Introduction

Our faculty work in all areas and fields of history. All teach both graduate and undergraduate students. Our faculty includes two former presidents of the American Historical Association, two former presidents of the Organization of American Historians, a former president of the Society of American Historians, many members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Jefferson lecturer, two former Harsworth Professors at Oxford, and winners of the Bancroft Prize, the National Book Award, and many other academic honors. The Department has won more teaching prizes than any other at Columbia.

Members of our faculty direct the American Studies Program, the Institute for the Study of Europe, the Harriman Institute, the Center for International History, and the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History. Our faculty also are intimately involved with the School of Law, the Mailman School of Public Health, and the School of International and Public Affairs, with whom we offer joint degrees, and with the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, among others.

Finally, dozens of historians in other parts of the university contribute in important ways to the work of our department: members of the religion, anthropology, sociology, political science, classics, and English departments with historical interests, as well as historians with appointments in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the Graduate School of Journalism, among others.