The David Bartsch and Joan Haffenreffer Bartsch Fellows to the UCGT
Each year, UCGT Fellows work alongside the faculty and staff of the CGT to lead and help cultivate the Undergraduate Committee, and to plan events and initiatives specifically for undergraduates, such as workshops related to the World Leaders Forums, “Talks With Professors,” “Global Thought Labs,” and so on. Fellows also contribute to the expansion of the undergraduate Global Thought curriculum.
2024-2025 UCGT Fellows
DEVIKA GOYAL | GENERAL STUDIES (’25) | UCGT CHAIR
Devika is a senior from New Delhi, India studying Economics and Political Science in the Columbia- Sciences Po Paris Dual BA program. She focuses on studies of inequality and development to learn about contemporary solutions to global challenges. Through collaboration between nonprofits, government organizations, and academia, she explores education policy and its intersections with health outcomes. As the founder of Million Books Project India, Devika worked to collect and donate over 300,000 books across two states and explore innovative pedagogies through local teaching programs. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Columbia Journal of Asia and previously was the Opinion Section co-editor of the university newspaper at Sciences Po. She uses conversations over a cup of chai as a tool to make sense of a pretty confusing world, and is otherwise caught at the cinema.
ELENA MUGLIA | GENERAL STUDIES (’25) | UCGT VICE CHAIR
Elena is a senior from Cagliari, Italy, in the Columbia-Sciences Po Paris Dual bachelor’s program. Elena studied Politics, Government, and Law at Sciences Po and is majoring in Political Science at Columbia. Elena’s interests lie in anything political, but she is especially interested in the intersection of political theory and migration studies, particularly questions of citizenship and political membership. She has worked and volunteered at refugee housing centers and camps in Belgium, France, and Italy. She also has a deep interest in student journalism—she was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the campus newspaper at Sciences Po and is Senior Editor at the Columbia Political Review.