The 2025 – 2026 Faculty Visitors at Reid Hall will engage in a wide range of research and collaborations, spanning colonial and environmental history, art and LGBTQ+ studies, racial justice, and pediatric healthcare.
Over the course of one- to three-week stays in Paris, they will work with archives and museums such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Musée du Quai Branly. They will contribute to public lectures, the Columbia Global Paris Center’s Atelier podcast, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination’s Library Chats video series.
Their projects deepen understanding of topics including wartime racial dynamics, neurogenetic inheritance, and fashion in a decolonial perspective, all within the rich intellectual and historical context provided by Reid Hall.
Alexis Clark
Alexis Clark is a journalist and author focused on race, culture, and politics during World War II and the Civil Rights era. Her current projects explore historical and contemporary issues of racial justice, poverty, and food insecurity, including a forthcoming book on Black sororities and equality.
In Paris, Clark will expand her research on the experiences of Black American World War II soldiers, focusing especially on mixed-race children known as “Brown Babies” fathered by Black G.I.s and white European women in France. Building on her reporting about Germany’s Brown Babies and Black veterans’ struggles with segregation and denied benefits, she will explore French archives and connect with WWII scholars to deepen understanding of these overlooked histories.
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