Education 2006 PhD in History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 1999 MA in History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Awards, Grants, and Prizes 2025 – Vehudit and Yehuda Elkana Fellowship at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2023-2024 – Fernand Braudel...
Pamela Smith was awarded the 2024 International Prize for Research in Cultural History by the Hans and Helga Eckensberger Foundation in collaboration with the Herzog August Library. The award honors distinguished researchers who work in the field of cultural history...
Mae Ngai’s new book, Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice (coedited with Chee Wang Ng), was reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the PBS-News Hour. Ngai also discussed the book in several...
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...
Mae Ngai spoke at a symposium “Rethinking Immigration policy 100 years after the Johnson Reed Act” at the Center for Jewish History in NYC on April 7. She delivered lectures on the Chinese Question with CUAFA and CGC Beijing on April 8 and the inaugural Ocko Lecture...
Columbia University