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| Charles Armstrong |
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| Title: | The Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | cra10@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 1721 |
| Office: | 930 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 2-4 p.m. |
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| Charles Armstrong, associate professor, specializes in modern Korean, East Asian, and international history. He was educated at
Yale
University
, the London School of Economics, and the
University
of
Chicago
, where he received his Ph.D. (1994). His published books include The
Koreas
(2007); Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (co-ed., 2005); The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 (2003); and Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State (ed., 2002; 2nd ed., 2006). His current projects include a study of
North Korea
in the Cold War international system and a history of modern
East Asia
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| Peter Awn |
| Information |
| Title: | Dean & Professor, School of General Studies |
| Specialization: | Middle East |
| Email: | pja3@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 6321 |
| Office: | 408 D Lewisohn Hall |
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| Janaki Bakhle |
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| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | South Asia |
| Email: | jb588@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2149 |
| Office: | 602 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Janaki Bakhle, assistant professor,
specializes in Modern South Asian history. Her areas of specialization include Indian
political history, Indian feminist history, nationalism, gender and
culture. Her first book, Two Men and
Music: Nationalism, Colonialism and the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition
was published by Oxford University Press, 2005. She has published in CSSH, and is
currently engaged in her second book project about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar,
known as the chief ideologue of Hindu fundamentalism, and is writing about
sedition, colonial surveillance, and the emergence of Hindu fundamentalism in
late nineteenth century India.
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| Karen Barkey |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Middle East |
| Email: | kb7@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3692 |
| Office: | 414 Fayerweather Hall |
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| Karen Barkey, associate professor (Sociology), focuses on large-scale social change, state formation, the rise and decline of empires. Her work is especially focused on the Ottoman Empire , with comparisons to the Habsburg and Russian Empires. Her books include Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization (1994), and After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires (co-ed., 1997). Her first book received the 1995 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for outstanding book of the year in Social Science History. Recently, she has worked on the decline of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empire, the movements of national self-determination that emerged within these empires, and state- and nation-formation in the post-imperial times. Her new book, entitled Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
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| Volker Berghahn |
| Information |
| Title: | Seth Low Professor of History |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | vrb7@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 8604 |
| Office: | 501 Fayerweather Mail Code: 2520 |
| Office Hours: | On Leave 2007-08 |
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| Volker Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of History, specializes in modern German history and European-American relations. He received his M.A. from the
University
of
North Carolina
,
Chapel Hill
(1961) and his Ph.D. from the
University
of
London
(1964). He taught in
England
and
Germany
before coming to
Brown
University
in 1988 and to
Columbia
ten years later. His publications include:
America
and the Intellectual Cold Wars in
Europe
(2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed., 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); and most recently Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006).
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| Richard Billows |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Ancient |
| Email: | rab4@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4486 |
| Office: | 322M Fayerweather |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Richard A. Billows, professor, specializes in Ancient Greek and Roman History and Greek epigraphy. He received his B.A. from
Oxford
University
(1978) and his Ph.D. from the
University
of
California
,
Berkeley
(1985). His publications include Kings and Colonists: Aspects of Macedonian Imperialism (1995) and Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State (1990).
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| Pierre Birnbaum |
| Information |
| Title: | Visiting Professor |
| Specialization: | Jewish History |
| Email: | pb2180@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3704 |
| Office: | 740 International Affairs Building |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 2-5 p.m. |
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| Elizabeth Blackmar |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | eb16@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3016 |
| Office: | 524 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Mondays & Tuesdays 2-4 p.m. & by appointment |
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| Elizabeth Blackmar, professor, specializes in social and urban history. She received her B.A. from Smith (1972) and her Ph.D. from Harvard (1981). Her publications include The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (with Roy Rosenzweig, 1992) and
Manhattan
for Rent, 1785-1850 (1989). Her recent articles are “Of REITS and Rights: Absentee Ownership at the Periphery” in City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History (2005) and “Appropriating the Commons: The Tragedy of Property Rights Discourse” in The Politics of Public Space (2005).
