Kurt Holuba
Premedical Post Baccalaureate Student, General Studies, Columbia University
Kurt Holuba is currently a premed postbac student in the School of General Studies. Previously, he attended Princeton University, earning a B.A. in Psychology. After graduation, Kurt immediately enrolled in the postbac program. He is interested in the intersection between psychology and physiology as it relates to response to stress.
Kurt Holuba
Premedical Post Baccalaureate Student, General Studies, Columbia University
Kurt Holuba is currently a premed postbac student in the School of General Studies. Previously, he attended Princeton University, earning a B.A. in Psychology. After graduation, Kurt immediately enrolled in the postbac program. He is interested in the intersection between psychology and physiology as it relates to response to stress. As part of his involvement with On the Frontlines, Kurt joined the group as a volunteer in September 2019 and took over as co-coordinator in July 2020. Kurt enjoys traveling and learning about other cultures.
Working Group Affiliation
On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics, Coordinator
Levi C. R. Hord
PhD Candidate, English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Levi C. R. Hord is a writer, scholar, and public speaker based in Lenapehoking (New York City). They are currently a Ph.D. student in the department of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where they hold a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Levi C. R. Hord
PhD Student, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Levi C. R. Hord is a writer, scholar, and public speaker based in Lenapehoking (New York City). They are currently a Ph.D. student in the department of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where they hold a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Under the supervision of Professor Jack Halberstam, Levi’s research focuses on post-2010 shifts in gender identity claims, especially the flourishing uptake of “nonbinary”. Through their academic work, Levi aims to demystify cultural and legal anxieties surrounding this significant shift in mainstream gender politics, and turn this site of theorization into an opportunity for more effective political conversations.
Outside of the university, Levi devotes their time to community-facing research roles and public speaking. Between 2019 and 2021, they designed and ran nation-wide community consultations on transgender healthcare and criminal justice through Stonewall UK. Levi has been an invited speaker at venues including the Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada, TEDx, the Fierté Canada Pride National Conference, the Women of the World Festival, and the University of Oxford.
At Columbia, Levi is also affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, and runs the Trans & Queer Theory Graduate Colloquium through the English department. They are the 2022-2023 Graduate Assistant for Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere.
Maja Horn
Associate Professor, Spanish & Latin American Cultures, Barnard College
Maja Horn specializes in contemporary Caribbean cultures with a focus on literature, visual and performance art, and political culture. She is the author of Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (University Press of Florida in 2014) and is currently completing a second monograph on queer Dominican literature, visual and performance art. She has also published on Latin American and Caribbean arts for various Dominican and U.S. art magazines and is currently serves on the editorial committee for the journal Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism.
Maja Horn
Associate Professor, Spanish & Latin American Cultures, Barnard College
Maja Horn specializes in contemporary Caribbean cultures with a focus on literature, visual and performance art, and political culture. She is the author of Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (University Press of Florida in 2014) and is currently completing a second monograph on queer Dominican literature, visual and performance art. She has also published on Latin American and Caribbean arts for various Dominican and U.S. art magazines and is currently serves on the editorial committee for the journal Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism.
Before joining the Barnard faculty in 2006, she was a research associate at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she developed and taught a performance studies concentration. Maja Horn is affiliated with and teaches regularly for the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College. She also teaches graduate seminars for the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies and is an affiliate of CSER (The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race) at Columbia University. In 2016-2017 she was a Heyman Center Faculty Fellow at Columbia University.
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Kristina Hosi
Graduate Student, Columbia University
Kristina Hosi is second year MS in Bioethics student at Columbia University, where she serves on the SPS Student Government. She has a B.A. from the University of Virginia in Biology. Her current academic interests lie in reproductive ethics, specifically the intersection of medical and scientific reproductive technology advancements and their social implications for women. She hopes to expand the conversation of health, healthcare, and ethics into the present news and global dialogue. Outside of academia, she is a co-founder and copy-writer for FEME, a female-centric information site on women, womanhood, and sex. She also enjoys cooking with friends and exploring to find the city's hidden gems.
Kristina Hosi
Graduate Student, Columbia University
Kristina Hosi is second year MS in Bioethics student at Columbia University, where she serves on the SPS Student Government. She has a B.A. from the University of Virginia in Biology. Her current academic interests lie in reproductive ethics, specifically the intersection of medical and scientific reproductive technology advancements and their social implications for women. She hopes to expand the conversation of health, healthcare, and ethics into the present news and global dialogue. Outside of academia, she is a co-founder and copy-writer for FEME, a female-centric information site on women, womanhood, and sex. She also enjoys cooking with friends and exploring to find the city's hidden gems.
