ISERP Fellows Program
About the Program
Launched in Fall 2024, the ISERP Fellows Program is targeted towards junior faculty in the Social Sciences at Columbia. ISERP Fellows receive one-semester leave from all teaching and administrative duties at full salary, as well as the budget and administrative support for a high-visibility conference to be organized around each fellow’s research interests.
ISERP selects one fellow per semester, and applications for the fellowship are submitted a year in advance of the planned leave. The next applications will be due on April 11, 2025 for leave in Spring 2026.
Questions? Reach out to [email protected].
About Our Fellows
Fall 2025: Nikhar Gaikwad
Nikhar Gaikwad, Assistant Professor of Political Science, has been chosen as the inaugural ISERP Fellow. Dr. Gaikwad specializes in international and comparative political economy with a focus on trade, migration, and climate change and a regional specialization in India. His work as an ISERP fellow will be on the project “Identity, Emigration, and Internal Migration in Ranked Ethnic Systems”, studying and testing the role of identity in shaping labor migration patterns when culturally segmented societies integrate into the global economy.