Ralph Ghoche
Ralph Ghoche is a nineteenth-century architecture and urbanism historian and Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Ralph Ghoche
Ralph Ghoche is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Barnard College, specializing in nineteenth-century architectural, urban, and environmental history.
His research and teaching are dedicated to clarifying two major subject areas: colonialism and environmentalism. His work on the interventions of the Catholic Church in Algiers during the French colonial period examines how the Church reshaped urban space through the construction, conversion, and erasure of buildings to advance its aim of resurrecting Augustinian Christendom in North Africa. Simultaneously, Ghoche is involved in a research project examining stone quarries and mineral extraction across Algeria. The broader objective of this project is to clarify how Western architecture's material reality is inscribed within global networks of extraction and exchange.
For the last decade, Ghoche has taught a lecture class in environmental history titled “City, Landscape & Ecology.” The course looks at changing attitudes to the natural world from the eighteenth century to the present, tracing significant historical shifts in considering nature across multiple fields and disciplines. His recent publications on environmentalism include “A Commons for Whom? Racism and the Environmental Movement,” co-authored with Udoh Unyimeabasi and published in Transforming Education for Sustainability (Springer, 2023) and a co-edited special issue (v. 17) of the French peer-reviewed journal, Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale urbaine et paysagère, titled “How Environmentalist Mobilizations Shape Buildings, Cities and Landscapes.”
Ghoche holds a professional degree in architecture from McGill University and a Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia. He is co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar, Beyond France, and is a member of the editorial board of Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère.
Working Group: Seeds of Diaspora
Hala Ghosheh
Fellow, Gender Social Fund, Jordon
Hala Ghosheh is a gender expert and development consultant, who was the Director of the five year Gender Social Fund in Jordan. She specializes in sustainable development work with focus on women and youth. Her experience includes working on policy, institutional and local community levels in several countries in the region. She has worked on program management, design, development and monitoring and evaluation, organizational gender reviews and conducting qualitative research to assess the status of women and youth in different contexts.
Hala Ghosheh
Hala Ghosheh is a gender expert and development consultant, who was the Director of the five year Gender Social Fund in Jordan. She specializes in sustainable development work with focus on women and youth. Her experience includes working on policy, institutional and local community levels in several countries in the region. She has worked on program management, design, development and monitoring and evaluation, organizational gender reviews and conducting qualitative research to assess the status of women and youth in different contexts. She has also provided policy consultation to national committees and international NGOs on issues of mainstreaming gender, women economic empowerment, youth employability, policy initiatives and program development. She was a founding and board member of the first microfinance institution for women in Jordan and currently, is a council member of the Information Research Center – King Hussein Foundation.
Working Group Affiliation
Wanjiru Gichuhi
Fellow, Population and Research Institute, University of Nairobi
Wanjiru Gichuhi is a Senior Lecturer at the Population Studies and Research Institute of the University of Nairobi. A social demographer, her research focuses on population, health, rural/community and gender issues that have development and social policy implications. Specific interests include family dynamics, maternal/child survival, reproductive health, FP/HIV/AIDS, livelihood and food security issues.
Wanjiru Gichuhi
Senior Lecturer, Population and Research Institute, University of Nairobi
Wanjiru Gichuhi is a Senior Lecturer at the Population Studies and Research Institute of the University of Nairobi. A social demographer, her research focuses on population, health, rural/community and gender issues that have development and social policy implications. Specific interests include family dynamics, maternal/child survival, reproductive health, FP/HIV/AIDS, livelihood and food security issues. She has served as a consultant, project coordinator,and research fellow on a variety of development project appointments within Kenya and beyond. She has keen interest in research and monitoring and evaluation. Gichuhi received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.
Working Group Affiliation
The Rural-Urban Interface: Gender and Poverty in Ghana and Kenya, Statistics and Stories
Alex Gil
Digital Scholarship Coordinator for the Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Library
Alex Gil is Digital Scholarship Coordinator for the Humanities and History Division at Columbia University Library, Affiliate Faculty of the English and Comparative Literature Department, and one of the founders of the Studio@Butler, a technology atelier for faculty, students and librarians. He has published in journals across the Atlantic and the Americas, while sustaining an open and robust online research presence on the subject of digital humanities, textual scholarship, and Caribbean Studies. In 2010-2012 he was a fellow at the Scholars' Lab and NINES at the University of Virginia.
