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MOOC: Women Have Always Worked
Columbia University and the Center for Women’s History at the New-York Historical Society will launch the second part of the Women Have Always Worked MOOC, Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 – 2016, on the edX platform. This course is free and open to all.
Women Have Always Worked is the first full-length MOOC on the history of women in America. The course introduces students to historians’ work to uncover the place of women and gender in America’s past. Part One of the course, Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1700 – 1920, launched in March 2017.
Armstrong Washington Post
Charles Armstrong was quoted in The Washington Post’s “Why does North Korea hate the United States? Let’s go back to the Korean War.”
Foner NYT
Eric Foner was quoted in The New York Times‘ “Judith Stein, Author on Liberalism and Economics, Dies at 77.”
Mazurek Lenfest
Malgorzata Maurek was awarded a Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant.
Ahmed ISERP Award
Manan Ahmed was awared an ISERP Start-Up Center Award in “Data Ethics.”
Rosner Mentor of the Year
David Rosner has been named Mentor of the Year by the Mailman School of Public Health for his work with junior faculty at the School.
Kavita CSSAAME
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan has been elected by the senior editors of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CSSAAME) to a three-year term on the journal’s editorial board.
Merlin Award
Merlin Chowkwanyun has won the Department of Sociomedical Sciences’ “Outstanding Teacher” Award.
Undergrad Fellowships PGIF
The following History Undergrads were awarded the 2017 Fellowship for Research in European Archives from the President’s Global Innovation Fund:
Naomi Fischer (Barnard College)
Sarah Gale (Barnard College)
Benjamin Arenstein (General Studies)
Arielle Alterwaite (Columbia College)
Edward Crouse (Columbia College)
Janine Ko (Columbia College)
Benjamin Landis (Columbia College)
Jones Data & Society Fellowship
Matthew Jones was awarded a 2017-18 Data & Society Fellowship from the Data & Society Research Institute.