This study environment was produced by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) and in collaboration with Columbia University's School of the Arts. Cynthia Lawson was the project manager for CCNMTL.

Faculty Participants

Columbia University
Arnold Aronson, Professor of the School of the Arts
Peter Awn, Dean School of General Studies & Professor of Religion
Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy
Partha Chaterjee, Professor of Anthropology
Amit Chaudhuri, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the School of the Arts
Nicholas Dirks, Department Chairman of Anthropology & Franz Boas Professor of History
Martin Puchner, Assistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature
Saeed Shafqat, Assistant Professor of International & Public Affairs
Gayatri Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities of English & Comparative Literature
Neguin Yavari, Assistant Professor of Religion

Barnard College
Dennis Dalton, Professor of Political Science
Anupama Rao, Assistant Professor of History

Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning

Executive Producers
Frank Moretti
Maurice Matiz

Project Management
Cynthia Lawson, Lead
Ted Bongiovanni, Manager of Product Development

Research & Content
Marc Meyer, Director of Research & Content Development, Lead Interviewer
John M. Frankfurt, Content Development
David Magier, South Asian Librarian
Siva Arumugam, Researcher (History)
Bash Doran, Researcher (Dramaturgy)
Bina Gogineni, Researcher (Literature)
Sailaja Sastry, Researcher (Literature)
Ravi Sriramachandran, Researcher (History)
Andrew Boynton, Copyeditor

Video Production
Stephanie Ogden, Lead
Melissa Ulto
Gerard Zoehfeld
Ndlela Nkobi
Brian O'Hagan
Stephen Padilla
David Menair-Video Producer, One Planet Education Network
Iluminations-UK Production

Visual Design & Production
Cristian Rivano, Art Direction
David Miele, Technology Architect
Lisa Buckley, Production Assistant
Prudence Arndt, Visuals Producer
Luyen Chou, Consultant

Outreach
Peter Sommer, Lead
Charlotte Rademaekers, Coordinator
Sherry Mayo

Design Research
Liliana Pinto, Lead
Jason Severs, Design Research Fellow
Pilar Peters
Zainab Alikhan
Audrey Heinssen

Quality Assurance
Peter Leonard, Lead
Michael Deleon (Technical)
Bash Doran (Play)
Scott Karpf (Play)
Sirine Shebaya (Novel)
Paul Weinfield (Novel)

Royal Shakespeare Company Participants
Tim Supple, Director
Melly Still, Designer & Choreographer
Suman Bhuchar, Asian Consultant
Sita Brahmachari, Producer, "Maps of Midnight"
John Cannon, Casting Director
Neil Constable, London Manager of Operations
Meneka Das, Actor
Anjali Jay, Actor
Jondon, Stage Manager
Shaheen Khan, Actor
John Leonard, Sound & Video Designer
Bruno Poet, Lighting Designer
Simon Reade, Co-adapter & Dramaturg
Zubin Varla, Actor
Sameena Zehra, Actor

Special Thanks
We would like to extend particular thanks to Lee Bollinger, Bruce Ferguson, Salman Rushdie, and the entire creative team and cast of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Midnight's Children.

Additional Credits
Image of window in faculty video clips courtesy of Andrea Lawson.
Multimedia Study Environment Help section adapted from the Columbia Interactive help file.

Note on Images and Text
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