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Lauren C. Houghton
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Lauren C. Houghton, PhD, takes a biosocial and life course approach to breast cancer prevention. Using tools from biological anthropology and molecular epidemiology, she focuses on hormones as the mechanism that links what happens above the skin with that beneath the skin.
Lauren C. Houghton
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Lauren C. Houghton, PhD, takes a biosocial and life course approach to breast cancer prevention. Using tools from biological anthropology and molecular epidemiology, she focuses on hormones as the mechanism that links what happens above the skin with that beneath the skin. Specifically, she examines the steroid metabolome in relation to intermediate outcomes, including pubertal development and the menstrual cycle, and breast cancer risk. She has extensively worked with migrant studies in Bangladesh, the UK and Mongolia to better understand reproductive factors among females moving from low to high risk geographic areas. She has conducted fieldwork with Native Americans in the Southwest US, menopausal women in the UK and school girls in Bangladesh and is currently a co-investigator of The LEGACY Girls Study in New York City. Having a background in anthropology, Dr. Houghton is also interested in developing mixed-methods to be implemented in epidemiological studies to better capture biological and cultural mediators of health disparities. She is currently exploring how digital menstrual health can be used in the dissemination and implementation of the latest breast cancer science. Ultimately, by understanding how culture is embedded in our biology and designing culturally compelling interventions she aims to improve the translation of preventative medicine to the public.
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Jean Howard
Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Jean E. Howard is the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Howard has authored over fifty essays; and her books include Shakespeare’s Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response (1984); The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994); Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (1997), co-written with Phyllis Rackin; Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 (2007), which won the Barnard Hewitt Prize for the outstanding work of theater history for 2008, and Marx and Shakespeare in the Great Shakespeareans series (2012), co-written with Crystal Bartolovich.
Jean Howard
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Jean E. Howard is a former Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Howard has authored over fifty essays; and her books include Shakespeare’s Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response (1984); The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994); Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (1997), co-written with Phyllis Rackin; Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 (2007), which won the Barnard Hewitt Prize for the outstanding work of theater history for 2008, and Marx and Shakespeare in the Great Shakespeareans series (2012), co-written with Crystal Bartolovich. In addition, Professor Howard is one of the co-editors of The Norton Shakespeare, the third edition of which is now in preparation, and general editor of the Bedford Contextual Editions of Shakespeare. She has edited seven collections of essays and has been the recipient of Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH, and Huntington, Folger, and Newberry Library Fellowships. A past President of the Shakespeare Association of America and an active member of many committees of the Modern Language Association, she currently serves as a Senator for the National Phi Beta Kappa organization and as Chair of its Visiting Scholar Committee. Howard has received several awards for the teaching and mentoring of graduate students and has directed over forty-five doctoral dissertations. As an administrator, Howard has served as a Trustee of Brown University and is currently Chair of Brown’s Presidential Diversity Advisory Council and Vice Chair of the Pembroke Center’s Associates’ Board. At Columbia she has served as Chair of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, as Columbia’s first Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives, and as Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She has just completed a contextual edition of As You Like It and is turning the Schoff Lectures, which she delivered at Columbia, into a new book, Staging History, Writing the Nation that considers the work of contemporary playwrights Tony Kushner and Caryl Churchill alongside Shakespeare’s history plays. She is planning a book on early modern tragedy.
Working Group Affiliations
Prison Education and Social Justice, Project Director
Engendering the Archive, Project Director
Reframing Gendered Violence, Project Director
Women Mobilizing Memory, Project Director
Book Publications
Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Won the Barnard Hewitt award for Outstanding Theater History for 2008.
Marxist Shakespeares, Edited with Scott Shershow, Routledge, 2000
Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories, Routledge, 1997
Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology, Edited with Marion O'Connor, Routledge, 1987
The Stage and Struggle in Early Modern England, Routledge, 1994
Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response, University of Illinois Press, 1984.
Amy E. Hughes
Assistant Professor of Theater, City University of New York
Amy E. Hughes is Assistant Professor and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Theater, Brooklyn College (CUNY). Her work focuses on the relationship between theater/performance and visual, print, and material culture in nineteenth-century America.
