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REWRITING THE MYTHS Taking on the Entrenched Stereotypes of Academia CONTENTS GSAS Alumni Association Board of Directors

Louis A. Parks, President, M.A. ’95, Ancient Studies 1 Message from the Dean Lester Wigler, Vice President, Chair of Events Committee, M.A. ’80, Music 2 Rewriting the Myths: Bridget M. Rowan, Secretary, M.A. ’80, English and Comparative Literature Taking on the Entrenched From the Dean Stereotypes of Academia Tyler Anbinder, M.A. ’85, M.Phil. ’87, Ph.D. ’90, History Jillisa Brittan, M.A. ’86, English and Comparative Literature Since becoming dean of the Gradu- ongoing personal impact of the Graduate School’s 10 Columbia-bred Economist to Gerrard Bushell, M.A. ’91, M.Phil. ’94, Ph.D. ’04, Political Science ate School of Arts and Sciences, I have actions and initiatives. Lead Brown Robert J. Carow, M.Phil. ’94, Ph.D. ’94, Economics and Education had the responsibility and pleasure of It might be instructive, therefore, to take this Neena Chakrabarti, Student Representative, M.A. ’11, Chemistry speaking to alumni of GSAS from a opportunity to list what are, in my view, the principal 16 Union Man: Kenneth W. Ciriacks, Ph.D. ’62, Geological Sciences variety of disciplines and throughout duties of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Scholar-activist Dorian Warren Isn’t the world. These conversations are both with respect to the university and to our stu- Annette Clear, M.A. ’96, M.Phil. ’97, Ph.D. ’02, Political Science Giving Up on Organized Labor excellent opportunities to keep alumni dents: Leonard A. Cole, Chair of Awards Committee, M.A. ’65, Ph.D. ’70, Political abreast of the many changes that we • Enhance the research reputation of the Science 22 Sabers and Shteyngart: have instituted in the school, as well university Michael S. Cornfeld, Chair of Nominating Committee, M.A. ’73, Political Science Olympian James Williams, M.A. ’09 as to engage them in its present and • Supervise all research doctoral and masters Elizabeth Debreu, M.A. ’93, Art History and Archaeology future. These exchanges have become programs at Columbia also, I have found, occasions to pro- 24 Alumni News Deborah Gill Hilzinger, M.A. ’89, M.Phil. ’91, Ph.D. ’02, History • Approve the creation of pioneering new vide detail on the scope of GSAS ac- Robert Greenberg, M.A. ’88, Philosophy graduate programs 28 Alumni Profile tivities and its many responsibilities, David Jackson, Co-chair of Marketing and Research Committee, M.A. ’76, Carlos J. Alonso since the latter seem to be imprecisely • Advocate for the interests of graduate education M.Phil. ’78, Ph.D. ’81,English and Comparative Literature Dean, Graduate School of Arts and understood both by alumni and by to the university, to the government, and 30 On the Shelf: Faculty Publications Sciences; Morris A. and Alma Sukhan Kim, M.A. ’78, Political Science current students. to society Schapiro Professor in the Humanities This state of affairs is perhaps not • Supervise closely all academic and student 32 On the Shelf: Alumni Publications Les B. Levi, M.A. ’76, M.Phil. ’78, Ph.D. ’82, English and Comparative Literature surprising. The typical experience of a services related to graduate students in Komal S. 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by Sadia Latifi

Women are having a bit of a moment. Virginia, garnered national attention and cast a light on the politics of academe. A flurry of events in the first half of the year have made women the subject of a new popular discourse examin- A 2008 longitudinal study of chemistry Ph.D. candidates ing every aspect of their lives: their reproductive rights, in the UK revealed that young women leave academia in their parenting styles, their work lives, and their status far greater numbers than men, while a 2011 U.S. paper around the world. reported similar findings and suggested that women in Legislators have recently tried to limit access to and STEM fields leave academia primarily due to interper- funding for reproductive services, domestic violence pro- sonal and family concerns, while men most often cite tections, and fair pay. Two separate covers of The salary as the reason for their departure. “Departmental Atlantic investigated the lives of single women and climate” was another major factor in women’s decisions women in the workplace struggling to “have it all.” Time to leave. raised eyebrows for its cover featuring a woman breast- This year, a group of graduate students in the Middle feeding her three-year-old son and a headline question- East, South Asian, and African Studies department cre- ing whether readers were “mom enough.” ated an organization to address these academic gaps and Women in academia have also received some extra other issues associated with being a woman studying attention. those regions. The Women’s Allied Forum in Academ- ics (WAFA), according to its mission statement, aims to The controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s remarks provide “a comfortable forum where women can discuss about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke began the particular challenges that confront them as recent when she was invited to appear before a Congressional members of public intellectual discourse.” committee to discuss the lack of contraceptive cover- age in the university’s student insurance plan, and the “I was talking to women in small groups, and the same bizarre and abrupt removal and reinstatement of Teresa types of concerns kept coming up,” said Lakshmi Go- Sullivan, the first female president of the University of pal, an M.A. student and co-founder of the group. “We

Photo by Tanya Habjouqa. CharlesLeilaLink Dickens back toKhaled. contents page 2 Superscript Superscript 3 Link back to contents page shared the same themes, the same frustrations ... so we started to get can affect intellectual discourse, family and lifestyle difficulties, the together and see what would happen.” challenges with developing relationships with advisers, and how the way one talks or dresses can change classroom perceptions.

“The Girls’ Locker Room” Some of the group’s organizers reported that wearing a hijab while talking about gender rights confused their fellow students; others The group started last October and met several times throughout the expressed feeling like a token spokesperson for a country because of an year, promoting meetings with provocative fliers featuring prominent ancestral connection. female scholars and the headline “Not Butch, Not Bitch: Making Room for Female Intellectuals.” “One time I mentioned gender in class and suddenly became the They’ve already won allies among male students as well as male and gender girl because I just happened to suggest that we consider women female professors, who hope that the group will push past old expecta- while discussing a certain topic,” said Marianna Reis, another group tions of intellectuals. organizer and an M.A. student in Islamic Studies.

“There is a cultural stereotype of the professor, which is the older man Professors have similar memories of classroom awkwardness. with a beard,” said associate professor Allison Busch. “What about a Busch remembers studying traditions of erotic poetry in Sanskrit in a woman who wears skirts or nice shoes—does that count? There is a class full of men while at University of Chicago. conformity to that idea that the next generation needs to do something about. ” “Could you just imagine sitting there with a completely male environ- ment? No matter how liberated you feel sexually, how self-confident WAFA’s strategy is to keep membership anonymous and department- you feel just having to translate line by line ... I mostly felt like I wanted specific. A sister group has formed for the English department, and to keep my head down,” she said, laughing. there’s interest in establishing one for the sciences, according to Gopal.

“We’re concerned with the issues embodied with being a woman and Outside the classroom, it’s sometimes just difficult to find relatable being in this department,” she said. “We don’t want this to be a Uni- mentors. versity-wide network. Each department should have their own group to “Oftentimes your adviser is a male, and your colleagues that are other connect with each other.” males can develop relationships that are outside of the classroom ... the The diversity within the MESAAS department is one of things that at- classic boys’ locker room scenario,” Ullah said. “We want to strengthen tracted Sahar Ullah, a Ph.D. candidate and another student organizer, intellectual bonds with each other—in a way, it is the girls’ locker to the group. room.”

