2019 FACULTY DISTINCTION
CELEBRATING THE AWARDS, HONORS, AND RECOGNITION OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCES INTRODUCTION
he Faculty of Arts & Sciences is the intellectual heart of Columbia University. Our pursuit of fundamental knowledge and understanding spans the arts, Thumanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. The excellence of our faculty is recognized each year with numerous awards and honors. As is tradition, the Executive Committee hosts this event annually to thank the many remarkable faculty who bring such pride and honor to the Arts and Sciences and to Columbia. It is truly extraordinary to read about the scope of your accomplishments, which reinforces our commitment to support and empower the faculty to continue to work at their highest level.
Carlos J. Alonso Maya Tolstoy James J. Valentini Dean of the Graduate School Interim Executive Vice Dean of Columbia College of Arts & Sciences President for Arts & Sciences Vice President for Vice President for Graduate Dean of the Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Education Education & Sciences Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Morris A. and Alma Professor of Earth and Professor Schapiro Professor in the Environmental Sciences Humanities HUMANITIES HUMANITIES
Art History and Archaeology
Zainab Bahrani Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology
Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant
Barry Bergdoll Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History
Elected Cattedra Borromini, Accademia di Architettura, Universita de la Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland
James A. D. Cox Lecture, University of Virginia
Zeynep Çelik Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association
David Freedberg Pierre Matisse Professor of Art History; Director, Italian Academy
Sigillum Magnum, University of Bologna
Accademico Onorario, Accademia Nazionale di Agricoltura, Bologna
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Meredith Gamer Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award
Kellie Jones Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, American Book Awards, for South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
Branden Joseph Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Matthew McKelway Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art History
Annual Rijksmuseum/IIAS Lecture, Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
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Eleonora Pistis Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology
Michael I. Sovern/Columbia University Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome
Avinoam Shalem Riggio Professor of Art History
Getty Scholar in Residence, Getty Research Institute
Scholar in Residence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck-Institute
Scholar in Residence, Bildevidenz, Free University of Berlin
Zoë Strother Riggio Professor of African Art
Getty Scholar in Residence, Getty Research Institute
Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History Lecture Series, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
Lisa Trever Lisa and Bernard Selz Associate Professor of Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology
Provost’s Grant for Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University
Postdoctoral fellowship, “Global Horizons in Premodern Art,” Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Bern
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Classics
Carmela Vircillo Franklin Professor of Classics
Board of Trustees, Israel Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Joseph Howley Associate Professor of Classics
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
John Ma Professor of Classics; Chair, Department of Classics
Nirit and Michael Shaoul Fellow, 2018–2019, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University
Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant
Deborah Steiner Jay Professor of Greek and Latin Languages
Heyman Center Fellowship
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Karen Van Dyck Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Hellenic Studies
Cotsen Fellow, American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Katharina Volk Professor of Classics
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Paul Kreitman Assistant Professor of Japanese History
Leopold-Hildy Award for Best Article, American Society for Environmental History
Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Ulug Kuzuoglu Lecturer in Chinese
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
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Eugenia Lean Associate Professor of Chinese History
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Research Fellowship
Fumiko Nazikian Senior Lecturer in Japanese
NRC/FLAS Grant for “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the Pedagogy of Language Teaching”
Consortium Workshop Award for “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the Pedagogy of Language Teaching”
Jisuk Park Lecturer in Japanese
Consortium Workshop Award for “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the Pedagogy of Language Teaching”
Ying Qian Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Sydney China Fellowship, University of Sydney
Tsunoda Senior Fellowship, Waseda University
Global Humanities Projects Grant
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Zhongqi Shi Senior Lecturer in Chinese
Chinese Language Teacher Association Study Abroad Award
Haruo Shirane Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature; Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Yamagata Banto Prize for Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
Winner of a 12th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship
Sonam Tsering Lecturer in Tibetan
Language Support Grant, National Resource Center, to develop textbook for third-year modern Tibetan course
Asami Tsuda Lecturer in Japanese
Language Consortium Grant for “Learning Japanese Prosody in Context: Finding and Creating One’s Voice”
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Gray Tuttle Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Ling Yan Senior Lecturer in Chinese
EALAC Language Lecturer Conference Award
English and Comparative Literature
Rachel Adams Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Guggenheim Fellowship
Grant from Philanthropy Lab for course on Philanthropy and Social Difference
Center for the Study of Social Difference Project Grant
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Branka Arsi´c Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Guggenheim Fellowship
President, Herman Melville Society
Named one of the 2019 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation
Denise Cruz Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Provost’s Grant for Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University
Andrew Delbanco Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies
Lionel Trilling Book Award
Mark Lynton History Prize
84th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
2019 Lukas Prize, Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
New York Times Critics’ Best Book of 2018
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Jenny Davidson Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Reading Jane Austen
Kathy Eden Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics
Visiting Fellowship, CRASSH, Cambridge University
