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Fellowship Opportunity: Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship 2023-2024

Applications for the Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship from the SOF/Heyman's Public Humanities initiative are now open. All current Columbia Univesrity PhD students with a concept for a public-facing project are welcome to apply. Deadline March 31, 2023.

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New publication from GHI Partnership on Crises of Democracies (video)

New Publication: Transatlantic Crises of Democracies: Cultural Approaches evaluates the dismantling of democratic institutions and the forms of resistance that have emerged in response

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Announcing the release of NO PLACE | لا مكان Radio Play Series

A new platform for Palestinian playwrights to explore contemporary themes through an historic medium of performance, NO PLACE | لا مكان brings listeners three short radio plays, produced in Arabic and in English.

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SOF Alum Zaid Jabri chosen to participate in Sofia Symphonic Summit

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Call for Applications: Pandemic Program at History Lab

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Fellowship Opportunity: Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship 2023-2024

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New Podcast from Trinity Long Room Hub: The History of the Future

Call for Papers: Refugee Cities: Symposium on the Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement

New publication from GHI Partnership on Crises of Democracies (video)

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Call for Papers: Decarbonization, Climate Resilience, and Climate Justice Conference

Podcast: SOF Fellow Renzo Aroni on attacks of Peruvian's rural and Indigenous people

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Announcing the SOF Spring 2023 Thursday Lecture Series Theme: Failure

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Announcing the release of NO PLACE | لا مكان Radio Play Series

New anthology from SOF Alum Arden Hegele and former Board Member Rishi Goyal

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Board member Katharina Pistor leads new Laws of Capitalism online lecture series

Call for Papers: Conception and Its Discontents

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Public Books publishes new article from current SOF Fellow Emma Shaw Crane

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Announcing our Fall 2022 Public Humanities Skills Workshops

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Volunteer with the Justice-in-Education Initiative

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SOF Fellow Atesede Makonnen reviews Deanna P. Koretsky in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies journal

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SOF Alum Hidetaka Hirota publishes Washington Post op-ed

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Former Board Member Michele Moody-Adams pens new article on censorship

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SOF Alum Jordanna Bailkin awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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SOF Alum Emily Ogden celebrates new book on High Theory podcast

Fellowship Opportunity: Assembling Voices Program

Public Humanities

New opera with music by SOF Alum Zaid Jabri to premiere in NYC

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SOF Alum Naeem Mohaiemen Speaks With Art Critic Ben Davis and Artist Julieta Aranda About "Art in the After-Culture"

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SOF Fellow Youssef Ben Ismail featured in "What Can Tunisian History Teach Us About the Ottoman Empire?"

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Trinity College Dublin Welcomes Rashid Khalidi As a Heyman-Hub Fellow

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SOF Alum Arden Hegele Interviewed by Columbia News

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SOF Board Member Kaiama L. Glover Awarded Two Major Grants

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Announcing the Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship 2022-2023

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SOF Fellow Leah Aronowsky Speaks at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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SOF Fellow Youssef Ben Ismail featured in conversation at Columbia's European Institute

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Register Now for A Crisis of Caring: The Humanities and Our Health (04/11-14)

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SOF Fellow Nyle E. Fort Published in New York Magazine: The Religion of Protest

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LA Review of Books Publishes an Essay by Akua Banful, 2020-2021 Heyman Center Graduate Fellow

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Literary Hub Publishes an Excerpt from SOF Board Member Manan Ahmed's Latest Book

Event of Note: Undesign the Redline @ Barnard Symposium; Nov 19th & 20th

Public Humanities

SOF Alum Ginger Strand Featured at Upcoming Event at Brooklyn Public Library on Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

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SOF Fellow Leah Aronowsky Featured in the The New York Review of Books

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Publics Lab's Three-Part Series on Media Engagement

Public Humanities

Announcement of the 2022-23 II&I Fellowship Competition

SOF Alum Brian Goldstone in New America on Working Homeless People in America

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Announcing the “Mauvais Genres: French Cinema Takes on Gender” Film Festival

Season 2 of Writing Home, A Podcast by Kaiama L. Glover and Tami Navarro, Is Out Now!

