Alpine Fellowship: NYU Programme
APPLICATIONS OPEN IN FEBRUARY 2026.
The Alpine Fellowship partners with New York University to give two graduate students per year a cash bursary.
The ideal students “seek to explore the connections across and between humanistic fields of study, build bridges across fields of study in the humanities, and creatively synthesize the arts, literature, philosophy, and other humanistic fields of inquiry.”
The fellowship is open to any current graduate student at GSAS or Tisch. Selected students must still be matriculated at the time of the consortium. Strong candidates would include those whose work strives to build bridges across disparate fields of study in the humanities, while creatively synthesizing the arts, literature, philosophy, and other humanistic fields of inquiry.
Our 2026 NYU Fellows Are:
Christine Bootes
Christine is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her dissertation explores the relationship between visual culture, material technologies, and international institutions in the making of modern ideas of cultural heritage. Focusing on interwar France, the project examines the historical and political construction of heritage as a 'universal' category. Her work has received support from the Georges Lurcy Trust, the Remarque Institute, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and the DAAD.
Ashley Dao
Ashley is a keyboardist, educator, and sound artist pursuing a PhD in Music at NYU, where she researches intergenerational nostalgia, trauma, and hauntology in the Vietnamese diasporic music of Orange County, California’s Little Saigon. Dao also works on American melodrama, Karen Carpenter, and sonic-psychological warfare during the Cold War. Her recent projects center affective assemblages and excesses, musical bricolage, intermedial composition, overlapping temporalities, refugee (counter-)memory, betrayal, and the politics of inheritance. Through pedagogy, composition, and writing, Dao is dedicated to creating spaces for community connection and critical reflection, developing support networks for young musicians of color, and collaborating with fellow scholar-artist-educators.
Ioanna Kostopoulou
Ioanna is an award-winning translator and a PhD candidate in the German Department at New York University, where her work focuses on the intersection of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. In her dissertation, she discusses the ethics and politics of friendship against the backdrop of recent exclusionary migration policies, in order to re-examine the demand for the ethical duty of hospitality and the political significance of care. Her teaching interests include translation theory, the poetics and politics of food, and Greek modernism.
Juan Camilo Velásquez
Juan is a PhD Candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University. His doctoral research explores how filmmakers across the 20th century built and experimented with tools and techniques that rendered simultaneity on screen. Focusing on a specific apparatus in each chapter – from Abel Gance's polyvision triple-camera system to Cray X-MP supercomputers – the project asks what these tools reveal about the relationship between image-making technologies, intellectual history, and models of consciousness. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS), Qui Parle, Film-Philosophy and others.
Our 2025 NYU Fellows were:
Isabelle Appleton
Isabelle Appleton is an MFA candidate in Fiction at NYU, where she is a Goldwater Fellow. Her writing has appeared in Joyland, Conjunctions, The New England Review, The Washington Square Review, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of NYU’s Thesis Research Award, and her work has been supported by the Ucross Foundation. She holds a BA in Religion from Vassar. Originally from St. Louis, she now lives in Brooklyn.
Pat Gonzalez
Patricia “Pat” Gonzalez is a PhD candidate of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at New York University. Their research intersects queer ecologies, sound studies and blue humanities with focus on Latin and North American rivers and the ways in which the environmental catastrophe can be witnessed amongst the nonhuman beings.
Ashlin Rakhra
Ashlin Rakhra is a PhD candidate in Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where her work focuses on health equity, community-based health programs, and access to culturally and linguistically inclusive care. Grounded in human-centered design, her research centers the lived experiences of underserved populations and seeks to use research as a tool for equity, empathy, and systems-level transformation. Her dissertation explores how trust shapes the way marginalized communities engage with healthcare. She is developing and validating a holistic, multi-level trust scale to better understand how trust functions within models that link clinical and community care in New York City.
Konstantine Vlasis
Konstantine Vlasis is a PhD Candidate in music and sound studies at NYU, a visiting music lecturer at Listaháskóli Íslands and a performing member of the percussion quartet, APEX Percussion. Vlasis explicitly builds his works upon pre-existing musical textures created by nonhuman entities, natural soundscapes, and environmental phenomena. His recent works expressly focus on art-science collaboration and have been supported by the Leifur Eiríksson Foundation, Fulbright, National Science Foundation, New York University and National Geographic. Vlasis is a PhD Candidate in music and sound studies at NYU, a visiting music lecturer at Listaháskóli Íslands and a performing member of the percussion quartet, APEX Percussion
Our 2024 NYU Fellows were:
Alperen Arslan
Alperen Arslan is an award-winning author and a PhD student in the Department of History at New York University, specializing in the History of Science, Technology, and International History. His prior work explored various subjects, including the history of climatology, marine biology and oceanography, human and animal plasticity, science and democracy, and the merits of multilingualism in science. Before moving to New York City, Alperen studied in Istanbul, London, and Vienna.
Logan Davis
Logan Davis is a nonfiction writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BA in creative writing from Whitman College and is currently finishing her MFA in Literary Reportage at NYU. Broadly speaking, she writes about people and places we have something to learn from—from death doulas and remote Italian winemakers to the insider, domestic knowledge of New York's handy-people and her very fascinating landlord.
Our 2023 NYU Fellows were:
Francesca Billington
Francesca Billington is a writer who is currently finishing her MFA in creative nonfiction at NYU. She writes about a range of subjects, including pharmaceutical advertising, criminal justice, and politics. She holds a BA in anthropology from Princeton.
Zac Easterling
Zac Easterling (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate in New York University’s department of performance studies, specializing in black studies, critical philosophy, African American studies, gender studies, boxing technique, and US boxing history. In their dissertation, Stricken Together: Boxing & The Performance of Conflict/Violence they read the history of boxing, exemplified by a selection of fights and their historical circumstance, to elucidate the ontology of conflict and present it as a resource of violence mitigation.
Our 2022 NYU Fellows were:
Xavier Hadley
Xavier Hadley is a graduate student in NYU. Through his work as a poet, guitarist, and critical race scholar, Xavier seeks to illuminate the contemporary presence of historical feelings. Taking inspiration from poets like Harriette Mullen, Douglas Kearney, Audre Lorde, and Claudia Rankine among many others, Xavier and his work have received awards and critical recognition from Colorado State University, Lyrical Lemonade, the American Institute for Graphic Arts, and others.
Cat Sposato
Catherine “Cat” Sposato is a New York-based writer, editor, author, and podcaster who is originally from Passaic, New Jersey. She’s a Magazine Writing and Digital Storytelling Master’s student at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute out of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She has her B.A. in English and Political Science from Columbia College of Columbia University. A first-generation Colombian-American, Cat is passionate about exploring the nuances of popular culture and politics. Her work has been featured in NPR, V Magazine, VMAN, Outlander Magazine and Road to Sound.