitted to the 2025 Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop at Stanford Law School on the basis of an essay adapted from his dissertation. Admission to this workshop comes with an option to publish the piece for a special issue of the Legal Scholarship Network at the Social Science Research Network.
And for doctoral dissertation writing, Alexander Maier will take up a residential writing fellowship to complete his dissertation on labor migration in Central Asia at the School for American Research in Santa Fe. Chazelle Rhoden was awarded the Lindt Fellowship for 2025-2026 for her dissertation research on Afro-descendant religious praxis and climate change conservation in Brazil. And Giorgia Mirto has won a fellowship from the Migrantes Foundation for writing up her research in Greece on the management of the bodies of migrants who die in the Mediterranean.And Jenny Ni received the Fred Plog Memorial Fellowship from the Society for American Archaeology.
Congratulations to all!
