A   Charles Armstrong Information Title: The Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences Specialization: East Asia Email: cra10@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 1721 Office: 930 International Affairs Office Hours: Tues. 12-2pm Bio Education Ph.D. - University of Chicago 1994 Diploma in Korean Language - Yonsei University 1986 M.Sc. - London School of Economics 1988 B.A. - Yale University 1984 Current Departmental Service Director of Graduate Studies Interests and Research Associate Professor Charles Armstrong specializes in modern Korean, East Asian, and international history. His current projects include a study of North Korea in the Cold War international system and a history of modern East Asia . Affiliations Associate Fellow, The Asia Society Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University Member, American Historical Association Member, Association for Asian Studies Member, National Committee on North Korea (www.ncnk.org) Member and founding co-chair, The Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea (www.asck.org)     Peter Awn Information Title: Dean & Professor, School of General Studies Specialization: Middle East Email: pja3@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 6321 Office: 408 D Lewisohn Hall Office Hours: by appointment   B   Janaki Bakhle Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: South Asia Email: jb588@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-2149 Office: 217 Knox Hall Office Hours: Tues. 2:30-4:30pm Bio Education Ph.D - Columbia University, 2001 M.A. - University of Pennsylvania, 1997 B.A. - University of Bombay, India, 1983 Current Departmental Service Undergraduate Education Committee, Space Committee Interests and Research Janaki Bakhle, associate 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.   Elazar Barkan Information Title: Professor of International and Public Affairs Specialization: Modern Europe Email: eb2302@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-9463 Office: 1130 International Affairs Building Office Hours: Bio Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, is the Co-Director of the Human Rights Concentration at SIPA, and is founding Director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation at the Salzburg Seminar. Professor Barkan specializes on the role of history in contemporary society and politics, with particular emphasis on the response to gross historical crimes and injustices, and human rights. His recent books include The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices (2000); Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity, (an edited volume with Ronald Bush, Getty, 2003); Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation (an edited volume with Alexander Karn, Stanford University Press, 2006).     Karen Barkey Information Title: Professor Specialization: Middle East Email: kb7@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-3692 Office: 414 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Thurs. 11-1pm Bio 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.   Caitlin Barrett Information Title: Postdoctoral Research Scholar Specialization: Ancient Email: Phone: 212-854-5826 Office: 415 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours:   Volker Berghahn Information Title: Seth Low Professor of History Specialization: Modern Europe Email: vrb7@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 8604 Office: 501 Fayerweather Mail Code: 2520 Office Hours: ON LEAVE Fall 2009 Bio Education Habilitation: University of Mannheim, 1970 Ph.D. - University of London, 1964 M.A. - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1961 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE  (Fall 2009), IGH MA Program Chair (Spring 2010) Interests and Research 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).   Serhiy Bilenky Information Title: Visiting Assistant Professor Specialization: Modern Europe Email: sb3016@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours:   Richard Billows Information Title: Professor Specialization: Ancient Email: rab4@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4486 Office: 322M Fayerweather Office Hours: Wed. 10-12pm Bio Education Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley, 1985 M.A. - King's College, University of London, 1979 B.A. - Balliol College, Oxford University, 1978 Current Departmental Service Undergraduate Education Committee Interests and Research 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).     Elizabeth Blackmar Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: eb16@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3016 Office: 524 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Mon. 4:30-6pm, Wed. 2:30-3:30pm & by appointment Bio Education Ph.D. - Harvard University, 1981 B.A. - Smith College, 1972 Current Departmental Service Graduate Education Committee (Financial Aid Chair) Interests and Research 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).     Casey Blake Information Title: Professor of History Specialization: United States Email: cb460@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 1785 Office: 504 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Mon. 2:30-4pm & by appt. Bio Education Ph.D. - University of Rochester 1987 M.A. - University of Rochester 1981 B.A. - Wesleyan University 1978 Interests and Research 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 is also  a faculty member in the American Studies program. Affiliations Editor, book series on “The Arts and Intellectual Life in the United States,” University of Pennsylvania Press (2003-) Member, Board of Advisory Editors, American Quarterly (2005-2008) Editor, Co-Editor, Intellectual History Newsletter (1995-2001) Member, Advisory Board, Rethinking History (1996-) Member, Editorial Advisory Board, culturefront (1995-2000) Member, Board of Managing Editors, American Quarterly (1994-95) Associate Editor, Journal of American History (1991-93)   Lisbeth Brandt Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: East Asia Email: lb28@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-5033 Office: 407 Kent Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio 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).   Alan Brinkley Information Title: Allan Nevins Professor of American History Specialization: United States Email: ab65@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5220 Office: 622 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. - Harvard University 1979 A.M. - Harvard University 1975 A.B. - Princeton University 1971 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Alan Brinkley is Allan Nevins Professor of History.From 2003 to 2008, he was University Provost, and for three years before that chair of the Department of History.  He been at Columbia since 1991 and taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard, and the City University Graduate School.In 1998-99, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Knopf, 1992); The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Oxford, forthcoming 2009); and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (Knopf, forthcoming 2010).  His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. 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, Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he has been the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia.  He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation, a trustee of Oxford University Press, a trustee of the National Humanities Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard, Princeton, and the City University of New York Graduate School.  He received his A.B. from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Harvard. Affiliations Chairman, Board of Trustees, The Century Foundation Member, Editorial Board, The American Prospect Fellow and Member of Executive Board, Society of American Historians Trustee, The Dalton School, 1999-2005 Member, Board of Directors, New York Council for the Humanities, 1995-2003 Executive Committee of the Delegates, American Council of Learned Societies,  2000-2003 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of American History, 1993-1996 Organization of American Historians:  Program Committee, 1987; Co-chair, Program Committee, 1992; Executive Board, 1990-1993 Member, Visiting Committee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Humanities Department, 1996-2003 Member, History Department Visiting Committee, Princeton University, 1983-1990   Christopher Brown Information Title: Professor Specialization: Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 Email: clb2140@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4591 Office: 422 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education D. Phil. – Balliol College, Oxford University 1994 B.A. - Yale University 1990 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Christopher L. Brown, professor, specializes in the history of eighteenth century Britain, the early modern British Empire, and the comparative history of slavery and abolition, with secondary interests in the age of revolutions and the history of the Atlantic world. He is now at work on two projects, one on British experience along the West African coast in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, and a second on the decline and fall of the British Planter class in the era of abolition and emancipation.  Affiliations The American Historical Association North American Conference on British Studies Associates of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies Association of Caribbean Historians Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction   Richard Bulliet Information Title: Professor Specialization: Middle East Email: rwb3@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 1741 Office: 1112 International Affairs Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. – Harvard University 1967 MA – Harvard University 1964 BA – Harvard University 1962 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Richard Bulliet, professor, specializes in Middle Eastern history, the social and institutional history of Islamic countries, and the history of technology. Affiliations Member, Board of Trustees, Columbia University Press Trustee, ILEX Foundation     Caroline Bynum Information Title: University Professor Emerita Specialization: Medieval Europe Email: Request email address from Sean Sawyer at ses18@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D. - Harvard University, 1969 M.A. - Harvard University, 1963 B.A. - University of Michigan, 1962 Interests and Research Caroline Walker Bynum, University Professor Emerita, 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.            C   Euan Cameron Information Title: Professor Specialization: Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 Email: ecameron@uts.columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 280 1550 Office: Union Theological Seminary Office Hours: by appointment via Angela Phillips 280-1558 Bio For information on Professor Cameron's career and publications, please see: http://www.utsnyc.edu/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=332&srcid=297   Elisheva Carlebach Information Title: Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society Specialization: Jewish History Email: ec607@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-5294 Office: 505 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D. – Columbia University, 1986 M.A. – Columbia University 1978 B.A. – Brooklyn College, CUNY, 1976 Current Departmental Service Personnel Committee, Europe Area Chair, Graduate Education Committee Interests and Research Elisheva Carlebach, Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society, specializes in the cultural, intellectual, and religious history of the Jews in Early Modern Europe. Areas of particular interest include the intersection of Jewish and Christian culture and its effect on notions of tolerance, religious dissent, conversion, messianism, and communal governance. Her books include The Pursuit of Heresy (1990), awarded the National Jewish Book Award, and Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Early Modern Germany (2000). She has twice held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and she has served as a fellow at the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers. She is (Co)Editor of the Association for Jewish Studies Review and chairs the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History.   Mark Carnes Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: mc422@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5943 Office: Lehman 415A Office Hours: Bio 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.     John Coatsworth Information Title: Dean, School of International and Public Affairs; Professor of International and Public Affairs and of History Specialization: Latin America Email: jhc2125@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4604 Office: 1414 International Affairs Office Hours: Bio 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.     