“We represent academics from three specific areas, which you don’t see Gopal added: “You’ll hear [about] women who are afraid of other at any other university in the country ... and it makes our conversations women ... for us, this is not about climbing over the other to get the top unique,” Ullah said. but about creating networks.”

So far the group has identified a few common topics of conversation, Lila Abu-Lughod, an anthropology professor who spoke to the group including: the lack of women professors in the department, under- this fall, remembers the value of her colleagues in graduate school and standing and reacting to sexual harassment, how gender and sexuality at her first teaching job.

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“One learns one is not alone,” she remarked. “I learned so much from them—from how to think to how to write a grant proposal to how to laugh at anxieties.”

The Pipeline

While MESAAS has 16 tenured male professors, there is only one ten- ured female professor—“an appalling number,” Busch called it.

“Most of the professors are men, the senior people are men, so what kind of model is that for women who are in our Ph.D. programs who are often 50 percent of the class and every bit as capable?” she said.

It’s a problem felt in all areas of higher education. A 2011 study by Deborah Kaminski and Cheryl Geisler reported that women who remain in academia are promoted at rates comparable to men; the disparity arises because so many women leave. The 2008 study of chemistry students, conducted by the UK Resource Centre for Women in “Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET),” pinpoints some of the reasons why women academics leave: they find the qualities of academic careers to be dissatisfying, they encounter a disproportionate number of barriers, and they have to make greater sacrifices than their male counterparts.

Busch added: “The pipelines of the past have been so male-dominated; even in 1994 when I was working on my Ph.D., the pipeline hadn’t pro- duced many senior female scholars. It’s surprising that it’s not improv- ing as much as we would like that to happen.”

Busch understands how this can play out for faculty and students.

“I can definitely see how it can be a struggle for women to participate,” she said, citing evening meetings and out-of-town travel as potential barriers for academics who are mothers. “When you’re going up for tenure, visibility is a criteria, so how can a woman make sure she main- tains visibility in the field without being able to attend the same number of conferences or events?”

Link back to contents page 6 Superscript Superscript 7 Link back to contents page “You’re Being Sensitive Again...” Part of us coming together is to explore these different frameworks and By creating and promot- challenge them.” It’s not that MESAAS is alone in these issues, Busch and the group’s ing new narratives about They’re also getting support from their curious male colleagues. organizers stressed. Women in the sciences have been getting this level women in the region, about of scrutiny for a long time. A 2008 study in the journal Perspectives on ”It felt like the gender dynamic in our department changed as soon as Politics refers to the “quiet desperation” of women in academia. our male colleagues found out that the women were getting together women scholars, about and talking,” Gopal said. MESAAS students recognize that the conversations taking place in their women, period, they’ll start department themselves represent a kind of privilege, since most people Reis added, “Our concerns are not just with male colleagues or profes- share a similar political mind-set and vocabulary. sors; sexism and misogyny is internalized by everyone.” to see change.

“We think it’s really cliché to say that orientalism exists, but in a lot of Wendell Marsh, a Ph.D. student in the department studying Africa, said other places, it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s your opinion...You’re being sensitive he completely understands the need for the group, especially when he again, brown Muslim girl.’ That sucks, and we’re lucky we don’t have considers the department’s research focus. that,” Ullah said. “People are really willing to listen and engage.” “WAFA is trying to address a lack of representation of women’s issues Area studies comes with its own distinctive lens and curriculum biases, in the department,” he said. “Women or women’s issues would not especially from the perspective of a woman studying the Middle East, emerge as a prominent feature if one made a survey of departmental South Asia, or Africa. scholarship, and WAFA wants to deal with this in intellectually produc- “The relationship of men and women of color is often wrongly charac- tive ways.” terized as a relationship of oppression,” Gopal said. “Like all relation- The group is planning for a packed year, including hosting speakers ships, these are dynamic and varied. As a South Asian woman, I want to such as Busch, Abu-Lughod, and Anu Rao, and aiming to coordinate speak about my womanhood in my own terms and not through bor- sexual harassment seminars for both students and faculty. Members rowed or externally imposed lenses.” are also editing a narrative book project, for which they’re soliciting A widely read piece in Foreign Policy by Mona Eltahawy asks, “Why Do submissions. They Hate Us?” The “they” refers to Middle Eastern governments and “One of the things we’re sensitive to is the ways in which feminisms men while the “us” refers to Middle Eastern women. The polarizing have been used purportedly to ‘save’ women of our regions from ‘their piece succinctly declares “We have no freedoms because they hate us” men,’” Ullah said. “Stories just have a way of breaking down stereo- and demands that the region do better, rejecting any historical explana- types.” tion or sociocultural context for the treatment of women. And that, Gopal added, is the point. By creating and promoting new “There are lots of different approaches in the region with respect to narratives about women in the region, about women scholars, about femininity. There’s the African concept of womanhood, there’s the Hin- women, period, they’ll start to see change. du feminine ideal, and the Islamic dialogue around women, and these also vary across families and communities,” Gopal explains. “There are “We want to create so many new stereotypes that people forget about as many expressions of womanhood as there are women in this world. these old stereotypes and get overwhelmed by plurality.”

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by Sadia Latifi

When Brown University President Ruth Simmons announced plans to step down last fall, the school’s governing corporation knew they had their work cut out for them. Simmons was the campus’s biggest icon, a pioneer who was the first black president in the Ivy League as well as the first female leader at Brown. Under her eleven-year tenure, the school raised more than $1.6 billion, increased its faculty ranks by 20 percent, and expanded its financial aid. At the university, she was a strong advocate for gender equality and minority achievement in academia, and left Providence with an 80 percent approval rating among students. Replacing her would be tough...