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| Casey Blake |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor and Director of American Studies |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | cb460@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 1785 |
| Office: | 504 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 1:30-3:30 p.m. |
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| Casey Nelson Blake, professor, specializes in modern U.S. intellectual and cultural history and American studies, with an emphasis on topics at the intersection of modernist art and politics in the twentieth century. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University (1978) and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (1987). He has edited The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State (2007). He is also the author of Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford (1990) and many articles in scholarly publications and journals of opinion. He is completing a volume of collected essays, Crisis of Confidence: Politics, Culture, and Social Thought in the 1970s, and a book manuscript entitled “Public Art and the Civic Imagination in Modernist America.”
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| Lisbeth Brandt |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | lb28@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5033 |
| Office: | 407 Kent Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 3-5 p.m. |
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| Kim Brandt, associate professor (EALAC), specializes in modern Japanese history. She received her Ph.D from Columbia (1996) and taught at Amherst College before joining the Columbia faculty in 2007. She is the author of Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan (2007).
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| Alan Brinkley |
| Information |
| Title: | Provost and Allan Nevins Professor of American History |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | ab65@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2404 |
| Office: | 205 Low Library |
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Alan Brinkley is the 20th Provost and the Allan Nevins Professor of History
at Columbia University in the City of New York.
A native of Washington, D.C., he was educated at Princeton and at Harvard,
where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1979. Before joining the Columbia
faculty in 1991, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard,
and the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Among his publications are Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin,
and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book
Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf,
1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is also
the author of two widely-used college American history textbooks: American
History: A Survey, now in its eleventh edition; and The Unfinished Nation:
A Concise History of the American People, now in its fourth edition. His
essays, articles, and reviews have appeared widely in scholarly journals and
in such other publications as the New York Times Book Review and Magazine;
the New York Review of Books; the New Republic; the New Yorker;
the Times Literary Supplement; the London Review of Books; Time;
Newsweek; Harper's; and the Atlantic.
He has had visiting appointments at Princeton, New York University, the University
of Torino, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris, and Oxford
University, where he was the 1998-99 Harmsworth Professor of American History.
He was the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard
in 1986 and of the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He has received
fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation,
the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Media Studies
Center, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
He chairs the board of trustees of the Century Foundation and serves on the
boards of the New York Council for the Humanities, the Dalton School, and the
National Humanities Center. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
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| Christopher Brown |
| Information |
| Title: | Visiting Professor |
| Specialization: | Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 |
| Email: | clb2140@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4591 |
| Office: | 610 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m. |
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| Christopher L. Brown, professor, specializes in the history of the
British Empire
in the early modern era, and in the comparative history of slavery and abolition. He also has secondary interests in the Age of Revolutions and the history of the Atlantic World. He received his B.A. from
Yale
University
and his D.Phil. from
Balliol
College
,
Oxford
. His published works include Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (2006), and Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (co-ed., 2006). At present, he is working on two long-term projects, one on the British in
Africa
in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, and the other on the British planter class in the era of emancipation.
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| Richard Bulliet |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Middle East |
| Email: | rwb3@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 1741 |
| Office: | 1112 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 2-4 p.m. |
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| Richard Bulliet, professor, specializes in Middle Eastern history, the social and institutional history of Islamic countries, and the history of technology. He received his B.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1967) from Harvard. His publications include: The Patricians of Nishapur: A Study in Medieval Islamic Social History (1972); The Camel and the Wheel (1975); Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1979); Islam: The View from the Edge (1994); The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (2004); Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships (2005); and Cotton and Climate in Early Islamic Iran (forthcoming). He co-edited The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (1996), co-authored The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History (1997), and conceived and edited The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (1998).
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| Caroline Walker Bynum studies the religious ideas and practices of the European Middle Ages. In the 1980s, her books Jesus as Mother and Holy Feast and Holy Fast were instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into Medieval Studies; in the 1990s, her books Fragmentation and Redemption and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom studied the history of the body. Her study Metamorphosis and Identity (Zone Books, 2001) explored concepts of personal identity, of the body/soul connection, and of transformation in late medieval European thought. Her book, Wonderful Blood (
University
of
Pennsylvania Press
, 2007) is a study of blood piety in northern
Germany
in its European setting. She is currently working on the role of objects in late medieval religion, placing them in the context of contemporary theories of miracles and materiality.
