Columbia University
RECENT FACULTY AWARDS
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.
Andrew Delbanco, the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer, sat down with National Endowment for the Humanities chair Shelly Lowe to talk about Herman Melville, #humanities in the college curriculum, his book “The War Before the War” & his upcoming Jefferson Lecture. Read here: https://bit.ly/3VjFZFw
Adam Tooze wrote a piece for The New Statesman, “Dark matter: Bruno Latour and the philosophy of life” and Ones and Tooze released a new podcast episode, “The Nobel Prize in Economics Rewards Bank Run Breakthroughs”.
Adam Tooze wrote a piece for The New Statesman, “Dark matter: Bruno Latour and the philosophy of life” and Ones and Tooze released a new podcast episode, “The Nobel Prize in Economics Rewards Bank Run Breakthroughs”.
In this episode of “Palestine In Perspective”, host and Toronto-based writer for the Palestine Chronicle, Paul Salvatori, talks with Palestinian-American, historian and Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, Rashid Khalidi.
In an episode of “Palestine In Perspective”, host and Toronto-based writer for the Palestine Chronicle, Paul Salvatori, talks with Rashid Khalidi: listen to the conversation here.
Divya Subramanian was named co-winner of the Urban History Association’s Michael Katz Dissertation Award for “Global Townscape: the Rediscovery of Urban Life in the Late Twentieth Century.”
Mae Ngai gave a lecture on her book, The Chinese Question, at the Asian Institute of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Policy at the University of Toronto on April 13.
Mae Ngai gave a lecture on her book, The Chinese Question, at the Asian Institute of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Policy at the University of Toronto on April 13.