Deborah Coen Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Modern Europe Email: dcoen@barnard.edu Phone: +1 212 854 7449 Office: Lehman 410 Office Hours: Tues. 2-3pm & by appointment Bio Education Ph.D. – Harvard University 2004 M.Phil. - University of Cambridge 1998 A.B. - Harvard University 1997 Current Departmental Service Committee on Programs and Standing, Barnard College Interests and Research Deborah R. Coen, assistant professor (Barnard), specializes in modern central European history and the history of science. Her current research, on the history of climatology and seismology, centers on the Habsburg Empire’s status as a laboratory for studies of the relationship between nature and culture. Her other research interests include the emergence of scientific concepts of “error” and the intersections between science and private life. Affiliations Editorial Advisory Board, Isis Advisory Board, Institute for the Study of Europe   Nancy Collins Information Title: Research Director, The European Institute Specialization: Modern Europe Email: nwcollins@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4727 Office: 1204 International Affairs Building Office Hours: Tues. 1-3pm Bio Nancy W. Collins teaches courses on Modern Europe and advises graduate and undergraduate students in European Studies. Her current research project is An Indispensable Ally: The Rise of European Studies in Postwar America. Collins will soon commence a second book project, Seeing through the Iron Curtain: A History of America's First Russian Institute. She serves as the Research Director of Columbia's European Institute as well as the Chair of the Columbia Seminar on Modern Europe, a faculty colloquium devoted to key transformations in the region. She is the Editor of the European Studies Forum, a journal devoted to showcasing original scholarship in the field. Collins previously served as the Director of the Council for European Studies at Columbia University in which she led the center’s interdisciplinary programs dedicated to the further advancement of the field. She is a member of the American Council on Germany, Aspen Institute Society of Fellows, Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Policy Association, National History Center, and the United States Commission on Military History. Collins earned her B.A. from Georgetown University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of London. She has received fellowships and grants from the Institute of Historical Research, Huntington Library, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, London Central Research Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Royal Historical Society, Society for the Study of French History, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Yale University.   Matthew Connelly Information Title: Professor Specialization: Modern Europe Email: mjc96@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4563 Office: 403 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Mon. 3-5pm Bio Education Ph.D – Yale University 1997 B.A. – Columbia University 1990 Current Departmental Service Director, Columbia University and London School of Economics MA Program in International and World History Graduate Education Committee Interests and Research Matthew Connelly, 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 Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (2008).  He has written 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.     D   Istvan Deak Information Title: Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History Specialization: East Central Europe Email: id1@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours: Bio Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History, specializes in the political and social history of Central and East Central Europe.  His publications include, Weimar Germany's Left-wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the "Weltbuhne" and Its Circle (The University of California Press, 1968); The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849 (Columbia University Press, 1979), for which he received the Lionel Trilling Book Award of Columbia College, and which also appeared in German and Hungarian, as well as Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (Oxford University Press,  1990), which received, among other things, the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize of the American Association for the  Advancement of Slavic Studies, and which also appeared in  German, Hungarian, and Italian. His most recent publication is Essays on Hitler's Europe (University of Nebraska Press, 2001), which appeared also in Hungarian. He edited and partly wrote, together with Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt, The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath (Princeton University Press, 2000).   Jefferson Decker Information Title: Postdoctoral Research Scholar Specialization: United States Email: jad2013@columbia.edu Phone: 212-851-5916 Office: 515A Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Wed. 1-2pm   Victoria DeGrazia Information Title: Moore Collegiate Professor of History Specialization: Modern Europe Email: vd19@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3667 Office: 617 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D – Columbia University 1976 M.A. – Columbia University 1970 B.A. - Smith College 1968 Current Departmental Service MA Program in International and World History Committee Interests and Research Victoria DeGrazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History, 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.   Andrew Delbanco Information Title: Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities Specialization: United States Email: ad19@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 6698 Office: 418 Hamilton Hall Office Hours: Mon. 2-4pm & by appt.   Mamadou Diouf Information Title: Professor Specialization: Africa Email: md2573@columbia.edu Phone: 212 854 4083 Office: 310 Knox Hall Office Hours: Mon. 3-5pm   Nicholas Dirks Information Title: Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History Specialization: South Asia Email: nbd7@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 8296 Office: 208 Low Library Office Hours: by appt. through rc32@columbia.edu Bio 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.   Mehmet Dosemeci Information Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor Specialization: Modern Western Europe Email: md769@columbia.edu Phone: 212-851-5905 Office: 421 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Tues. 5:30-6:30pm, Thurs. 3:10-4:10pm Bio Education Ph.D. - Columbia University 2009 M.A.  - Columbia University 2004 B.A.  - UC Berkeley 2001 Interests and Research Mehmet Dosemeci studies the economic and intellectual history of Western Europe and Modern Turkey in the 20th Century.  His primary interests are in Turkish-European relations, EU integration, European intellectual history, and radical democracy.   Alan Dye Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: Latin America Email: ad245@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3868 Office: Lehman 9B Office Hours:   E   David Eisenbach Information Title: Core Lecturer Specialization: United States Email: dce1@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-8494 Office: 811 Hamilton Hall Office Hours:   Marwa Elshakry Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: Middle East Email: me2335@columbia.edu Phone: 212-851-5914 Office: 512 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D – Princeton University 2003 M.A. – Princeton University 1997 B.A. – Rutgers University 1995 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Marwa Elskakry, Associate Professor, specializes in the history of science, technology, and medicine in the modern Middle East.  She received her M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2003) from Princeton.  Her first book, entitled, Reading Darwin in the Middle East is forthcoming in 2010.  Among her publications are “The Exegesis of Science in Twentieth Century Arabic Interpretations of the Qur‘an” in Jitse M. van der Meer and Scott Mandelbrote (eds), Interpreting Nature and Scripture: History of a Dialogue (2009), “Knowledge in Motion: The Cultural Politics of Modern Science Translations in Arabic”, Isis, (December 2008), “Darwinian Conversions: Science and Translation in Egypt and the Levant” in Anne-Marie Moulin (ed.), Modernité et modernisation dans l’Empire ottoman du XIXe siècle à nos jours (2008), and “The Gospel of Science and American Evangelism in Late Ottoman Beirut”, Past and Present, (August 2007).     Elizabeth Esch Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: United States Email: eesch@barnard.edu Phone: 212 854 5940 Office: TBA Office Hours: Tues. 10-12pm Bio 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.     F   Barbara Fields Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: Prof. Fields does not use email Phone: +1 212 854 3004 Office: 621 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D – Yale University 1978 M.A. – Yale University 1972 B.A. – Harvard University 1968 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research 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).     Eric Foner Information Title: Dewitt Clinton Professor of History Specialization: United States Email: ef17@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5253 Office: 620 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Tues. 2-4pm Bio Education Ph.D. – Columbia University 1969 B.A. First Class – Oriel College, Oxford University 1965 B.A. – Columbia College 1963 Current Departmental Service US Area Chair Personnel Committee Interests and Research Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America.  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. He is currently working on a book, "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery." Affiliations President, Society of American Historians, 2006 President, American Historical Association, 2000 Elected Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 1996 President, Organization of American Historians, 1993-94 Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, l989     Pierre Force Information Title: Professor Specialization: Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 Email: pf3@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5526 Office: 517 Philosophy Hall Office Hours: Bio 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 .     G   Lynn Garafola Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: lg97@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-9770 Office: Barnard Annex 204 Office Hours: Bio 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.     Abosede George Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Africa Email: ageorge@barnard.edu Phone: 212-854-3645 Office: Lehman 418 Office Hours: Wed. 10-12pm Bio 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 .     Carol Gluck Information Title: George Sansom Professor of History Specialization: East Asia Email: cg9@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2591 Office: 912 International Affairs Office Hours: Tues. 11-1pm Bio Education Ph.D – Columbia University 1977 M.A. – Columbia University, 1970 B.A. – Wellesley, 1962 Current Departmental Service World Area Chair (Fall 2009), Personnel Committee (Fall 2009) Interests and Research 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).     H   Jahyun Haboush Information Title: King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies Specialization: East Asia Email: jkh25@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5040 Office: 416 Kent Hall Office Hours: Tues. 12-1pm & 3-4pm Bio 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).     Evan Haefeli Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: United States Email: eh2204@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2434 Office: 323 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Wed. 2-4pm Bio Education Ph.D. – Princeton University 2000 B.A. – Hampshire College 1992 Current Departmental Service Undergraduate Education Committee Interests and Research Evan Haefeli, assistant professor, specializes in colonial America and Native American history.  