Brent Hayes Edwards Professor of English and Comparative Literature
ASCAP Foundation Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism
T. Austin Graham Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
NEH Fellowship
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
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Jack Halberstam Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Stubbs Lecture, University College, University of Toronto
Matthew Hart Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Provost Leadership Fellow
Saidiya Hartman Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Faber Lecture, Princeton University
Distinguished Critical Inquiry Professor, University of Chicago
Arden Hegele Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Provost’s Interdisciplinary Teaching Award
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Marianne Hirsch William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Summer 2019 Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant
Jean Howard George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities
Wake Forest Dean Family Lecture
Sharon Marcus Orlando Harriman Professor of English
ACLS Public Fellow Award for Public Books
Edward Mendelson Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities
Schoff Lectures, Columbia University
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Frances Negrón-Muntaner Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Frank Bonilla Public Intellectual Award, Latin American Studies Association
Ross Posnock Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities
Visiting Professor, La Sapienza University, Rome
Bruce Robbins Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Heberle Lecture, University of Michigan
Victoria Rosner Dean of Academic Affairs; Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Grant from Philanthropy Lab to support course on Philanthropy and Social Difference
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Joseph Slaughter Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Senior Visiting Fellow, Sociology Department, London School of Economics
Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak University Professor
Certificate in appreciation of solidarity, exceptional commitment, and sustained activism towards the peace, safety and equality of the Rohingyas people, Free Rohingya Coalition
Dustin Stewart Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Dennis Tenen Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Provost’s Interdisciplinary Teaching Award
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French and Romance Philology
Antoine Compagnon Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Honorary Degree, Timisoara University, Romania
Souleymane Bachir Diagne Professor of French and Romance Philology; Director, Institute of African Studies
Elected Second Vice President of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies at the World Congress of Philosophy
Madeleine Dobie Professor of French and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of French and Romance Philology
Mellon-sponsored grant from Center for Spatial Research to develop a hybrid course titled “Remapping Algeria: Poetics and Politics of Space”
Summer 2019 Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant
Thomas Dodman Assistant Professor of French and Romance Philology
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Coeditor of Une histoire de la guerre (Editions du Seuil, 2018), selected by Le Point as one of the best books of the year 16 Columbia University | Faculty of Arts & Sciences HUMANITIES
Aubrey Gabel Assistant Professor of French and Romance Philology
Heyman Center Fellowship
Germanic Languages
Agnieszka Legutko Lecturer in Yiddish
Association for Jewish Studies Women’s Caucus Paula Hyman Mentorship
Italian
Teodolinda Barolini Da Ponte Professor of Italian
Elected to Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome
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Jo Ann Cavallo Professor of Italian; Chair, Department of Italian
Visiting Professor, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Elizabeth Leake Professor of Italian
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bologna
Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant
Pier Mattia Tommasino Assistant Professor of Italian
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Konstantina Zanou Assistant Professor of Italian
Visiting Professor, École Normale Superieure, Paris
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Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Bruno Bosteels Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Visiting faculty appointment, Graduate Program, Faculty of Political Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant
Patricia Grieve Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of the Humanities
Heyman Center Fellowship
Appointed to Executive Board of Spain–North Africa Project
Seth Kimmel Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
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Ana Paulina Lee Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Antonio Candido Award for Best Book in the Humanities, Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association
Social Science Research Council’s Fellowship, New Interdisciplinary Projects in the Social Sciences
Fellowship, Center for Spatial Research
Alessandra Russo Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Getty Foundation Connecting Art History fellowship for project “Spanish Italy and the Iberian Americas: Phase II”
Jesús Velasco Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Directeur d’études invité (Law), École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Visiting Professor, Yale University
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Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
The State of Kuwait Prize in Arabic Language and Literary Studies
Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant
Taoufik Ben-Amor Gordon Gray Jr. Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Allison Busch Associate Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Vishva Hindi Samman, “World Hindi Prize”
Mamadou Diouf Leitner Family Professor of African Studies; Chair, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, “Recht als Kultur”/“Law as Culture,” Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung/Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Bonn Humanities 21 HUMANITIES HUMANITIES
Timothy Mitchell William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies; Professor of International and Public Affairs
Distinguished Scholar Award, International Studies Association
Honorary appointment as a “Global Chair,” University of Bath, UK
Debashree Mukherjee Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Fellowship, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris
Sheldon Pollock Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies
Friedrich Weller Prize, Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig
Rakesh Ranjan Senior Lecturer in Hindi-Urdu
Senior Teaching Fellow, Hindi Language Program, American Institute of Indian Studies
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Music
Zosha Di Castri Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music Composition
Fellow, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris
International Contemporary Ensemble Research Fund, Bell Labs
Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create, for debut album