Alex Gil
Digital Scholarship Coordinator for the Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Library
Alex Gil is Digital Scholarship Coordinator for the Humanities and History Division at Columbia University Library, Affiliate Faculty of the English and Comparative Literature Department, and one of the founders of the Studio@Butler, a technology atelier for faculty, students and librarians. He has published in journals across the Atlantic and the Americas, while sustaining an open and robust online research presence on the subject of digital humanities, textual scholarship, and Caribbean Studies. In 2010-2012 he was a fellow at the Scholars' Lab and NINES at the University of Virginia. Among other roles, he now serves as vice-chair of the Global Outlook::Digital Humanities initiative, and is actively engaged in digital humanities projects at Columbia University and around the world.
Working Group Affiliation
Eileen Gillooly
Eileen Gillooly directs the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, where she holds an appointment in English and Comparative Literature, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her work as a center director has led to partnerships with other centers and institutions on projects that promote public engagement and scholarship, including the Justice-in-Education Initiative, for which she serves as Principal Investigator and which has been supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2015.
EILEEN GILLOOLY
Eileen Gillooly directs the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, where she holds an appointment in English and Comparative Literature, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her work as a center director has led to partnerships with other centers and institutions on projects that promote public engagement and scholarship, including the Justice-in-Education Initiative, for which she serves as Principal Investigator and which has been supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2015.
Gillooly is the author of Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1999), which was awarded the Perkins Prize, presented annually to the book that makes the most significant contribution to the study of narrative by the International Society for the Study of Narrative (2001). Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in such publications as Victorian Studies, ELH, Feminist Studies, and The NYT Book Review, as well as in edited collections. She is the editor or co-editor of four volumes, including Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace (2007), with James Buzard and Joseph Childers, and Contemporary Dickens (2009; paperback, 2015; audiobook, 2019), with Deirdre David. She has been awarded research fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Whiting Foundation, St. Deiniol’s Library (UK), and the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. A former member of the Executive Board of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (2005-2008) and the Executive Committee of the MLA Division for the Victorian Period (2009-2014), Gillooly currently serves on the advisory boards of the Sydney Policy Lab, the Council for European Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. Ongoing projects include a book about parental feeling in nineteenth-century middle-class Britain and a digital, open-access critical edition of David Copperfield.
Edited Books
Contemporary Dickens Co- Edited with Deirdre David. The Ohio State University Press, 2008
Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace Co-Edited with James Buzard and Joseph Childers University of Virginia Press, 2007
Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction University of Chicago Press, 1999
Faye Ginsburg
Fellow, Anthropology, New York University
Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at NYU where is is also Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History, Co-Director of the NYU Council for the Study of Disability, and Co-Director of the Center for Religion and Media. Prizewinning author/editor of four Her research focuses on movements for social transformation, from her early work on abortion activists, to her longstanding research on indigenous media, to her current work, with Rayna Rapp, on cultural innovation and learning disabilities.
Faye Ginsburg
David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology, NYU
Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at NYU where is is also Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History, Co-Director of the NYU Council for the Study of Disability, and Co-Director of the Center for Religion and Media. Prizewinning author/editor of four Her research focuses on movements for social transformation, from her early work on abortion activists, to her longstanding research on indigenous media, to her current work, with Rayna Rapp, on cultural innovation and learning disabilities. She collaborated for several years with Lawrence Carter Long on the Dis This screening series at NYU, and is on the advisory board of the Reelabilities Film Festival. She is parent to a daughter with the rare degenerative genetic condition, Familial Dysautonomia and is Vice President of the Familial Dysautonomia Foundation.
Working Group Affiliation
Megan Glasmann
Meg recently graduated with her J.D. (with honors) from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. While in law school, Meg conducted research as a fellow for the Utah Center for Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research (UCEER) funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH). Her research focused on reproductive healthcare, legislative history and intent, bioethics, and linguistic considerations of pseudo-medical-legal terminology across academic and applied disciplines. Her current research relates to abortion attitudes among law and medical students. Meg also collaborates with the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab on research related to reproductive healthcare policy and legislative history analyses.
Before law school, Meg completed a Masters of Education and Masters of Philosophy in Educational Psychology from the University of Utah, where she completed coursework in neuroscience, neuropsychology, statistics, and robust research methodology. Meg attended Stanford University and the University of Utah for her undergraduate program of study in psychology and positive psychology, competing for both universities as a varsity javelin thrower.
Kaiama Glover
Associate Professor, Deparment of French and Africana Studies, Barnard College
Kaiama L. Glover is Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool UP 2010), first editor of Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine (Yale French Studies 2016), and translator of Frankétienne’s Ready to Burst (Archipelago Books 2014). Her work has appeared in The Journal of Haitian Studies, French Forum, The French Review, Research in African Literatures, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Public Books, Public Culture, and Small Axe, among other publications.