Link back to contents page 10 Superscript Superscript 11 Link back to contents page But in March, Brown School in 2009, Paxson “Her recent work on the program was one of the strike a balance between “It’s a myth that academ- “When I was at Columbia, announced that it found oversaw major changes in long-term impacts of most intense experiences their personal and profes- ics are flexible,” she said. there were five women in a worthy successor in a the school, including the health in childhood, or of my life. I worked incred- sional lives—until June the “People work very hard our class. There was a time Columbia-bred economist: elimination of selective about the impact of AIDS ibly hard, and I loved it be- family lived in Yardley, Pa., all the time, and I’m the in Princeton where I was Christina Paxson, M.A. undergraduate admissions on health care budgets in cause there was a support- and both endured out-of- type of person who likes to the only woman on the ’85, Ph.D. ’87 and the and a thorough revamp Africa, or about the impact ive, very successful group state commutes to their work in the office.” faculty to have tenure,” she celebrated dean of Princ- of the curriculum, all in of Hurricane Katrina, is of people around me.” jobs. After the move to said. “Those periods were eton University’s Woodrow the wake of a distracting really first-rate, and widely Providence, her husband It’s a common refrain, hard. Not because I faced Wilson School of Public lawsuit surrounding one of cited,” Currie said. She also fondly recalls her kept a part-time apartment as more women admit to any discrimination, but and International Affairs, the school’s philanthropic time spent outside of the in New York while their leaving academia because because it was just kind of was named the school’s funding partners. She also Her most widely known classroom with her college teenage son enrolled in they feel unsupported and lonely.” nineteenth president — established the Julis-Rabi- paper might be a 2008 sweetheart-turned-hus- his current high school’s outnumbered. Indeed, Pax- and second female head — nowitz Center for Public publication from the Jour- band. “My husband was boarding program. son said she experienced It was then that Paxson starting July 1. Policy and Finance and nal of Political Economy, working as a young attor- some of these challenges got more involved at the increased research oppor- where she found that ney, so we had slightly bet- Paxson admits that com- while she was just starting university level and be- “Ruth Simmons did a tunities related to domestic height and intelligence ter financial circumstances bining her academic career out in graduate school. friended more women tremendous job at rais- and international financial were correlated even in than the average graduate with motherhood was not inside and outside her ing the aspirations of the markets. early childhood. Paxson couple,” she recalls. The always easy. department. Princeton Brown community to attributes her focus on the pair would travel to the Vil- not only provide an out- At the same time, she socioeconomics of health, lage to hear jazz or spend standing undergraduate maintained a brisk publi- in particular the health of entire days walking the education, but to also be cation schedule, co-author- children and families, to length of Manhattan. “I loved my time at Columbia. It was great. a major research univer- ing papers examining the her interests evolving as sity,” Paxson said. “Brown effect of economic factors she grew to enjoy multi- After Columbia, she Being in a Ph.D. program was one of the is really doing something on the health and welfare disciplinary research and headed to Princeton, ini- interesting and difficult, of aging populations and adjusted to the strengths of tially serving as a lecturer most intense experiences of my life. I worked and I’m excited to be a part children in post-Katrina the Princeton economics and then as an assistant incredibly hard, and I loved it because there of figuring out how you do New Orleans, rural Ec- department. professor. Over the next both at the same time. uador, and sub-Saharan two decades she earned was a supportive, very successful group of Africa. In fact, her research five annual awards for “I’ve been there [at Princ- interest at Columbia was teaching excellence and people around me.” eton] for 26 years, so it “It is remarkable that she markedly different; she rose through the ranks of was odd leaving, but by has maintained a high lev- studied labor supply under the Princeton economics the time I left, I had so el of research productivity the mentorship of Joseph department, becoming many goodbye parties that over the past several years, Altonji. a full professor in 1997, I think people were ready even with a heavy admin- “She was the best student then holding an endowed to see me go,” she said, istrative load,” said Janet I ever had,” said Altonji, professorship and serving laughing. Currie, a Princeton eco- now a professor at Yale. as chair of the economics nomics professor and the “She just had real drive department before being Paxson’s move to the helm director of the Center for and energy level and raw named dean of the Wood- of academic administra- Health and Wellbeing, an intelligence with interper- row Wilson School. tion comes after a period interdisciplinary research sonal skills ... the graduate of intense research and ad- and education institute student we all want.” During her time at Princ- ministrative productivity. dedicated to health policy eton she also became a within the Woodrow “I loved my time at Colum- mother to two sons, now After becoming dean of Wilson School that Paxson bia. It was great,” Paxson 23 and 15. She and her the Woodrow Wilson founded in 2000. said. “Being in a Ph.D. husband have worked to

Link back to contents page 12 Superscript Superscript 13 Link back to contents page “It’s great that women are university presidents, mons, and is grateful for well as working more with “There are many misper- “To me, the fun of taking the strong foundation that the medical school, a facility ceptions about fundraising on a job like this is to fig- and I think it’sˇ great that it’s less of a big deal than was left for her. Princeton lacked. at universities,” she said. ure out how you can grow it used to be,” she said. “I think it’s terrific to be the “You talk to intelligent the institution in the best “Ruth Simmons did some “With health care reform people who are dedicated way possible while remain- second woman president at Brown.” strategic planning when coming down the pipeline ... to your institution about ing true to this culture she started, and it’s time there are going to be many ways to make the institu- that everybody values. Are to go back and rethink the changes that we want to tion stronger with their there people that think I’m strategy for the next de- think about,” she said. support. trying to bring Princeton cade,” she said. “Prioritiz- with me? That’s just not ing is really important, and There’s also the national She added: “People have going to happen.” President Shirley Tilgh- The numbers confirm it: where the real strengths lie but that she has always we’re going to have some educational climate, which good ideas … using their man asked Paxson to sit on women now run four of so I can work with people had respect for the institu- hard decisions to make in has made college more expertise is really some- She said she hopes she’ll a task force that examined the eight Ivy League insti- to identify areas where I tion. When she met with the next year, like how to expensive for students. thing valuable.” be able to attend semi- the status of women in the tutions and comprise more think we can build ... it’s the selection committee, build and where to build. nars and talk to students sciences and engineering, than 25 percent of uni- been very exciting.” she was sold. That’s a process that has to “It may be obvious, but it’s through both formal and To some, her biggest chal- and it allowed Paxson to versity presidents, higher be inclusive.” incredibly important that informal get-togethers. lenge may be embracing network and collaborate. than ever before, according Andrew Foster, a Brown “I walked out of the room higher education is acces- Brown’s culture. After 26 to the survey. More than a economics professor and and said, ‘I really like these Brown’s 250th anniver- sible to people both in the “If you don’t see them on a years at buttoned-down third of female presidents longtime research col- people.’ In an interview, sary is approaching. After United States and globally. daily basis, you lose touch “Most of the members of Princeton, some students lead two-year colleges. league, mentioned her you hear the types of ques- the previous presidency’s There is tremendous pres- with why you’re doing this the committee were these wonder if Paxson will be name when the search tions and you get a sense period of faculty expansion sure on public institutions in the first place,” she said. amazing women in the sci- able to fit into Brown’s “It’s great that women are committee started accept- of what the institution’s and substantial fundrais- as support for universi- ences, and I realized that it more free-wheeling atmo- university presidents, and ing recommendations. priorities are, and I just re- ing, some stakeholders ties from states has been In the future, she’d like was a great thing to be in sphere. But Paxson says I think it’s great that it’s ally liked it,” she recalled. suggest that it’s time to shrinking steadily and loan to pick up with research the administration, to con- she gets where Brown is less of a big deal than it “What has most impressed shift focus on how to dis- burdens are going up,” she and teaching, but knows nect with these different coming from. used to be,” she said. “I me about Chris is her Since being named presi- tribute these new resourc- said. individuals,” she said. her first year should be think it’s terrific to be the ability to bring different dent, she’s leaned on Princ- es while also maintaining focused on the immediate second woman president constituents together to eton president Tilghman for the qualities that make She added: “It’s not some- “Brown’s philosophy is requirements of the job. A new study from the at Brown.” work toward a common advice that ranges from the Brown special. thing that one university based on the idea that American Council on purpose,” he said. large-scale to the mundane. can address—this is some- students are to take re- “Being an administrator, Education paints a com- Before officially starting in “It’s a small faculty, so it’s thing we have to address sponsibility for their own you realize, is not about posite of the typical col- July, Paxson made a few It’s an unusual trait for “Everything from how to important that we move collectively as a society. I education ... and it attracts shuffling papers at all,” lege president: a married, trips up to Providence to an economist, Foster said, organize an office, how forward, make strong deci- hope that at some point a group of students that she said. “It’s all about white, 61-year-old man. meet faculty, staff, stu- noting that economists you think about things like sions, and remain colle- people will wake up and are very creative, indepen- supporting the research of It also reveals that more dents, and alumni and often work with set meth- development, how you dis- gial,” Foster said. realize that supporting our dent and very interesting,” faculty and students who than a quarter of all female attend commencement odologies and tools and tinguish between the roles institutions—especially she said. “There are few are doing lots of different presidents said they altered exercises in order to learn can find it difficult to apply of president and provost Paxson won’t say what the state institutions—is some- core requirements, and things. I take a lot of plea- their career plans for fam- the ins and outs of the their knowledge to work ... to things like how you school’s biggest priority thing we must do if we’re students are encouraged sure in developing pro- ily considerations. Just 19 university as quickly and collaboratively outside of manage your life on a day- should be—she said it’s going to be successful as a to explore widely and to grams that support that, percent of male presidents thoroughly as possible. their field. to-day basis and cope with too soon to decide—but country going forward.” develop in ways that they and I am really excited to said the same. having a very busy sched- Havel’sshe did Beggar’s mention Opera a few pos- determine themselves.” get started.” “I’ve really just been in Paxson admits that she ule,” she said. Barnardsibilities. Theatre In line Department with her Paxson said she’s not afraid Times are better for wom- input mode,” she said. did not know much about andresearch The Harriman interests, Institute Paxson of fundraising, often per- She added that students Miller Theater en in higher education, “I’m trying to get a sense Brown before being con- She’s also had multiple Decembercited building 2, 2006 the school’s ceived as a tedious necessity shouldn’t worry about though, Paxson insisted. of priorities and figure out sidered for the presidency conversations with Sim- public health offerings as of the job. cultural changes.