Acquisition Grant, University of British Columbia, Music and Arts Library
Giuseppe Gerbino Professor of Music
National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship for project “Music and Mind in the Renaissance”
NEH Research Fellowship for project “Music and Mind in the Renaissance”
Great Teacher Award, Society of Columbia Graduates
Casa Muraro Fellowship for FRIDA, Venice
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Georg Friedrich Haas MacDowell Professor of Music
Honorary Doctorate, St. Edwards University
“Distinguished Composer,” Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Master classes and Composer in Residence, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Composer in Residence, Diaghilev Festival, Perm, Russia
Composer in Residence, Casa di musica, Porto, Portugal
Ellie M. Hisama Professor of Music
Provost Leadership Fellow
Public Outreach Grant, Center for Science and Society, to support workshop “For the Daughters of Harlem: Working in Sound”
Humanities New York Action Grant (with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities), to support workshop “For the Daughters of Harlem: Working in Sound”
George Lewis Edwin H. Case Professor of Music
Doris Duke Artist Award
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Magdalena Stern-Baczewska Lecturer in Music; Director, Music Performance Program
Artist in Residence, Rocky Ridge Music Center, Colorado
Featured Artist, Florida State Music Teachers Association Conference
Artistic Director and Chairman of the Jury, 66th Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition
Christopher Washburne Associate Professor of Music
Honorary Doctorate, St. Edwards University
Commencement Speaker, St. Edwards University
Artist in Residence, Susquehanna University
Philosophy
Melissa Fusco Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Summer Research Grant, Columbia University
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Robert Gooding-Williams M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies; Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Axel Honneth Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, School of Social Science
Jenann Ismael Professor of Philosophy
2018 Fay Horton Sawyier Philosophy Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society, Illinois Institute of Technology
Francise W. Gramlich Lecture, Dartmouth College
Tom Scholl Lectures, Purdue University
Dhananjay Jagannathan Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Academic Visitor, Faculty of Philosophy and Somerville College, Oxford
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Patricia Kitcher Roberta and William Campbell Professor of the Humanities
Walter de Gruyter Stiftung Lecturer, American Philosophical Association
Philip Kitcher John Dewey Professor of Philosophy
Honorary Doctorate, University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht
Honorary Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge
Elected to American Philosophical Society
Mossman Lecture, McGill University
Howison Lecture, University of California, Berkeley
Christia Mercer Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy
Elected President, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division
Crossing Boundaries Lecture Series, Michigan State University
Michele Moody-Adams Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory; Chair, Department of Philosophy
Forry and Micken Lecture, Amherst College
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Christopher Peacocke Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy
Sainsbury Lecture, Kings College London
Achille Varzi Professor of Philosophy
Institute of Advanced Study Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin
Honorary Bruno Kessler Professorship, University of Trento, Italy
Katja Vogt Professor of Philosophy
J. L. Ackrill Memorial Lecture, Brasenose College, Oxford
Senior Fellowship, Maimonides Center Hamburg, for project “Dogmatism and Skepticism”
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Religion
Courtney Bender Professor of Religion
Project Fellow, Shaker Art, Design, and Religion, Mt. Lebanon Shaker Museum and the Henry Luce Foundation
Katherine Ewing Professor of Religion
Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination Fellowship
Mark Lilla Professor of Religion
Best Book of the Year List, Guardian newspaper, for The Once and Future Liberal
Best Book of the Year List, EL PAÍS newspaper, for The Once and Future Liberal
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Zhaohua Yang Sheng Yen Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhism
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant, Canada
Slavic Languages
Aleksandar Boškovi´c Lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian
Collegium de Lyon Fellowship, University of Lyon, France
Language Implementation Grant, Language Resource Center, Columbia University
Harriman Publishing Grant, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Liza Knapp Professor of Slavic Languages
Eberhard Faber Memorial Lecture, Princeton University
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Adam Leeds Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages
Dorfman Prize for Best Dissertation, History of Economics Society
John McWhorter Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Linguistics Society of America Linguistics, Language and the Public Award
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Astronomy
Melissa Ness Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Sloan Research Fellow
Scialog Award
Lorenzo Sironi Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Sloan Research Fellow
Jacqueline van Gorkom Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy
Hintze Lectureship, Oxford University
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Biological Sciences
Harmen Bussemaker Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences and of Systems Biology
Visiting Professorship, Netherlands Academy of Sciences
Martin Chalfie University Professor
Inaugural Lu Panglin Lecture, Teachers College
Arthur Whitely Lecture, NW Regional Meeting, Society for Developmental Biology
Honorary Doctorate, Macao University of Science and Technology
Honorary Doctorate, Connecticut College
Honorary Professor, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
Lomonosov Medal, Russian Academy of Science
Honorary Member, Harvard College Alpha Iota Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa
Laura Duvall Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Tri-Institutional Breakout Prize for Junior Investigators
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Tulle Hazelrigg Professor of Biological Sciences
Honorary Degree, Connecticut College
Oliver Hobert Professor of Biological Sciences and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Axel Ullrich Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany
Darcy Kelley Harold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences
Sinauer Lecture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Carol Prives Da Costa Professor of Biology
Recipient, NCI Outstanding Investigator Award
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Raju Tomer Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Plenary Lecture, SPIE Photonics West meeting
Keynote Lecture, Swiss Light-sheet Microscopy meeting, University of Zurich
Rafael Yuste Professor of Biological Sciences
Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, Tällberg Foundation, Stockholm
