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. Using an assemblage of French, Arabic, and Vietnamese archival, visual, literary and oral sources, her...

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...

Samuel Niu is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at Columbia University, where he studies the 19th century United States and Atlantic World. Specifically, Sam is interested in the intersection of emancipation, immigration, and labor history in the United States...