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Quadrant Project External Fellows

We are pleased to announce the selection of the first three Quadrant Fellows for 2008-09.

Yasmeen Arif will be in residence in the spring semester with the Global Cultures Group to work on her project, “Afterlife: Recovering Life After Catastrophe.” Dr. Arif was at the University of Minnesota last year as a Sawyer Post-doctoral Fellow on Humanitarianisms and World Orders and as a visiting lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi, India.

Guillaume Boccara will join the Global Cultures Group in the spring; his project is called “The Making of Indigenous Culture: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Ethnogovernmentality in Post- Dictatorship Chile.” Dr. Boccara received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he is a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. He is also a professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológica y Museo at the Northern Catholic University in Chile.

Arijit Sen is a fellow in the Design, Architecture, and Culture Group in the fall, and will be developing his project, “Mobile Bodies, Transgressing Selves: Politics of Place and South Asian Identity, 1900-2000.” Dr. Sen received his Ph.D. in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.