Kaiama Glover
Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies, Barnard College
Kaiama L. Glover is Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool UP 2010), first editor of Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine (Yale French Studies 2016), and translator of Frankétienne’s Ready to Burst (Archipelago Books 2014). Her work has appeared in The Journal of Haitian Studies, French Forum, The French Review, Research in African Literatures, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Public Books, Public Culture, and Small Axe, among other publications. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the PEN Foundation, and the Fulbright Foundation. Current projects include a monograph "The Audacity of the 'I' - Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Self-Care," as well as forthcoming translations of Marie Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano (Archipelago Books) and René Depestre’s Hadriana in All My Dreams (Akashic Books). She is project director of the forthcoming multimedia platform In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Visual Cartography, founding Editor of sx archipelagos: a small axe journal of digital practice, and a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review.
Working Group Affiliations
Reframing Gendered Violence, Project Director
The Digital Black Atlantic, Project Director
Marcial Godoy-Anativia
Fellow, Performance and Politics, New York University
Marcial Godoy-Anativia is a sociocultural anthropologist and the Associate Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. He is co-editor, with Zeynep Gambetti, of Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era (NYU Press, forthcoming 2013). He is also Editor, with Jill Lane, of e-misférica, the Institute's trilingual online journal. From 2000-2007, he worked in the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean and the Program on International Collaboration at the Social Science Research Council.
Marcial Godoy-Anativia
Associate Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University
Marcial Godoy-Anativia is a sociocultural anthropologist and the Associate Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. He is co-editor, with Zeynep Gambetti, of Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era (NYU Press, forthcoming 2013). He is also Editor, with Jill Lane, of e-misférica, the Institute's trilingual online journal. From 2000-2007, he worked in the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean and the Program on International Collaboration at the Social Science Research Council. His publications include “Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Middle East Studies in the Aftermath of 9/11,” (with Seteney Shami), “We Are Living in a Time of Pillage: A Conversation with Carlos Monsiváis” and Ciudades Translocales: Espacios, flujo, representación—Perspectivas desde las Américas, co-edited with Rossana Reguillo. He serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) and on the Editorial Committee of NACLA: Report on the Americas.
Working Group Affiliation
Ximena Goecke
Fellow, History and English, Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA)
Ximena Vanessa Goecke S. is a chilean-jewish historian and a teacher of History and English, candidate to the degree of Magister in Gender and Culture in the Faculty of Humanities at Universidad de Chile. She teaches some courses in the Faculty of Education at Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) and in the English as Foreign Language area at Universidad Católica.
She participates in the research nucleus in “Body and Emotion” of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Universidad de Chile, as a member of the research section in “Body, memory and violence”.
Ximena Goecke
Universidad de Chile
Ximena Vanessa Goecke S. is a chilean-jewish historian and a teacher of History and English, candidate to the degree of Magister in Gender and Culture in the Faculty of Humanities at Universidad de Chile. She teaches some courses in the Faculty of Education at Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) and in the English as Foreign Language area at Universidad Católica.
She participates in the research nucleus in “Body and Emotion” of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Universidad de Chile, as a member of the research section in “Body, memory and violence”.
Ms Goecke is interested in the study of generational memories and diaspora as a result of political violence and intolerance. In previous works she has written about the Latin American experiences during the Dictatorships of the second half of the XXth century.
She has written some articles already regarding to the memory of the Shoah in the Chilean Jewish Community, the memoralization of the Shoah in Chile (through monuments) and on the autobiographies written by survivors who migrated to Chile.
Currently, she is writing her thesis based on the study of the testimonies of Shoah survivors that migrated to Chile between Kristallnacht and the end of the IIWW from a gendered point of view. This is the first consistant research ever made on this topic and with these sources in Chile, and she is interested in continue developing this research venue in her future PhD studies.
Since 2012, she is a volunteer for the educational projects of “Memoria Viva” Foundation, leading its educational projects.
Last year she attended as a Fellow to the Curt and Else Silberman Summer Seminar at USHMM (Washington) and presented Foundation’s projects and experiences in a Seminar in Shoah Education in Buenos Aires Argentina, organized by Anne Frank’s House and ITF. She was also a 2013 Fellow in the program “Bridges to History” study trip to New York and Poland organized by the Auschwitz Jewish Center.
Working Group Affiliation
Tao Goffe
Fellow, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Tao Leigh Goffe is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Goffe joined the NYU faculty in 2016, prior to which she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University and was a lecturer at Hunter College, CUNY.
