The Gallatin Global Newsletter
News, Profiles, and Reflections from Gallatin's Global Programs
By Mehmet Darakçıoğlu This year we have convened the ninth iteration of the Gallatin Global Faculty Symposium at NYU Prague on March 18-20, 2024. An annual event brings faculty from Gallatin and NYU’s global academic centers to exchange ideas and foster research and curricular collaborations. This year’s symposium theme was Memory, History, and Place. Ali … Continue reading Gallatin Global Faculty Symposium at NYU Prague
By Karen Holmberg Deadly wildfires broke out in Valparaíso, Chile on February 2, 2024. Like all disasters, they were a hybrid admix of natural and cultural factors. Drought, a heat wave, high wind, flammable housing construction, narrow streets that prevent fire truck access, and arson combined to char at least 290 square kilometers of land, … Continue reading On the Edge of the Disaster: Droughts, Dictators, Disappearances, and the Calming Influence of Volcanoes
By Daniela Aizencang Libby Bass is senior (class of 2024) at NYU Gallatin with a concentration: Fashion in One’s Identity: The Intersection Between Business, Theater, and Fashion. As part of her fall 2022 semester at NYU London she enrolled in the Gallatin Global Fashion Program which covers topics such as the historical evolution of standards … Continue reading My Gallatin Story: An Interview with Libby Bass, Gallatin Global Fashion Program Alumni
By Duncan Yoon This Albert Gallatin Scholars trip took one of the most salient aspects of any culture — cuisine — and used it as a point of departure to explore social and historical contexts. The emergence of Korean culture on the global scene in the past few years lent the trip a contemporary relevance … Continue reading Teaching Korean Culture Through Cuisine
By Namirah Zihniah Arieana Pirbaksh is a senior at NYU Gallatin concentrating on post-colonial studies within the Caribbean diaspora. She is also an MPH candidate, pursuing the 4+1 BA/MPH program in Public Health Policy & Management. As a part of her Summer Travel Course with Gallatin Global Programs, she visited Dublin, Ireland, for The Black … Continue reading An Interview with NYU Gallatin Student Arieana Pirbkash
By Kim DaCosta In July 2023, I traveled to Dublin with a group of students enrolled in my course, The Black and Green Atlantic, as part of NYU Gallatin’s Study Abroad program. The course explores the longstanding and complex relationship between the Irish and African diasporas. People of Irish and African descent have lived in … Continue reading Navigating the Black and Green Atlantic in an Age of Racial Reckoning
By Daniela Aizencang Santana Kavanaugh is a junior at NYU studying for a dual degree: a B. A from Gallatin in Critical Race Theory, Human Rights and Minority Studies, and a Masters in Public Administration from the Wagner School of Public Service. As part of the 2022-2023 cohort of the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human … Continue reading My Gallatin Story: An Interview with 2023 Global Human Rights Fellow Santana Kavanaugh
Ibrahima (Ibou) Niang joined the NYU Gallatin community as the Gallatin Global Faculty in Residence for the Fall 2023 semester. Ibou is originally from Senegal and is a political scientist, writer, artist, musician, and poet. He was a 2018 Yale World Fellow and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science an MA in International Governance … Continue reading Global Faculty in Residence: An Interview with Ibrahima Niang