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| Charles Armstrong |
| Information |
| Title: | The Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | cra10@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 1721 |
| Office: | 930 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Bio |
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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
ON LEAVE
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)
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| Peter Awn |
| Information |
| Title: | Dean & Professor, School of General Studies |
| Specialization: | Middle East |
| Email: | pja3@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 6321 |
| Office: | 408 D Lewisohn Hall |
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| Janaki Bakhle |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | South Asia |
| Email: | jb588@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2149 |
| Office: | 602 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Bio |
| 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.
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| Karen Barkey |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Middle East |
| Email: | kb7@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3692 |
| Office: | 414 Fayerweather Hall |
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| 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.
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| Volker Berghahn |
| Information |
| Title: | Seth Low Professor of History |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | vrb7@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 8604 |
| Office: | 501 Fayerweather Mail Code: 2520 |
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| Bio |
| Volker Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of History, specializes in modern German history and European-American relations. He received his M.A. from the
University
of
North Carolina
,
Chapel Hill
(1961) and his Ph.D. from the
University
of
London
(1964). He taught in
England
and
Germany
before coming to
Brown
University
in 1988 and to
Columbia
ten years later. His publications include:
America
and the Intellectual Cold Wars in
Europe
(2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed., 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945–1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); and most recently Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006).
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| Richard Billows |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Ancient |
| Email: | rab4@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4486 |
| Office: | 322M Fayerweather |
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| Bio |
| Richard A. Billows, professor, specializes in Ancient Greek and Roman History and Greek epigraphy. He received his B.A. from
Oxford
University
(1978) and his Ph.D. from the
University
of
California
,
Berkeley
(1985). His publications include Kings and Colonists: Aspects of Macedonian Imperialism (1995) and Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State (1990).
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| Elizabeth Blackmar |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | eb16@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3016 |
| Office: | 524 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Bio |
| Elizabeth Blackmar, professor, specializes in social and urban history. She received her B.A. from Smith (1972) and her Ph.D. from Harvard (1981). Her publications include The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (with Roy Rosenzweig, 1992) and
Manhattan
for Rent, 1785-1850 (1989). Her recent articles are “Of REITS and Rights: Absentee Ownership at the Periphery” in City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History (2005) and “Appropriating the Commons: The Tragedy of Property Rights Discourse” in The Politics of Public Space (2005).
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| Casey Blake |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor and Director of American Studies |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | cb460@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 1785 |
| Office: | 504 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 1:30-3:30 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| Casey Nelson Blake, professor, specializes in modern U.S. intellectual and cultural history and American studies, with an emphasis on topics at the intersection of modernist art and politics in the twentieth century. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University (1978) and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (1987). He has edited The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State (2007). He is also the author of Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford (1990) and many articles in scholarly publications and journals of opinion. He is completing a volume of collected essays, Crisis of Confidence: Politics, Culture, and Social Thought in the 1970s, and a book manuscript entitled “Public Art and the Civic Imagination in Modernist America.”
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| Lisbeth Brandt |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | lb28@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5033 |
| Office: | 407 Kent Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 3-5 p.m. |
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| 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).
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| Alan Brinkley |
| Information |
| Title: | Provost and Allan Nevins Professor of American History |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | ab65@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2404 |
| Office: | 205 Low Library |
| Office Hours: | |
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| Bio |
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Alan Brinkley is the 20th Provost and the Allan Nevins Professor of History
at Columbia University in the City of New York.
A native of Washington, D.C., he was educated at Princeton and at Harvard,
where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1979. Before joining the Columbia
faculty in 1991, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard,
and the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Among his publications are Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin,
and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book
Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf,
1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is also
the author of two widely-used college American history textbooks: American
History: A Survey, now in its eleventh edition; and The Unfinished Nation:
A Concise History of the American People, now in its fourth edition. His
essays, articles, and reviews have appeared widely in scholarly journals and
in such other publications as the New York Times Book Review and Magazine;
the New York Review of Books; the New Republic; the New Yorker;
the Times Literary Supplement; the London Review of Books; Time;
Newsweek; Harper's; and the Atlantic.
He has had visiting appointments at Princeton, New York University, the University
of Torino, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris, and Oxford
University, where he was the 1998-99 Harmsworth Professor of American History.