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. Affiliations American Society for Ethnohistory American Historical Association Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture American Association for Netherlandic Studies Friends of New Netherland French Colonial Historical Society Organization of American Historians American Society for Church History Pennsylvania Historical Association New York Historical Society Courses American Beginnings Revolutionary America Native American History The Age of Exploration Early American Religious History Awards New England Historical Association Book Award for Captors and Captives – 2004 Merit Award, American Association for State and Local History for Captors and Captives – 2004 Richard L. Morton Award, Institute for Early American History and Culture – 1995 Harold L. Peterson Award, Eastern National Parks & Monument Association – 1995 Best Essay Award, Society of Colonial Wars – 1995 Selected Publications Books Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the1704 Deerfield Raid Scholarly Articles A Scandalous Minister in a Divided Community: Ulster County in Leisler's Rebellion, 1689-1691. Evan Haefeli. New York History, 88,  pp. 357-90, 2007 “On First Contact and Apotheosis: Manitou and Men in North America,” in Ethnohistory 54: 3, pp. 407-443, 2007  “Jesuits, Huguenots, and the Apocalypse: The Origins of America’s First French Book,” in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 116 Part 1, pp. 59-119, 2006 “The Revolt of the Long Swede: Transatlantic Hopes and Fears on the Delaware, 1669,” in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 80:2, pp. 137-180, 2006  “The Redeemed Captive as Recurrent Seller: Politics and Publication, 1707-1854,” in New England Quarterly 77:3, pp. 341-367, 2004 “The Pennsylvania Difference: Religious Diversity on the Delaware before 1683,” in Early American Studies 1:1, pp. 28-60, 2003 “Ransoming New England Captives in New France,” in French Colonial History 1, pp. 113-128, 2002 “Leislerians in Boston: Some Rare Dutch Correspondence,” in De Haelve Maen 73:4, pp. 77-81, 2000  “Revisiting The Redeemed Captive: New Perspectives on the 1704 Attack on Deerfield,” in The William and Mary Quarterly, 52:1, pp. 3-46, 1995        Reprinted in After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England, pp. 29        71, 1997  “Wattanummon’s World: Personal and Tribal Identity in the Algonquian Diaspora, c.1660-1712,” in Papers of the 25th Algonquian Conference, pp. 25-46, 1994   Leopold Haimson Information Title: Professor Emeritus of History Specialization: Modern Europe Email: lhh3@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours: Bio Leopold Haimson, professor emeritus, specializes in the political history of Imperial Russia, particularly the Mensheviks movement. His publications include Russia's Revolutionary Experience, 1905-1917 : Two Essays, The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries: Voices from the Menshevik Past, Strikes, Social Conflict, and the First World War : An International Perspective, The Politics of Rural Russia, 1905-1914, The Mensheviks : From the Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War, and Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism.   Hilary Hallett Information Title: Postdoctoral Research Scholar Specialization: United States Email: hah2117@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours: Mon. 2-4pm & by appt. Bio Education Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 2005 B.F.A, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, 1990 Interests and Research Hilary Hallett is a U.S. cultural historian who taught at Rutgers University and the Johns Hopkins University before coming to Columbia as postdoctoral fellow in 2007.  Her current research interests work at the intersection of gender history, popular and mass culture, and the history of the Modern American West.  She is now completing her manuscript, tentatively titled, Go West! Young Women: Early Hollywood and the Rise of Sexual Modernism (under contract with the University of California press). Affiliations Organization of American Historians, Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Western History Association, Women’s Association of Western History   William Harris Information Title: William R. Shepherd Professor of History Specialization: Ancient Email: wvh1@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3702 Office: 624 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. – Oxford University, 1968 M.A. – Oxford University, 1964 B.A. – Oxford University, 1961 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research William Vernon Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History, specializes in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. He received his B.A., M.A. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. His books include Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity (2009), Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (2002), Ancient Literacy (1989), and War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (corrected edition, 1985).  His edited books include Rethinking the Mediterranean (2005) and The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans (2008). He has written a number of articles about the economic history of the Roman Empire, and is seeing through the press a collection of them that is provisionally entitled Rome's Imperial Economy.  W.V. Harris 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.    Leonardo Hernandez Information Title: Adjunct Associate Professor Specialization: Latin America Email: lh2481@columbia.edu Phone: Office: 402 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours:   Thomas Hill Information Title: Lecturer Specialization: Middle East Email: tjh2133@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-5923 Office: 412 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 10-12pm Bio Education Ph.D. - Trinity College, Cambridge, 2008 M.A. - Trinity College, Cambridge, 2003 B.A. - St Anne's College, Oxford, 2002 Interests and Research Tom Hill, lecturer, focuses on representations of collective memories of violence, transitional justice and truth and reconciliation discourses, particularly in the Middle East and with respect to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. His thesis examined the relationship between concepts of repatriation, historicity and the intellectual in Palestinian national discourse after Oslo.   Martha Howell Information Title: Miriam Champion Professor of History Specialization: Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 Email: mch4@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 7404 Office: 614 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Tues. 12-1pm & by appointment Bio Education Ph.D - Columbia University, 1979 M.A. - Columbia University, 1974 B.A. - Georgetown University, 1966 Interests and Research 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 Georgetown (1966) and her Ph.D. from Columbia (1979). She taught at Rutgers before joining the Columbia faculty in 1989, and from 1989 to 1995 she served as Director of the University’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her publications include: From Reliable Sources (with Walter Prevenier, 2001; German ed., 2004); Uit goede bron (with Marc Boone and Walter Prevenier, 2000); The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries , 1300–1550 (1998); and Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities (1986). More recently she has published, with Marc Boone, In But Not of the Market: Movable Goods in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Economy (2007), and she is completing a book manuscript called “Commerce Before Capitalism: European Market Culture, 1300–1600.”   Robert Hymes Information Title: Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies Specialization: East Asia Email: hymes@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2574 Office: 407A Kent Office Hours: Bio Robert Hymes, H. Walpole Carpentier Professor of Chinese History (EALAC), received his B.A. from Columbia (1972) and his M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Pennsylvania . His work has focused on the social and cultural history of middle period and early modern China, drawing questions and sometimes data from cultural anthropology as well as history, and using the methods of the local historian to study elite culture, family and kinship, medicine, religion, gender, and (currently) the changing role and form of Chinese social networks from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries. His publications include Statemen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung (1987), and Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China (2002), both of which won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on pre-1900 China.  He also co-editedOrdering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China (1993).     J   Kenneth Jackson Information Title: Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences Specialization: United States Email: ktj1@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2555 Office: 603 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D. – University of Chicago 1966 M. A. – University of Chicago 1963 B. A. – University of Memphis 1961 Current Departmental Service Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, Undergraduate Education Committee (Prizes and Honors Chair), Development Committee Chair Interests and Research Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, specializes in urban, social, and military history. Affiliations Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Design Director's Council, Historic House Trust of New York City Fellow, American Antiquarian Society Advisory Board, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Member, Scholars and Archivists Committee, New York State Archives Editorial Board, H-URBAN (an electronic message system of specialists) Editorial Board, New York Journal of American History Director, Henry R. Luce Foundation Trustee, New-York Historical Society Trustee, New York State Historical Association Trustee, National Council for History Education Trustee, Regional Plan Association Trustee, The Society of American Historians, Inc. General Editor, The Columbia History of Urban life Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City Steward, New York State Archives Partnership Trust   Richard John Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: rrj2115@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-0547 Office: 201E Journalism Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D – Harvard University 1989 M.A. – Harvard University 1984 B.A. - Harvard University 1981 Interests and Research Richard R. John is a historian of communications who specializes in the political economy of communications in the United States. His publications include many essays, two edited books, and one monograph, "Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse" (1995). A second monograph, "Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications," is forthcoming from Harvard in 2010.     Matthew Jones Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 Email: mj340@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2421 Office: 514 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. – Harvard University, 2000 M.Phil – Cambridge University, 1995 B.A. – Harvard University, 1994 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Matthew L. Jones, associate professor, specializes in the cultural history of science and philosophy in early modern Europe. He received degrees from Harvard and Cambridge. With the support of the National Science Foundation, he is writing a philosophical, technical and labor history of early-modern calculating machines. He is also working on a book project, Love, Inclination and Inertia, about the intertwined history of natural and social cohesion, from the late scholastics to Emilie Du Châtelet. His publications include The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2006); “Descartes’s Geometry as Spiritual Exercise,” Critical Inquiry 28 (2001); and “Writing and Sentiment: Blaise Pascal, the Vacuum and Sentiment,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32 (2001).   K   Ira Katznelson Information Title: Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History Specialization: United States Email: iik1@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3646 Office: 716 International Affairs Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. – Cambridge University, 1969 B.A. – Columbia University, 1966 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, specializes in American political development, as well as comparative politics and political theory. He earned his B.A. at Columbia (1966) and his Ph.D. at Cambridge (1969), and taught at Chicago and the New School before joining the Columbia faculty in 1994. His books include: Black Men, White Cities (1973); City Trenches (1981); Schooling for All (with Margaret Weir, 1985); Marxism and the City (1992); Liberalism’s Crooked Circle (1996), winner of the American Political Science Association’s Michael Harrington Prize and Columbia’s Lionel Trilling Award; Desolation and Enlightenment (2003), winner of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought; and When Affirmative Action Was White (2005). He also has co-edited: Working Class Formation (1986); Paths of Emancipation (1995); Political Science (2002); Shaped by War and Trade (2002); and Preferences and Situations (2005).     