Meet CDHI’s 2023-24 Graduate Fellows!

Aug 11, 2023

We’re thrilled to welcome our new cohort of Graduate Fellows to CDHI for the 2023-24 year — and, of course, we wanted to learn more about them.

Click each image to read their Q&A and see what U of T grad students are working on!

Elio Colavito

Department of History, FAS

Roxana Escobar Ñañez

Geography and Planning, FAS

Janani Mandayam Comar

Religion, Arts and Sciences, FAS

Ellen Forget

Faculty of Information, U of T

Réka Patrícia Gál

Faculty of Information, U of T

Amrita Kumar-Ratta

Geography and Planning, U of T

Mathew Iantorno

Faculty of Information, U of T

Christine H. Tran

Faculty of Information, U of T

← A Q&A with Réka Patrícia Gál, CDHI Graduate Fellow

A Q&A with Christine H. Tran, CDHI Graduate Fellow →

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