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The Renaissance Society of America awarded Pamela Smith an honorable mention for the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for her book, “From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Knowledge in the Early Modern World” (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
The Renaissance Society of America awarded Pamela Smith an honorable mention for the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for her book, “From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Knowledge in the Early Modern World” (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Read more here.
On February 1, 2024, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) hosted a gala dinner in commemoration of both the Year of the Dragon and its 75-year history as a pioneer in the study of East, Southeast, and Inner Asia.
On February 1, 2024, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) hosted a gala dinner in commemoration of both the Year of the Dragon and its 75-year history as a pioneer in the study of East, Southeast, and Inner Asia. The event brought together scholars, students, diplomats, business leaders, and artists from on and off campus, connected by a common interest in the region. U.S. Climate Envoy and former Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the gala’s keynote address. Read more here.

Mae Ngai published “The Architecture of Immigration Restriction, 1924,” in LABOR (Dec. 2023) and a Comment to the roundtable on “Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era” in Journal of the Civil War Era (Dec. 2023)
Mae Ngai published “The Architecture of Immigration Restriction, 1924,” in LABOR (Dec. 2023) and a Comment to the roundtable on “Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era” in Journal of the Civil War Era (Dec. 2023)
Mae Ngai was awarded the 2024 CUAFA Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award by the Columbia University Asian Faculty Association.
Mae Ngai was awarded the 2024 CUAFA Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award by the Columbia University Asian Faculty Association. Read more here.
Camille Robcis’ book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France, was awarded the 2024 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award. Read more here.
Camille Robcis’ book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France, was awarded the 2024 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award. Read more here.
Kim Phillips-Fein reviewed Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America in The Nation.
Kim Phillips-Fein reviewed Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America in The Nation.
James Stafford published an article in Dissent, “Labor Under New Management,” in which he explores political developments in England’s Labour Party under its new party leader, Keir Starmer.
James Stafford published an article in Dissent, “Labor Under New Management,” in which he explores political developments in Britain’s Labour Party ahead of elections this year.
Kim Phillips-Fein was interviewed on two podcasts: “Know Your Enemy,” where she discussed historians and their approaches to the right and the far right, and “Love is the Message,” where she explored New York’s 1975 fiscal crisis.
Kim Phillips-Fein was interviewed on two podcasts: “Know Your Enemy,” where she discussed historians and their approaches to the right and the far right, and “Love is the Message,” where she explored New York’s 1975 fiscal crisis.
Aaron Freedman published an article on the legacy of Alan Brinkley in Reviews in American History.
Aaron Freedman published an article on the legacy of Alan Brinkley in Reviews in American History.
Natasha Lightfoot was awarded an honorable mention for the annual Conference on Latin American History’s Paul Vanderwood Article Prize for her 2022 article, “So Far to Leeward: Eliza Moore’s Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom in the Nineteenth Century Caribbean,” which appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly 79.
Natasha Lightfoot was awarded an honorable mention for the annual Conference on Latin American History’s Paul Vanderwood Article Prize for her 2022 article, “So Far to Leeward: Eliza Moore’s Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom in the Nineteenth Century Caribbean,” which appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly 79. Read more here.