He was the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard
in 1986 and of the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He has received
fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation,
the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Media Studies
Center, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
He chairs the board of trustees of the Century Foundation and serves on the
boards of the New York Council for the Humanities, the Dalton School, and the
National Humanities Center. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
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| Christopher Brown |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 |
| Email: | clb2140@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4591 |
| Office: | 610 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| Christopher L. Brown, professor, specializes in the history of the
British Empire
in the early modern era, and in the comparative history of slavery and abolition. He also has secondary interests in the Age of Revolutions and the history of the Atlantic World. He received his B.A. from
Yale
University
and his D.Phil. from
Balliol
College
,
Oxford
. His published works include Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (2006), and Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (co-ed., 2006). At present, he is working on two long-term projects, one on the British in
Africa
in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, and the other on the British planter class in the era of emancipation.
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| Richard Bulliet |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Middle East |
| Email: | rwb3@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 1741 |
| Office: | 1112 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 2-4 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| Richard Bulliet, professor, specializes in Middle Eastern history, the social and institutional history of Islamic countries, and the history of technology. He received his B.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1967) from Harvard. His publications include: The Patricians of Nishapur: A Study in Medieval Islamic Social History (1972); The Camel and the Wheel (1975); Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1979); Islam: The View from the Edge (1994); The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (2004); Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships (2005); and Cotton and Climate in Early Islamic Iran (forthcoming). He co-edited The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (1996), co-authored The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History (1997), and conceived and edited The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (1998).
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| Caroline Bynum |
| Information |
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| Bio |
| Caroline Walker Bynum studies the religious ideas and practices of the European Middle Ages. In the 1980s, her books Jesus as Mother and Holy Feast and Holy Fast were instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into Medieval Studies; in the 1990s, her books Fragmentation and Redemption and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom studied the history of the body. Her study Metamorphosis and Identity (Zone Books, 2001) explored concepts of personal identity, of the body/soul connection, and of transformation in late medieval European thought. Her book, Wonderful Blood (
University
of
Pennsylvania Press
, 2007) is a study of blood piety in northern
Germany
in its European setting. She is currently working on the role of objects in late medieval religion, placing them in the context of contemporary theories of miracles and materiality.
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| Euan Cameron |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 |
| Email: | ecameron@uts.columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 280 1550 |
| Office: | Union Theological Seminary |
| Office Hours: | |
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| Bio |
| For information on Professor Cameron's career and publications, please see:
http://www.utsnyc.edu/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=332&srcid=297
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| Elisheva Carlebach |
| Information |
| Title: | Visiting Professor |
| Specialization: | Jewish History |
| Email: | ec607@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | 212-854-5294 |
| Office: | 505 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | |
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| Mark Carnes |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | mc422@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5943 |
| Office: | Lehman 415A |
| Office Hours: | Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30 p.m. |
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| 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.
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| John Coatsworth |
| Information |
| Title: | Acting Dean, School of International and Public Affairs; Professor of International and Public Affairs and of History |
| Specialization: | Latin America |
| Email: | jhc2125@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4604 |
| Office: | 1414 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | Tuesday 3-5 |
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| 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.
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| Deborah Coen |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | dcoen@barnard.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 7449 |
| Office: | Lehman 410 |
| Office Hours: | |
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| Bio |
| Deborah R. Coen, assistant professor (Barnard), received her Ph.D. from Harvard (2004), and specializes in modern central European history and the history of science and technology. Her research is driven by an interest in how scientists grapple with uncertainty and unpredictability. Currently, she is studying how central European climate scientists in the first half of the twentieth century struggled to demarcate “local” climates in the face of the radical shifts in scale of their patron states. Her other research interests include the emergence of scientific concepts of “error,” the relationship between science and private life, and the history of aerial photography. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (2007) and a co-editor of Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (2006). Formerly, she was a junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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| Nancy Collins |
| Information |
| Title: | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | nwc2106@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4727 |
| Office: | 1203 IAB |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 3-5 p.m. |
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| Bio |
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| Matthew Connelly |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | mjc96@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4563 |
| Office: | 623 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| Matthew Connelly, associate professor, works in international and global history. He received his B.A. from
Columbia
(1990) and his Ph.D. from Yale ( 1997). His publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (2002) and research articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, The American Historical Review, The Review française d’histoire d’Outre-mer, and Past & Present. He has also published commentary on international affairs in The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest. His next book, “Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population,” will be published by Harvard University Press in 2008.
