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Fellows
  • SOF/Heyman Fellow Alumni Claudio Saunt Wins the 2021 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy
  • SOF Alum Dan-el Padilla Peralta featured in the New York Times Magazine
  • SOF Fellow Leah Aronowsky’s article “Gas Guzzling Gaia” published in Critical Inquiry
  • SOF Alum Joelle Abi-Rached in the Boston Review and Le Monde
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Board Members
  • Humanities in the Emergency Room: CHCI in Conversation with Dr. Rishi Goyal
  • SOF Board Member Shamus Khan’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post
  • Katharina Volk, Thomas Graham, and Giuseppe Gerbino awarded NEH grants!
  • Former SOF Board Member Alondra Nelson featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
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Only at SOF/Heyman
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  • Associate Director Emily Bloom has won the 2017 MSA Prize for a First Book!
  • Wm Theodore de Bary Wins 2013 National Humanities Medal

Humanities in the Emergency Room: CHCI in Conversation with Dr. Rishi Goyal

While New York City was the epicenter of the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic, Rishi Goyal served as Attending Physician in the Emergency Department at Columbia University Medical Center. Every day, he and his colleagues tended to and cared for patients struck down by this incurable illness as mortalities throughout the city, and throughout the United…

Board Members, Public Humanities, Medical Humanities

SOF Fellow Leah Aronowsky’s article “Gas Guzzling Gaia” published in Critical Inquiry

This article tells the story of the oil and gas origins of the Gaia hypothesis, the theory that the Earth is a homeostatic system. It shows how Gaia’s key assumption—that the climate is a fundamentally stable system, able to withstand perturbations—emerged as a result of a collaboration between the theory’s progenitor, James Lovelock, and Royal Dutch Shell…

Fellows, SOF Fellows

How to Turn Your PhD into a Netflix Series

While a graduate student in the history of science, Latif Nasser started moonlighting as a journalist. Upon graduating, he took the plunge covering science in print for the Boston Globe, through the podcast Radiolab, and in a Netflix docuseries called Connected. In this Hazen lecture, he will give a few tips about how to tell science stories — past and…

Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice

How to Turn Your PhD into a Netflix Series

Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice

Humanities Centers Initiative Public Humanities Grant and SOF/Heyman Public Humanities Fellowship

Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice

SOF/Heyman Fellow Alumni Claudio Saunt Wins the 2021 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Crises of Democracy

Announcements

Storytelling and Spatial Violence Series

Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice

CHCI Medical Humanities Network Call for Papers: Summer Institute 2021: Space, Place, Design

Announcements, Public Humanities, Medical Humanities

Application Workshop: Summer Program for High School Students: SOF/Heyman Award

Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice

SOF Alum Dan-el Padilla Peralta featured in the New York Times Magazine

Fellows, SOF Fellows, Public Humanities

Special Issue of Synapsis on Justice in Education and Covid-19

Public Humanities, Medical Humanities, Justice-in-Education

SOF Fellow Leah Aronowsky’s article “Gas Guzzling Gaia” published in Critical Inquiry

Fellows, SOF Fellows

SOF Alum Joelle Abi-Rached in the Boston Review and Le Monde

Fellows, SOF Fellows

What We Can Learn from The Literature of Past Pandemics

Fellows, SOF Fellows, Public Humanities, Medical Humanities

Humanities in the Emergency Room: CHCI in Conversation with Dr. Rishi Goyal

Board Members, Public Humanities, Medical Humanities

Reading in the Dugout

Only at SOF/Heyman

The Crises of Democracy Curriculum

Announcements

Building Publics: Humanities Combating Isolation Spring 2020 Series Overview and Schedule

Fellows, Public Humanities Fellows, Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice

Fellow Joelle Abi-Rached granted award by the American Association of the History of Medicine

Fellows, SOF Fellows

SOF Board Member Shamus Khan’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post

Board Members

SOF Alum Brian Goldstone in the New Republic

Fellows, SOF Fellows

SOF Alum Hidetaka Hirota appeared on New Books Network

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Katharina Volk, Thomas Graham, and Giuseppe Gerbino awarded NEH grants!