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| Euan Cameron |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 |
| Email: | ecameron@uts.columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 280 1550 |
| Office: | Union Theological Seminary |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| For information on Professor Cameron's career and publications, please see:
http://www.utsnyc.edu/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=332&srcid=297
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| Mark Carnes |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | mc422@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5943 |
| Office: | Lehman 415A |
| Office Hours: | Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30 p.m. |
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| Mark C. Carnes, professor (
Barnard
College
), specializes in modern American social and gender history. He received his B.A. from Harvard (1974) and his Ph.D. from
Columbia
(1982). His books include: Mapping
America
’s Past (1996); Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (ed., 1995); History of American Life (ed., 1996); Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America (ed., 1990); Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America (1989); and The Compensations of War (1985). He was general editor, with John Garraty, of the 24-volume American National Biography (1999). He is currently working on a book on the history of gender and visual perception in Victorian America.
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| John Coatsworth |
| Information |
| Title: | Acting Dean, School of International and Public Affairs; Professor of International and Public Affairs and of History |
| Specialization: | Latin America |
| Email: | jhc2125@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4604 |
| Office: | 1414 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | Tuesday 3-5 |
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| John Coatsworth, professor (joint with DIPA), studies the comparative economic, social, and international history of Latin American, especially
Mexico
,
Central America
, and the
Caribbean
. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan (1963) and his M.A. (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) from the
University
of
Wisconsin
,
Madison
. He taught at Chicago and Harvard before coming in 2007 to
Columbia
, where he now serves as Acting Dean of the
School
of
International
and Public Affairs. His recent publications include: Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (co-ed., 2 vols., 2006); The United States and Central America: The Clients and the Colossus (1994);
Latin America
and the World Economy Since 1800 (co-ed., 1998); and Culturas Encontradas:
Cuba
y los Estados Unidos (co-ed., 2001). Professor Coatsworth is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the Tinker Foundation, and numerous professional associations. He is a former president of the American Historical Association. In 2005, he was elected to membership in the
American
Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
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| Deborah Coen |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | dcoen@barnard.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 7449 |
| Office: | Lehman 410 |
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| Deborah R. Coen, assistant professor (Barnard), received her Ph.D. from Harvard (2004), and specializes in modern central European history and the history of science and technology. Her research is driven by an interest in how scientists grapple with uncertainty and unpredictability. Currently, she is studying how central European climate scientists in the first half of the twentieth century struggled to demarcate “local” climates in the face of the radical shifts in scale of their patron states. Her other research interests include the emergence of scientific concepts of “error,” the relationship between science and private life, and the history of aerial photography. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (2007) and a co-editor of Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (2006). Formerly, she was a junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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| Nancy Collins |
| Information |
| Title: | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | nwc2106@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4727 |
| Office: | 1203 IAB |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 3-5 p.m. |
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| Matthew Connelly |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | mjc96@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4563 |
| Office: | 623 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. |
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| Matthew Connelly, associate professor, works in international and global history. He received his B.A. from
Columbia
(1990) and his Ph.D. from Yale ( 1997). His publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (2002) and research articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, The American Historical Review, The Review française d’histoire d’Outre-mer, and Past & Present. He has also published commentary on international affairs in The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest. His next book, “Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population,” will be published by Harvard University Press in 2008.
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| Harold Cook |
| Information |
| Title: | Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor |
| Specialization: | Modern Western Europe |
| Email: | hc2407@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 7662 |
| Office: | 605 Fayerweather Hall, Mail Code: MC 2526 |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. |
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Professor Hal Cook, the Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor of History, is the Director of The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, helping to promote the discipline throughout the world as making fundamental contributions to the understanding of the human condition. In his academic work, he continues to investigate subjects related to early modern English medicine, but now gives most of his energy to medicine and natural history in the Dutch Golden Age in an attempt to reassess the relationships between the beginnings of a world-wide trading system and a world-wide exchange of information about nature. He is also co-editor of the journal Medical History, serves on many advisory boards and professional bodies, and has been elected to an honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians.