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| Victoria De Grazia |
| Information |
| Title: | James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Director of the Institute for the Study of Europe |
| Specialization: | Modern Europe |
| Email: | vd19@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3667 |
| Office: | 617 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 4:30-6:00 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| A native of Chicago, Victoria De Grazia was educated at Smith College, University of Florence, and Columbia University where she received her Ph.D. in history with distinction in 1976. Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1994, she taught at Rutgers University. Her research interests lie in contemporary history, with longstanding commitments to studying western Europe and Italy from a gendered perspective and to developing a global perspective on commercial revolutions. Her publications include: Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth Century Europe (2005); The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (ed., 1996); How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (1992); The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (1981). She is currently writing a book about intimacy and power in Fascist Italy.
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| Andrew Delbanco |
| Information |
| Title: | Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | ad19@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 6698 |
| Office: | 418 Hamilton Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 2:30-4 p.m. |
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| Mamadou Diouf |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | African Studies |
| Email: | md2573@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | 212 854 4083 |
| Office: | 623 Kent Hall |
| Office Hours: | |
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| 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
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 8296 |
| Office: | 208 Low Library |
| Office Hours: | |
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| Bio |
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Nicholas B. Dirks is the Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University, where since September 2004 he has been Vice President for the Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty. Dirks came to Columbia in 1997 when he was asked to chair and rebuild the department of Anthropology. Before coming to Columbia, Dirks was Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where he had also been the founding Director of the Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program in Anthropology and History, Director of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Director of the Advanced Study Center of the International Institute.
Dirks did his undergraduate degree in Asian and African Studies in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University, graduating in 1972. He then joined the Ph.D. program in the department of History at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981. He taught in the Division of Humanities at the California Institute of Technology between 1978 and 1987, when he accepted a professorial position at the University of Michigan. He has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and has held a visiting appointment at the London School of Economics.
His major works include The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 1987); Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2001); and The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (Harvard University Press, 2006). He has edited several books, including Colonialism and Culture, (University of Michigan Press, 1992), Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (Princeton University Press, 1994), and In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the end of the Century (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), and published more than forty articles on subjects ranging from the history and anthropology of South Asia to social and cultural theory, the history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, and globalization. He has done extensive archival and field research in India as well as in Britain. He is currently working on a book concerning imperial sovereignty with special reference to the historical relationship between Britain and India.
Dirks has held numerous fellowships and scholarships and received several scholar honors, including a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lionel Trilling Award for his book Castes of Mind. He has directed book series at Princeton and Columbia University Presses. He also serves on numerous national and international bodies, as advisor or member of the board, and is a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. As Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty at Columbia, he is responsible for the academic administration and direction of 29 departments (covering the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences), 27 institutes and centers, and 6 schools (Columbia College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of International and Public Affairs, the School of the Arts, the School of General Studies, and the School of Continuing Education). In addition, he oversees the operational and financial management of the Arts and Sciences in conjunction with long-term academic and financial planning.
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| Alan Dye |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | Latin America |
| Email: | ad245@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3868 |
| Office: | Lehman 9B |
| Office Hours: | |
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| Elizabeth Esch |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | eesch@barnard.edu
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| Phone: | 212 854 5940 |
| Office: | TBA |
| Office Hours: | TBA |
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| 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.
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| Barbara Fields |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | Prof. Fields does not use email
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3004 |
| Office: | 621 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m. or by appointment |
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| Bio |
| Barbara J. Fields, professor, specializes in southern history and 19th-century social history. She received her B.A. from Harvard (1968) and her Ph.D. from Yale (1978). She is the author of Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1985) and coauthor of The Destruction of Slavery (1985), Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992), and Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (1992).
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| Eric Foner |
| Information |
| Title: | Dewitt Clinton Professor of History |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | ef17@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5253 |
| Office: | 620 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | |
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| Bio |
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Eric Foner
, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century
America
. He received his B.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1969) from
Columbia
. His publications include: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970); Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976); Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980); Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983); Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (1988); Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (1993); The Story of American Freedom (1998); and most recently the textbook Give Me Liberty!: An American History (2004). He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning “A House Divided:
America
in the Age of Lincoln,” at the Chicago Historical Society.
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| Pierre Force |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 |
| Email: | pf3@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5526 |
| Office: | 517 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: | |
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| 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
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| Lynn Garafola |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Dance History, Criticism, and Research |
| Email: | lg97@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | 212-854-9770 |
| Office: | Barnard Annex 204 |
| Office Hours: | Mon/Wed 12-2 and by appointment |
|  |
| 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.
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| Abosede George |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Africa |
| Email: | ageorge@barnard.edu
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| Phone: | 212-854-3645 |
| Office: | Lehman 418 |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 3-4:30 p.m. |
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Abosede George
, assistant professor (Barnard), specializes in African history, women’s history, urban history of
Africa
, and the history of childhood in
Africa
. She received her Ph.D. from
Stanford
University
(2006). Her article “Feminist Activism and Class Politics: The Example of the Lagos Girl Hawker Project” is forthcoming Women’s Studies Quarterly 35 (2007). She is currently working on a book project about the history of juvenile justice in 20th-century
Lagos, Nigeria
.