Link back to contents page 14 Superscript Superscript 15 Link back to contents page Presidents Havel, Bollinger, and Clinton to Harris-Perry, who also has a Mormon heritage, that they were “part of another 1 percent—the 1 percent of black folks that were part of the Mormon church.”

There is, of course, a deeper resonance to Warren’s joke. In the past year Warren has written and spo- ken frequently about the significance of Occupy Wall Street, which he has called “the first time we’ve seen the emergence of a populist movement on the left since the 1930s.” Writing with Joe Lowndes of the Uni- versity of Oregon in Dissent, Warren, a former commu- nity organizer, offered prescriptions for how Occupy Wall Street could strengthen its organizational struc- ture and avoid being co-opted by the Democratic Party. In The Washington Post last fall he and coauthor Paul Frymer of Princeton invoked both Occupy Wall Street and the NBA lockout to illustrate the disproportionate power employers wield over employees, a disparity that has become all the more pronounced given the decline in union membership among the American labor force.

Though the initial momentum of the Occupy move- ment has now diminished somewhat, Warren is none- theless a man to follow. He was recently appointed to the editorial board of The Nation, and has two books due out next year. Moreover, the issues he studies— labor, identity, and inequality—lie at the heart of the current crisis in the American polity.

Warren, an activist, scholar of labor politics, and an as- orian Warren’s story begins on the South sociate professor in the Department of Political Science, D Side of Chicago, where he and his older brother Brent has been an occasional guest on the political talk show were born and raised by Bertella Warren, a single since it premiered in February. On Easter Sunday, he mother, elementary school teacher, and member of the had been invited, along with Princeton professor Julian Chicago Teachers Union. The family wasn’t wealthy, Union Man Zelizer, to discuss the challenge facing Republican Presi- but she was able to provide a comfortable home for Scholar-activist Dorian Warren Isn’t Giving Up on Organized Labor dential nominee Mitt Romney in reaching out to Ameri- the boys, who never wanted for necessities. Like her cans largely unfamiliar with the tenets of his Mormon own mother, a school custodian and a member of what faith. After drawing a parallel between Romney’s Decem- would become the first local of the Service Employees by Raphael Pope-Sussman On Easter Sunday morning, Dorian Warren woke up early, put ber 2007 “Faith in America” speech and Barack Obama’s International Union, Bertella had found a job that of- keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Con- fered her children the possibility of a better life. on a narrow-cut, charcoal pinstripe suit and a tri-tone pastel vention, Warren offered his views on which parts of shirt, and stepped out of his Upper West Side apartment. But Mormonism—like the church’s active involvement in Providing paid sick leave when the children were ill, the campaign for California’s Proposition 8—could be a decent paycheck, family health insurance, and job Warren didn’t head off to church. Instead, he rode in a char- considered “legitimate” targets for scrutiny. He spoke security, the union offered the family a measure of tered Lincoln Town Car down to 30 Rockefeller Center where he from personal experience, as an activist accustomed to financial stability. “But for the union,” Warren says, strategizing for campaigns and as someone raised in the “we would have officially been living under the poverty was scheduled to appear on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry.” Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: he quipped line.”

Link back to contents page 16 Superscript Superscript 17 Link back to contents page Although Warren grew up in a union household, there Jackson won the Democratic primary and soundly de- challenges facing traditionally marginalized groups like wasn’t a lot of overt political discussion. His mother feated his Republican opponent in the general election. people of color, the LGBT community, and women. His didn’t lecture him on the importance of the union. “It’s first academic article, on labor-community coalitions in not like we had very explicit political conversation,” he Jackson’s campaign and his victory were thrilling for New Haven, was co-written with Cohen. says. “My parents and my grandparents weren’t activ- Warren, but he was also left disillusioned with the dirti- ists.” ness of machine politics. “Before that campaign,” he In his dissertation, Warren drew upon themes critical to says, “I remember thinking ‘Maybe I want to run for Cohen’s work, exploring the role of intersecting identi- Yet while Bertella Warren may not have been an activist, office.’ And after that campaign, I remember thinking ‘I ties such as race, class, and gender in the American labor she was active in the union. In 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, never want to run for office.’” His thirst to be involved in movement. Taking another page from Cohen’s book, and 1987, she walked out with fellow members of the politics, though, was heightened, not slaked. Warren chose a topic that brought him out of the library Chicago Teachers Union. Lasting 19 days, the ’87 strike and into the streets. He returned to Chicago for a year to was the longest in the history of the union, and the last Back on campus, Warren founded a chapter of the Black follow UNITE-HERE Local 1, the hotel workers’ union, until the nine-day strike this fall. Warren, who walked Student Leadership Network, which sought to recreate as a “participant-observer.” He interviewed workers and the picket line with his mother, says he has only one the organizing power of the Student Nonviolent Coordi- walked picket lines to understand how the presence of memory of those strikes. He remembers his mother and nating Committee. Members of the Midwest Academy, workers from marginalized groups could affect a union’s her colleagues and her friends shouting at teachers who a major center for community organizing, visited War- tactics and aims. His dissertation, “A New Labor Move- crossed the picket line. He recalled being startled to see ren’s BSLN chapter and provided him with his first for- ment for a New Century? The Incorporation of Mar- these otherwise friendly teachers “yelling and screaming mal training in the discipline. His junior year, he spent a ginalized Workers In U.S. Unions,” is a combination at their friends and colleagues.” semester working as an intern for the Civil Rights Coali- first-person ethnography and survey of the contemporary tion in Washington, D.C. “I had this whole transforma- American labor movement. An expanded version of the He says he’s not sure when it became clear, but he knew tion in that direction,” he says. With that career path dissertation will be published next year. on some level that he had what he had “because my in mind, Warren set out to do something that so many mother was in the union.” college seniors, particularly those interested in the world of politics, do: apply to law school. fter graduating from Yale, Warren taught Still, in high school, Warren wasn’t focused on politics— briefly at the University of Chicago, then he was focused on sports. A member of his high school’s He might have gone down that path, but his college landed job offers from Harvard and Colum- crew team and a swimmer, he also served as the sports advisor, Dianne Pinderhughes, a political science profes- bia. He opted for Columbia, he says, in large editor at the high school paper. When he headed off to sor with whom Warren had studied and done research, Apart because of the late Manning Marable, who served as college at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, told him she would only sign off on a recommendation the M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Profes- as a recruited swimmer, he planned to pursue a career in if he also applied to graduate school. Warren was skepti- In choosing Columbia, sor of African-American Studies and held appointments sports psychology. cal—he wanted to effect political change, not spend his in history and public affairs. A founding member of days sitting in an office reading books and writing. He Warren signaled his desire the Black Radical Congress, the author of the nationally But Warren arrived at Urbana-Champaign at a tumultu- describes the exchange with Pinderhughes in character- syndicated column “Along the Color Line,” and a lifelong ous time in American politics. It was fall of 1994, and istically blunt terms: “I said, ‘I don’t really want to go to crusader for social justice, Marable actively recruited the Newt Gingrich-led “Republican Revolution” was grad school, because no offense, but academics don’t do to follow in Marable’s Warren to Columbia, and Warren notes that he found a about to carry GOP majorities into both houses of Con- shit.’” model for his own career in the senior scholar’s “political gress for the first time in 40 years. On campus, people footsteps, and to keep his commitment and vision and scholarship.” Marable was “thought the world was going to end,” Warren recalls. Many professors would have sent Warren on his way. prolific in both his activism, which touched areas from Warren became politically active, joining the campus But Pinderhughes took this brash college senior’s feet planted in both worlds, civil rights to unionism to the anti-death-penalty move- NAACP chapter (he became vice president by the end of critique in stride and pointed out that being a scholar ment, and his scholarship, authoring numerous books his freshman year) and participating in an organizing doesn’t preclude one from activism. Warren took heed, academe and activism. on race and class in American life, as well as a landmark campaign against the university’s mascot, “Chief Illini- and wound up in the political science graduate program 600-page biography of Malcolm X that was published in wek,” a racial caricature of American Indians. at Yale. April 2011, just days after his death.