Research
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age.
Using examples from the Dutch world, the book shows that the 'rise of science' in the 16th and 17th centuries owed far more to commerce than to religion, and more to the means of exchange than to the means of production. The main stories are drawn from medicine and natural history, placing them at the centre rather than the periphery of the account of change in the period. Moreover, and equally importantly, the development of natural science in the period did not occur in the home country alone, but depended upon personal networks that spanned the globe, including many people in Asia, Africa, and the New World. As a consequence, the developments that sometimes go under the rubric of 'the scientific revolution' are seen to be rooted in bodily interests and passions rather than disinterested reason, which is consistent with the explanations many contemporaries themselves gave for the changes going on around them.
Now that the book project is complete, Prof Cook has turned his attention to a number of smaller related projects on the ways by which medical knowledge was exchanged between distant locations. His more general interests are in the ways in which recent developments in 'global history' present challenges and opportunities for the field of the history of medicine.
Profile
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BA Cornell College |
| 1975 |
MA University of Michigan |
| 1981 |
PhD University of Michigan |
| 1982 |
Assistant Professor, Harvard University |
| 1985 |
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1988 |
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1993 |
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Director, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL |
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Medicine, Materialism, Globalism: The Example of the Dutch Golden Age
Professorial inaugural lecture, UCL, 27 February 2003 |
Key publications
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (Yale University Press, 2007).
The Decline of the Old Medical Regime in Stuart London, (Cornell University Press, 1986).
Trials of an Ordinary Doctor: Joannes Groenevelt in Seventeenth-Century London, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
'What Stays Constant at the Heart of Medicine,' Editorial, BMJ 333 (23 December 2006):1281-1282.
'Medicine,' in The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3: Early Modern Science, ed. Katherine Park and Loraine Daston (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 407-434.
'Introduction' to The Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 1-6.
'Das Wissen von den Sachen,' in Seine Welt Wissen. Enzyklopädien in der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Darmstadt: WBG, 2006), pp. 81-124 (trans. into German by Jan Neersö).
'Global economies and Local Knowledge in the East Indies: Jacobus Bontius Learns the Facts of Nature,' in Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World, ed. Claudia Swan and Londa Schiebinger (Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, 2005), pp. 100-118, 299-302.
'Medical Communication in the First Global Age: Willem ten Rhijne in Japan, 1674-1676,' Disquisitions on the Past & Present [journal of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica], no. 11 (2004): 16-36.
Entries for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004): Thomas Bonham, Richard Boulton, Richard Browne, Sir John Colbatch, Abraham Cyprianus, Sir George Ent, Charles Goodall, Joannes Groenevelt, John Hutton, John Marten, Thomas O'Dowde, John Pechey, William Rose, Thomas Sydenham, William Trigge, Mary Trye.
'Health,' The Lancet, 364 (2004):1481.
'Early Modern Medicine,' for World English Edition of Encarta Encyclopedia (2002).
'Bernard Mandeville,' in A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Steven Nadler (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002), pp. 469-482.
'Body and Passions: Materialism and the Early Modern State,' Osiris, 17 (2002): 25-48.
'Time's Bodies: Crafting the Preparation and Preservation of Naturalia,' Merchants and Marvels, ed. Paula Findlen and Pamela Smith (London: Routledge, 2001), 237-247.
'Fines and Fortunes: Recognition and Regulation of Practitioners for the First 200 Years,' for The Royal College of Physicians and Its Collections, ed. G. Davenport, W. Ian McDonald, and Caroline Moss-Gibons (London: Royal College of Physicians, 2001), pp. 28-30.
'Medicine and Health,' Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, ed. Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swain (New York and London: Garland, 2001), pp. 475-479.
'Boerhaave and the Flight from Reason in Medicine,' Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74 (2000): 221-240.
