Charlie Steinman (he/him/his) is a PhD student in medieval history, working on petty officials and policing in Jewish and Christian communities in Provence and the Languedoc.  He is interested in the experience of power in medieval societies, as well as the...

Ifadha Sifar is a PhD student in international and global history at Columbia, broadly interested in the social history of the Indian Ocean world. Her research currently focuses on the pearl trade in the western Indian Ocean world between the late-nineteenth and early...

Marie Robin is a doctoral candidate in the history department, focusing on the 20th-century French Empire, with an emphasis on North Africa and Southeast Asia. Her dissertation examines the French military’s management and oversight of soldiers’ sexuality during the...

Seokju is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Columbia University. His research interests lie at the intersections of US foreign relations, political economy, and modern political thought. His dissertation project interrogates the relationship between...