The following year, an acquaintance who knew Jesse Warren went to New Haven hoping to carve out a path In choosing Columbia, Warren signaled his desire to fol- Jackson, Jr., then seeking an open Congressional seat as a scholar-activist, and within two weeks of his arrival low in Marable’s footsteps, and to keep his feet planted in Chicago, invited Warren to come on board the cam- he was organizing teaching assistants in the political in both worlds, academe and activism. For the son of paign. He did, and spent his sophomore fall commuting science department. In his academic life, he gravitated Bertella Warren, who walked so many picket lines to home on weekends to Operation PUSH headquarters, toward Cathy Cohen, now at the University of Chicago, fight for a way of life, there was no other option. “I felt crunching numbers for the campaign’s voter database. whose scholarship and activism includes work on the like I haven’t had a choice,” he says. “I would never be

Link back to contents page 18 Superscript Superscript 19 Link back to contents page content or satisfied simply being an academic in the And, as Ira Katznelson, the Ruggles Professor of Politi- Ivory Tower holed up from the rest of society.” Although cal Science and History, notes, it is Warren’s scholarly he focused primarily on research and teaching in his work that distinguishes him from most pundits on the first years at Columbia—“I didn’t want my colleagues to talk-show circuit. “Dorian’s public persona and argu- view me as somehow not as serious about my intellec- mentation gains strength and legitimacy through his tual work,” he says—with time he felt the urge to speak scholarly writings,” Katznelson says. “That is, his voice is out. not one simply as a media commentator, but as a person who has thought about and deeply studied fundamental “There have been just too many times I’ve been watch- concerns.” ing something and thinking, ‘That person is an idiot, they don’t know what they’re talking about, they have Katznelson also points out that as “a person who man- no idea what’s happening on the ground,’” he says. “It’s ages to bridge the world of academia and the wider been in the last two years where I’ve found my voice— public,” Warren is a particularly good fit for the School and found my voice based on my experience and exper- of International and Public Affairs (where he also holds tise. I bring something to the table that very few people an appointment) and its mission of teaching both theory can, in terms of my view of the landscape of the labor and praxis. movement and my view of the landscape of community organizing in this country, and the ability to connect Mary Martha Douglas, CC ’10, SIPA ’12, who took War- that up with social science research on inequality and ren’s senior seminar on community organizing, found social movements and a range of political change efforts. that Warren’s pedagogy drove her to think in terms of I think of myself now as a bridge person between orga- action. The course, she says, “solidified my belief that I nizers and activists and people trying to make change was meant to do something with my education greater around the country and the world.” than just reading big books.”

For Melissa Harris-Perry, who teaches political sci- Warren strives to teach his students of the tremendous ence at Tulane in addition to hosting her own show on power an organized group of people can wield—a mes- MSNBC, this mind-set is common among people from sage that can feel somewhat incongruous in the era backgrounds underrepresented in the academy. “It’s a of Citizens United and super PACs. Yet for a man so sense of urgency ... of coming from communities that committed to social justice and consequently so aware of “It’s been in the last two years where I’ve can’t spare the brain power to ... sit in the corner.” She the problems of the American system, Warren is surpris- and Warren met at the University of Chicago as young, ingly optimistic. Speaking of his ancestors, who survived found my voice—and found my voice based progressive black scholars and acolytes of Cathy Cohen. slavery and Jim Crow laws, he says that if they “could still be optimistic enough to organize, then I have to be on my experience and expertise. I bring some- Harris-Perry and Warren may be part of what the Rev. Al optimistic now.” He knows what it means to participate Sharpton—a frequent guest on “Melissa Harris-Perry” “in efforts to change people’s lives,” efforts like fighting thing to the table that very few people can, in and the host of his own show on MSNBC, “Politics Na- for a union contract. And he knows, as an activist, as an tion”—calls a “new vanguard” of thinkers and activists, academic, and from his own family, that those things terms of my view of the landscape of the labor but their brand of scholarly activism has deep roots. make a difference. “Time has not run out—we can actu- “[W.E.B.] Du Bois and others—yes, they had academic ally still really change the world. For future generations movement and my view of the landscape of degrees, but they also used their pen as journalists,” and generations and generations.” Harris-Perry says. “They used their public voice as activ- community organizing in this country, and ists, and it wasn’t separate.” the ability to connect that up with social sci- But academia necessarily takes precedence. Although Dorian Warren has two books forthcoming. The first Harris-Perry praises Warren’s ability to bring his po- is an expansion of his graduate dissertation, “A New ence research on inequality and social move- litical insights to the broader public and says that she Labor Movement for a New Century? The Incorpora- ments and a range of political change efforts.” would be “perfectly excited” to see a Dorian Warren tion of Marginalized Workers in U.S. Unions.” The show following hers, she remarks that “it would be far second, written with Virginia Parks, is Boxing Out: Race, more satisfying initially just to get the news that he has Walmart and the Politics of Labor Market Regulation from been tenured; as terrific as TV is, job security is low.” Below,” from the University of Chicago Press.

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by Robert Ast

After earning a silver medal as a saberist for the U.S. men’s fencing team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, James Williams did something rather unusual for an Olympic athlete: he returned to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to complete his Master’s degree in Slavic Cultures.

Williams grew up in Sacramento and began fencing at age nine. Although he showed promise and competed nationally, he didn’t qualify for the under-16 or under-19 national teams. His breakthrough came when he moved to New York in 2003 to attend Columbia College and fence under Columbia’s legendary coaches George Kolombatovich and Aladar Kogler.