Board Members

Former SOF Board Member Alondra Nelson featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Board Members

Event: “Out of State” Screening and Discussion with SOF Alum Max Mishler

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Fellow María González Pendás presents Holy Modern: East, West, and the Constructs of Empire in Spain

Fellows, SOF Fellows

SOF Fellow Christopher Florio writes Op-Ed on Barbados slavery in the Richmond Times-Dispatch

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SOF Alum Emily Ogden writes Op-Ed on mesmerism in the New York Times

Fellows, SOF Fellows

SOF Alum Hidetaka Hirota writes Op-Ed on citizenship in the Washington Post

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Emily Ogden’s Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (Chicago, 2018) reviewed

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Break the Silence

Public Humanities

ARTE: Global Women Heroes Project Event (June 4th, 2018)

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

“Getting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind” by Robert Wright

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

The Mellon Foundation awards a renewal of $1.7 million to the Justice-in-Education Initiative

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Humanities New York sits down with Josie Whittlesey of Drama Club and Cameron Rasmussen and Ryan Bur

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

PEN America’s $10,000 Writing for Justice Fellowship Accepting Applications starting on 15 April

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Former SOF fellow Rebecca Woods and her sons on the cover of the Toronto Star

Fellows, SOF Fellows

The Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Doyle Lee Hamm

Public Humanities

Professor Bernard Harcourt featured in NYT OpEd

Board Members

From the NY Times: “Senate Leaders Reconsider Ban on Pell Grants for Prisoners”

Public Humanities

JIE Scholar Topeka K. Sam hosts a new show on SiriusXM Urban View 'Last Mile, Second Chances'

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Columbia Faculty Bernard Harcourt Defends Terminally Ill Inmate on Death Row

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Carmel Raz on recent conference “Instruments of Music Theory”

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Medical and Health Humanities website launches, founded by SOF Fellow Arden Hegele

Public Humanities, Medical Humanities

Reinhold Martin, Chair, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, recently featured in New York Times

Board Members

Public Books’ Virtual Roundtable on Engaged Scholarship and Teaching

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

The Rikers Coding Project Workshops

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Carl Hart, Dirk Ziff Professor of Psychology, writes OpEd in the NYT on “The Real Opioid Emergency”

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Associate Director Emily Bloom has won the 2017 MSA Prize for a First Book!

Only at SOF/Heyman

Justice in Education Scholar Topeka K. Sam named 2017 Soros Justice Fellow

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Justice in Education Scholar Topeka K. Sam writes op-ed for Open Society

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Hidetaka Hirota (Fellow 2013-2016) on C-SPAN, and in TIME Magazine and American Quarterly

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Justice-in-Education Initiative featured as the cover story for Columbia Magazine’s summer ‘17 issue

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Congratulations PHI Fellow Sahar Ullah on Receiving the 2017 Presidential Award!

Fellows, Public Humanities Fellows

Teresa M. Bejan (Fellow 2013-2014) in The Washington Post

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Columbia University’s Center for Justice announces the June Jordan Fellowship

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Essay by SOF Alumn Dan-el Padilla: “An immigrant in the time of Trump”

Fellows, SOF Fellows

First, They Excluded the Irish

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Litigating Executive Power and Islamophobia

Board Members

New publication by SOF Alumni Hidetaka Hirota | Expelling the Poor

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Columbia University Announces Edward W. Said Fellowship

Announcements

2017-2018 Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellowship, in Partnership with Humanities New York

Announcements, Public Humanities

THE EX-CON SCHOLARS OF BERKELEY by Larissa MacFarquhar

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Public Humanities Fellow Nicole Gervasio: “Letting Scopes Collide at the Kaleidoscope Project”

Fellows, Public Humanities Fellows

Forgery Fiction by Maggie Cao in Public Books

Fellows, SOF Fellows

A Liberal Arts Education in Prison

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

David and Elaine Spitz Prize awarded to Melissa Schwartzberg, former SOF Governing Board Member

Board Members

NY Times Op-Ed by Geraldine Downey & Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

CUNY The Center for the Humanities Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research

Public Humanities

U.S. to Phase Out Use of Private Prisons for Federal Inmates

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

The Confined Arts - Visions Of Confinement

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

JIE Professor Christia Mercer’s piece on Women and Incarceration in “The Guardian”

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Nicole Callahan Awarded The Core Preceptor Award for Teaching Excellence

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Justice-in-Education Scholar Devon Simmons Featured in Metro

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Justice-in-Education Initiative Teaching in Prison featured on CBS This Morning

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Columbia Joins White House in the Fair Chance Higher Education Pledge

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

“Beyond Radical Enchantment: Mesmerizing Laborers in the Americas” Forthcoming by Emily Ogden

Fellows, SOF Fellows

JIE Initiative Co-Director Geraldine Downey & JIE Scholars visit White House

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

SOF Alumnus Josh Dubler named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Justice-in-Education Fellow Brian Goldstone Published in Jacobin

Fellows, SOF Fellows, Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Cecila Miller publishes “Enlightenment and Political Fiction: The Everyday Intellectual” (Routledge)