Amy E. Hughes
Assistant Professor of Theater, City University of New York
Amy E. Hughes is Assistant Professor and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Theater, Brooklyn College (CUNY). Her work focuses on the relationship between theater/performance and visual, print, and material culture in nineteenth-century America. In her first book, Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Michigan Press, 2012), she examines the interpersonal and representational dynamics of the freak show in order to develop a theory of spectacular performance, arguing that the body—as culture’s most conspicuous target for normalization—plays a crucial role in generating our sense of the spectacular. Her essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Journal of American Culture, New England Theatre Journal, Performing Arts Resources, and Theatre Journal (among others) as well as two edited collections. In 2010, she was honored with Brooklyn College’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Tonda Hughes
Henrik H. Bendixin Professor of International Nursing, Director of Global Health Research, School of Nursing at Columbia University
Tonda Hughes, RN, PhD, FAAN is the Henrik H. Bendixin Professor of International Nursing, and Director of Global Health Research, in the School of Nursing at Columbia University; she has an interdisciplinary appointment as Professor in the Department of Psychiatry.
Tonda Hughes
Henrik H. Bendixin Professor of International Nursing, Director of Global Health Research, School of Nursing at Columbia University
Tonda Hughes, RN, PhD, FAAN is the Henrik H. Bendixin Professor of International Nursing, and Director of Global Health Research, in the School of Nursing at Columbia University; she has an interdisciplinary appointment as Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Hughes holds the title of Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she was Collegiate Professor and Associate Dean for Global Health in the College of Nursing, and adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health. She holds/has held honorary or visiting professorships in England (Oxford Brookes University), Australia (University of Melbourne, Deakin University, University of Technology-Sydney) and the U.S. (University of Pennsylvania). Professor Hughes has a distinguished career in substance use research. She is well known for her ground breaking work focusing on sexual minority women’s health and she is an internationally recognized expert in the area of substance use and mental health among lesbian and bisexual women.
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Elizabeth Löwe Hunter
Elizabeth Löwe Hunter
Elizabeth Löwe Hunter is an Afrofeminist Cultural Studies analyst. Her work focuses on understanding articulations of racism in post-racial Europe, specifically how Nordic Exceptionalism affects public memory and racial discourse in Denmark. Through original interviews and text analysis, Elizabeth examines how the multifaceted condition of Black racial isolation has impacted subjectivity formation among diverse first-generation Danish people of African descent (like herself) between 1905-2021.
Marsha Hurst
Lecturer, Program in Narrative Medicine, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University
Marsha Hurst is on the faculty team of Columbia’s Program in Narrative Medicine and is a research scholar at Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, where she is coordinating a faculty seminar on narrative genetics. She is also a consultant on health advocacy programs, issues, and education with particular interest in women’s health and aging. She has consulted for the Medicare Rights Center and is adviser to their advocacy programs, and works with the women’s health reform coalition, Raising Women’s Voices.
Marsha Hurst
Lecturer, Program in Narrative Medicine, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University
Marsha Hurst is on the faculty team of Columbia’s Program in Narrative Medicine and is a research scholar at Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, where she is coordinating a faculty seminar on narrative genetics. She is also a consultant on health advocacy programs, issues, and education with particular interest in women’s health and aging. She has consulted for the Medicare Rights Center and is adviser to their advocacy programs, and works with the women’s health reform coalition, Raising Women’s Voices. From 1998 through 2007, Hurst was the director of the graduate program in health advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. The author of numerous publications, Hurst co-edited, with Sayantani DasGupta, Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies, an anthology of women’s illness narratives (Kent State University Press, 2007). She is also cofounder and vice president of the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition, and is a member of the New York State Palliative Care Education and Training Council. Hurst earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, and completed a National Institute of Mental Health post-doctoral fellowship in community medicine and medical sociology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Andreas Huyssen
Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Andreas Huyssen served as founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society (1998-2003) and chaired the Department of Germanic Languages from 1986-1992 and again from 2005-2008. His research and teaching focus on 18th-20th-century German literature and culture, international modernism, Frankfurt School critical theory, postmodernism, cultural memory of historical trauma in transnational contexts, and, most recently, urban culture and globalization. He is one of the founding editors of New German Critique (1974-).