Link back to contents page 22 Superscript Superscript 23 Link back to contents page “[Fencing for Columbia] helped me to im- defeated Hungary and Russia before falling After earning his Master’s degree, Wil- strong fencing,” Gelman said. “Kovalev won prove dramatically,” Williams said. “I learned to France in the final round. Earning silver, liams didn’t entirely leave Columbia—tak- bronze and fenced great that day.” how to support, and depend upon the support they were the first U.S. men’s fencing team to ing classes in accounting, corporate finance, The U.S. began the team competition on of, others. It made me more confident as a medal in 24 years. mathematics, and Russian through the School August 4 with a hard-fought loss to Russia fencer because I felt like I had to fence well, Williams returned home and resumed his of Continuing Education—but fencing once before succumbing to China and Belarus not just for myself, but for everyone on the studies in earnest, graduating in May 2009 again became his primary pursuit. Follow- and finishing in eighth place. “I think we all team.” and writing his thesis on Gary Shteyngart, the ing strong performances at the 2012 Moscow fenced really hard,” Williams said. “We had In addition to fencing for Columbia, he Russian-born and American-educated author World Cup, the January North American Cup, some amazing competitors and it was their began training with Yury Gelman, the head of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdis- and the USA Fencing National Champion- day.” fencing coach at St. John’s University and tan, and Super Sad True Love Story. Williams ships, he qualified for the Olympic team. Facing the Russians in both the individual coach of the U.S. Olympic Fencing Team for argued that Shteyngart now a professor at the On the Beijing squad he had been one of and team competitions gave Williams an the last four Olympiads. School of the Arts, occupies a “middle ground the youngest team members, but in London opportunity to use his Russian. “I am on “James was a strong junior fencer, but between American and Russian literature.” he was among the more experienced fencers. friendly terms with the Russian team,” he never made any national teams,” Gelman Professor Irina Reyfman of the Depart- “Last time it was appropriate for me to be noted. “We exchange Apple products and said. “He worked very hard and made the ment of Slavic Languages and Literatures, more observant and follow my teammates’ caviar frequently during the regular season.” senior team …. He got a lot of experience and who taught Williams as an undergraduate and example,” he said. “This time I had to lead With the Olympics over, Williams is ready has become one of the team’s most intellec- graduate student, praised both his dedica- more.” to begin the next chapter of his life. “I think tual fencers.” tion, noting that on occasion he would submit Olympic fencing unfolds over the course two Olympics is good for me,” he notes. “I’m In particular, Gelman cites Williams’ skill his assignments via email while at a fencing of two days, with one day dedicated to the looking for a job right now and am excited to in putting his opponents on the defensive by competition overseas, and his intellectual individual competition and one to the team explore some other interests.” constructing attacks that are difficult to parry. curiosity. “He always used every opportunity competition. In the individual competition, on “James has very strong attack and point of to speak Russian,” Reyfman recalls. “He spent July 29, Williams fell to the eventual bronze line actions,” Gelman said. “His point of line the summer of 2006 trying to read Tolstoy’s medalist, Nikolay Kovalev. actions are very unique .… [O]nly few fencers War and Peace in Russian and managed to get “James fenced very well and even though in the world can do the same.” through about half of the book.” he lost to Kovalev his first bout, showed After earning his Master’s degree, Williams didn’t entirely leave In 2006 and 2007, his junior and se- nior years, Williams served as captain of the Columbia—taking classes in accounting, corporate finance, Columbia fencing team and was named an mathematics, and Russian through the School of Continuing All-Ivy-League fencer; in 2007 the Lions won Education—but fencing once again became his primary pursuit. the Ivy League Championship. At the same time, he managed a demand- ing workload, majoring in history and concen- trating in Russian. He applied to the Master’s program in Slavic Cultures, and began study- ing at GSAS in fall 2007, three months after graduating from Columbia College. “I loved Russian literature and knew that I wanted to dive into it,” Williams said. “I also wanted to work on my language skills.” It was no easy task to balance graduate study with a comprehensive fencing train- ing regimen that included practicing with sabers multiple times a day, six days per week; cardiovascular endurance building in the pre- season; weightlifting, sprints, and resistance training during the competition season; and work with sports psychologists and physical therapists. “I moved to Long Island City, so my com- mute to class and from class increased from five minutes to an hour,” Williams said. “The workload was much more challenging, and I had to miss two weeks of class to attend world championships in St. Petersburg. It took a lot of work and a lot of coffee.” Williams took the spring 2008 semester off to devote himself exclusively to training, and qualified for the Olympics as an alternate for the U.S. Men’s Saber Team. The team

Laura Paler, Aceh Link back to contents page 24 Superscript Superscript 25 Link back to contents page Alumni News | Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

28 Alumni Profile

30 On the Shelf: Faculty Publications

32 On the Shelf: Alumni Publications

36 Dissertations

42 Announcements

44 Donor Report

48 Helpful Links

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Louis Parks Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, M.A. 1995, Ancient Studies Columbia Business School, M.B.A. 2003 School of General Studies, B.A. 2012, Psychology

After previously serving as vice president and chair of the development committee for the GSAS Alumni Association, in April Louis Parks was named president of the GSAS Alumni Association Board; in May he earned a second bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from the School of General Studies as a psychology major. He spoke with Superscript to discuss the three degrees he’s earned at Columbia and his plans for the Alumni Association.

You have studied a variety of things based on truth and moral premises, whether they are competitors or team at Columbia—classical history and avoid pitfalls that occurred in the past, members. Successful outcomes in the psychology, in addition to earning an and operate a business according to field of finance usually depend upon MBA. What prompted you to pursue ethical standards that my competition convincing someone else to take the degrees in those fields? would consistently violate. other side of a trade or other financial Education, whether formal or informal, investment. The better you understand should be a lifelong pursuit. With few Through my many classes at Columbia, the history of prior outcomes, as well as exceptions, a majority of people will both at the undergraduate and graduate understand why people act as they do spend their lives interacting with others level, I challenged and was challenged (individually or as a group), the easier in order to achieve their and/or their by professors who were experts in these it is to achieve financial objectives and organizations’ objectives. While it is various fields. From Socratic method improve profitable outcomes for you, an asset to have knowledge specific to to breakout group learning, I mastered your clients, and your organization. one’s professional endeavors (an MBA material that improved my personal I, along with Dean Alonso and the with events and ways in which to be- their association with GSAS should to understand finance, a J.D. to under- competencies and acquired skills. I What are some of the initiatives you members on the Board, plan to ac- come involved with the future of GSAS. not end after graduation, nor should stand and practice law, etc.), it is the could not have done so without the are planning to work on as presi- tively present our current students While we would like to accomplish the it restart once they are in the midst of ability to identify and work with individ- dedication to teaching and learning that dent? and alumni with outreach that relates perfect atmosphere for all students and retirement. GSAS should endeavor to uals’ unique personalities and abilities my Columbia professors exhibited day I believe that our newly revised bylaws directly to their studies, departments, alumni to thrive at Columbia, we will have each student woven into its fabric that define successful outcomes. in and out. will allow the GSAS Alumni Associa- and Master’s/Ph.D. matriculation. We also be realistic and work on what are and give every alumnus/a the feeling of tion to achieve multiple goals. First and want to provide discussion and possible deemed the most important challenges “coming home” to Columbia as often as To that end, I have always felt a back- Do you see any overlap between foremost is the goal of providing cur- solutions to issues regarding financial that we could likely impact in a positive possible. With our many social events, ground in psychology, philosophy, and those studies and your work in rent and past students with a stronger concerns, housing, academic guidance, manner. information sessions, publications, and classical history were requirements finance? association with Columbia. I hope to and their social environment. electronic discussion venues, GSAS which enable insight into motivations The short answer is “yes.” All of my accomplish this objective through the What’s one thing you would like to wants to be an active and intimate part and behaviors. By acquiring such in- studies have enabled me to better un- work of our committees and their dedi- For our alumni, we want to make net- tell alumni about GSAS? of the lives of its graduates at all stages sights, I could build solid relationships derstand how to work well with others, cated members. working opportunities available, along I would like our alumni to know that of their lives.

