Scholars from all countries may apply to the Institute. They are selected by the Provost and Dean of Faculties of Columbia University on the advice of a selection committee composed of individuals from the University and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. In making its recommendations, the committee seeks a mix of scholars from all parts of the world. It also attempts to include some members of Columbia University's faculty among the Fellows.


Scholars from all countries may apply to the Institute. They are selected by the Provost and Dean of Faculties of Columbia University on the advice of a selection committee composed of individuals from the University and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. In making its recommendations, the committee seeks a mix of scholars from all parts of the world. It also attempts to include some members of Columbia University's faculty among the Fellows.

Academic Year 2008-2009

Dawn Fulton, Department of French Studies, Smith College, USA
City Limits: Mapping Contemporary Paris in Francophone Literature

Adam Kosto, Department of History, Columbia University, USA
Hostages in the European Middle Ages

Herman Lebovics, History Department, Stony Brook University, USA
France: A Nation of Immigrants?

Andrea Troxel, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Early Phase Clinical Trial Design and Quality of Life in Oncology


Fall 2008

Mas’ud Hamdan, Departments of Theatre and of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Haifa, Israel
Reconstructing Concepts of Individual and Collective Existence: "Power" and "Truth" as Mirrored in Arab Contemporary Works of Art

Tatiana Smoliarova, Department of Slavic languages and Literatures, Columbia University, USA
The Formative Years of Russian Aesthetic Thought and Its European Sources (1780s-1810s)

Joint Project IPAS - Institute for Scholars: Structure and Categories of Knowledge Production: The Universal and the Particular. China, Britain, Turkey, Latin America and India
Halil Berktay, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Turkey
Vasant Kaiwar, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Duke University, USA
Thierry Madjid Labica, UFR des Etudes anglo-américaines, Université Paris 10 Nanterre, France
Sucheta Mazumdar, Department History, Duke University, USA
Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad National Autonoma Mexico (UNAM), Mexico


Spring 2009

Klaus Thomas Volkert, Seminar fur Methematik und ihre Didaktik, University of Cologne, Germany
The Third Revolution in the History of Space

Joint Project IPAS - Institute for Scholars: Globalisation and Public Health in Developing Countries: Access to Essential Drugs Under Stringent Intellectual Rights Regime
Samira Guennif, Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord, France
Georgiana Alenka Guzman-Chavez, Departamento de Economia, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
N Lalitha, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India
Kenneth Shadlen, Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) London School of Economic, UK

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