Joel Kaye Information Title: Professor Specialization: Medieval Europe Email: jkaye@barnard.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4350 Office: Lehman 422B Office Hours: Wed. 3-5pm Bio Joel Kaye, professor (Barnard), specializes in intellectual history, the history of economic thought, and the history of science of the medieval period. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1968) and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1991). He is the author of Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (1998). He is currently researching changes in the concept of balance and equilibrium c. 1225–1375.     Gulnar Kendirbai Information Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor Specialization: East Asia Email: gk2020@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-4623 Office: Harriman Institute, 1205 IAB Office Hours: by appointment via gk2020@columbia.edu Bio She specializes in Eurasian and Central Asian intellectual history, involving the late Russian empire and the former Soviet Union. Her research and teaching interests also include colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, Islam, nomadism, and cultural anthropology. Gulnar Kendirbai received her two PhDs from the Eotvos-Lorand University in Budapest (1987) and University of Tuebingen in Germany (2003). She is the author of Land and People. The Russian Colonization of the Kazakh Steppe, Berlin (2002). She also published her papers in the Encyclopedia The Turks, Central Asian Survey, Nationalities Papers, Asian Affairs, Central Asiatic Journal, Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, and other journals.  She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the American Councils (ACTR/ACCELS), the DAAD, and the Thyssen Foundation in Germany. Currently she is working on a book on the Alash movement led by the Kazak intellectuals of the beginning of the 20th century.   Alice Kessler-Harris Information Title: R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower Specialization: United States Email: ak571@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2420 Office: 604 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. – Rutgers University, 1968 M.A. – Rutgers University, 1963 B.A. – Goucher College, 1961 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History. She is also Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Dr. Kessler-Harris specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender. She received her B. A. from Goucher College (1961) and her Ph.D. from Rutgers (1968). Her published works include: In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (2001); Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982); A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences (1990); and Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview (1981). She is co-editor of Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe , Australia , and the United States , 1880–1920 (1995) and U.S. History as Women’s History (1995). Her most recent book, Gendering Labor History (2007), contains her essays on women’s work and social policy.     Rashid Khalidi Information Title: Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies Specialization: Middle East Email: rik2101@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-5291 Office: 401 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Tues. 10-12pm Bio Education D.Phil. – Oxford University 1974 B.A. – Yale University 1970 Current Departmental Service Department Vice-Chair, Personnel Committee Chair, Space Committee Vice-Chair Interests and Research Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, received his BA from Yale in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1974.  He is editor  of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle  East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from  October 1991 until June 1993. He is author of Sowing Crisis: American  Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); The Iron Cage:  The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in  the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making  During the 1982 War (1986); and British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980), and was the co-editor of Palestine and  the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991). Affiliations Member, Search Committee for Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs Member, Executive Committee, Middle East Institute Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies Member, Conseil Scientifique, Ramses2, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence Member, Council on Foreign Relations Member, Board of Trustees, al-Quds University, Jerusalem Member, Board of Trustees, Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy Member, Advisory Board, Bruno Kreisky Forum, Vienna Member, Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. Member, Editorial Board, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East. Manuscript reader,  University of California Press;  Cambridge University Press;  University of Chicago Press;  Columbia University Press;  Harvard University Press;  University of Indiana Press;  Penn State University Press;  Princeton University Press;  University of Utah Press   Dorothy Ko Information Title: Professor Specialization: East Asia Email: dk2031@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 9624 Office: Lehman 416D Office Hours: Tues. & Wed. 4-5pm Bio Dorothy Ko, professor ( Barnard College ), specializes in pre-modern Chinese history as well as the history of women and gender in East Asia . She received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University . She is the author of Teacher of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (1994) and Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (2001).     Rebecca Kobrin Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Jewish History Email: rk2351@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 9017 Office: 1229 International Affairs Office Hours: 11-12:30pm Bio Education Ph.D. – University of Pennsylvania, 2002 M.Phil. – University of Pennsylvania, 1995 B.A. - Yale University, 1994 Current Departmental Service Graduate Education Committee (Fall 2009) Interests and Research Rebecca Kobrin, assistant professor, works in the field of American Jewish History. She received her B.A. from Yale (1994), and her M.Phil. (1995), and Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Pennsylvania . Professor Kobrin served as the Hilda Blaustein Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University (2002–2004) and the American Academy of Jewish Research Post-Doctoral Fellow at New York University (2004–2006). Her area of specialty is Jewish immigration history, which she approaches through a transnational lens. Her research interests span from the fields of urban history to American religion and diaspora studies.       Adam Kosto Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: Medieval Europe Email: ajkosto@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3005 Office: 404 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: MW 9:45-10:45am Bio Education Ph.D. – Harvard University, 1996 M.Phil. – Cambridge University, 1990 B.A. - Yale University, 1989 Current Departmental Service Curriculum Coordinator, Space Committee Interests and Research Adam Kosto, associate professor, specializes in the institutional history of medieval Europe , with a focus on Catalonia and the Mediterranean . He received his B.A. from Yale (1989), an M.Phil. from Cambridge (1990), and his Ph.D. from Harvard (1996). He is the author of Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia : Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200 (2001), and co-editor of The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe , 950–1350 (2005) and Charters, Cartularies, and Archives: The Preservation and Transmission of Documents in the Medieval West (2002). He is currently working on a book on hostages as a mode of surety in medieval Europe and a project on the legal and documentary practices of laypeople in the Early Middle Ages.     L   William Leach Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: wrl3@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 8217 Office: 325 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Bio William Leach, professor, specializes in modern American cultural history. He received his B.A. from Rutgers (1965) and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (1976). His publications include: Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life (1999); Land of Desire : Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993); and True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society (1980). He is currently researching two books. The first focuses on the ways Americans have viewed nature since 1800, with emphasis on the study, collection, and culture of butterflies. The second surveys the history of American consumer capitalism from 1890 to the present.   Eugenia Lean Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: East Asia Email: eyl2006@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 1742 Office: 925 International Affairs Office Hours: Thurs. 2-4pm Bio Eugenia Lean, assistant professor (EALAC), received her BA from Stanford University (1990), and her MA (1996) and PhD (2001) from UCLA. She is interested in a broad range of topics in late imperial and modern Chinese history with a particular focus on the history of emotions and gender, law and media, as well as consumer culture, science, and urban society. She is also interested in issues of historiography and critical theory in the study of East Asia. She is the author of Politics of Passion: the Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Public Sympathy in Nineteen Thirties China (UC Press, 2007), which was awarded the 2007 John K. Fairbank prize for an outstanding book in modern East Asian history, awarded by the American Historical Association. Her current project is a cultural biography of modern soap in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China, and is concerned with issues of the popularization of science, the rise of the everyday, and changing concepts of health and beauty in modern China's consumer culture.   Feng Li Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: East Asia Email: fl123@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2510 Office: 407 Kent Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Feng Li, associate professor (EALAC), received his M.A. from the Institute of Archaeology , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1986); and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2000). Professor Li is both a historian and an archaeologist specializing in early China . His recent publications include: Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC (Cambridge 2006); “‘Offices’ in Bronze Inscriptions and Western Zhou Government Administration,” Early China 26 (2002); “Feudalism and Western Zhou China: A Criticism,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 63 (2003); and “Succession and Promotion: Elite Mobility during the Western Zhou,” Monumenta Serica 52 (2004). His new book Bureaucracy and the State in Early China : Governing the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC ( Cambridge forthcoming) examines the political system of early Bronze-Age states. As an archaeologist, he is an expert of Chinese bronzes and is interested in cross-region cultural relations. He is the director of Columbia ’s archaeological project in Shandong China, and serves also as co-chair of the Columbia Early China Seminar.   Natasha Lightfoot Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: United States Email: njl2106@columbia.edu Phone: 212-851-5915 Office: 523 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D. – New York University 2007 M.A. – New York University 2002 B.A. – Yale University 1999 Current Departmental Service Graduate Education Committee (Language Exams Chair) Interests and Research Natasha Lightfoot, assistant professor, specializes in emancipation, race, and labor studies within the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History.  She is currently working on a project tracing grassroots resistance and identity formation among emancipated people in Antigua. Affiliations Member, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Member, The Conference on Latin American History Member, American Historical Association Member, Organization of American Historians   Mark Lilla Information Title: Professor of Humanities Specialization: Modern Western Europe Email: mlilla@columbia.edu Phone: Office: 512 Knox Hall Office Hours: by appt. via email Bio Education Ph.D – Harvard University, 1990 M.P.P. – Harvard University, 1980 A.B. – University of Michigan, 1978 Interests and Research Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, specializes in intellectual history, with a particular focus on Western political and religious thought.  