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| Carol Gluck |
| Information |
| Title: | George Sansom Professor of History |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | cg9@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2591 |
| Office: | 912 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Bio |
| Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, specializes in modern
Japan
, from the late nineteenth century to the present, with writings on intellectual history, international relations, postwar Japanese history, historiography and public memory in
Japan
and the west. She received her B.A. from
Wellesley
(1962) and her Ph.D. from
Columbia
(1977). Her books include:
Japan
’s Modern Myths (1985); Showa: the Japan of Hirohito (1992); Asia in Western and World History (1997); Thinking with the Past: the Japanese and Modern History (2008); and Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory (forthcoming).
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| Owen Gutfreund |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | odg1@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4876 |
| Office: | Lehman 407 |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 3-4 p.m. & Wednesdays, 2-3:30 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| Owen Gutfreund, associate professor (Barnard), specializes in American urban history. He received his B.A. from Vassar College (1985) and his Ph.D. from Columbia (1998). His publications include 20th-Century Sprawl: Accommodating the Automobile and the Decentralization of the United States (2004) and “The Path of Prosperity: New York City ’s East River Drive, 1920–1990,” Journal of Urban History 21 (1995).
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| Jahyun Haboush |
| Information |
| Title: | King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | jkh25@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5040 |
| Office: | 416 Kent Hall |
| Office Hours: | |
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| 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).
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| Evan Haefeli |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | eh2204@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2434 |
| Office: | 323 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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Evan Haefeli
, assistant professor, specializes in colonial
America
and Native American history. He has a B.A. from
Hampshire
College
(1992) and a Ph.D. from
Princeton
University
(2000). With Kevin Sweeny he has co-authored Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (2003) with and co-edited a collection of primary documents and captivity narratives related to the same event entitled Captive Stories (2006). His current work is on the origins of religious toleration in colonial
America
. His interests include religion, politics, cross-cultural relations, comparative colonialism, frontier studies, witchcraft, warfare, the slave trade, and the history of the book in the early modern Atlantic World.
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| Hilary Hallett |
| Information |
| Title: | Postdoctoral Research Scholar |
| Specialization: | |
| Email: | hah2117@columbia.edu
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| William Harris |
| Information |
| Title: | William R. Shepherd Professor of History |
| Specialization: | Ancient |
| Email: | wvh1@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3702 |
| Office: | 624 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 1-3:30 p.m. & by appointment |
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| Bio |
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William Vernon Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History, specializes in the history of ancient Greek and Roman worlds. He received his B.A., M.A. and D.Phil from
Oxford
University
. His publications include Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (2002), Ancient Literacy (1989), and War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (1979). The books he has edited include The Transformations of Urbs Roma in Late Antiquity (1999), Rethinking the
Mediterranean
(2004), and (with Giovanni Ruffini) Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece (2005). His current work is divided between economic history (he is contributing to the Cambridge Economic History of the Greek and Roman Worlds) and the study of ancient dreams (a continuation of his interest in psychological aspects of ancient history). He is the Director of Columbia's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. Read Harris's articles "The Mediterranean and Ancient History", published in *Rethinking the Mediterranean* (Oxford University Press, 2005), "Quando E Come L’Italia Divenne Per La Prima Volta
Italia?Un Saggio Sulla Politica Dell’Identità", and "The Late Republic", from the Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World.
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| Martha Howell |
| Information |
| Title: | Miriam Champion Professor of History |
| Specialization: | Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 |
| Email: | mch4@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 7404 |
| Office: | 614 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Bio |
| 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.”
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| Robert Hymes |
| Information |
| Title: | Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | hymes@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2574 |
| Office: | 407A Kent |
| Office Hours: | By Appointment |
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| 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).
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| Kenneth Jackson |
| Information |
| Title: | Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | ktj1@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2555 |
| Office: | 603 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 4-6 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| 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. He received his doctorate from the
University
of
Chicago
(1966). Professor Jackson has been president of the Urban History Association, the Society of American Historians, the Organization of American Historians, and the New York Historical Society. His publications include: The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915–1930 (1967); Cities in American History (with Stanley Schultz, 1972); Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery (with Camilo Vergara, 1990); Encyclopedia of New York City (ed., 1995); Empire City: New York Through the Centuries (with David Dunbar, 2001); and Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (with Hilary Ballon, 2007). His best-known book is Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985), which won both the Francis Parkman and Bancroft Prizes and which is now in its 28th printing.
