Research Scholars

Postdoctoral Research Scholars are selected annually from an international fellowship search. The Committee on Global Thought attracts innovative interdisciplinary researchers from all academic fields. Emerging scholars who are awarded a fellowship have the opportunity to engage with the Committee and take part in developing and shaping our research agenda.

Research Scholars

Simone Buechler

  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Simone Buechler was an assistant professor/faculty fellow in the Metropolitan Studies Program at New York University. She received a Ph.D. from the Urban Planning Department at Columbia University where she studied under Saskia Sassen and Peter Marcuse.

Ayça Çubukçu

  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Ayça Çubukçu received a Ph.D. with Distinction in political anthropology from Columbia University in May 2008, and also earned her M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from the same department.

Rosalind Fredericks

  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Rosalind Fredericks earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley and a MSc. in Geography and Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Rosalind's research interests lie at the nexus of political economy and cultural politics in African cities.

Rachel Harvey

  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Rachel Harvey’s earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the importance of social and cultural factors in economic globalization. In her dissertation she examined the role of sociocultural processes in the globalization of a financial market based in London, England.

Thomas Hill

  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Tom Hill received his PhD in History from Trinity College, Cambridge. His research focuses on representations of collective memories of violence, transitional justice and truth and reconciliation discourses, particularly in the Middle East and with respect to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. His thesis examined the relationship between concepts of repatriation, historicity and the intellectual in Palestinian national discourse after Oslo.

Arjun Jayadev

  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Arjun Jayadev is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research focuses on the ways in which policy shifts that have occurred globally over the last three decades have impacted distributional outcomes (measured in terms of income, wealth and power) and the welfare of the poor.

Alison Post

  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Alison Post studies comparative political economy, focusing on the politics of urban and regional development. In particular, her research examines the politics of regulating urban infrastructure investment in Latin America

Jinny Prais

  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Jinny Prais earned her Ph.D. in History and Women's Studies from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation examined the anti-colonial nationalist projects of elite university-educated, cosmopolitan, and colonized Anglophone West Africans who traveled for higher education between London and Accra during the years between the two World Wars.

Xifang Sun

  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Xifang Sun received her Ph.D degree in economics at Peking University in July, 2007. She is most interested in research on financial structure and economic development.