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Pamela Smith was awarded the 2023 Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize for outstanding teaching in the history of science, from the History of Science Society.
Pamela Smith was awarded the 2023 Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize for outstanding teaching in the history of science, from the History of Science Society.
Camille Robcis was awarded a Russell Sage Fellowship for 2024-2025 to write her new book “The War on Gender.”
Camille Robcis was awarded a Russell Sage Fellowship for 2024-2025 to write her new book “The War on Gender.” Read more about the fellowship here.
James Stafford was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for 2024-2025, which he will use to work on his book The War of Treaties: Law, Diplomacy and Economic Nationalism, 1860-1900 at the Institute of Global History at the Freie Universität Berlin.
James Stafford was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for 2024-2025, which he will use to work on his book The War of Treaties: Law, Diplomacy and Economic Nationalism, 1860-1900 at the Institute of Global History at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Mrinalinia S. Wadhwa, a History and Mathematics major, was selected as a 2024 Rhodes Scholar and will pursue an M.Phil. in Modern European History at Oxford University.
Mrinalinia S. Wadhwa, a History and Mathematics major, was selected as a 2024 Rhodes Scholar and will pursue an M.Phil. in Modern European History at Oxford University. While at Columbia, Mrinalinia co-founded and co-edited the Columbia Journal of Asia and acted as 2023 co-Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review, and currently acts as the chair of the Columbia History Association. Her research interests focus on the interactions of legal history, international and comparative law, and gender justice, and while studying at Columbia, Mrinalini helped to create a program to provide three years of English education to low-income students in New Delhi.
Christopher Brown was awarded the Yale University’s George H.W. Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award for his contributions to education.
Christopher Brown was awarded the Yale University’s George H.W. Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award for his contributions to education, particularly in the fields of American History, British History, Atlantic History and the history of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance.
Kim Phillips-Fein reviewed Jennifer Burn’s biography of Milton Friedman, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, in The Atlantic.
Kim Phillips-Fein reviewed Jennifer Burn’s biography of Milton Friedman, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, in The Atlantic.
Greg Mann authored an op-ed in the Columbia Daily Spectator on the campus discourse surrounding the conflict in Israel and Palestine.
Greg Mann authored an op-ed in the Columbia Daily Spectator on the campus discourse surrounding the conflict in Israel and Palestine.
Yumi Kim (Ph.D. 2015) won the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History from the American Historical Association, the most prestigious prize in the field.
Scot McFarlane was featured in the latest issue of AHA Perspectives as new researcher for the American Historical Association.
Scot McFarlane was featured in the latest issue of AHA Perspectives as new researcher for the American Historical Association.
Ana Laura Zúñiga Loreto, a doctoral student in the Department, won the Francisco Javier Clavijero Prize for the best masters thesis in Mexico for her 2022 thesis, “Un ‘microuniverso’ en la palma de la mano. La exactitud del tiempo y el espacio en la medición del mundo desde la Nueva España” [A ‘microuniverse’ in the palm of the hand: Accuracy in time in space in world measurement from New Spain].
Ana Laura Zúñiga Loreto, a doctoral student in the Department, won the Francisco Javier Clavijero Prize for the best masters thesis in Mexico for her 2022 thesis, “Un ‘microuniverso’ en la palma de la mano. La exactitud del tiempo y el espacio en la medición del mundo desde la Nueva España” [A ‘microuniverse’ in the palm of the hand: Accuracy in time in space in world measurement from New Spain].