Hero Award, Fundacion Querer, Madrid
Open Research Award, Knowdle Foundation, Malaga
Honorary Member, Sociedad Española de Patología Dual
Honorary Member, World Association on Dual Disorders
Ikerbasque Research Professor, Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian
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Chemistry
Timothy Berkelbach Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Sloan Research Fellow
NSF CAREER Award
Bruce Berne Higgins Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Berry Rice Lecture, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
Luis Campos Associate Professor of Chemistry
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Plenary Lecture, Ohio Photochemical Society Meeting, Oregon, Ohio
New York Nanoscience Discussion Lecture, New York University
McGroddy Frontiers in Science Lecture, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia
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Ivana Hughes Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry
Provost Large-Scale Teaching & Learning Grant, Assessment to Document Student Learning in Frontiers of Science
Laura Kaufman Professor of Chemistry
Provost’s Grant for Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University
Wei Min Professor of Chemistry
Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award
Gerard Parkin Professor of Chemistry
The Malcolm L. H. Green Lecture, Oxford University
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David Reichman Centennial Professor of Chemistry; Chair, Department of Chemistry
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Tomislav Rovis Professor of Chemistry
Syngenta Lecture, ORCHEM, Berlin
Neel Shah Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Damon Runyon Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Xiaoyang Zhu Howard Family Professor of Nanoscience
Xinda Endowed Lecture, Peking University
Endowed Lecture, University of Science and Technology, Beijing
Plenary Lecture, QD2018 International Symposium, Toronto
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
Róisín Commane Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Sonya Dyhrman Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
Göran Ekström Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Steven Goldstein Higgins Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Associate Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Norman L. Bowen Award, American Geophysical Union
Visiting Professor Fellowship, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, University of Paris
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Alexander Halliday Director, The Earth Institute
Awarded Knight Bachelor, New Year Honours (UK)
Sidney Hemming Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Deputy Director for Education, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Fellow, Geological Society of America
Fellow, American Geophysical Union
IODP Distinguished Lecturer
Bärbel Hönisch Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Willi Dansgaard Award, American Geophysical Union
Jerry F. McManus Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
U.S. Fulbright Award
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Meredith Nettles Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plenary Lecture, “Seismological Constraints on Glacial Processes,” IRIS workshop 2018, Foundations, Frontiers, and Future Facilities for Seismology
Terry Plank Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wiess Visiting Professor, Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston
Plenary Lecture, “Community Volcano Project Design: The Importance of a Science Framework,” Community Volcano Workshop
Renata Maria Wentzcovitch Professor of Material Science and Applied Physics and of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Named Chair, Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society
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Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Andrés Bendesky Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Sloan Research Fellow
Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
RISE, Columbia Office of the Executive Vice President for Research
Lisa Dale Lecturer in Discipline, Sustainable Development
Fulbright Specialist Program in partnership with the University of Rwanda
Deren Eaton Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Earth Institute Course Support Grant
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Darwin Day Speaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Dustin Rubenstein Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Fellow, American Ornithological Society
Provost Leadership Fellow
Maria Uriarte Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Provost Leadership Fellow
Mathematics
Simon Brendle Professor of Mathematics
Distinguished Lecturer, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Panagiota Daskalopoulos Professor of Mathematics
Foias Distinguished Lectures, Texas A&M
Fields Institute Distinguished Lectures, Toronto
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Michael Harris Professor of Mathematics
Fellow, American Mathematical Society
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ioannis Karatzas Higgins Professor of Applied Probability and Professor of Statistics
Van Eenam Lectures, University of Michigan
Andrei Okounkov Samuel Eilenberg Professor of Mathematics
Plenary Lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians
Elected to the Executive Committee of the International Mathematics Union
Duong Phong Professor of Mathematics
ICCM Best Paper Award
Plenary Lecture, ICCM, Taipei, China
Plenary Lecture, AMS Meeting, Lehigh University
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William Sawin Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Clay Research Fellowship
Physics
Elena Aprile Professor of Physics
Vernon Hughes Lecture, Yale University
Dmitri Basov Higgins Professor of Physics
Kenneth Button Prize
Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
Andrei Beloborodov Professor of Physics
Humboldt Prize, Germany
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Gustaaf Brooijmans Professor of Physics
Nominated to Scientific Council of IN2P3
Cory Dean Professor of Physics
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Emlyn Hughes Professor of Physics
Stanton Foundation Award
Fellow, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris
Brian Metzger Associate Professor of Physics
New Horizons Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Bruno Rossi Prize, American Astronomical Society
Charles and Thomas Lauritsen Honorary Lecture, Caltech
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Andrew Millis Professor of Physics
Reynolds Lecture, University of Connecticut
Abhay Narayan Pasupathy Associate Professor of Physics
Elected Fellow, American Physical Society
Sebastian Will Assistant Professor of Physics
NSF CAREER Award
Tanya Zelevinsky Associate Professor of Physics
Francis M. Pipkin Award, American Physical Society
American Physical Society Fellow
Mildred Dresselhaus Professorship, Hamburg
JILA Visiting Fellowship, University of Colorado
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Psychology
Mariam Aly Assistant Professor of Psychology
NSF CAREER Award
Christopher Baldassano Assistant Professor of Psychology
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Geraldine Downey Niven Professor of Humane Letters
Association for Psychological Science Mentoring Award
Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award
Larisa Heiphetz Assistant Professor of Psychology
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar
Society for Research in Child Development Early Career Research Contribution Award
International Social Cognition Network Early Career Award 48 Columbia University | Faculty of Arts & Sciences NATURAL SCIENCE
Kevin Ochsner Professor of Psychology; Chair, Department of Psychology
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
Daphna Shohamy Professor of Psychology
SAGE Center Invited Speaker, Public Lecture on Mind and Brain, UCSB
Fellowship, Center for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University
Nim Tottenham Professor of Psychology
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
Irene Jakob Memorial Lecture Award, University of Pittsburgh
Statistics
David Blei Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science
Simons Investigator Award, 2019
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Richard Davis Howard Levene Professor of Statistics
Plenary Talk, “Extreme Value Analysis without the Largest Observations: What Can Be Done?,” Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Applications, in Honor of Hira L. Koul’s Scientific Legacy, Michigan State University
Elected Fellow, International Engineering and Technology Institute
Jubilee Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology
Victor De la Pena Professor of Statistics
Plenary Lecture, Conference in Honor of Larry Shepp, Rice University, Houston
Andrew Gelman Higgins Professor of Statistics and Professor of Political Science
Hedges Lecture, “Evidence-Based Practice Is a Two-Way Street,” Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
Samory Kpotufe Assistant Professor of Statistics
Bell Labs Prize
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Shaw-Hwa Lo Professor of Statistics and of Biostatistics
Selected as the First Yu-Shan Scholar, Taiwan
Appointed Visiting Chair Professor, NCTU
Inaugural Recipient, Chernoff Excellence in Statistics Award, New England Statistical Society
Arian Maleki Associate Professor of Statistics
Google Faculty Research Award
Marcel Nutz Associate Professor of Statistics
Plenary Lecture, “Economics Meets the Mathematical Sciences,” Fields Institute Workshop, Toronto
Plenary Lecture, JAFEE International Conference on Financial Engineering, Tokyo
Philip Protter Professor of Statistics; Academic Director, M.S. in Actuarial Science
Plenary Lecture, Options: 45 Years after the Publication of the Black Scholes Merton Model, Jerusalem
Plenary Lecture, Larry Shepp Memorial Conference, Rice University, Houston
Plenary Lecture, LPSM Conference, Paris Natural Science 51 NATURAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE
Michael Sobel Professor of Statistics
Karl Schuessler Memorial Lecture, Indiana University
Simon Tavaré Director, Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics; Professor of Statistics and Biological Sciences
Murray and Adylin Rosenblatt Endowed Lecture in Applied Mathematics, “Some Statistical Problems in Cancer Genomics,” University of California, San Diego
Ming Yuan Professor of Statistics
Distinguished Lecturer, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Tian Zheng Professor of Statistics; Associate Director for Education, Data Science Institute; Chair, Department of Statistics
Provost Leadership Fellow
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Anthropology
Naor Ben-Yehoyada Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science
Vinson Sutlive Book Prize in Historical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, College of William & Mary
Partha Chatterjee Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Ruth Benedict Lectures, Columbia University
Hannah Chazin Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Mellon Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies
Catherine Fennell Associate Professor of Anthropology
Visiting Professor, International Summer School, University of Oslo
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Claudio Lomnitz Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Humboldt Prize Lecture, Free University, Berlin
Mahmood Mamdani Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology
Honor of Lifetime Scholarship, Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa, General Assembly, Dakar, Senegal
Hormud Lecture, African Studies Association of North America, Annual General Meeting, Atlanta
Brinkley Messick Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies; Director, Middle East Institute
Inaugural Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto
Elizabeth A. Povinelli Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology
Elected Corresponding Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
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David Scott Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology
Appointed Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Audra Simpson Professor of Anthropology
Nicholson Distinguished Visiting Lecture, Unit for Criticism and Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Burge Lecture, Department of History, University of British Columbia
Economics
Michael Best Assistant Professor of Economics
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
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Yeon-Koo Che Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory
Plenary Speaker, Asian Meeting of Econometric Society, Seoul
Focus Speaker, European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory, 2018, Gerzensee, Switzerland
Mark Dean Associate Professor of Economics
Best Graduate Student Adviser Award, AGES, Columbia University
Navin Kartik Professor of Economics
Distinguished Visitor, Boston University
Wojciech Kopczuk Professor of Economics and of International and Public Affairs
Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Russell Sage Foundation
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Qingmin Liu Associate Professor of Economics
NSF Grant, Division of Social and Economic Sciences
Semi-Plenary Speaker, Econometric Society North American Meeting, Seattle
Semi-Plenary Speaker, 30th Anniversary International Conference, Stony Brook, New York
William Bentley MacLeod Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs
Elected Secretary Treasurer, American Law and Economics Association
Serena Ng Edwin W. Rickert Professor of Economics
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Edmund S. Phelps McVickar Professor of Political Economy
Tor Vergata Medal, Distinguished Professor Award, 30th Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar, Rome
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Jeffrey Sachs University Professor; Director, Center for Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute
AIB Eminent Scholar Award, Michigan State University
Boris Mints Institute Prize, Tel Aviv University
José Scheinkman Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics
Plenary Lecture, Bachelier Finance Society 10th World Congress, Dublin
Codirector, 30th Advanced School of Economic Theory, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé Professor of Economics
“The Neo Fisher Effect,” Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking, Stockholm
Plenary Speaker, 14th Annual Dynare Conference, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Honorary Professor, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