'Bernard Mandeville and the Therapy of the 'Clever Politician',' J. History of Ideas, 60 (1999): 101-124.
'Closed Circles or Open Networks?: Communicating at a Distance During the Scientific Revolution,' with David Lux, History of Science, 36 (1998): 179-211.
From the Scientific Revolution to the Germ Theory,' in Western Medicine: An Illustrated History, ed. Irvine Loudon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 80-101; (paperback ed. 2001).
'Institutional Structures and Personal Belief in the London College of Physicians,' in Religio Medici: Medicine and Religion in 17th-Century England, ed. Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996), 91-114.
'Natural History and Seventeenth-Century Dutch and English Medicine,' in The Task of Healing: Medicine, Religion and Gender in England and the Netherlands, 1450-1800, Hilary Marland and Margaret Pelling, eds. (Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 1996), 253-270.
'Physicians and Natural History,' in Cultures of Natural History, ed. Nicholas Jardine, James Secord, and Emma Spary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 91-105.
'The Moral Economy of Natural History and Medicine in the Dutch Golden Age,' in Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries, William Z. Shetter and Inge Van der Cruysse, eds. Publications of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies, vol. 9 (Maryland: University Press of America, 1996), pp. 39-47.
'Medical Ethics, History of: IV. Europe: B. Renaissance and Enlightenment,' in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, revised edition, Warren T. Reich, editor-in-chief (New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1995), vol. 3, pp. 1537-1543.
'Good Advice and Little Medicine: The Professional Authority of Early Modern English Physicians,' Journal of British Studies, 33 (1994): 1-31.
'Medicine,' in Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter N. Stearns (New York: Garland, 1994), pp. 459-462. 'The Cutting Edge of a Revolution? Medicine and Natural History near the Shores of the North Sea,' in Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, ed. J.V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 45-61.
'The New Philosophy in the Low Countries,' in The Scientific Revolution in National Context, ed. Roy Porter & M. Teich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 115-149.
'Physick and Natural History in Seventeenth-Century England,' in Revolution and Continuity: Essays in the History of Philosophy of Early Modern Science, R. Ariew and P. Barker, eds., Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, vol. 24 (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1991), 63-80.
'The New Philosophy and Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England,' in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. David Lindberg and Robert Westman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 397-436.
'Sir John Colbatch and Augustan Medicine: Experimentalism, Character and Entrepreneurialism,' Annals of Science, 47 (1990): 475-505.
'The Rose Case Reconsidered: Physic and the Law in Augustan England,' Journal of the History of Medicine, 45 (1990): 527-555.
'Practical Medicine and the British Armed Forces After the 'Glorious Revolution',' Medical History, 34 (1990): 1-26.
'Charles Webster's Analysis of Puritanism and Science,' in Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science: The Merton Thesis, ed. I. Bernard Cohen (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990), pp. 265-300.
'Policing the Health of London: The College of Physicians and the Early Stuart Monarchy,' Social History of Medicine, 2 (1989): 1-33.
'Physicians and the New Philosophy: Henry Stubbe and the Virtuosi-Physicians,' in Medical Revolution in the 17th Century, Roger French and Andrew Wear eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 246-271.
"The Medical Profession in London," in The Age of William III and Mary II: Power, Politics and Patronage, 1688-1702, Martha Hamilton-Phillips and Robert P. Maccubbin eds. (Williamsburg: William and Mary, 1989), pp. 186-194.
The Society of Chemical Physicians, The New Philosophy, and the Restoration Court,' Bull. Hist. Medicine 61 (1987): 61-77.
''Against Common Right and Reason': The College of Physicians Against Dr. Thomas Bonham,' Am. J. Legal Hist ., 29 (1985): 301-24.
With Nicholas Steneck, Arthur Vander, and Gordon Kane, 'Early Research on the Biological Effects of Microwave Radiation, 1940-1960,' Annals of Science, 37 (1980): 323-51.
Secondary-Author, with idem, 'The Origins of U.S. Safety Standards for Microwave Radiation,' Science, 248 (13 June 1980): 1230-37.