Andreas Huyssen
Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Andreas Huyssen served as founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society (1998-2003) and chaired the Department of Germanic Languages from 1986-1992 and again from 2005-2008. His research and teaching focus on 18th-20th-century German literature and culture, international modernism, Frankfurt School critical theory, postmodernism, cultural memory of historical trauma in transnational contexts, and, most recently, urban culture and globalization. He is one of the founding editors of New German Critique (1974-), and he serves on the editorial boards of October, Constellations, Germanic Review, Transit, Key Words (UK), Critical Space (Tokyo), Memory Studies (UK), Lumina (Brazil), Comunicação & Cultura(Portugal). In 2005, he won Columbia's coveted Mark van Doren teaching award.
Huyssen has published widely in German and English and his work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swedish, Danish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish, Japanese, and Chinese. His books include Die frühromantische Konzeption von Übersetzung und Aneignung. Studien zur frühromantischen Utopie einer deutschen Weltliteratur (1969), Friedrich Schlegel. "Athenäums"-Fragmente und andere Schriften (1978, latest reprint 2005), Drama des Sturm und Drang (1980), The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions (ed. with Teresa de Lauretis and Kathleen Woodward, 1980), After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986), Postmoderne: Zeichen eines kulturellen Wandels (ed. with Klaus Scherpe, 1986), Modernity and the Text: Revisions of German Modernism (ed. with David Bathrick, 1989), Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995), Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (2003), and the edited volume on the culture of non-Western cities entitled Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing World (2008). His most recent collection of essays, so far only published in Spanish, is Modernismo después de la posmodernidad (2010). Other recent titles include William Kentridge and Nalini Malani: The Shadowplay as Medium of Memory (2013) and Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film (2015).
He currently continues work on two projects: a study of modernist miniatures, an experimental form of modernist writing, widespread in French and German modernism from Baudelaire to Rilke, Benn, Kafka, Kracauer, Jünger, Musil, Benjamin, and Adorno. And a consideration of the overlaps and tensions between the contemporary discourses of memory and human rights.
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Nick Ide
PhD, Biological Science, Columbia University
Nick Ide is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. His main areas of research are in the fields of biochemistry and biophysics, with a broader interest in making STEM more accessible. His current research focuses on the molecular mechanisms used by cells to synthesize protein molecules.
Nick Ide is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. His main areas of research are in the fields of biochemistry and biophysics, with a broader interest in making STEM more accessible. His current research focuses on the molecular mechanisms used by cells to synthesize protein molecules.
Enajite Igho
Graduate Student, Narrative Medicine, Columbia University
Enajite Igho is an Nigerian American from across the river in New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a Cognitive Science degree with a Neuroscience concentration and a Bioethics minor. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Narrative Medicine here at Columbia, and capturing storytelling as a form of healing as well as how this “teller and listener” relationship can impact the clinical encounter. She is passionate about creating space for marginalized voices to share their stories.
Enajite Igho
Graduate Student, Narrative Medicine, Columbia University
Enajite Igho is an Nigerian American from across the river in New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a Cognitive Science degree with a Neuroscience concentration and a Bioethics minor. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Narrative Medicine here at Columbia, and capturing storytelling as a form of healing as well as how this “teller and listener” relationship can impact the clinical encounter. She is passionate about creating space for marginalized voices to share their stories. Aside from academics she is a poet that loves to travel and spend time with friends and family.
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Manuela Infante
Fellow, Theater Art, Escuela De Teatro de la Universidad de Chile
Nació en Santiago, en 1980. Actriz, dramaturga y directora, es egresada de la Escuela de Teatro de la Universidad de Chile. Se suman a estos, sus estudios de Puesta en Escena y Analisis de Texto cursados en el HB Studio en Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Como actriz ha participado en el elenco de Las Troyanas de Rodrigo Pérez, Fuera de foco, dirigida por Cristián Marambio, Esa, escrita por Alejandro Moreno y Ciudadanos dirigida por Alexis Moreno.
Manuela Infante
Theater Director
Nació en Santiago, en 1980. Actriz, dramaturga y directora, es egresada de la Escuela de Teatro de la Universidad de Chile. Se suman a estos, sus estudios de Puesta en Escena y Analisis de Texto cursados en el HB Studio en Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Como actriz ha participado en el elenco de Las Troyanas de Rodrigo Pérez, Fuera de foco, dirigida por Cristián Marambio, Esa, escrita por Alejandro Moreno y Ciudadanos dirigida por Alexis Moreno.
