Volume 4, Issue 1 Superscript Fall 2013–Winter 2014 The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences | Columbia University

Bringing Pedagogy into the 21st Century

Superscript 1 Link back to contents page CONTENTS GSAS Alumni Association Board of Directors

Louis A. Parks, President, M.A. ’95, Ancient Studies From the Dean 1 Lester Wigler, Vice President, M.A. ’80, Music Bringing Pedagogy into the Bridget M. Rowan, Secretary, M.A. ’80, English and Comparative Literature From the Dean 21st Century 2 Tyler Anbinder, M.A. ’85, M.Phil. ’87, Ph.D. ’90, History Alumni Profile: Judith Shapiro, Ph.D. Jillisa Brittan, Chair of Development Committee, M.A. ’86, English and ne of the principal raisons their personal lives and are continually searching for ’72, Anthropology 8 Comparative Literature d’être for the Graduate ways in which to make graduate life fit into their lives, as Gerrard Bushell, M.A. ’91, M.Phil. ’94, Ph.D. ’04, Political Science School of Arts and Sciences opposed to the other way around, which was the norm Report from the Field: Teaching at a Neena Chakrabarti, Student Representative, M.A. ’11, Chemistry is enhancing the academic traditionally. I do not have the space here to explore the Community College 12 Frank Chiodi, M.A. ’00, American Studies Oand professional life of our students. reasons for this development, which I would argue none- Kenneth W. Ciriacks, Ph.D. ’62, Geological Sciences But graduate students—both Master’s theless should be regarded as both healthy and welcome, Applied Humanities: Ramona Bajema, and doctoral—typically devote between since it demystifies graduate education and the graduate - Annette Clear, M.A. ’96, M.Phil. ’97, Ph.D. ’02, Political Science Ph.D. ’12 and the Tohoku Earthquake one and eight years in pursuit of the experience, and forces both to conform to realistic and Relief Effort 14 Michael S. Cornfeld, Chair of Nominating Committee, M.A. ’73, Political degree that brought them to Colum- humane parameters. This transformation requires, nev- Science bia. This investment of time means ertheless, that graduate school administrations and sup- Astrobiology: Modern Science Targets an Elizabeth Debreu, M.A. ’93, Art History and Archaeology that students often spend a significant port services evolve to accommodate our students’ novel Ancient Question 22 Robert Greenberg, Chair of Student Outreach Committee, M.A. ’88, Philos- number of their formative adult years understanding of their relationship to their programs, to ophy among us, years in which the realm of the institution, and to their discipline at large. Alumni News 26 George Khouri, M.A. ’69, Classics Carlos J. Alonso the personal usually takes a backseat Dean, Graduate School of Arts and to the requirements of the academic This development accounts, for instance, for two changes Sukhan Kim, M.A. ’78, Political Science Sciences; Morris A. and Alma pursuits that brought them to campus. in policy that the Graduate School instituted since I be- Alumni Profile: Steven G. Mandis, Lindsay Leard-Coolidge, M.Phil. ’87, Ph.D. ’92, Art History and Archaeolo- Schapiro Professor in the Humanities Graduate students have traditionally came dean: first, the existing policy on the “Suspension of gy M.A. ’10, M.Phil. ’13 28 postponed or set aside significant Responsibilities for Childbirth” was broadened two years Les B. Levi, M.A. ’76, M.Phil. ’78, Ph.D. ’82, English and Comparative Liter- personal decisions while in graduate school, owing to the ago to include male student parents, as well as instances On the Shelf: Faculty Publications 30 ature belief that life and its big choices resume upon receipt of adoption and foster parenthood; second, the Graduate Komal S. Sri-Kumar, Ph.D. ’77, Economics of the degree and after reintegration in the larger world School announced last year that graduate student parents On the Shelf: Alumni Publications 32 John Waldes, Co-chair of Marketing and Research Committee, M.S. ’68, outside the university. would be entitled to receive for each child a $1,000 Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. ’71, Plasma Physics subsidy to defray the cost of child care expenses. The Dissertations 34 The reality is, however, that there has never been such a realization that graduate school has to be better integrated Harriet Zuckerman, Ph.D. ’65, Sociology transparent split between life and the graduate experi- into our students’ lives was also one of the reasons behind Announcements 46 Tracy Zwick, M.A. ’11, Modern Art ence: graduate school IS life for our students. In fact, the creation of a new program of Internships in Academic graduate school is in most cases the first time in which Administration, in which graduate students explore non- Helpful Links 49 Letters to the Editor students will not be under the tutelage of someone in academic careers in university administration that may loco parentis—in other words, it is the first truly adult au- give them more flexibility at the moment they endeavor To share your thoughts about anything you tonomous experience some of them will entertain. It is to combine the personal and the professional. Our newly have read in this publication, please email also quite possible that graduate school be the first time created Office of Student Affairs in GSAS has been given [email protected]. Unless you note there is significant geographic distance from their family the consequent mandate to address the many facets of the otherwise in your message, any correspondence environment, since most students tend to remain rela- nonacademic dimension of our students lives, while rec- tively close to home when choosing an undergraduate ognizing the particular and specific needs of our Master’s received by the editor will be considered for institution. This is especially the case with international and doctoral constituencies. future publication. Please be sure to include in students, who cast a much wider net when applying to your message your name and affiliation to the institutions in which to pursue their postbaccalaureate Graduate school used to be regarded by students, faculty, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. education. Graduate school is not just what life is for our and administrators as a parenthesis or hiatus in the lives students, it is also a most significant season of that life of graduate students. The current move toward the closer SUPERSCRIPT is published twice annually by from an existential point of view. integration of life and the graduate experience is a sal- the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the utary transformation that nonetheless presents us with GSAS Alumni Association. In my time as a faculty member, and now as dean, I have new challenges that we in the Graduate School are ready noticed a gradual but quite significant change in student and eager to assume. I would be extremely interested in Dean: Carlos J. Alonso attitude toward their graduate experience. Students hearing from you, the alumni of the school, about how Editor: Robert Ast nowadays tend to see graduate school as coextensive with we could best fulfill that responsibility. Assistant Editor: Andrew Ng Senior Director for Alumni Relations: Jill Galas-Hickey Design, Editing, and Production: Columbia Creative Link back to contents page 2 Superscript Superscript 1 Link back to contents page Bringing Pedagogy into the 21st Century: The GSAS Teaching Center and the Science of Teaching and Learning By Alexander Gelfand