Born in London and raised between the UK and US, she is an interdisciplinary scholar and cultural critic specializing in the literatures and vernaculars that emerge from histories of imperialism, migration, and globalization. She works at the intersections of Black Atlantic, Asian American, and Caribbean culture.
Tao Goffe
Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Tao Leigh Goffe is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Goffe joined the NYU faculty in 2016, prior to which she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University and was a lecturer at Hunter College, CUNY.
Born in London and raised between the UK and US, she is an interdisciplinary scholar and cultural critic specializing in the literatures and vernaculars that emerge from histories of imperialism, migration, and globalization. She works at the intersections of Black Atlantic, Asian American, and Caribbean culture. From the Afromodernism of reggae soundsystems to the orientalism of Hollywood’s yellowface cinema, Goffe tackles the scripting of race and sexuality in American media and performance. Her research is preoccupied with how the history of abolition, indenture, and decolonization frame the transpacific and transatlantic entanglements of African and Asian diasporas.
Her book manuscript “Enmeshed Intimacies: Sensing Afro-Asia in the Atlantic” assembles a sensate archive of recipes, playlists, and photo albums to trace the mysterious figure of the “coolie gal.” She is coediting a special issue on Caribbean runways and runaways that maps fashioning, fugitvity, beauty pageantry, and flight in the shaping of modern womanhood. Goffe’s writing is featured in Small Axe salon, Transforming Anthropology, and Anthurium among other journals. She is the recipient of fellowships through which she has undertaken archival research in London, Shanghai, and Kingston.
In addition to her academic work, she is a DJ.
Working Group Affiliation
Suzanne B. Goldberg
Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law
Suzanne Goldberg, one of the country’s foremost experts on gender and sexuality law and a leading advocate for the LGBTQ community, serves as the Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law. She also leads the Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and its Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic.
Suzanne B. Goldberg
Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law
Suzanne Goldberg, one of the country’s foremost experts on gender and sexuality law and a leading advocate for the LGBTQ community, serves as the Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law. She also leads the Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and its Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic.
Goldberg joined the Law School’s full-time faculty in 2006. She previously served on the faculties of Rutgers School of Law–Newark and Fordham Law School. In private practice, Goldberg served as a senior staff attorney at Lambda Legal, the country’s first legal organization focused on achieving full equality for lesbian and gay people. During her time at Lambda, she served as co-counsel for the defendants in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas.
In 2015, Goldberg was appointed to serve as Columbia University’s first executive vice president for university life. In this role, she works to reinforce and broaden the university’s commitment to respect, inclusion, and ethical leadership among students, faculty, and administrators. Goldberg is a frequent commentator and analyst for news media on sexuality and gender law, and on discrimination law and litigation issues. Her commentary has been featured on 20/20, CNN, and other national television networks, as well as on radio and news outlets around the world.
Goldberg graduated with honors from Brown University, and went on to serve as a Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Singapore. She earned her J.D. at Harvard Law School and later clerked for Justice Marie Garibaldi of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Goldberg is a recipient of the Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Danielle Goldman
Doctoral Student, Neuroscience and Behavior, Columbia University
Danielle Goldman is a current graduate student studying Bioethics at Columbia University with a focus on the intersection between neuroscience, genetics, and pediatric protections. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University in 2016. Her interest in translational research was ignited when she was named an Intel (now: Regeneron) Science Talent Search finalist in 2012. Since then, she has only augmented and diversified her scientific curiosities.
Danielle Goldman
Graduate Student, Columbia University
Danielle Goldman is a current graduate student studying Bioethics at Columbia University with a focus on the intersection between neuroscience, genetics, and pediatric protections. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University in 2016. Her interest in translational research was ignited when she was named an Intel (now: Regeneron) Science Talent Search finalist in 2012. Since then, she has only augmented and diversified her scientific curiosities. In addition to her graduate studies, she currently is a research associate in two laboratories at Columbia studying developmental trajectories of emotion regulation in youth, and prenatal biomarkers of neurodevelopmental risk. Danielle is ardently passionate about continuing her graduate studies in a PhD program that will allow her to integrate her interdisciplinary interests in neuroscience, genetics, bioethics, and developmental science.
Working Group Affiliation
Nilüfer Göle
Fellow, Sociology, L'École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She works on Islamic visibility in European public spaces and the debates it engenders on religious and cultural difference. Her sociological approach aims to open up a new reading of modernity from a non-western perspective and a broader critique of Eurocentrism in the definitions of secular modernity. She is the author of Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism (2010) and The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling (1997).