Link back to contents page 28 Superscript Superscript 29 Link back to contents page On the Shelf Faculty Publications The Black Hole of Empire Racecraft The Price of the Ticket Gravity’s Engines Partha Chatterjee, Political Science Barbara Fields, History Fredrick Harris, Political Science Caleb Scharf, Astrophysics artha Chatterjee explores how the story of the riting with sociologist Karen E. Fields, n The Price of the Ticket, Fredrick Harris examines n Gravity’s Engines Caleb Scharf engages with our “black hole of Calcutta”—in which 123 European Barbara J. Fields argues, contrary to the President Barack Obama’s career in the context of deepest questions about the universe and examines Pprisoners died in cramped conditions— fostered Wreceived narrative that racism stems from Idecades of black activism, arguing that his election Ihow black holes are not simply “chasms in space- the ideological foundations for the British imperial the perception of human difference, that instead undermined the very movement that made it possible. time” from which no light escapes; instead, they emit rule and territorial control in India. the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, beams and clouds of matter and help to rearrange the through a process they call “racecraft.” Governing the World cosmos around them. Mark Mazower, History At the Violet Hour Ignorance ark Mazower traces the history of global Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons Sarah Cole, English and Comparative Literature Stuart Firestein, Biology cooperation between nations and peoples Haruo Shirane, ‘74CC, M.Phil. ’79, Ph.D. ’83, arah Cole argues that modernism emerged as an tuart Firestein examines how ignorance drives Mthrough the lens of international institutions East Asian Languages and Cultures imaginative response to the devastating events scientific progress, showing how scientists use and argues that the current dialectic between ideals legant representations of nature and the four Sthat defined the period, including the chaos of ignorance to program their work, to identify what and power politics in the international arena is just anarchist bombings, World War I, the Irish upris- S seasons populate a wide range of Japanese should be done, what the next steps are, and where another stage in an epic two-hundred-year story. genres and media, from poetry and screen ing, and the Spanish Civil War. Combining historical they should concentrate their energies to look for E painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and detail with resourceful readings of fiction, poetry, connections to other research and revisit apparently Perpetual War annual observances. Shirane shows how, when, and journalism, photographs, and other cultural materi- settled questions. als, At the Violet Hour explores the strange intimacy Bruce Robbins, English and Comparative Literature why this practice developed and explicates the richly between modernist aesthetics and violence in the late n Perpetual War Bruce Robbins takes stock of the encoded social, religious, and political meanings of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “new cosmopolitanism” movement, rethinking his this imagery. Iown commitment and reflecting on the responsi- bilities of American intellectuals today. How will the declining economic and political hegemony of the United States affect the notion of cosmopolitanism, in which an individual’s primary loyalty is given to the good of humanity as a whole, even if it conflicts with loyalty to the interests of one’s own nation?

Link back to contents page 30 Superscript Superscript 31 Link back to contents page On the Shelf ALU M NI Publications In Search of Polin Gravity in Art Inner Peace-Global Impact Giving Is Not Just for the Very Rich Gary S. Schiff, M.A. ’70, Ph.D. ’73, Political Science Mary D. Edwards, ’66GS, M.Phil. ’75, Ph.D. ’86, Art Kathryn Goldman-Schuyler, M.Phil. ’73, Ph.D. ’79, Susan Aurelia Gitelson, ’66SIPA, Ph.D. ’70, Political History and Archaeology, and Elizabeth Bailey, editors Sociology Science aking a unique, multi-faceted approach to the 1,000 years of Polish Jewish history in this he gravitational pull of the earth and the chal- ith contributions from Tibetan lamas r. Susan Aurelia Gitelson addresses reasons T volume, Gary S. Schiff combines academic lenge to resist it have long inspired artists. Like like Tharchin Rinpoche as well as a wide to give and how to give wisely in Giving Is Not scholarship with his own family’s long history, in- T the Greek vases depicting Sisyphus’s quest to Wrange of Western thought leaders, Kath- DJust for the Very Rich: A How-to Guide for Giving sightful travel experiences, and candid observations. push his boulder up a hill and the Whirlwind Lovers ryn Goldman-Schuyler uses first-person narratives, and Philanthropy, with advice on clarifying your priori- From its earliest medieval days, to its “golden years” in Dante’s Inferno, images that portray the defiance scholarly research, and commentaries by noted social ties, choosing charitable organizations wisely, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to its of, or submission to, gravity permeate the artistic scientists to present a way in which the principles of discovering how to make a real impact. subsequent decline and Poland’s three-way partition world. This collection examines the ways artists from Tibetan traditions can bring new depth and resilience in the eighteenth century, to its ultimate destruction antiquity to today use gravity and levity symbolically, to today’s leaders. in the Holocaust and its mini-revival today, the Jewish metaphorically, and expressively. The 26 essays community of Poland—the world’s largest for 500 examine these opposing forces through analysis of Dispensing Beauty in New York and Beyond such dualities as ascent and descent, weight and Annette Blaugrund, M.A. ’78, M.Phil. ’81, Ph.D. ’87, years—comes to life again. The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford weightlessness, hope and despair, or life and death, Art History and Archaeology Beth Tompkins Bates, M.Phil. ’93, Ph.D. ’97, History and draw distinct lines between the works of art and nnette Blaugrund delves into the life of Harriet texts of such writers and thinkers as Homer, Aristotle, eth Tompkins Bates traces the eroding Hubbard Ayer, whose cosmetics company was Newton, Marx, and Einstein. allegiance of black communities in Detroit the first of its kind to be owned and operated to automaker Henry Ford and his anti-union A B by a woman. Overcoming years of injustice in which “American Plan,” as black workers newly arrived from she was punished for her accomplishments and Thomas Jefferson’s Haitian Policy: the South, who had initially seized the economic independence, this former Chicago socialite eventu- Myths and Realities opportunities Ford offered, eventually turned to a ally became the highest paid newspaperwoman in the Arthur Scherr, M.A. ’72, History broad activist agenda that kindled a dynamic civil United States, editing the women’s pages of Joseph rights movement in Detroit. n a revolutionary revisionist reassessment of his- Pulitzer’s New York World. tory, Scherr reexamines Jefferson’s relationship Ito Haiti (then known as St. Domingue). Under- mining mainstream interpretations, Scherr reveals through extensive research that Jefferson acted gener- ally in favor of the Haitian Revolution.