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Joseph Stiglitz University Professor
Sydney Peace Prize, Sydney Peace Foundation, University of Sydney
Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellow, International Economic Association
Honorary Doctorate, University of Costa Rica, San José
Honorary Doctorate, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo
Martin Uribe Professor of Economics
Honorary Professor, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
Eric Verhoogen Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Economics
Competitiveness and Globalization Prize, Portuguese Ministry of the Economy
Michael Woodford John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy
2018 Banque de France/TSE Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance
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History
Charly Coleman Associate Professor of History
Heyman Center Fellowship
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Marwa Elshakry Associate Professor of History
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Grant, Floating Laboratory of Action and Theory at Sea
Hannah Farber Assistant Professor of History
Heyman Center Fellowship
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Frank Guridy Associate Professor of History and of African American and Diaspora Studies
Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching
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Karl Jacoby Allan Nevins Professor of American History
Elected to Society of American Historians
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
Alice Kessler-Harris R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Elected President, Society of American Historians
Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies Award for Outstanding Contributions to Middle Eastern Studies, Seville
Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace in the Middle East Award
Natasha Lightfoot Associate Professor of History
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University
Endangered Archives Programme Grant, British Library
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Mark Mazower Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies; Director, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris
Honorary Doctorate, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
Corresponding Fellow, British Academy
Malgorzata Mazurek Associate Professor of Polish Studies
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Visiting Professorship, European University Institute
Stephanie McCurry R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Heyman Center Fellowship
22nd Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, University of Georgia, “Reconstructing: A Georgia Woman’s Life Amidst the Ruins”
Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant, Columbia University
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Mae Ngai Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History
Fellowship, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University
Wayne Morse Distinguished Professorship and Lecture, University of Oregon
Wolfe Lecture, Brooklyn College
Distinguished Lecture, Program in Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Stanley Kwok Lau and Doris Wong Lau Distinguished Lecture, University of California, Los Angeles
Lecture, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series, New-York Historical Society
Lawrence Stone Lectures, Princeton University
45th Annual Walter Schnackenberg Lecture, Pacific Lutheran University
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia
John O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture, Florida Atlantic University
Susan Pedersen Gouverneur Morris Professor of History
The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture, “The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Balfour Family,” Kings College, London Social Science 63 SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE
Pablo Piccato Professor of History
María Elena Martínez Book Prize for Mexican History 2018, Conference on Latin American History, for A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
Honorable Mention, Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies, for A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
Samuel Roberts Associate Professor of History, of Sociomedical Sciences, and of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Noguchi Lecture, Johns Hopkins University
Culpeper Seminar, University of California, San Francisco
David Rothman Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine (in Medical Humanities and Ethics) and Professor of History
ABIM Foundation Professionalism Article Prize
Simon Schama University Professor
Awarded Knighthood, Queen’s Birthday Honours List (UK)
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A. Tunç Şen Assistant Professor of History
Middle East Medievalists Inaugural Prize for Best Dissertation
2018 Best Original Article in the Field of Ottoman Studies Written by a Young Scholar, Comité international des études pré-ottomanes et ottomanes
Department of History Career Development Award
Neslihan Şenocak Associate Professor of History
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Pamela H. Smith Seth Low Professor of History
Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award
Harold E. Dickson Memorial Lecture in Art History, Pennsylvania State University, State College
Dibner Lecture in the History of Science, Huntington Library
Adam Tooze Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History
29th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize for Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers for 2019 Social Science 65 SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE
Marc Van De Mieroop Professor of History
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Madeleine Zelin Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies
Elected Trustee, Business History Conference
Political Science
Richard Betts Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies; Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies; Professor of International and Public Affairs; Director, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Paul Y. Hammond Memorial Lecture, University of Pittsburgh
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Jean Cohen Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute
Senior Fellowship, Center for the Humanities and Social Change, Humboldt University, Berlin
Sarah Daly Assistant Professor of Political Science
Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
Provost’s Grant for Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University
Visiting Research Scholarship, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University
Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant
Michael Doyle University Professor
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, University of Warwick
Hubert H. Humphrey Award, American Political Science Association
Charles E. Merriam Award, American Political Science Association
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Timothy M. Frye Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy; Chair, Department of Political Science
Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship
Elise Giuliano Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science
Tymkiw Ukrainian Studies Faculty Research Grant, awarded by Harriman Institute
Shigeo Hirano Professor of Political Science
Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Paper, Southern Political Science Association Meeting
John Huber Professor of Political Science
APSA G. Bingham Powell Award for Outstanding Mentoring of Graduate Students in American Politics
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Macartan Humphreys Professor of Political Science
Statistical Software Award
Leibniz “Society Needs Science” Prize
Nihal Isiksel James P. Shenton Associate Professor of the Core Curriculum
Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellowship
Yan P. Lin Center Public Lecture in Constitutional Studies, McGill University
Robert Jervis Adlai E. Stevenson Professor and Professor of International and Public Affairs
Elected to the British Academy
Kimuli Kasara Associate Professor of Political Science
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
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Ira Katznelson Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History
Named Interim Provost of Columbia University
Honorary Fellowship, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Corresponding Fellow, British Academy
Maria Murillo Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Provost Leadership Fellow
Lara Nettelfield Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Human Rights
Harriman Institute Faculty Grant
Tonya Putnam Associate Professor of Political Science
Faculty Mentoring Award, Columbia Graduate Student Association
PSGSA Award for Faculty Mentoring
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Robert Shapiro Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government and International and Public Affairs
Interim President, Academy of Political Science
Joshua Simon Assistant Professor of Political Science
Fulbright-García Robles U.S. Studies Chair, ITAM, Mexico City
Chiara Superti Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science
ISERP Seed Grant from Columbia University for the project “Foot in Both Countries”
Inga Winkler Lecturer in the Discipline of Human Rights
UN Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council Grant for Global Advocacy on Menstrual Health and Well-being
Brocher Centre Grant for Menstruation at the Margins: How Can We Meet Unmet Needs as Menstrual Health Moves Center Stage?
Internal grant for publication of Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, Center for the Study of Social Difference
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Sociology
Maria Abascal Assistant Professor of Sociology
Louis Wirth Best Article Award, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association
National Science Foundation Career Award
Jennifer Lee Professor of Sociology
Elected President, Eastern Sociological Society
Tey Meadow Assistant Professor of Sociology
2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title for Trans Kids
Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Award, American Sociological Association, Section on Sexuality
Saskia Sassen Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology
T. M. Asser Lecture, Palace of Peace, The Hague: “A Third Emergent Migrant Subject Not Recognized in Law”
Annual Aspen Lecture, Milan
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Teresa Sharpe Lecturer in the Discipline of Sociology
Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award
Amy Starecheski Lecturer in the Discipline of Sociology
Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning Provost’s Grant for “Curating Oral Histories: Audience Engagement, Evaluation, and Student Learning”
David C. Stark Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
Bruce Western Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice
2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison
2019 Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section, Academic Sociological Association
Robert J. Lampman Memorial Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Andreas Wimmer Lieber Professor of Political Philosophy
Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, International Science Council
Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative Historical Section, American Sociological Association
Louis Wirth Best Article Award, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association
Elected Fellow, Program on “Boundaries, Membership, and Belonging,” Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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Film Program
Ramin Bahrani Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Film
Producer’s Guild Award, Best TV Film, for Fahrenheit 451
9 International Award Wins, for Socrates
Jane Gaines Professor of Film
Distinguished Career Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholarly Award, for Lecture “Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries”
Bette Gordon Professor of Professional Practice in Film
Retrospective, Berlin Film Festival
Retrospective, Lusófona University of Porto and Municipal Theater of Porto, Portugal
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Ira Deutchman Professor of Professional Practice in Film
Retrospective, Lenfest Center for the Arts, “NY Indie Guy: Ira Deutchman & the Rise of Independent Film”
Annette Insdorf Professor of Film
High Note Award, Transatlantyk Festival, Lodz, Poland
Eric Mendelsohn Professor of Professional Practice in Film
Best Film for Love After Love, Off-Camera Int’l Film Festival, Kraków, Poland
Richard Pena Professor of Professional Practice in Film
Alliance Fellowship, Paris, Lecture “Cinemas of the Body: Jean Rouch and Stan Brakhage”
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James Schamus Professor of Professional Practice in Film
Lifetime Achievement Award, Galway Film Festival
Theatre Program
Anne Bogart Professor of Theatre Arts
Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London
David Hwang Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
Induction, Theater Hall of Fame, Gershwin Theatre
Six Ovation Awards, Los Angeles, including Best Lyrics, Best Book of a Musical, Best Production, for Soft Power
Bay Area Critics Award, Best Original Script, for Soft Power
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Lynn Nottage Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters
Signature Theater Season, Residency 1 Playwright
Dramatist Play Service, TCG, for Mlima’s Tale
Visual Arts Program
Jon Kessler Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts
Datumsoria: Jon Kessler and YAN Lei, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
As We May Think: Feedforward, 6th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Nicola López Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts
Nicola López: Parasites, Prosthetics, Parallels, and Partners, Solo Exhibition, Tamarind Institute Gallery; Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Relics, Fibs, Trash & Treasures, March 2018, Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee
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Miya Masaoka Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts
Japan Foundation Award for new Noh opera, The Long Arc of Time
Park Avenue Armory Studio Artist, New York
Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo, California
Elizaveta Meksin Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts
Artist in Residence, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Aliza Nisenbaum Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts
Honored by The Phillips Collection’s annual gala “Mexico: A Land of Beauty,” Washington, D.C.