Fellows, SOF Fellows

President Bollinger Acknowledges Justice-in-Education Initiative

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Justice-in-Education Fellow and Society of Fellows Alumnus Brian Goldstone Published in Jacobin

Fellows, SOF Fellows

David Gutkin Co-Edits Special Issue of the American Music Review

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Hidetaka Hirota article featured in Irish Times

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Fellow Hidetaka Hirota Featured on Irish Radio

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Columbia Magazine: The Wire Goes Ivy

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

The Confined Arts Exhibition

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Justice-in-Education Initiative Transforms the Lives of Current, Former Prisoners

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Call for Applications: Public Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship, 2016-17

Announcements, Public Humanities

Short Videos by JUST Arts Lab Students at Columbia

Public Humanities

Alumna Fellow Yanfei Sun (‘10-‘13) published in Modern China

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Press Release: The New York Consortium for Higher Education in Prison

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Coverage for Dan-el Padilla Peralta and his Forthcoming Memoir

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna Fellow Jordanna Bailkin (‘99 -‘01) published in the American Historical Review

Fellows, SOF Fellows

New York Times: ‘Voodoo,’ Opera by the African-American Composer H. Lawrence Freeman, Is Revived

Public Humanities

Fellow Dan-el Padilla Peralta Writes on Hip-hop and the Classics

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Book by Alumnus Fellow Guolong Lai (‘02-‘04) selected for the Art History Publishing Initiative

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna Fellow Hagar Kotef (‘09-‘12) publishes “Movement and the Ordering of Freedom”

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Press Coverage for Justice-in-Education Initiative

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

$1 Million Grant Awarded from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for New Justice-in-Education Initiative

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Architect Mimar Sinan Exhibition Based on Alumna Fellow (86’-87’) Gülru Necipoğlu’s Book

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna Fellow Lorraine Daston (‘79-‘80) Gives Closing Talk at Descriptions Across Disciplines

Fellows, SOF Fellows

New York Times: Long-Unheard Harlem Renaissance Opera Coming in June

Public Humanities

The Society of Fellows in the Humanities Announces its New Fellows for 2015-16

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Fellow Hidetaka Hirota wins Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna Joanne van der Woude (‘07-‘08) wins €800,000 Vidi Grant from the NWO

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna Rebecca M. Lesses (‘96-‘98) receives Fellowship at Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Call for Proposals: Justice Studies Curriculum Development Grant

Announcements, Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Professor Christia Mercer Praises “Justice-in-Education” Initiative in Washington Post Op-ed

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Alumnus Fellow Laurence Dreyfus (‘79-‘81) releases new album “John Ward: Fantasies & Verse Anthems”

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Fellow Brian Goldstone organizes Exhibition and Symposia

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Andrew Lear (‘04-‘06) Leads Gay History Tours throughout Europe and New York City

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Vanessa Agard-Jones (‘13-‘14) on “Body Burdens: Toxic Endurance and Decolonial Desire in Martinique”

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Call for Papers: Restaging the Harlem Renaissance

Announcements, Public Humanities

Fellow Will Deringer Talk on “Facts and Figures: The Birth of Numerical Objectivity”

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna Wiebke Denecke (04’-06’) Wins “New Directions” Fellowship from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna Dana Fields (‘10-‘13) Forthcoming Chapter on Roman Philosophical Oratory

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Revisiting Vidya Dehejia (‘84-‘86) and Indian Silver for the Raj

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Columbia’s Heyman Center and The Center for Justice collaborate to present Justice Programming

Public Humanities, Justice-in-Education

Alumnus Fellow James Hankins (‘83-‘85) Elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumnus Fellow John Bugg (’07-’08) Publishes New Title on Romanticism

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna Fellow Sarah Jacoby’s (‘06-‘09) New Book on Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumnus Fellow George Bournoutian (‘78-‘80) Publishes 20th Book

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna Fellow Suzanne Nalbantian Organizes Symposium on Creativity in Neuroscience and Humanities

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumnus Fellow Paize Keulemans’ Forthcoming Book, “Sound Rising from Paper”

Fellows, SOF Fellows

American Musicological Society Supports Book by Alumna Fellow Kate van Orden (‘96-‘97)

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Wm Theodore de Bary Wins 2013 National Humanities Medal

Board Members, Only at SOF/Heyman

Welcome to the New Fellows!

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Next Steps for Three Fellows

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumna (‘95-‘97) Linda Przybyszewski Publishes The Lost Art of Dress

Fellows, SOF Fellows

Alumnus (‘00-‘02) John Tresch wins 2013 Pfizer Prize for Best Scholarly Book

Fellows, SOF Fellows
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