Como músico, junto a la compañía El Hijo, se ha encargado de las bandas sonoras de El lugar común, Discurso a una acción imposible o Ifigenia y La cueca. Además, trabajó en Digo siempre adiós y me quedo, de Juan Radrigán, dirigida por Rodrigo Pérez en el Teatro de la Universidad Católica, y junto a la Quinta Teatro en El marinero, de Fernando Pessoa. Es autora y directora de las obras Prat (2002) y Juana (2004) que ha llevado a escena junto a su compañía Teatro de Chile, y finalmente de Narciso (2005). Este, al igual que sus anteriores montajes, ha obtenido el finananciamiento de Fondart. A su vez Juana y Narciso han obtenido premios otorgados por el Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile y han sido seleccionadas como mejores montajes del año en los correspondientes FITAM.
La publicación de su primer libro Prat seguida de Juana (2002) se llevo a cabo bajo la editorial Ciertopez y se enmarca dentro de la colección de Dramaturgia Chilena Contemporánea. Ha trabajado como docente en la Universidad de Chile, realizando el montaje Hipólito (2005). Ha cursado estudios de postgrado con el apoyo de becas de Fundación Andes y Fondart en Ámsterdam, Holanda.
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Kathleen Hammond
Kathleen (Katie) Hammond (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University where she is founder and director of the Health Law and Innovation Group.
Prior to joining the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Group on Health and Law at McGill University’s Faculty of Law and a visiting scholar with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. She holds a JD and BCL from McGill University. She completed an MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies and PhD in Legal Sociology at the University of Cambridge where she was a Gates Cambridge scholar and a Commonwealth scholar.
Her research spans across health law and policy, science and technology law, constitutional law, and gender and families. In particular, she specializes in the areas of reproduction and abortion, assisted reproductive technologies (including egg, sperm and embryo donation, surrogacy and egg freezing), health equity, and new genetic testing technologies.
She has held a number of fellowships, including with the Fondation Brocher in Geneva, Switzerland, the Embryo Project at the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University, and with the Marine Biological History Project in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She has been involved with policy development on reproduction for organizations such as the World Health Organization, where she was involved with organizing, and participated in the consultation for the WHO’s first ever glossary and guidelines on infertility.
Her current projects are funded by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Anthropology & Medicine, the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, McGill Journal of Law and Health, the Journal of Public Health Policy, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and Dalhousie Law Journal.
Kayhan Irani
Kayhan Irani is an Emmy-award winning writer, a performer, and a Theater of the Oppressed trainer. She creates art to build community, offer spaces for healing, and to engage audiences in social justice issues.
Kayhan Irani
Kayhan Irani is an Emmy-award winning writer, a performer, and a Theater of the Oppressed trainer. She creates art to build community, offer spaces for healing, and to engage audiences in social justice issues.
Kayhan was one of ten U.S. artists named by President Obama's White House as a 2016 White House Champion of Change for her storytelling work. She is currently working on a new one-woman show, There is a Portal, which asks: Can the story of an Iranian-Indian immigrant offer a space of healing for all Americans?
Her previous one-woman show, We've Come Undone toured nationally and internationally, telling stories of Arab, South Asian and Muslim-American women in the wake of 9/11. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher in 2012-2013 studying Parsi embroidery for her play, Tree of Seeds. Kayhan has trained hundreds of groups in Theater of the Oppressed and participatory storytelling tools over the years, both nationally and overseas, in Afghanistan, India, and Iraq. Clients include NGOs, government agencies, and community organizations interested in using in story-based strategies for engagement and education.
Kayhan’s work has been supported by the BBC World Service Trust, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Bronx Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Parks Service, and the American Society for Muslim Advancement. Her work has been written about in such publications as The New York Times, Race Forward Magazine, the N.Y. Daily News, and The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
Her published work includes Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims (Routledge, 2008), and Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice: A Way Out of No Way. (Routledge, 2015).
Sibel Irzık
Fellow, Comparative Literature, Sabanci University
Sibel Irzık is currently teaching comparative literature in Sabancı University. She is the author of Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism (Garland, 1990) and the co-editor of Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey Beyond the East-West Divide (South Atlantic Quarterly, 2003). Among her other publications are “Istanbul: The Black Book,” in The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti, Princeton U. P., 2006; “Orhan Pamuk's Snow: Re-imagining the Boundaries between East and West, Art and Politics,” in Europe and Its Boundaries, eds.
