Columbia University
Prof. Ramgopal Announced as Columbia Global Scholar-in-Residence
Sailakshmi Ramgopal, Assistant Professor of Roman History, has been announced as one of 11 of Columbia Global’s 2026 Scholars-in-Residence, joining the program’s second cohort of exceptional Columbia faculty and researchers who will spend up to two months at the university’s Global Centers to advance their teaching and research while immersing themselves in local academics and culture around the globe. The subject of her research will be “Romans Abroad: Citizenship, Place, and Empire” and she will be hosted at the Global Center in Athens.