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We welcome international research fellows to apply to join the centre for short term stays.
Apply by 9th June 2025 for a CCSC Visiting Research Fellowship
Current visiting fellows
Tuline Gülgönen (Virtual Visiting Research Fellow, April-September 2025): Tuline Gülgönen is an independent researcher and a popular educator working in the field of childhood studies. She develops artistic and activist research projects on the relationship of children and youth to the urban environment, using hybrid methods including critical cartography, video and sound.
Dr Rashmi Kumari (Virtual Visiting Research Fellow, January - June 2025): Rashmi’s research focuses on the intersection of development and violence, emphasizing climate impact at the intersection of age, gender, indigeneity, and childhood. During her time as a CCSC fellow, Rashmi will organise activities focusing on Indigenous epistemologies, youth, and digital media.
Dr Carlos Gerardo Zúñiga Nieto (Virtual Visiting Research Fellow, October 2024 - June 2025): His specialty is colonial and modern Latin America with a focus on labor, legal, cultural and urban history, crime and punishment, and social justice—especially in Mexico—as well as particular attention to how conceptions of belonging, citizenship, and exclusion have shaped the social and historical roots of justice, crime, and law.
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas (Visiting Research Fellow, October 2024 - June 2025). She is an independent researcher, writer, photographer, digital archivist and curator. She directs Childhood Publics Research Programme and the Children’s Photography Archive C.I.C. and is best known for her research on childhood publics and children’s modes and media of expression and communication, as well as her multimodal, team ethnography, the ERC Connectors Study, with children in middle childhood in Athens, Hyderabad and London which, amongst other things, led to the hugely successful in common: children's photo-stories of public life exhibition.
Previous visiting fellows
Professor Valeria Llobet (Professor in the School of Humanities, Universidad de San Martín, Argentina): Director of the Center for the Studies of Inequalities, Subjects and Institutions (CEDESI) with research interests in childhood, gender rights and the politics of inequalities. – Escuela de Humanidades, UNSAM 2024
Professor Jessica Taft (Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, United States): An interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on the political lives of children and youth across the Americas, with an emphasis on youth activists and youth social movements. – Fullbright Global Scholar Award 2022
Professor Spyros Spyrou (Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology): His work has explored children’s identities (especially in relation to nationalism, migration, and borders), poverty, and social exclusion, with a more recent focus on the ethics and politics of knowledge production in childhood studies. – Erasmus Plus 2022
Professor Ana Vergara Del Solar (Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Universidad de Santiago, Chile): Research interests include childhood and parenting studies, and care circulation. - 2016