'Ancient Wisdom, The Golden Age, and Atlantis: The New World in Sixteenth-Century Cosmography,' Terrae Incognitae, 10 (1978): 25-43.
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| Victoria De Grazia |
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| Title: | James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Director of the Institute for the Study of Europe |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | vd19@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3667 |
| Office: | 617 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 4:30-6:00 p.m. |
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| A native of Chicago, Victoria De Grazia was educated at Smith College, University of Florence, and Columbia University where she received her Ph.D. in history with distinction in 1976. Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1994, she taught at Rutgers University. Her research interests lie in contemporary history, with longstanding commitments to studying western Europe and Italy from a gendered perspective and to developing a global perspective on commercial revolutions. Her publications include: Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth Century Europe (2005); The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (ed., 1996); How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (1992); The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (1981). She is currently writing a book about intimacy and power in Fascist Italy.
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| Andrew Delbanco |
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| Title: | Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | ad19@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 6698 |
| Office: | 418 Hamilton Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 2:30-4 p.m. |
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| Mamadou Diouf |
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| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | African Studies |
| Email: | md2573@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | 212 854 4083 |
| Office: | 623 Kent Hall |
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| Nicholas Dirks |
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| Title: | Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History |
| Specialization: | South Asia |
| Email: | nbd7@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 8296 |
| Office: | 208 Low Library |
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Nicholas B. Dirks is the Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University, where since September 2004 he has been Vice President for the Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty. Dirks came to Columbia in 1997 when he was asked to chair and rebuild the department of Anthropology. Before coming to Columbia, Dirks was Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he had also been the founding Director of the Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program in Anthropology and History, Director of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Director of the Advanced Study Center of the International Institute.
Dirks did his undergraduate degree in Asian and African Studies in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University, graduating in 1972. He then joined the Ph.D. program in the department of History at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. He taught in the Division of Humanities at the California Institute of Technology between 1978 and 1987, when he accepted a professorial position at the University of Michigan. He has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and has held a visiting appointment at the London School of Economics.
His major works include The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 1987); Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2001); and The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Harvard University Press, 2006). He has edited several books, including Colonialism and Culture, (University of Michigan Press, 1992), Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (Princeton University Press, 1994), and In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the end of the Century (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), and published more than forty articles on subjects ranging from the history and anthropology of South Asia to social and cultural theory, the history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, and globalization. He has done extensive archival and field research in India as well as in Britain. He is currently working on a book concerning imperial sovereignty with special reference to the historical relationship between Britain and India.
Dirks has held numerous fellowships and scholarships and received several scholar honors, including a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lionel Trilling Award for his book Castes of Mind. He has directed book series at Princeton and Columbia University Presses. He also serves on numerous national and international bodies, as advisor or member of the board, and is a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. As Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty at Columbia, he is responsible for the academic administration and direction of 29 departments (covering the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences), 27 institutes and centers, and 6 schools (Columbia College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of International and Public Affairs, the School of the Arts, the School of General Studies, and the School of Continuing Education). In addition, he oversees the operational and financial management of the Arts and Sciences in conjunction with long-term academic and financial planning.
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| Alan Dye |
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| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | Latin America |
| Email: | ad245@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3868 |
| Office: | Lehman 9B |
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| David Eisenbach |
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| Title: | Core Lecturer |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | dce1@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3771 |
| Office: | 812 Hamilton Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. |
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| Elizabeth Esch |
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| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | eesch@barnard.edu
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| Phone: | 212 854 5940 |
| Office: | TBA |
| Office Hours: | TBA |
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| Elizabeth Esch, assistant professor (Barnard), specializes in twentieth-century
U.S.
history and American Studies. She received her Ph.D. from
New York
University
(2004) with a dissertation entitled “Fordtown: Managing Race and Nation in the American Empire, 1925–45.” She joined the Barnard faculty in 2007.