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Link back to contents page 32 Superscript Superscript 33 Link back to contents page On the Shelf ALU M NI Publications Choral Identity and the Chorus of Backward Ran Sentences The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Elders in Greek Tragedy Thomas Vinciguerra, CC ’85, J ’86, MA ’90, English Theater U.S. Dhuga, M.A. ’02, M.Phil. ’05, Ph.D. ’06, Classics and Comparative Literature Carey Kasten, M.A. ’99, M.Phil. ’03, Ph.D. ’06, Spanish and Portuguese hrough a close reading of the speech, song, n his biographical sketch of Wolcott Gibbs, the and choreography among choruses of elders in longtime theater critic for The New Yorker, Vin- arey Kasten argues that twentieth-century art- TGreek tragedy, U. S. Dhuga overturns previous I ciguerra gathers a generous sampling of his finest ists used the Golden Age Eucharist play, known assumptions, arguing that they are not socially mar- work across an impressive range of genres, bringing a Cas autos sacramentales, to reassess the way ginal but rather central to the tragic action. brilliant, multitalented writer of incomparable wit to a politics and the arts interact in the Spanish nation’s new age of readers. past and present, and to posit new ideas for future relations between the state and the national culture industry. Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature Rachel Trubowitz, M.A. ’77, M.Phil. ’80, Ph.D. ’85, English and Comparative Literature An Unexpected Guest Anne Korkeakivi, M.A. ’86, English and Comparative onnecting changing seventeenth-century Literature English views of maternal nurture to the rise of Cthe modern nation, Rachel Trubowitz demon- debut novel with echoes of Virginia Woolf’s strates that shifting perspectives on Judeo-Christian Mrs. Dalloway, An Unexpected Guest demon- relations deeply informed the period’s reassessment Astrates how even the simple act of hosting a of “body politic.” dinner party can be bound up with the complexities of the age of terrorism.

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Terry Plank Daniel Duzdevich Abdulrahman El-Sayed Joseph Woo with Provost John Coatsworth Carlos Montes-Galdón Anjuli Kolb with Professor Gauri Viswanathan Professors Maria Chudnovsky, The Columbia Faculty Development Doctoral candidate Meha Jain, Doctoral candidate Matthew Fa- Matt Jones, James R. Barker As- Ph.D. candidate Jeff Andrews, Mathematics and Industrial Engi- Committee named Neslihan M.A. ’11, M.Phil ‘11, Ecology, Evolu- gan, M.Phil. ’11, Ecology, Evolution, sociate Professor of Contemporary M.A. ’11, M.Phil. ’12, Astronomy, neering and Operations Research, Senocak, assistant professor of his- tion, and Environmental Biology, and Environmental Biology, won the Civilization, received a 3-year Mellon received an NRAO Student Observing and Terry Plank, M.A. ’87, tory, the MacDonald Summer Fellow received a National Geographic Ta Liang Memorial Award New Directions grant, and a Guggen- Support Award. M.Phil. ’91, Ph.D. ’93, Earth and for 2012 and awarded special rec- Explorers award. heim Fellowship in the Humanities Environmental Sciences, were named ognition to her proposal to conduct (History of Science, Technology, and The late Manning Marable, the Igor Arsenin, M.Phil. ’94, Phys- MacArthur Fellows for 2012. archival research in England explor- Economics). Doctoral candidate Megan Cat- M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni ics, joined Barclays as managing ing scholarly learning’s importance in tau, Ecology, Evolution, and En- Council Professor of African Ameri- director and head of emerging Asia the Roman Catholic clergy. Ph.D. candidates Daniel Duzde- vironmental Biology, received a can Studies, was posthumously Doctoral candidates Carlos Mon- interest rates strategy, based in Singa- vich, ’09CC, M.A. ’12, Biological Fulbright scholarship to conduct awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his tes-Galdón, M.A. ’11, M.Phil. ’12, pore. Sciences, and Abdulrahman Natasha Lightfoot, assistant research in Indonesia. biography Malcolm X: A Life of Rein- Economics, Anjuli Kolb, ’03CC, El-Sayed, an M.D./Ph.D. candi- professor of history, has been award- vention. M.A. ’06, M.Phil. ’08, English and Ph.D. candidate Florence date at the College of Physicians and ed a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Comparative Literature, and M.A. candidate Elsa Ordway, Larocque, M.A. ’11, Political Sci- Surgeons and the Mailman School of Ford Foundation/National Research Joseph Woo, Chemical Engineer- Conservation Biology, and doctoral Associate Professor David Lurie, ence, has been awarded a Trudeau Public Health, have both received the Council for 2012-2013. ing, received Columbia’s Presidential candidates Susan Clark, Astron- M.A. ’96, M.Phil. ’98, Ph.D. ’01, Scholarship. Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for Awards for Outstanding Teaching. omy, Adrian Price-Whelan, East Asian Languages and Cultures, New Americans. Professor Elizabeth Blackmar Astronomy, and Danyi Wu, Biologi- received the Lionel Trilling Award Elliott Bernstein, M.A. ’07, has been awarded a Cullman Fellow- cal Sciences, received NSF Graduate for his book Realms of Literacy: Early Miwako Tezuka, M.A. ’96, East Asian Languages and Cultures, William deJong-Lambert, ship. Research Fellowships. Japan and the History of Writing. M.Phil. ’00, Ph.D. ’05, Art History has published a new bilingual Chi- ’05SIPA/GSAS, received a Science, and Archaeology, has become the nese-English textbook, 100 Topics in Technology and Society grant from director of the Japan Society Gallery Mae Ngai, M.A. ’93, M.Phil. ’95, Doctoral candidate Dylan Rahe, Sarah Bridger, M.A. ’05, M.Phil. Business English, with Capital Normal the National Science Foundation to Ph.D. ’98, History, professor of his- M. A. ’12, Biological Sciences, ’06, Ph.D. ’11, History, received the University Press in Beijing. fund the Second International Work- tory and the Lung Family Professor received a National Research Service Allan Nevins Prize from the Society shop on Lysenkoism, hosted by the of Asian American Studies, received a Award. of American Historians, a national University of Vienna. fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson award for the best dissertation of the International Center for Scholars as past year. well as a Cullman Fellowship.

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What inspires GSAS Annual Fund Frank Chiodi to Each year, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences depends on the support of alumni and friends who give to the Annual Fund. The GSAS Annual Fund is current-use income that bridges the gap between the real cost of a graduate support GSAS? education and the funding students receive from the University and outside sources. All gifts to the GSAS Annual Fund go directly to financial aid for graduate study. As a professional in the institutional investment sector, Frank Chiodi has worked with some of the GSAS Leadership Society industry’s most prestigious firms and brightest individuals. When choosing to pursue a graduate The GSAS Leadership Society has helped Columbia University’s Graduate degree, Frank applied the same parameters, and School of Arts and Sciences sustain its tradition of philanthropy by recogniz- aimed high. For Frank, that “holy grail” was Co- ing its most loyal and generous supporters. Society giving plays a key role in lumbia University. Frank credits his GSAS degree the success of the GSAS Annual Fund. Becoming a member makes a powerful statement about how much alumni value a GSAS education. Last year, dedicat- with improving his thinking, writing, and ability ed alumni, parents, and friends contributions at the Society level represented to communicate effectively—critical to his profes- more than 60% of total Fund dollars. sional success. We are pleased to recognize our generous donors whose gifts were received by Today, Frank feels a responsibility to give back to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences between July 1, the institution that propelled his future forward, 2011, and June 30, 2012. Thank you for your support. and to invest in the GSAS students who are the next generation of leaders. When many alumni join together, each giving what he or she is able, Cumulative Annual Gift Impact on a GSAS Student the effect is one of meaningful impact for GSAS students, today and tomorrow. Frank is proud to be $25,000+ Stipend for 1 year part of that Columbia Tradition. $10,000 - $24,999 Fellowship for 1 year (or 3 summers funded) $5,000 - $9,999 Summer funding for 1 year Frank Chiodi $2,500 - $4,999 Health fees for 1 year American Studies, MA ’00 $1,000 - $2,499* Facilities fees for 1 year * Classes 0-9 years since graduation will qualify with cumulative annual giving of $500

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