Before moving to Columbia in 2007 he taught in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and at New York University.  A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he is the author of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (2007), The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2001),and G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993).  He has also edited The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (2001) with Ronald Dworkin and Robert Silvers, and The Public Face of Architecture (1987) with Nathan Glazer.  He is currently writing a book on the history of the idea of conversion.   David Lurie Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: East Asia Email: dbl11@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5316 Office: 500A Kent Hall Office Hours: Mon. 10-11:30am, Thurs. 11-12:30pm Bio David Lurie, Assistant Professor of Japanese History and Literature (EALAC), received his B.A. from Harvard (1993) and his M.A. (1996) and PhD. (2001) from Columbia. He is completing a book manuscript on the development of writing systems in Japan through the Heian period, entitled Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing. Publications include "Language, Writing, and Disciplinarity in the Critique of the 'Ideographic Myth': Some Proleptical Remarks," Language & Communication 26 (2006); A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, 2nd edition (coauthored with Conrad Schirokauer and Suzanne Gay, 2006); and "On the Inscription of the Hitomaro Poetry Collection: Between Literary History and the History of Writing," Man'yoshu kenkyu 26 (2004). In addition to the history of writing systems and literacy, his research interests include the literary and cultural history of seventh- through twelfth- century Japan, the Japanese reception of Chinese literary, historical, and technical writings, the development of Japanese dictionaries and encyclopedias, and the history of linguistic thought.         M   Marco Maiuro Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Ancient Email: mm3397@columbia.edu Phone: 212-851-5912 Office: 502 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Wed. 11-12:30pm Bio Education Ph.D. – University of Trieste, Italy 2007 M.A. – University of Siena, Italy 2004 B.A. – University of Perugia, Italy 2000 Current Departmental Service Undergraduate Education Committee Interests and Research Marco Maiuro, assistant professor, specializes in Ancient History. He received his BA in University of Perugia, MA-University of Siena, DeA in University of Clermont-Ferrand II, PhD University of Triest and University of Clermont Ferrand II (CNRS). He specializes in History of the Greek and Roman world, with a particular focus on social and economic history of the hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman Empire. As an archaeologist, he worked on many international projects in the basin of the Mediterranean, and he is currently responsible for the classical section in the international archaeological project of Villa Magna (Central Italy, see www.villa-magna.org). His publications include articles on Roman topography, administration, and economy and his book, “The Imperial Properties in High Imperial Italy: Economy, Administration and Geography” is forthcoming.   Gregory Mann Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: Africa Email: gm522@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3168 Office: 615 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. – Northwestern University 2000 M.A. – Northwestern University 1995 B.A. – University of Georgia 1993 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Gregory Mann, associate professor, specializes in the history of francophone West Africa . He is currently working on two projects: a history of political belonging in the Sahel (1946-1978); and a study of political discourse on colonial history in African post-colonies. Affiliations Fellow, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall (Paris) Member, Committee on the Global Core Program Coordinator, African Civilizations Program Member, Advisory Committee, Center for International History Member, French Studies Interdisciplinary Committee Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Office of Global Programs Member, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Member, African Studies Association Member, American Historical Association Member, Institut des Sciences Humaines, Bamako, Mali Member, Mande Studies Association Member, Projet Point Sud—Center for Research on Local Knowledge, Bamako, Mali   Manning Marable Information Title: M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies Specialization: United States Email: mm247@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 7002 Office: 758 Schermerhorn Extension Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. – University of Maryland, 1976 M.A. – University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972 B.A. – Earlham College, 1971 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Manning Marable, professor (joint with Political Science and DIPA), has served since 2002 as the director of the Center for Contemporary Black History. Dr. Marable earned his A.B. from Earlham College (1971), M.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1972), and Ph.D. in from the University of Maryland (1976). He has authored and edited 25 books, including: Race, Reform and Rebellion 3rd rev. ed., 2007); Living Black History (2006); Freedom On My Mind: The Columbia Reader of African-American History (2003); Great Wells of Democracy (2002); Dispatches from the Ebony Tower (2002); Black Leadership (1998); and Beyond Black and White (1995). He has written over 275 articles for academic journals, edited volumes and anthologies. His current projects include: a major reinterpretation of the life of Malcolm X, to be published in 2010 with Viking Press; and the Ford Foundation-supported “Amistad Project,” a multimedia resource project at Columbia designed to enhance the teaching of African American history in public schools.     Mio Matsumoto Information Title: Lecturer in Discipline Specialization: United States Email: mm936@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-7080 Office: Office Hours: Bio Mio Matsumoto is a Lecturer in discipline and an adjunct professor at the Institute of Research in African American Studies. He received his Master's degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1998 and Ph. D. in American history from Columbia University in 2004. He specializes in African-American intellectual history. His interests include the history of social sciences and social theories in the 20th century.   Mark Mazower Information Title: Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and Professor of History Specialization: Modern Europe Email: mm2669@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4576 Office: 503 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education D.Phil. – Oxford University 1988 M.A. – Johns Hopkins University 1983 B.A. – Oxford University 1981 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies, specializes in modern Greece , 20th-century Europe , and international history.  Current interests include comparative dimensions of the post-Ottoman experience in the Balkans and Middle East, war and population movements, and the history of international norms and institutions. Affiliations Director, Center for International History, Columbia University Member, Editorial Board, Past and Present, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Historein, Member of Judging panel, Longmans/History Today Book of the Year, 1999-2004 Member, Executive Committee, Council for European Studies, 1999-2001 Member, Conference Committee, Council for European Studies, 2000; Past and Present/Anglo-American, 2002   Mohamed Mbodj Information Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor Specialization: Africa Email: mm173@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-854-2453 Office: 202 Hamilton Hall Office Hours:   Robert McCaughey Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: ram31@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5938 Office: Lehman 417C Office Hours: Tues. 2-4pm Bio Robert McCaughey, professor (Barnard), specializes in intellectual history, higher education, and the professions. He received his B.A. from Rochester (1961) and his Ph.D. from Harvard (1970). His published works include: Stand Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754–2004 (2003); Scholars and Teachers: Liberal Arts College Faculty (1995), The American Nation (with John A. Garraty, 7th ed., 1991), International Studies and Academic Enterprise: A Chapter in the Enclosure of American Learning (1984); and Josiah Quincy, 1772–1864: The Last Federalist (1974). He is presently working on studies in early American maritime culture.     Glenda McDonald Information Title: Postdoctoral Research Scholar Specialization: Ancient Email: gm2401@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-5826 Office: 415 Fayerweather Office Hours: by appointment   Adam McKeown Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: East Asia Email: amm2009@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 9121 Office: 516 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Wed. 10-12pm Bio Education Ph.D. – University of Chicago, 1997 M.A. – University of Chicago, 1991 B.A. – University of California at Santa Cruz, 1987 Current Departmental Service World Area Chair (Spring 2010), Personnel Committee (Spring 2010) Interests and Research Adam McKeown, associate professor, teaches global history. He has written on the Chinese diaspora, global migration, and the history of passports and migration control. He teaches courses on globalization in history, world migration, international law, and the history of drugs and smuggling.  He is now researching the history of globalization since the 1760s.   Nara Milanich Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Latin America Email: nmilanic@barnard.edu Phone: 212-854-1935 Office: Lehman 412 Office Hours: Tues. 10-12pm Bio Nara Milanich, assistant professor (Barnard), specializes in modern Latin America , with more specific interests in Chile , comparative history of the family, childhood, gender, state formation, and legal history. She has a B.A. from Brown University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University . Her book, The Children of Fate: Families, Class and the State in Chile , 1850–1930, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Her most recent publications include "Whither Family History? A Road Map from Latin America" (American Historical Review, April 2007) and "Women, Gender, and Family in Latin America, 1820-2000" (in A Companion to Latin American History, Thomas H. Holloway ed., Blackwell, 2007).   Steven Mintz Information Title: Director Specialization: United States Email: sm3031@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 1066 Office: 302 Philosophy Hall, Mail Code: 4997 Office Hours: By appointment Bio Steven Mintz was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Director of the American Cultures Program at the University of Houston before becoming the director of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center .  An authority on the history of the family and of children, he is the author and editor of 13 books, including Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, and Moralists & Modernizers: America ’s Pre-Civil War Reformers.  A pioneer in the application of new technologies to history, he is the creator of the Digital History website (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu) and past president of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online.  He is also National Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families and president-elect of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.  He chairs the Organization of American Historians Teaching Committee, and is a member of the advisory board of Film & History, the History Teacher, and the OAH Magazine of History, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.     Jose Moya Information Title: Professor Specialization: Latin America Email: jmoya@barnard.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5097 Office: Lehman 413 Office Hours: Wed. 12-2pm Bio José Moya, professor (Barnard), taught Latin American history at UCLA for seventeen years and directed an equal number of doctoral dissertations before coming to Barnard in 2005. His book Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires , 1850-1930 (1998) received five awards and the journal Historical Methods 34 (2001) devoted a forum to its theoretical and methodological contributions to migration studies. He has written extensively on global migration, gender, and labor; and has been a Fullbright Fellow in Buenos Aires (three times), a Burkhardt Fellow in Rome, a Del Amo Fellow in Madrid, and held a fellowship from the NEH. Professor Moya directs the Barnard Forum on Migration and, in 2007–2008, Columbia ’s Institute of Latin American Studies . He is currently editing Latin American Historiography (Oxford UP, forthcoming) and working on the socio-cultural history of anarchism in belle époque Buenos Aires and the Atlantic world.     