RECENT FACULTY AWARDS
Stephanie McCurry published a piece for the November 2022 issue of The Nation: “The Two Wars: The battle over who would profit from the Civil War.”
Stephanie McCurry published a piece for the November 2022 issue of The Nation: “The Two Wars: The battle over who would profit from the Civil War.”

Adam Tooze wrote an opinion global economy piece, “Welcome to the world of the polycrisis” for Financial Times, of which he is now a contributing editor.
Adam Tooze wrote an opinion global economy piece titled “Welcome to the world of the polycrisis” for Financial Times, of which he is now a contributing editor.
Matthew Connelly participated in a panel this week for the Columbia Undergraduate Computer and Data Science Research Fair.
Matthew Connelly participated in a panel this week for the Columbia Undergraduate Computer and Data Science Research Fair.
Check out the latest edition of Humanities Magazine which features articles highlighting #JeffLec22 lecturer Andrew Delbanco, Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” at 70, the quest to find an Egyptian pharaoh, and more. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/3DhYmDF
The latest edition of Humanities Magazine features an article highlighting #JeffLec22 lecturer Andrew Delbanco.
Lien-Hang Nguyen was the film The Greatest Beer Run Ever’s technical adviser for its historical and cultural accuracy; read about it here.
Lien-Hang Nguyen was the film The Greatest Beer Run Ever‘s technical adviser for its historical and cultural accuracy; read about it here.

Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, PhD alum, examines the multiple domestic forms of removal that excluded citizen and noncitizen Mexican migrant youth from public schools and relegated them to isolated sites of agricultural labor exploitation and incarceration in the post-WWII US in “Los Hijos Son La Riqueza Del Pobre:”* Mexican Child Migration and the Making of Domestic (Im)migrant Exclusion, 1937–1960″, published by the Journal of Ethnic History.
Sailakshmi Ramgopal’s review article for the Journal of Roman Studies, “Connectivity and Disconnectivity in the Roman Empire” in which she juxtaposes Braudel, Bénabou, and Padilla Peralta to discuss the politics of writing on mobility, connectivity, and Roman imperialism has been published.
Yesenia Barragan (Rutgers Univ.) for Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021)
Columbia alum Yesenia Barragan (Rutgers Univ.) won The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history for Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021) via the American Historical Association.
Kirkus Reviews published a starred review of Matthew Connelly’s forthcoming book (coming 1/17/23) The Declassification Engine.
Kirkus Reviews published a starred review of Matthew Connelly‘s forthcoming book (coming 1/17/23) The Declassification Engine.
2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
Andrew Delbanco delivered the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for the National Endowment of the Humanities on October 19th, 2022.

