Rachel Horner (she/her) is a PhD candidate in music and sound studies at Cornell University. She holds an MA in musicology and a BM in vocal music education and Spanish from Rutgers University. Rachel’s research investigates the intersections between sound, language, and identity, especially in the context of Spanish and Latin American cultural festivals.

Nora Siena's dissertation, “Inoperative Brevitas: The Contamination of Short Literary and Philosophical Forms and the Twentieth-century Italian Racconto,” identifies a paradigmatic mode of twentieth-century European poetics and philosophical programs in the disruption of the historical tie between textual brevity and exemplarity.

Maria Luisa Palumbo is a scholar, architect, and curator working at the intersection of architectural history and theory to question and promote notions of social, environmental, and gender justice. She is the author of New Wombs, Electronic bodies and architectural disorder (Birkhauser, 2000) and Paesaggi Sensibili. Architetture a sostegno della vita (duepunti edizioni, 2012) and the editor of several collective books. In 2012 she curated reMade in Italy, final section of Luca Zevi's Italian Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Madeleine is a historian of modern Europe focused on Spain. Her research focuses on understanding the relationship between fascism and the international via formal and informal political means. She is particularly interested in examining the continuation of the Spanish fascist state as an international and domestic body via Francoism's repositioning of itself throughout the 20th century. 

Angela Kothe is a third-year PhD Student in the Department of Government. Her research interests include Queer politics and religion in Europe and the United States. She is currently developing a project that explores the political economy of Queer identity formation in post-War England.

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2026

Committee Chair/Advisor: Juno Salazar Parreñas

Discipline: Anthropology

Primary Language: Vietnamese

Research Countries: Vietnam

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Tom Pepinsky

Discipline: Government

Primary Language: Filipino/Tagalog, French

Research Countries: Philippines, Singapore

Satish Kumar, a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Doctoral Fellow at TCI, is a PhD student in public policy at IIT Bombay. His research focuses on agriculture-nutrition linkages and diversification in semi-arid regions. Previously, he pursued a Commonwealth split-site doctoral scholarship at the University of Cambridge. He earned his master’s degree from JNU and completed his undergraduate studies at Delhi University's Kirori Mal College, India. 

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair/Advisor: Steven Johnson

Discipline: Natural Resources and Environment

Primary Language: Indonesian, Ambonese Malay, Seram Timur

Research Countries: Indonesia

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2030

Committee Chair/Advisor: Vida Maralani

Discipline: Sociology

Primary Language: Burmese

Research Countries: Myanmar

Research Interests: Burma Studies; Buddhist Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies