India China Institute recently awarded fellowships to eight New School faculty members and two PhD candidates for the Pandemic Worlds Research Seminar.   

Faculty Fellows

Petya Andreeva, Assistant Professor of Asian Art and Design History, Parsons School of Design. “Zoomorphic Visuality and Portable Luxury Before and After the Black Death: Case Studies from Central Eurasian Nomadic Cultures.”

Michael A. Cohen, Director of the PhD in Public and Urban Policy program at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment, and Professor of International Affairs at the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs. “COVID-19 and Slum Communities: A Comparative Study of Incidence and Impact.”

Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. “Populism and Fascist Ideology and Movements in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic.”

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs. “Covid-19 Contact Tracing – Narratives, Data, Technology and Institutions.”

Brian McGrath, Professor of Urban Design, Parsons School of Design. “Islands and Territories: Urban Contact Zones in Taiwan and Greater New York.”

Anezka Sebek, Associate Professor of Media Design, Parsons School of Design. “Creating Collaborative Communication Between Neighbors and Villages of the United States and India in the Time of the Pandemic.”

Nidhi Srinivas, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management at Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment, Schools of Public Engagement. “Mutual Aid During a Pandemic: Resisting Exceptions, Necropopulations and Infodemics.”

Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor of Culture and Media, Schools of Public Engagement. “Platform Co-Ops in Kerala as a Collective Response to the Pandemic.”

Student Fellows

Yang Allen, PhD candidate, Politics, The New School for Social Research. “China’s Toilet Revolution as Public Goods Provision: Local Governance of Public Toilets in Peri-Urban Shanghai.”

Santiago Mandirola, PhD candidate, Sociology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research. “Is Cash Still King? Financial Technology and the COVID Pandemic in Latin America.”

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This new research seminar explores how the COVID-19 pandemic and intersecting crises are changing knowledge production, politics, society, and design in myriad and far-reaching ways. Projects will draw upon research based in India or China, or explore transnational and global south connections more generally.

The seminars will take place throughout spring 2021 where faculty and student Fellows will present their work in progress. At the conclusion of the academic year, working papers and projects are to be published on the ICI website. Congratulations to all.  

Read more about the ICI fellows here: faculty fellows, student fellows.