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Michael Witgen was awarded the 2023 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for his book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.

Apr 11, 2023

Michael Witgen was awarded the 2023 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for his book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America. Watch a conversation between Professor Witgen and Omohundro Institute author Samantha Seeley on the book here.

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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

A. Tunç Şen, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450 – 1600. 2025: Stanford University Press.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II. 2025: Basic Books.

Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC, 4th Edition. 2024: Wiley-Blackwell.

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History. 2024: Columbia University Press

Manan Ahmed, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore. 2024: The New Press

Frank Guridy, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play. 2024: Basic Books

Mae Ngai, Chee Wang Ng, and Corky Lee (eds.), Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice. 2024: Clarkson Potter

Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon (eds.), Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally. 2023: Berghahn Books

George Chauncey, Nueva York Gay: Género, Cultura Urbana y Conformación del Mundo Gay Masculino (1890-1940). 2023: Promoteo.
Neslihan Senocak and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani . A People’s Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050 – 1300. 2023: Cornell University Press.
Neslihan Senocak. Lateran IV: Theology and Care of Souls. 2023: Brepols Publishers.
Carl Wennerlind. Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis. 2023: Harvard University Press.
Matthew L. Jones and Christopher Wiggins. How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. 2023: W. W. Norton & Company.
Matthew Connelly. The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets. 2023: Pantheon.
Richard A. Billows. The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble: How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective. 2023: Bloomsbury Academic.
Marc Van De Mieroop. Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires. 2022: Oxford University Press.
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FEATURED RESOURCES

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: How History is Used in Senate Politics Concerning Climate Change Denialism

U.S. Senator Senator Sheldon Whitehouse spoke to the Community University community on Monday, February 6, 2023 regarding Climate Change, U.S policy and his new book : "The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, and the Damage the Court is Doing to the Fight Against Climate Change." View a recorded video of this event by clicking here.
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Columbia University and Slavery: A Research and Justice Initiative

The Columbia University and Slavery project is a research and justice initiative examining Columbia’s connections to the history and legacies of enslavement. The ongoing work aims to provide a fuller and more nuanced picture of Columbia’s past, while also helping to inform conversations about the university’s role in the present. 
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