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| Debra Everett-Lane |
| Information |
| Title: | Term Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | dal20@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3657 |
| Office: | 325 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 4-5 p.m. & Thursdays, 1-2 p.m. |
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| Barbara Fields |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | Prof. Fields does not use email
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3004 |
| Office: | 621 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m. or by appointment |
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| Barbara J. Fields, professor, specializes in southern history and 19th-century social history. She received her B.A. from Harvard (1968) and her Ph.D. from Yale (1978). She is the author of Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1985) and coauthor of The Destruction of Slavery (1985), Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992), and Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (1992).
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| Eric Foner |
| Information |
| Title: | Dewitt Clinton Professor of History |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | ef17@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5253 |
| Office: | 620 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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Eric Foner
, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century
America
. He received his B.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1969) from
Columbia
. His publications include: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970); Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976); Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980); Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983); Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (1988); Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (1993); The Story of American Freedom (1998); and most recently the textbook Give Me Liberty!: An American History (2004). He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning “A House Divided:
America
in the Age of Lincoln,” at the Chicago Historical Society.
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| Pierre Force |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 |
| Email: | pf3@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5526 |
| Office: | 517 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Pierre Force, Professor of French and History, received his academic training in
France
, where he was a fellow of the École normale supérieure. He took his BA (1979), doctorate (1987), and habilitation (1994) at the Sorbonne. He first came to the United States in 1984 as a lecturer at
Yale
University
, and he joined the
Columbia
faculty in 1987. His field of research is seventeenth and eighteenth-century intellectual history. He is the author of Le Problème herméneutique chez Pascal (Paris: Vrin, 1989), Molière ou Le Prix des choses (Paris: Nathan, 1994), and Self-Interest before Adam Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He has also published articles in the Journal of the History of Ideas, History of Political Economy, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Yale French Studies, and the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. He received the Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award in 2005. His teaching interests include the history of hermeneutics, the philosophy of history, and the development of moral and political thought in early modern
Europe
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| Lynn Garafola |
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| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Dance History, Criticism, and Research |
| Email: | lg97@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | 212-854-9770 |
| Office: | Barnard Annex 204 |
| Office Hours: | Mon/Wed 12-2 and by appointment |
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A dance historian and critic, she is the author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, and the editor of several books, including The Diaries of Marius Petipa (which she also translated), Of, By, and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the 1930, José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir, and The Ballets Russes and Its World. Curator of the New-York Historical Society's exhibition Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet , the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' 500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection
(with Patrizia Veroli), and several smaller shows, she is a former
Getty Scholar, recipient of fellowships from the Social Science
Research Council and National Endowment for the Humanties, and a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Editor of the acclaimed
book series Studies in Dance History, she has written for Dance Magazine, The Nation, Times Literary Supplement, and many other publications. She is currently curating an exhibition about Jerome Robbins.
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| Abosede George |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Africa |
| Email: | ageorge@barnard.edu
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| Phone: | 212-854-3645 |
| Office: | Lehman 418 |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 3-4:30 p.m. |
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Abosede George
, assistant professor (Barnard), specializes in African history, women’s history, urban history of
Africa
, and the history of childhood in
Africa
. She received her Ph.D. from
Stanford
University
(2006). Her article “Feminist Activism and Class Politics: The Example of the Lagos Girl Hawker Project” is forthcoming Women’s Studies Quarterly 35 (2007). She is currently working on a book project about the history of juvenile justice in 20th-century
Lagos, Nigeria
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| Carol Gluck |
| Information |
| Title: | George Sansom Professor of History |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | cg9@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2591 |
| Office: | 912 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 2-4 p.m. |
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| Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, specializes in modern
Japan
, from the late nineteenth century to the present, with writings on intellectual history, international relations, postwar Japanese history, historiography and public memory in
Japan
and the west. She received her B.A. from
Wellesley
(1962) and her Ph.D. from
Columbia
(1977). Her books include:
Japan
’s Modern Myths (1985); Showa: the Japan of Hirohito (1992); Asia in Western and World History (1997); Thinking with the Past: the Japanese and Modern History (2008); and Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory (forthcoming).
