Jordan Powell is a Provost Doctoral Fellow and PhD student in the History department at Columbia, studying the relationship between American hemispheric influence and English colonial administration in the British Caribbean after emancipation. Her broader interests...
On 10/2, Professor Natasha Lightfoot presented at Princeton’s African American Studies Department’s Global Blackness Seminar Series, workshopping a chapter of her in-progress book project Fugitive Cosmopolitans: Mobility and Freedom Struggles in the...
In July, Professor James Stafford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. See the full press release...
Three Columbia History majors – Charlotte Andreano, CC’25 (History), Madeleine Cesaretti, CC’25 (History and Urban Studies), and Matthew Oey, GS’24 (History) – have been named 2025-2026 Fulbright Scholars. See more about the awardees’ scholarship and...
Pamela Smith has been awarded the 2025 Sarton Medal from the History of Science Society for her contributions to the history of science, with the Society noting that her work on the Making and Knowing Project “has pioneered perhaps one of the largest...