Samuel Moyn Information Title: Professor Specialization: Modern Europe Email: s.moyn@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3009 Office: 616 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Fall 2009 Bio EducationJ.D. – Harvard University, 2001Ph.D. – University of California – Berkeley, 2000M.A. – University of California – Berkeley, 1995B.A. – Washington University, 1994Current Departmental ServiceON LEAVE (Fall 2009), Graduate Admissions Chair (Spring 2010), Undergraduate Education Committee (Intro to History Chair, Spring 2010) Interests and ResearchSamuel Moyn, professor, works primarily on modern European intellectual history — with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies — and on the history of human rights. AffiliationsCo-Director, Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural HistoryEditor, HumanityCoeditor, Modern Intellectual HistoryEditorial Associate, Constellations   N   Mae Ngai Information Title: Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History Specialization: United States Email: mn53@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2518 Office: 520 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. – Columbia University, 1998 M.A. – Columbia University, 1993 B.A. – SUNY - Empire State, 1992 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Mae M. Ngai, Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies, is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1998 and taught at the University of Chicago before returning to Columbia in 2006. Ngai is author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton 2004), which won six awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner prize (best first book) from the OAH and the Littleton Griswold prize (best book in legal history) from the AHA. She has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, NYU Law School, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Ngai has written on immigration history and policy matters for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and the Boston Review. Before becoming a historian Ngai was a labor-union organizer and educator in New York City, working for District 65-UAW and the Consortium for Worker Education.  Professor Ngai is now working on two projects: The Tape Family and the Origins of the Chinese American Middle Class, a family biography of Chinese American immigrant brokers and interpreters, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2010; and The Chinese Mining Diaspora, 1848-1908, a study of Chinese gold miners in the nineteenth-century North American West, Australia, and South Africa.     P   Robert Paxton Information Title: Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science Specialization: Modern Europe Email: rop1@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D. - Harvard University, 1963 M.A. - Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar), 1961 B.A. - Washington and Lee University, 1954   Interests and Research Robert O. Paxton, Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science, specializes in the social and political history of Modern Europe, particularly Vichy France during the World War II era. Paxton has worked on two issues within the general area of modern European history: France during the Nazi occupation of 1940-1944; and the rise and spread of fascism. He was the first in the 1960s and 1970s to establish, on the basis of German archives, the active collaboration of Vichy France within Hitler’s Europe, a finding received coolly at first in France and now largely accepted. He continues to speak, write, and research in these fields. In 2009 he served as guest curator for an exhibition at the New York Public Library entitled “Between Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life Under Nazi Occupation.” Major Professional Activities Chair, Department of History, Columbia, 1980-1982 Expert Witness, war crimes trials of Paul Touvier, Versailles, 1994 Maurice Papon, Bordeaux, 1997   Susan Pedersen Information Title: Professor and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum Specialization: Modern Europe Email: sp2216@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2414 Office: 515 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Thurs. 11-1pm Bio Education Ph.D – Harvard University, 1989 M.A. – Harvard University, 1983 B.A. – Radcliffe College, 1982 Current Departmental Service Director of Undergraduate Studies Interests and Research Susan Pedersen, Professor and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum, specializes in British history, the British empire, comparative European history, and international history.  She is now writing a book on the mandates system of the League of Nations and its impact on the imperial order. Affiliations Advisory Boards, Twentieth Century British History, The Historical Journal, The National Archives Member:  American Historical Association, North American Conference on British Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, American Association of University Women Fellow, Royal Historical Society   Gregory Pflugfelder Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: East Asia Email: gmp12@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5035 Office: 408 Kent Hall Office Hours: Mon. 3:30-5:30pm Bio Gregory Pflugfelder, associate professor (EALAC), specializes in early modern and modern Japanese history. He received his B.A. from Harvard (1981), his M.A. from Waseda (1984), and his Ph.D. from Stanford (1996). His books include Seiji to Daidokoro: Akita-ken joshi sanseiken undôshi [Politics and the Kitchen: A History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Akita Prefecture] (1986), awarded the Yamakawa Kikue Prize, and Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 (1999), which received honorable mention for the John Boswell Prize of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History. A collection of essays, JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life, co-edited with Brett L. Walker, was published in 2006. His current work engages the historical construction of masculinities, the history of the body, and representations of monstrosity.     Christine Philliou Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Middle East Email: cmp9@columbia.edu Phone: 212-851-5911 Office: 610 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D – History, Princeton University, 2004 M.A. – Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 1998 B.A. – Columbia University, 1994 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE (Fall 2009), Departmental Summer Session Representative, Undergraduate Education Committee (Summer Session Chair, Spring 2010) Interests and Research Christine Philliou, assistant professor, specializes in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Her forthcoming book, Biography of an Empire: Practicing Ottoman Governance in the Age of Revolutions (University of California Press) examines the changes in Ottoman governance leading up to the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-nineteenth century. It does so using the vantage point of Phanariots, an Orthodox Christian elite that was intimately involved in the day-to-day work of governance even though structurally excluded from the Ottoman state. Affiliations Co-chair of University Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Columbia University   Pablo Piccato Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: Latin America Email: pp143@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3725 Office: 324 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Tues. 12:30-1:30pm & Thurs. 12:30-1:30pm in 824 IAB Bio Education Ph.D. – University of Texas at Austin, 1997 M.A. – University of Texas at Austin. Thesis, 1993 B.A. – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 1990 Current Departmental Service Undergraduate Education Committee Interests and Research Pablo Piccato, associate professor, specializes in Mexican history. He has worked on the political and cultural history of Mexico, and on the history of crime. He is currently working on an overview of crime in Mexico during the twentieth century. Affiliations Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University Editorial board, Hispanic American Historical Review, Law and History Review American Historical Association Latin American Studies Association Council of Latin American History   Caterina Pizzigoni Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Latin America Email: cp2313@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 8709 Office: 321 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D. – King’s College,  London, UK, 2002 M.A. – University of London, 1998 B.A. – Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 1996 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Caterina Pizzigoni, assistant professor, specializes in Latin American history.  Her research interests include indigenous populations in colonial Latin America (principally Mexico), gender issues, church and government policies in colonial Latin America with respect to conversion, education, and integration of indigenous populations, and the study of Nahuatl, its translation and analysis of colonial documents (mainly testaments, or mundane documents). Affiliations Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, Mexico, D.F. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, D.F. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, D.F. American Society of Ethnohistory American Historical Association Society of Latin American Studies Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos   Amit Prakash Information Title: Core Preceptor Specialization: Email: ap2070@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-4646 Office: 812 Hamilton Office Hours:   R   Anupama Rao Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: South Asia Email: arao@barnard.edu Phone: +1 212 854 8547 Office: Lehman 416C Office Hours: Tues. 2-4pm Bio Anupama Rao, associate professor (Barnard), specializes in the histories of gender, caste, and nationalism in South Asia, historical anthropology, political theory, law, human rights, and comparative colonialism. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and her B.A. from the University of Chicago. Her publications include: Gender and Caste: Contemporary Issues in Indian Feminism (2003); Violence and Vulnerability (special issue of Gender and History); Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, and The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India (forthcoming, University of California Press).   Thomas Rath Information Title: Lecturer Specialization: Latin America Email: tgr2101@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-4646 Office: 421 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours:   Samuel Roberts Information Title: Associate Professor Specialization: United States Email: skr2001@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2430 Office: 322 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Thurs. 2:30-4:30pm & by appointment Bio Education Ph.D – Princeton University, 2001 M.A. – Princeton University, 1997 B.A. – University of Virginia, 1995 Current Departmental Service Graduate Education Committee Interests and Research Samuel Roberts, associate professor, specializes in the history of post-emancipation African-American social movements, class formations, and urban political economy. His book, titled Infectious Fear: Politics and the Health Effects of Segregation in the Jim Crow Urban South is an exploration of the political economy of health and tuberculosis control from the late nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. He is currently researching the development of late nineteenth- and twentieth- century patterns of labor and West Indian migration in the Republic of Panama. At Columbia he has faculty affiliations with the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy’s (ISERP) Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Programs (H&SS), where he is Coordinator of the Working Group in African-American History and the Health and Social Sciences (AAHHSS). He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia (1995) and his Ph.D. from Princeton (2001).       Rosalind Rosenberg Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: rrosenbe@barnard.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5046 Office: Lehman 420 Office Hours: Mon. 1-3pm Bio Rosalind Rosenberg, professor ( Barnard College ), specializes in women’s, social, and legal history. She received her B.