SOF Alum William Deringer Co-Winner of the 2021 Joseph J. Spengler Book Prize

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Join SOF Fellow Fernando Montero in Celebrating the Launch of the Center for Mexican and Central American Studies

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SOF Fellow Renzo Aroni featured on NPR's All Things Considered

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Virtual Conference: Technologies of Power

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Call for Participants: Zip Code Memory Project

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Register Now for Piper Sledge: Bodies Unbound, at Writers & Books

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Register Now for Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium 2021

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Register Today: Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds with Reginald Dwayne Betts

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NEH Grant Awarded to Karl Jacoby

Apply Now: Heyman Center Fellowship

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Now Playing: Not Going Quietly

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Apply Now: Public Humanities Radio Play Fellowship

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The 34th Avenue Oral History Launches From Public Humanities Fellow

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Society of Fellows Application Now Open for 2022-2023

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SOF Alum Murad Idris’s 2019 Book Wins Three Awards

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SOF Alum Hidetaka Hirota Received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Peggy O’Brien Book Prize

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SOF Alum Amira Mittermaier Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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SOF Alum Jonathan Gilmore Wins Outstanding Monograph Prize

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SOF Alum David Gutkin Wins Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards

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Synapsis Special Issue: On Police, Prison, and Plagues

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Fellowship Opportunity: New-York Historical Society Public Humanities Fellowship

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SOF Alum Joëlle M. Abi-Rached Publishes Op-Ed in Libération

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Call for Mentors: Girls Write Now NYC

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Apply Now: Public Humanities Fellowship – Medical Humanities Fellow

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Akua Banful (HNY Public Humanities Fellow at the SOF/Heyman) Published in Public Books

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Call for Participation: Ex Libris: A Classics Zine Initiative

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SOF Alum Maggie Cao Announced as 2021–22 National Humanities Center Fellow

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SOF/Heyman Board Member Sharon Marcus Featured on WNYC’s Podcast Aria Code

SOF Alum Dan-El Padilla Peralta Featured in This Week’s the Daily Podcast from the New York Times

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Building Publics: Humanities Speak of Race 2021 Series Overview and Schedule

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Applications now open: ZIP Code Memory Public Humanities Fellowships

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SOF/Heyman Board Member Kaiama L. Glover Named 2021-2022 Fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars…

How to Turn Your PhD into a Netflix Series

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

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

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Crises of Democracy

Storytelling and Spatial Violence Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What We Can Learn from The Literature of Past Pandemics

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

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Reading in the Dugout

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The Crises of Democracy Curriculum

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

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

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

SOF Alum Brian Goldstone in the New Republic

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SOF Alum Hidetaka Hirota appeared on New Books Network

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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Break the Silence

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

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SOF Alum Heather Ecker appointed as the Dallas Museum of Art’s first Marguerite S. Hoffman and Thomas W. Lentz Curator…

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

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

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

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

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

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The Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Doyle Lee Hamm

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Professor Bernard Harcourt featured in NYT OpEd

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

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

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Columbia Faculty Bernard Harcourt Defends Terminally Ill Inmate on Death Row

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Carmel Raz on recent conference “Instruments of Music Theory”

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

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

Public Books’ Virtual Roundtable on Engaged Scholarship and Teaching

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The Rikers Coding Project Workshops

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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First, They Excluded the Irish

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Litigating Executive Power and Islamophobia

New publication by SOF Alumni Hidetaka Hirota | Expelling the Poor

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Columbia University Announces Edward W. Said Fellowship

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

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THE EX-CON SCHOLARS OF BERKELEY by Larissa MacFarquhar

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

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Forgery Fiction by Maggie Cao in Public Books

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A Liberal Arts Education in Prison

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

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

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

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

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The Confined Arts - Visions Of Confinement

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

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Nicole Callahan Awarded The Core Preceptor Award for Teaching Excellence

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Justice-in-Education Scholar Devon Simmons Featured in Metro

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

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Columbia Joins White House in the Fair Chance Higher Education Pledge

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

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

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SOF Alumnus Josh Dubler named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

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Justice-in-Education Fellow Brian Goldstone Published in Jacobin

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

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President Bollinger Acknowledges Justice-in-Education Initiative

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

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

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Hidetaka Hirota article featured in Irish Times

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Fellow Hidetaka Hirota Featured on Irish Radio

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Columbia Magazine: The Wire Goes Ivy

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The Confined Arts Exhibition

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

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Short Videos by JUST Arts Lab Students at Columbia

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

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

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Coverage for Dan-el Padilla Peralta and his Forthcoming Memoir

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

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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

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

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

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Press Coverage for Justice-in-Education Initiative

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

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

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

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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

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Fellow Hidetaka Hirota wins Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award

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

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

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Call for Proposals: Justice Studies Curriculum Development Grant

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

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

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Fellow Brian Goldstone organizes Exhibition and Symposia

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

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

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Call for Papers: Restaging the Harlem Renaissance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wm Theodore de Bary Wins 2013 National Humanities Medal

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Next Steps for Three Fellows

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

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

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