Nilüfer Göle
Professor of Sociology, L'École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She works on Islamic visibility in European public spaces and the debates it engenders on religious and cultural difference. Her sociological approach aims to open up a new reading of modernity from a non-western perspective and a broader critique of Eurocentrism in the definitions of secular modernity. She is the author of Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism (2010) and The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling (1997). She is member of the Executive Committee of the Istanbul Seminars. Director of EuropeanPublicIslam at the European Research Council Project 2008-2012.
Sandra Aguilar Gomez
PhD Student, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Sandra Aguilar Gomez is a third year student in the Sustainable Development PhD program in Columbia University, where she was awarded the Wu Fellowship for her research in health, wellbeing and public policy. Her main research interests lie in the fields of health, climate change, and development economics. She holds a Master in Applied Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), as well as a degree in Economics from the same university.
Sandra Aguilar Gomez
PhD Student, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Sandra Aguilar Gomez is a third year student in the Sustainable Development PhD program in Columbia University, where she was awarded the Wu Fellowship for her research in health, wellbeing and public policy. Her main research interests lie in the fields of health, climate change, and development economics. She holds a Master in Applied Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), as well as a degree in Economics from the same university. Sandra currently studies gender disparities in the context of natural resource shocks (particularly, the California Gold Rush), as well as women’s reproductive health in developing countries (Mexico and Tanzania). She is interested in behavioral responses to environmental change and their impact on gender and socioeconomic inequality. She teaches Gender Economics in Mexico, where she has participated in several panels on women’s rights, economic history and politics. She also contributes to the Economics and Society section in Nexos, a cultural and political magazine based in Mexico City, and to Foco Economico, a Latin American academic economics blog.
Working Group Affiliation
Macarena Gómez-Barris
Fellow, Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute
Macarena Gómez-Barris is author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (UC Press 2010), The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press 2017), and Beyond the Pink Tide: Artistic and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (UC Press 2018). Her new book project is At the Sea’s Edge: On Coloniality and the Oceanic.
Macarena Gómez-Barris
Director of the Global South Center and Chairperson of the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute
Macarena Gómez-Barris is author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (UC Press 2010), The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press 2017), and Beyond the Pink Tide: Artistic and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (UC Press 2018). She is co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards A Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press 2010) and co-editor with Licia Fiol-Matta of Las Américas Quarterly, a special issue of American Quarterly (Fall 2014). Her new book project is At the Sea’s Edge: On Coloniality and the Oceanic. Her essays have appeared in Antipode, Social Text, GLQ, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies as well as numerous other venues and art catalogues. She has been a Visiting Professor at New York University and a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at FLACSO-Quito. She publishes on decolonial social movements, space and memory, violence and its afterlives, queer and anarchist artistic practices, and submerged perspectives. She is founder and Director of the Global South Center, a transdisciplinary space for experimental research, artistic, and activist praxis, and Chairperson of the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute.
Working Group Affiliation
Queer Aqui, Project Director
Marianne González Le Saux
PhD Student, History, University of Chile
Marianne González Le Saux is a second year student in the History doctoral program, and her research is centered on the cultural and social history of the law in Latin America. She is a lawyer from the University of Chile. She has been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship, and she is funded by CONICYT, Chile, and Columbia's Richard Hofstadter Fellowship.
Marianne González Le Saux
PhD Student, History
Marianne González Le Saux is a second year student in the History doctoral program, and her research is centered on the cultural and social history of the law in Latin America. She is a lawyer from the University of Chile. She has been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship, and she is funded by CONICYT, Chile, and Columbia's Richard Hofstadter Fellowship.
Before coming to Columbia, she worked for several years in the Human Rights Center at the University of Chile, teaching and researching on topics related to transitional justice, democracy and Human Rights in Latin America. She also studied the history of the Chilean middle class in the 19th century and its relationship with the public education system, and her research has been published in the book “De empresarios a empleados: clase media y Estado docente en Chile en el siglo XIX” (Santiago, Chile, LOM Ediciones, 2011). She also has several other publications in the areas of history, law, and political philosophy.
Currently, her research is focused on the history of legal aid systems and other mechanisms of access to justice in Chile in the 20th century, and how they defined the relationship of the popular classes with the state in the areas of family, labor, and criminal law.
Meena Gopal
Fellow, Women’s Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Meena Gopal works at the Centre for Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, in Mumbai, India and is also a member of the autonomous feminist collective, Forum Against Oppression of Women, Bombay.
Meena Gopal
Associate Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Research Interest: Feminist Theories, Feminist Research Methodologies, Violence against women, socialization, Sexuality and sexual violence
Affiliation: Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, School of Development Studies
Qualification: M.A. (University of Madras), M.Phil. (University of Madras), Ph.D. (JNU, New Delhi)