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1974) from Stanford. Her published works include: Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics (2004); “Gender,” in The Cambridge History of Science (2002), “Pauli Murray and the Killing of Jane Crow,” in Heroes From America’s Past (1998); “The Woman Question,” in The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (1998); Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century (1992); and Beyond Separate Spheres: The Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism (1982). She is presently working on a biography of the feminist and civil rights advocate Pauli Murray.     David Rosner Information Title: Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Specialization: History of Medicine and Public Health Email: dr289@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 305 1727 Office: 722 West 168th St, 9th Floor Office Hours: Bio David Rosner, Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences in the Center for History and Ethics of Public Health and Professor of History, specializes in occupational and environmental health history and in the history of public health. He received his B.A. from City College , City University of New York, his M.S. from the University of Massachusetts , and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Macy Fellow, and has received a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award. His publications include: Health Care in America (co-ed., 1979); A Once Charitable Enterprise (1982); Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s Northside Center (1996); “Hives of Sickness” (1996); Are We Ready? Public Health since 911 (2006); and The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health (2008). He has also co-authored and edited five works with Gerald Markowitz, most recently Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (2002).     David Rothman Information Title: Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of History; Director, Center for the Study of Society and Medicine; Director, Center for Medicine as a Profession Specialization: History of Medicine and Public Health Email: djr5@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 305 4096 Office: 622 W 168th St. Office Hours: by appointment Bio David Rothman, Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of History, is director of the Center for the Study of Science and Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He specializes in social history and the history of medicine. He received his B.A. from Columbia (1958) and his Ph.D. from Harvard (1964). His published works include: Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care (1997); Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision-making (1991); The Willowbrook Wars (1984); Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America (1980); and The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (1971; new ed., 1990). He has most recently published The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement (2003), co-authored with Sheila Rothman.     S   Simon Schama Information Title: University Professor Specialization: Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 Email: sms53@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4593 Office: 522 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Thurs. 2-3pm Bio Education M.Phil – Cambridge University, 1969 B.A. – Cambridge University, 1994 Interests and Research Simon Schama, University Professor of Art History and History, was educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard before coming to Columbia in 1993. His courses have addressed the British Empire , English and French art and politics, the Gothic Revival in England , Ruskin, and Victorian culture. Publications include: A History of Britain (3 vols., 2000–2002); Patriots and Liberators (1977); The Embarrassment of Riches (1987); Citizens (1989); Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations (1991); Landscape and Memory (1995); Rembrandt’s Eyes (1999); Hang-Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly) (2004); and Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (2006), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction in 2007. His award-winning 15-part television series, “A History of Britain,” was broadcast on the BBC and the History Channel from 2000 to 2002, and a new series, “The Power of Art,” on PBS and BBC in 2006 and 2007. He served as Vice President of PEN American Center from 1994 to 1996, and from 1995 to 1998 he was art critic of The New Yorker magazine, for which he continues to write.   Neslihan Senocak Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Medieval Europe Email: nsenocak@columbia.edu Phone: 212-851-5910 Office: 510 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Diploma in Medieval and Franciscan Studies – Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome, Italy, 2003 Licence in Mediaeval Studies – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada, 2002 Ph.D. – Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002 M.A. – Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1997 B.S. – Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1994 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Neslihan ?enocak, assistant professor, specializes in medieval religious, intellectual and social history, in particular the medieval religious orders, the Franciscan transformation, popular religion, the rise of scholastic education, and the daily life in the thirteenth-century Italian communes.  Her most recent project is on the relationship of violent crimes and urbanization in thirteenth-century Perugia. Affiliations American Historical Association Medieval Academy of America   Patrick Singy Information Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Specialization: Modern Europe Email: ps2403@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours: by appointment   Herbert Sloan Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: hsloan@barnard.edu Phone: 212 854 3504 Office: Lehman 409 Office Hours: Wed. 4-6pm & by appt. Bio Herbert Sloan, Professor of History (Barnard), specializes in early American history. He received his B.A. from Stanford (1969) and his Ph.D. from Columbia (1988). His published works include: “ Hamilton ’s Second Thoughts: Federalist Finance Revisited,” in Federalists Reconsidered (1999), and Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt (1995). He is presently working on a book to be entitled The Fall and Rise of Nancy Randolph.     Pamela Smith Information Title: Professor Specialization: Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 Email: ps2270@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 7662 Office: 605 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Fall 2009 Bio Education Ph.D. – The Johns Hopkins University, 1991 B.A. – University Of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 1979 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE (Fall 2009), Graduate Education Committee (Spring, 2010) Interests and Research Pamela H. Smith, professor, specializes in early modern European history and the history of science. Her current research, which is supported by a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques.   Affiliations American Historical Association        Executive Council, American Historical Association, 2004-2006        Research Division Committee member, American Historical Association, 2005-2006        American Historical Review, Editorial Board, 2008-2010                               History of Science Society        Committee on Education, History of Science Society 2000-2002, Chair 2001-2002        Executive Council 2000-2002        Nominating Committee 2000-2001, 2008-09        Editorial Board, Isis, 1997-2000                Editorial Board, Osiris, 2000-2004 Society for Austrian and Habsburg History    Executive Council, 2003-2008 Renaissance Society of America        Editorial Board Member, Renaissance Quarterly and Council Member, 2006-2009        Gordan Prize Committee member, Renaissance Society of America, 2008-09. Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek     Advisory Board, 2008-present Interpretatio: Sources and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Classical Science        Editorial Advisory Board member, 2007-present Historians of Netherlandish Art             Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär British Society for the History of Science         American Association for Netherlandic Studies Sixteenth-Century Studies                    Society for the History of Technology Historical Metallurgy Society Huntington Dibner Fellowship Committee, 2008-10     Robert Somerville Information Title: Tremaine Professor of Religion and Professor of History Specialization: Medieval Europe Email: somervil@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 851 4150 Office: 80 Claremont, Room 302 Office Hours: Bio Robert Somerville, Tremaine Professor of Religion and Professor of History, specializes in the history of Christianity through the 16th-Century Reformation, the Medieval Latin Church, and the Papacy in the High Middle Ages. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University . His graduate courses deal with papal institutions, papal letters and Church councils, the Crusades, and canon law in the Middle Ages. His publications include: Pope Alexander III and the Council of Tours (1977); Scotia Pontificia: Papal Letters to Scotland before the Pontificate of Innocent III (1982); Pope Urban II, the Collectio Britannica, and the Council of Melfi (1089) (1996); and with Bruce C. Brasington, Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity: Selected Translations, 500–1245 (1998).     Michael Stanislawski Information Title: Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History Specialization: Jewish History Email: mfs3@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2482 Office: 601 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D. – Harvard University, 1979 A.M. – Harvard University, 1975 A.B. – Harvard College, 1973 Interests and Research Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of History, specializes in Jewish, European intellectual and Russian history.  In addition to his teaching, Professor Stanislawski directs the Contemporary Civilization Program and the Undergraduate Program in Human Rights.. Affiliations Editorial Board, Shvut: Studies in Russian and East European Jewish History and Culture, Tel Aviv        University Academic Committee, The Rothberg School of Overseas Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Academic Committee, Program Judaica at the Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow, International Advisory Committee on Jewish Studies, Central European University,  Budapest   Anders Stephanson Information Title: Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of History Specialization: United States Email: ags8@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 3002 Office: 612 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: ON LEAVE Bio Education Ph.D – Columbia University, 1986 M.Phil. – Oxford University, 1977 B.A. – Gothenburg University, 1975 Current Departmental Service ON LEAVE Interests and Research Anders Stephanson, Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of History, specializes in 20th-century American foreign relations as well as history and theory. He received a B.A. from Gothenburg (1975), an M.Phil from Oxford (1977), and a Ph.D. from Columbia (1986). His published works include Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy (1989) and Manifest Destiny (1995). He is working on a historiographical book on diplomatic history and a work tentatively entitled The United States as a Cold War.   Fritz Stern Information Title: University Professor Emeritus Specialization: Modern Europe Email: fs20@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D. - Columbia University, 1953 M.A. - Columbia University, 1948 B.A. - Columbia College, 1946 Interests and Research Fritz Stern, is University Professor emeritus and former Provost of Columbia University.  Professor Stern specializes in Modern European History, particularly German history, Jewish history, and historiography. He received his B.A., M.A., and PhD from Columbia University. His publications include: The Politics of Cultural Despair (1963); The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present (1970); Gold and Iron (1977); The Failure of Illiberalism (1973); Dreams and Delusions (1987); Einstein's German World (1999); and most recently Five Germanys I Have Known (2006).   Frank Sysyn Information Title: Visiting Professor Specialization: Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 Email: Phone: 212-854-4623 Office: Harriman Institute Office Hours:   T   Adam  Teller Information Title: Adjunct Professor Specialization: Jewish History Email: Phone: Office: 403 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours:   Lisa Tiersten Information Title: Professor Specialization: Modern Europe Email: ltierste@barnard.