Sibel Irzık
Sibel Irzık is currently teaching comparative literature in Sabancı University. She is the author of Deconstruction and the Politics of Criticism (Garland, 1990) and the co-editor of Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey Beyond the East-West Divide (South Atlantic Quarterly, 2003). Among her other publications are “Istanbul: The Black Book,” in The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti, Princeton U. P., 2006; “Orhan Pamuk's Snow: Re-imagining the Boundaries between East and West, Art and Politics,” in Europe and Its Boundaries, eds. Andrew Davison and Himadeep Muppidi, Lexington Books, 2009; “The Constructions of Victimhood in Turkish Coup d'état Novels: Is Victimhood without Innocence Possible?” in Betraying the Event, ed. Fatima Festic, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009; “Yaşar Kemal's Island of Resistance,” in Resistance in Contemporary Middle-Eastern Cultures, eds. Karima Laachir and Saeed Reza Talajooy, Routledge, 2012; and “Textualized Memories of Politics,” in From Literature to Cultural Literacy, eds. Naomi Segal and Daniela Koleva, Palgrave, 2014.
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Rishav Kumar Thakur
PhD Student, Sociocultural Anthropology, Columbia University
Rishav is currently a third year PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at Columbia University. He studies articulations of, and claims around, identity and belonging in Assam, India.
Rishav Kumar Thakur
Ph.D. Student, Sociocultural Anthropology, Columbia University
Rishav is currently a third year PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at Columbia University. He studies articulations of, and claims around, identity and belonging in Assam, India. In doing so, his work aims to understand patterns of violence, dissent and queer imaginations of sociality in the region which is marked by fractures between communities identified as immigrant and autochthonous; and between "mainland" India and its Northeast frontier. Rishav has a MA in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute (Geneva) and a BA in Economics from University of Delhi.
Rishav is currently grappling with how political rhetoric and mobilisation seeps into intimate and domestic relations; and how intimate relations or new forms of the "family" work their way back to inform interactions at the scale of the political. He is interested in these flows given a long history of extraction and underdevelopment in Assam and given India's digital surge post the US/IMF/World Bank induced Liberalisation and New Economic Reforms.
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Turkuler Isiksel
Assistant Professor, Department of the Core Curriculum, Columbia University
Turkuler Isiksel (Ph.D., Yale) works in contemporary political theory and is particularly interested in political institutions beyond the nation-state. Professor Isiksel combines the perspectives of normative theory, legal analysis, and institutionalist political science in her research. She is particularly interested in how descriptive and normative categories tailored to the nation-state apply to institutions that wield political power beyond that context.Professor Isiksel is currently at work on a book manuscript that evaluates the extent to which constitutionalism, as a normative and empirical concept, can be adapted to supranational institutions.
Turkuler Isiksel
James P. Shenton Assistant Professor of the Core Curriculum, Columbia University
Turkuler Isiksel (Ph.D., Yale) works in contemporary political theory and is particularly interested in political institutions beyond the nation-state. Professor Isiksel combines the perspectives of normative theory, legal analysis, and institutionalist political science in her research. She is particularly interested in how descriptive and normative categories tailored to the nation-state apply to institutions that wield political power beyond that context. Other research interests include Enlightenment political philosophy, especially the evolution of ideas about commerce and international politics in the eighteenth century, as well as theories of sovereignty, citizenship, human rights, constitutional theory, and Turkey-E.U. relations.
Professor Isiksel is currently at work on a book manuscript that evaluates the extent to which constitutionalism, as a normative and empirical concept, can be adapted to supranational institutions. Her book will address this question in the light of the European Union's legal order, arguing that the economically driven process of European integration has brought into being a qualitatively distinct form of constitutional practice.
Salma Ismaiel
Salma Ismaiel is a second year American Studies MA student. Her research interests intesect at Islamic feminism and Muslim American cultural studies. Some of her research has taken a look at how faith based legal models may serve young Muslim American women as they consult contemporary feminist issues in the United States.
Salma Ismaiel
Salma Ismaiel is a second year American Studies MA student. Her research interests intesect at Islamic feminism and Muslim American cultural studies. Some of her research has taken a look at how faith based legal models may serve young Muslim American women as they consult contemporary feminist issues in the United States.
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