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| Matthew Jones |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | Early Modern Europe, 1350-1750 |
| Email: | mj340@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2421 |
| Office: | 523 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 2-4 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| 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).
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| Ira Katznelson |
| Information |
| Title: | Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | iik1@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3646 |
| Office: | 716 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | |
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| Bio |
| 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).
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| Joel Kaye |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | Medieval Europe |
| Email: | jkaye@barnard.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 4350 |
| Office: | Lehman 422B |
| Office Hours: | |
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| 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.
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| Gulnar Kendirbai |
| Information |
| Title: | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Eurasia, Central Asia |
| Email: | gk2020@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | 212-854-4623 |
| Office: | Harriman Institute, 1205 IAB |
| Office Hours: | by appointment via gk2020@columbia.edu |
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| Bio |
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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.
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| 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
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2420 |
| Office: | 604 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 2-3:30 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| 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.
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| Rashid Khalidi |
| Information |
| Title: | Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies; Director - Middle East Institute |
| Specialization: | Middle East |
| Email: | rik2101@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2584 |
| Office: | 1116 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Bio |
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Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, specializes in Middle Eastern history. He received his B.A. from Yale (1970) and his D.Phil. from Oxford (1974). His publications include: 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 (1997), the co-winner of the Middle East Studies Association 1997 Albert Hourani Book Award; Under Siege: P.L.O. Decision-making during the 1982 War (1985); British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914: The Antecedents of the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, the Sykes-Picot Agreements and the Balfour declaration (1980); The Origins of Arab Nationalism (ed., 1991); and Palestine and the Gulf: Proceedings of an International Seminar (ed., 1982). His works have been translated into French, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew.
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| Dorothy Ko |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | dk2031@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 9624 |
| Office: | Lehman 416D |
| Office Hours: | |
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| 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).
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| Rebecca Kobrin |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Jewish History |
| Email: | rk2351@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 9017 |
| Office: | 1229 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Bio |
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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.
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| Adam Kosto |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | Medieval Europe |
| Email: | ajkosto@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 3005 |
| Office: | 501 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | ON LEAVE |
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| Bio |
| 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.
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| William Leach |
| Information |
| Title: | Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | wrl3@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 8217 |
| Office: | 325 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | |
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| Bio |
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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.
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| Eugenia Lean |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | eyl2006@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 1742 |
| Office: | 925 International Affairs |
| Office Hours: | Wednesdays, 2-4 p.m. |
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| 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.
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| Feng Li |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | fl123@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 2510 |
| Office: | 407 Kent Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m. |
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| 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.
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| Natasha Lightfoot |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | United States |
| Email: | njl2106@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5253 |
| Office: | 620 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays, 2:30-3:45 p.m. |
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| Bio |
| Natasha Lightfoot, assistant professor, specializes in emancipation, race, and labor studies within the fields of
Caribbean
, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. She received her B.A. from Yale (1999) and her Ph.D. from
New York
University
(2007). Her publications include “Sunday Marketing, Contestations over Time, and Visions of Freedom among Enslaved Antiguans after 1800,” C.L.R. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas 12 (2007). She is currently working on a project tracing grassroots resistance and identity formation among emancipated people in
Antigua
.
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| David Lurie |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | East Asia |
| Email: | dbl11@columbia.edu
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| Phone: | +1 212 854 5316 |
| Office: | 500A Kent Hall |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 3:00-4:30 p.m. & Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30 a.m. |
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| 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.
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| Marco Maiuro |
| Information |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Specialization: | Ancient History |
| Email: | |
| Phone: | |
| Office: | |
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| Gregory Mann |
| Information |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Specialization: | Africa |
| Email: | gm522@columbia.edu
|
| Phone: | +1 212 854 3168 |
| Office: | 615 Fayerweather Hall |
| Office Hours: | By appointment |
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| Bio |
| 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. He is the author of Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the 20th Century (2006), which was co-winner of the David Pinkney prize of the Society for French Historical Studies for the best book in French history published in North America in 2006 and a finalist for the Melville J. Herskovits prize for the best book in African Studies, awarded by the African Studies Association. His articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, Politique Africaine, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and the Journal of African History. Professor Mann received his B.A. from the
University
of
Georgia
(1993) and his Ph.D. from Northwestern (2000).
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| Manning Marable |
| Information |
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