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...

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,...

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....

Mae Ngai was awarded the 2024 CUAFA Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award by the Columbia University Asian Faculty Association. Read more...

 Camille Robcis’ book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France, was awarded the 2024 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award. Read more...