Rhiannon Stephens has been shortlisted for the African Studies Association UK (ASAUK) Best Book Prize 2024 for her book Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual...
We, faculty members of the History Department of Columbia University, condemn the use of police force against students, as well as the ongoing presence of the NYPD on our campus. We insist upon the rights of students and scholars to engage in nonviolent protest or...
Mariam Jallow, a History major in the department, was interviewed in a Washington Post article on the protests occurring on college campuses across the country. Read more here (reading requires you to create a free...
Thai Jones published a Q&A with Carolyn Eisenberg (PhD 1971), a winner of this year’s Bancroft Prizes in American History and Diplomacy, on the connections between activism, archival research, and the writing of American history. Read it...
Rashid Khalidi authored a long read for The Guardian on the conflict in the Middle East. Read it...