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| Stephen Graubard |
| Information |
| Title: | Adjunct Professor |
| Specialization: | |
| Email: | StephenGraubard@aol.com
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| Phone: | |
| Office: | 325 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 2-3 p.m. |
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| Owen Gutfreund |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | odg1@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4876 |
| Office: | Lehman 407 |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 3-4 p.m. & Wednesdays, 2-3:30 p.m. |
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| Owen Gutfreund, associate professor (Barnard), specializes in American urban history. He received his B.A. from Vassar College (1985) and his Ph.D. from Columbia (1998). His publications include 20th-Century Sprawl: Accommodating the Automobile and the Decentralization of the United States (2004) and “The Path of Prosperity: New York City ’s East River Drive, 1920–1990,” Journal of Urban History 21 (1995).
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| Jahyun Haboush |
| Information |
| Title: | King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | jkh25@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5040 |
| Office: | 416 Kent Hall |
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| Jahyun Kim Haboush, King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies (EALAC), is a cultural historian of pre- and early modern
Korea
, particularly from 16th to 19th centuries. She is also interested in and teaches literature. Professor Haboush received her MA from the
University
of
Michigan
(1970) and Ph.D. from
Columbia
(1978). Her current areas of interest include political culture, pre-modern nationalism, diglossia, language and ideology, genre, gender, and historiography. Her publications include: A Heritage of Kings: One Man’s Monarchy in the Confucian World (1988); The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001); and The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyông: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996), for which she won the Korean Arts and Culture Foundation’s Grand Prize in Translation and Criticism. She also co-edited: The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea (1985); Culture and the State in Late Chosôn Korea (1999); and Women in Pre-Modern Confucian Cultures in
China
,
Korea
, and
Japan
(2003).
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| Evan Haefeli |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | eh2204@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2434 |
| Office: | 323 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 1-2 & 5-6 p.m. |
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Evan Haefeli
, assistant professor, specializes in colonial
America
and Native American history. He has a B.A. from
Hampshire
College
(1992) and a Ph.D. from
Princeton
University
(2000). With Kevin Sweeny he has co-authored Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (2003) with and co-edited a collection of primary documents and captivity narratives related to the same event entitled Captive Stories (2006). His current work is on the origins of religious toleration in colonial
America
. His interests include religion, politics, cross-cultural relations, comparative colonialism, frontier studies, witchcraft, warfare, the slave trade, and the history of the book in the early modern Atlantic World.
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| Hilary Hallett |
| Information |
| Title: | Postdoctoral Research Scholar |
| Specialization: | |
| Email: | hah2117@columbia.edu
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| William Harris |
| Information |
| Title: | William R. Shepherd Professor of History |
| Specialization: | Ancient |
| Email: | wvh1@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3702 |
| Office: | 624 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 1-3:30 p.m. & by appointment |
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William Vernon Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History, specializes in the history of ancient Greek and Roman worlds. He received his B.A., M.A. and D.Phil from
Oxford
University
. His publications include Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (2002), Ancient Literacy (1989), and War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (1979). The books he has edited include The Transformations of Urbs Roma in Late Antiquity (1999), Rethinking the
Mediterranean
(2004), and (with Giovanni Ruffini) Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece (2005). His current work is divided between economic history (he is contributing to the Cambridge Economic History of the Greek and Roman Worlds) and the study of ancient dreams (a continuation of his interest in psychological aspects of ancient history). He is the Director of Columbia's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. Read Harris's articles "The Mediterranean and Ancient History", published in *Rethinking the Mediterranean* (Oxford University Press, 2005), "Quando E Come L’Italia Divenne Per La Prima Volta
Italia?Un Saggio Sulla Politica Dell’Identità", and "The Late Republic", from the Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World.
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| Martha Howell |
| Information |
| Title: | Miriam Champion Professor of History |
| Specialization: | Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 |
| Email: | mch4@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 7404 |
| Office: | 614 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. |
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| Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History, specializes in social, legal, economic, and women’s history in northern
Europe
, concentrating on the Burgundian Netherlands, northern
France
, and
Germany
. She received her B.S. from
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