One sunny day this past June, a clutch of doctoral students from various Now in its second year, the institute is part of a departments—Music, Sociology, Earth and Environmental Sciences—sat, larger three-year program, stood, and circulated in a large room on the fifth floor of Barnard College’s the Preparing Doctoral Diana Center. The space was crammed with themed tables devoted to Students for the 21st Century Initiative. Offered various digital tools: one bore a piece of paper with the word “SIMS,” for by the Teaching Center and computer simulations, scrawled in black sharpie; another proclaimed CCNMTL under a grant from the Teagle Foundation, “Blogs!” Many of the tables were littered with lists and diagrams and flow a nonprofit dedicated to charts, and each one was equipped with an educational technologist from improving the quality of undergraduate learning in the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). the arts and sciences, the The students had all been appointed as teaching assistants or preceptors initiative seeks to equip for the coming year, and the technologists were there to show them how to graduate students to teach in the new millennium and, use the software to design and deliver assignments. by extension, to bring the quality of undergraduate In other rooms, students online resources or set bottled water and talking learning at Columbia to an munched on box lunches up a website where shop. even higher level. And it as presenters from students could upload and is emblematic of the way CCNMTL and the GSAS annotate text and images The setting was the second in which the University Teaching Center— for a class. All the while, day of the Teagle Summer is trying to rethink the including Mark Phillipson, informal groups of TAs Institute, a three-day-long role and function of the the Center’s interim lounged on comfy chairs series of workshops and Teaching Center at a director—demonstrated in a common area framed discussions devoted to pivotal moment in higher how to use the library’s by large windows, sipping pedagogy and technology. education.