Shelly Silver Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts
TOKAS/Tokyo Arts and Space Residency, Institute of Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange, Tokyo University of the Arts
A Strange New Beauty, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Sarah Sze Professor of Visual Arts
Sarah Sze, Solo Exhibition, Gagosian, Rome
Tomas Vu-Daniel LeRoy Neiman Professor of Professional Practice in Visual Arts
Visiting Artist, The Sorbonne, University of Paris
Writing Program
Susan Bernofsky Associate Professor of Writing
Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work, Modern Language Association
Friedrich Ulfers Prize
New York Public Library Cullman Fellowship
Anelise Chen Assistant Professor of Writing
Literature Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
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Deborah Eisenberg Professor of Writing
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Hadada Award, The Paris Review, for Lifetime Achievement
Richard Ford Professor of Writing
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Margo Jefferson Professor of Professional Practice in Writing
Kritikos Lectureship, “We The People” Series, Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon
Heidi Julavits Associate Professor of Writing
“The Art at the End of the World, chosen for Hilton Als’s Best American Essays 2018
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Victor LaValle Associate Professor of Writing
World Fantasy Award for The Changeling
British Fantasy Award for The Changeling
Locus Award for The Changeling
Benjamin Marcus Professor of Writing
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
New York Public Library Cullman Fellowship
Shane McCrae Assistant Professor of Writing
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry
Guggenheim Fellowship
Alan Ziegler Professor of Professional Practice in Writing
Andrew W. Mellon Scholar in Residence, Rhodes University, South Africa
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James Bone Lecturer in the Discipline of Enterprise Risk Management in the Faculty of Professional Studies
Dean’s Applied Research Award, Columbia University School of Professional Studies
Satyajit Bose Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Sustainability Management in the Faculty of Professional Studies
AXA Joint Research Initiative Award
Yvette Burton Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Professional Studies, Human Capital Management; Academic Director, M.S. in Human Capital Management
Crown Prince of Dubai Innovation Award
Academic Partnership Award, Gartner CHRO Summit
José Pascal Da Rocha Lecturer in the Discipline of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in the Faculty of Professional Studies
GIZ Research Grant for Design, Development, and Implementation of Dialogue and Mediation Curriculum, Economic Community of West African States
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Siddhartha Dalal Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Professional Studies, Applied Analytics
Data West, Plenary Speaker, Deep Analytics for Risk Mitigation
International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics, Plenary Speaker, ICAMOS 2018, University of Memphis
Rebecca Heino Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Strategic Communication; Academic Director, M.S. in Strategic Communication
Dean’s Applied Research Award, Columbia University School of Professional Studies
Francisco Pineda Lecturer in the Discipline of Construction Administration in the Faculty of Professional Studies; Academic Director, M.S. in Construction Administration
Presidential Leaders Fellowship
Sim Segal Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Enterprise Risk Management in the Faculty of Professional Studies; Academic Director, M.S. in Enterprise Risk Management
Outstanding Session Award for ERM Conference presentation Building Buy-In, “Overcoming the #1 Obstacle to Effective ERM”
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Grant Son Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Sports Management in the Faculty of Professional Studies
Dean’s Applied Research Award, Columbia University School of Professional Studies
Kevin Visconti Lecturer in the Discipline of Strategic Communication in the Faculty of Professional Studies
Dean’s Excellence Award for Faculty, Columbia University School of Professional Studies
Dean’s Applied Research Award, Columbia University School of Professional Studies
Aaron Wallen Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Human Capital Management in the Faculty of Professional Studies; Academic Director, Non- Degree Programs
Dean’s Applied Research Award, Columbia University School of Professional Studies
Gregory Witkowski Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Nonprofit Management in the Faculty of Professional Studies
Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center
Scholar in Residence, Rockefeller Archive Center
Dean’s Applied Research Award, Columbia University School of Professional Studies
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