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4733 Office: Lehman 422A Office Hours: Bio Lisa Tiersten , professor (Barnard), specializes in modern European cultural history. She received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts , Amherst and her Ph.D. from Yale (1991). Her publications include Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France (2001); “Marianne in the Department Store: Gender and the Politics of Consumption in Turn-of-the-Century Paris,”in Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1859–1939, (1998); “The Chic Interior and the Feminine Modern: Home Decorating as High Art in Turn-of-the-Century Paris,”in Not At Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (1996); and “Redefining the Bourgeoisie: Recent Literature on Consumer Culture in Western Europe,” Radical History Review 57 (1993).     Gray Tuttle Information Title: Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies Specialization: East Asia Email: gwt2102@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 4096 Office: 407 Kent Hall Office Hours: Tues. 3-4pm Bio Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies (EALAC), received his Ph.D. in Inner Asian Studies at Harvard University (2002). He studies the history of twentieth-century Sino-Tibetan relations as well as Tibet ’s relations with the China-based Manchu Qing Empire. The role of Tibetan Buddhism in these historical relations is central to all his research. His publications include Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (2005). His current research project focuses on the support that Tibetan Buddhist institutions have received from the governments of China from the 17th to 20th century and how this support, along with economic growth in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, has fueled expansion and renewal of these institutions into the contemporary period. Forthcoming projects include Sources of Tibetan Tradition, co-edited for the series Introduction to Asian Civilizations, and the jointly authored volume Tibet : History, Society, and Culture.     U   Jens Ulff-Moller Information Title: Adjunct Associate Professor Specialization: Email: Phone: Office: Office Hours:   V   Deborah Valenze Information Title: Professor Specialization: Modern Europe Email: dvalenze@barnard.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5940 Office: Lehman 415B Office Hours: Tues. 3:30-5:30pm Bio Deborah Valenze , professor (Barnard), specializes in 18th- and 19th-century British history. She received her B.A. from Harvard University (1975) and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University (1982). Her publications include: Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England (1985); The First Industrial Woman (1995); contributions to A Companion to Gender History (2004) and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (2003), as well as essays and articles on social class and poverty. Her latest book, The Social Life of Money in the English Past, appeared in 2006. She is currently at work on a history of milk.     Marc Van De Mieroop Information Title: Professor Specialization: Ancient Email: mv1@columbia.edu Phone: 212-851-5913 Office: 424 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Wed. 3-5pm Bio Education Ph.D. – Yale University, 1983 M.A. – Yale University, 1980 B.A. – Katholieke Universiteit, 1978 Current Departmental Service Department Chair Interests and Research Marc Van De Mieroop, professor, specializes in ancient Near Eastern history. He received his B.A. from the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (1978) and his Ph.D. from Yale (1983). In addition to some 80 articles and reviews, he has published several books. The most recent include: A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000–323 B.C. (2004, rev. ed. 2007); King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography (2005); and The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II (2007). Professor Van De Mieroop is engaged in projects involving world history, and is interested in new approaches to the intellectual history of the ancient Near East.     Matthew Vaz Information Title: Core Preceptor Specialization: Email: mv2124@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours:   W   David Weiman Information Title: Professor Specialization: United States Email: dfw5@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 5755 Office: Lehman 5A Office Hours: Bio David F. Weiman, Alena Wels Hirschorn ‘58 Professor of Economics (Economics, Barnard), specializes in 19th- and 20th- century U.S. economic history and in the political economy of contemporary U.S. labor markets and criminal justice policies. He received is B.A. from Brown, his M.A. from Yale, and his Ph.D. from Stanford. His recent published works include: “Financial Clearing Systems,” in The Limits of Market Organization (2005); “‘Universal Service’ in the Early Bell System: The Co-Evolution of Regional Urban Systems and Long Distance Telephone Networks,” in History Matters (2004); and “The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration,” Crime and Delinquency 46 (2001). He co-edited Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration (2004), and with co-author John James, he is currently working on Towards a More Perfect Payments Union: Correspondent Banking Networks and the Formation of the Federal Reserve System. Weiman is associate American editor of the Financial History Review.     Carl Wennerlind Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 Email: cwennerl@barnard.edu Phone: +1 212 854 2055 Office: Lehman 403 Office Hours: Thurs. 3-5pm Bio Carl Wennerlind , assistant professor ( Barnard College ), specializes in 17th- and 18th-century political economy. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas , Austin . His current research projects include David Hume’s political economy and the intellectual and economic history of the British financial revolution. He has recently published in the Journal of Political Economy, History of Political Economy, and Hume Studies.     Wim Weymans Information Title: Lecturer in Discipline Specialization: Modern Western Europe Email: ww2199@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-8493 Office: 811 Hamilton Office Hours: Wed. 4:30-5:30pm   Emma Winter Information Title: Assistant Professor Specialization: Modern Europe Email: ew2176@columbia.edu Phone: 212-851-5909 Office: 420 Fayerweather Hall Office Hours: Bio Education Ph.D. – University of Cambridge, 2005 M. Phil. – University of Cambridge, 1999 M.A. – St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 2001 B.A. – St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 1998 Current Departmental Service Graduate Education Committee (Professional Development Chair, Prospectus Workshop Chair) Interests and Research Emma Winter , assistant professor, specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and Germany and, to a lesser extent, France and Italy . She is particularly interested in the concept of taste, processes of taste-making, and the role of tastemakers; cultural change, intercultural transfer, and trans-national exchange; nationalism and the construction of national cultures; state promotion of the arts, aesthetic approaches to governance, and the interaction between art, politics, and religion. Affiliations Visiting Fellow, Cultural Transmission and Disciplinary Change, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge   Joshua Wolff Information Title: Core Lecturer Specialization: United States Email: jdw2005@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-8492 Office: 809 Hamilton Hall Office Hours: Mon. 2-4pm   Isser Woloch Information Title: Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History Specialization: Modern Western Europe Email: iw6@columbia.edu Phone: Office: Office Hours: Bio Isser Woloch, Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History, specializes in the social and political history of18th and 19th century France.  He is currently working on a book project entitled "The Postwar Moment: The Allied Democracies in the Aftermath of World War II.  Using parallel narratives, this book examines "the postwar moment" in Britain, France, and the United States, when a progressive impetus for national transformation clashed with the inertial forces of "normalcy".   Nancy Woloch Information Title: Adjunct Professor Specialization: United States Email: nw49@columbia.edu Phone: 212-854-5820 Office: 422C Lehman Office Hours: Tues. 1-2pm Bio Nancy Woloch, adjunct professor (Barnard College), specializes in women's history and the history of education.  She received her B.A. from Wellesley College, her M.A. from Columbia University, and her Ph. D. from Indiana University.  Her published works include Women and the American Experience (1984, 1994, 1996, 2000); The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s, coauthor (1986, 1992, 1998); The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, coauthor (1990, 1993, 1996, 2000); Early American Women: A Documentary History (1992, 1997); and Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (1996).  She is presently working on a book entitled Protective Labor Laws: Gender and the Shaping of the American Century.   Richard Wortman Information Title: Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History Specialization: Modern Europe Email: rsw3@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 8488 Office: 1231 International Affairs Office Hours: Wed. 5-6pm Bio Richard Wortman, James Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History, specializes in the history of imperial Russia. He received his B. A. from Cornell University and his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1963 to 1977, and Princeton from 1977 to 1988, before coming to Columbia. His publications include The Crisis of Russian Populism (Cambridge University Press, 1967) and The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness (University of Chicago Press, 1976). (Russian translation, NLO Press, 2004). His most recent books are Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. Volume One: From Peter the Great to the Death of Nicholas I (Princeton University Press, 1995), Russian translation, (OGI Press,2002), and the second volume of the work From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II (Princeton University Press, 2000), (Russian translation, OGI Press, 2004), which was awarded the George L. Mosse prize of the American Historical Association.  The two volumes were awarded the 2006 Efim Etkind prize of the St. Petersburg European University for the best western work on Russian culture and literature.   His latest book is an abridged and revised one-volume version of Scenarios is Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II (Princeton University Press, 2006).  In November 2007, he received the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies’ highest award, for Distinguished Contributions to the Field of Slavic Studies. His current work concerns representations of imperial power and the culture of rule of  Russian monarchy.   Z   Madeleine Zelin Information Title: Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies Specialization: East Asia Email: mhz1@columbia.edu Phone: +1 212 854 1727 Office: 926 International Affairs Office Hours: Thurs. 12-2pm Bio Madeleine Zelin (University of California at Berkeley Ph.D. 1979) is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and director of the East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia University.  She served as director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute in 1992-93 and from 1995-2001. She teaches modern Chinese history as well as a variety of courses focusing on Chinese legal history and China's early modern social and economic transformation. Professor Zelin's research has taken her to archives and cities throughout China, where she has explored China’s historical process of state-building, elite formation, business organization and investment, and the development of early modern customary and statutory law governing private transactions. In addition to her numerous articles and book chapters, she is the author of  The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth  Century Ch'ing China (1984), the English translator of Mao Dun’s Rainbow (1992) and co-editor and author of Contract and Property Rights in Early Modern China (2003).  Her most recent book, The Merchants Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (2005) was awarded the Alan Sharlin Memorial Prize of the Social Science History Association, the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association, and the Humanities Prize of the International Conference on Asian Studies (ICAS).  She is currently working on a book on the cultural, political and economic forces that shaped China’s early twentieth century civil law reforms.