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Sailakshmi Ramgopal Columbia Global Scholar-in-Residence
Prof. Ramgopal Announced as Columbia Global Scholar-in-Residence
Sailakshmi Ramgopal, Assistant Professor of Roman History, has been announced as one of 11 of Columbia Global’s 2026 Scholars-in-Residence, joining the program’s second cohort of exceptional Columbia faculty and researchers who will spend up to two months at the university’s Global Centers to advance their teaching and research while immersing themselves in local academics and culture around the globe. The subject of her research will be “Romans Abroad: Citizenship, Place, and Empire” and she will be hosted at the Global Center in Athens.
Kim Phillips-Fein NY Times Op-Ed
Prof. Phillips-Fein Publishes NY Times Op-Ed
Kim Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History, recently published an op-ed in the Times connected to her upcoming book titled Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America, which is set for release later this summer.
Pamela Smith Awarded Getty Foundation Grant
Pamela Smith Awarded Getty Foundation Grant
Seth Low Professor History and Founding Director of the Center for Science and Society Pamela Smith has been awarded a three-year Getty Foundation Grant, with funds supporting research for the project “Minescapes: The Material Complex of Copper in Central Europe and Beyond.” The research will focus on the most important copper mines in the early modern world, which supplied Renaissance Europe with copper for bronze cannons and sculptures, and will bring together a team of historians, natural scientists, and art conservators.
Rebecca Kobrin New Book Recognition
Prof. Kobrin Receives Recognition for New Book
In addition to her recent Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Rebecca Kobrin, Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History, has received multiple forms of recognition for her new book Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930. The book was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal; Prof. Kobrin spoke about the book at the Center for Jewish History on May 5; and Prof. Kobrin will be discussing the book on a July 6 podcast run by the Hagley Museum.
2025 Book Releases
Martha Howell, Making Merchants, The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany. October, 2025: Cambridge University Press.
Mark Mazower, On Antisemitism: A word in History. September, 2025: Penguin Press.
A. Tunç Şen, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450 – 1600. 2025: Stanford University Press.
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II. 2025: Basic Books.
2024 Book Releases
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History. 2024: Columbia University Press
Manan Ahmed, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore. 2024: The New Press
Frank Guridy, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play. 2024: Basic Books
Mae Ngai, Chee Wang Ng, and Corky Lee (eds.), Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice. 2024: Clarkson Potter
Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC, 4th Edition. 2024: Wiley-Blackwell.
2023 Book Releases
Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon (eds.), Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally. 2023: Berghahn Books
2022 Book Releases
Hilary Hallett. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood. 2022: Liveright.
Ira Katznelson and Greg Wawro. Time Counts: Quantitative Analysis for Historical Social Science. 2022: Princeton University Press.