Link back to contents page 2 Superscript Superscript 3 Link back to contents page * * * but also research into Shapiro, former president of out to help learners retain PowerPoint presentations and he taught English to faculty support unit at learning—more formally Barnard College and current new concepts and requiring fail, including the fact that refugees while in Egypt on a CCNMTL; as an assistant Since they first began known as scholarship on president of the Teagle students to generate their people find it difficult to Fulbright—but he says that professor of English at to appear in the 1960s, teaching and learning, or Foundation, recalls that own answers (even if they process information when the strategies he learned Bowdoin College and an teaching centers have SOTL. SOTL emerged as when she was hired by the are wrong, the process is it is delivered both orally “kind of changed the way adjunct assistant professor become increasingly an academic discipline anthropology department at ultimately more effective and textually. He and his I present things in general in the Department of common on American less than a quarter-century the University of Chicago than simply giving them colleague Adrienne Garber, now.” They also kept him English at Columbia, he has college and university ago with the publication of in 1970, even talking the correct answers to also an Ed.D. candidate coming back to the Center made extensive use of wikis, campuses; more than Scholarship Reconsidered: about teaching with your begin with). “The empirical at Teachers College, then for more training. the popular web apps that two hundred schools now Priorities of the Professoriate colleagues “would have findings are very solid,” presented a series of digital allow people to collectively have some kind of center by Ernest Boyer. Boyer, who been the professional Metcalfe says. “And it works tools that can be used * * * create and annotate online devoted to helping faculty was at the time president equivalent of a burp.” A beautifully.” to deliver more effective content. As a teacher, and graduate students of the Carnegie Foundation generation later, when he presentations by exploiting The digital side of Phillipson has found that improve the quality of for the Advancement of was a doctoral candidate Some months ago, the ways in which our the workshop that such tools bolster students’ their teaching, including Teaching, argued that at the University of Metcalfe addressed the minds process data. Marsh attended, of the sense of participation, many of Columbia’s peer instruction merited the California, Berkeley, Mark staff at CCNMTL, and presentation that Cennamo and can even influence institutions. Yet Columbia same systematic study and Phillipson recalls a similar the results were apparent Wendell Hassan Marsh, a and Garber gave, and the direction of a course itself came to the party professional recognition silence surrounding the at the Teagle Summer third-year Ph.D. candidate of the entire Teagle through the generation relatively late. accorded to other areas art of teaching—and the Institute when Michael in the Department of Summer Institute, points of new ideas and avenues of scholarly investigation, concomitant experience Cennamo, an educational Middle Eastern, South to another development to explore—an effect that According to Carlos J. and his contention was of walking into his first technologist who is working Asian, and African at the Teaching Center: can have a transformative Alonso, Dean of the quickly taken up as a teaching section at ten toward his doctorate in Studies, attended a similar its growing emphasis on impact on overall student Graduate School of Arts and rallying cry by others. o’clock one morning, education at Teachers workshop at the Teaching educational technology. engagement. Sciences and Vice President Allison Pingree, director of writing his name and phone College, gave a brief Center last year. Marsh Phillipson is well suited to Judith Shapiro for Graduate Education, the professional pedagogy in number on the board, and talk titled “Presentation is hardly a novice when manage that change: before The word “transfor­ recalls that when University first explored the the Strengthening Learning realizing that he had to and Metacognition.” it comes to either digital being appointed interim mative”—along with its possibility of creating a full- and Teaching Excellence “turn around, face the class, Cennamo outlined the technology or teaching—a director of the Center, he close cousins “revolu­ she was hired by service teaching center that Initiative at Harvard’s and do something.” specific psychological former journalist, he’s well spent six years as a senior tionary,” “game-changing,” the anthropology would cater to both faculty John F. Kennedy School reasons why so many acquainted with new media, program specialist in the and “disruptive”—has often department at and graduate students in of Government, says that The Teaching Center’s the University of the 1990s. At the time, research in areas relating to emphasis on SOTL is however, the cost seemed SOTL is already beginning a means of redressing Chicago in 1970, prohibitive, and so in 2006 to count toward academic precisely that lack of even talking about the University established promotion and tenure. attention to how teachers do teaching with a more limited center, what they do and how they focused on the needs of To Mintz, a professional can do it more effectively. your colleagues graduate students. Helmed historian with a long list of Cognitive psychologists “would have been for two years on an interim publications to his credit, like Columbia’s own the professional basis by Jan Allen, then the acquiring those scholarly Janet Metcalfe and Lois equivalent of a associate dean for Ph.D. bona fides was crucial. Putnam have for many programs, the Teaching Otherwise, he suspected years conducted research burp.” Center acquired its first that a teaching center would into learning and memory, permanent director in never be taken seriously and their findings can be 2008, when Steven Mintz at a top-tier research directly translated into came on board. institution like Columbia— helpful teaching strategies. the kind of institution Metcalfe, for example, Mintz wanted to move where scholarship, not points to three or four basic the Center in several teaching, has historically techniques that virtually any directions at once. For been regarded as the teacher can use to improve one thing, he wanted it to real work of faculty and learning outcomes, such as address not only teaching graduate students. Judith spacing practice sessions Mark Phillipson, interim director of the GSAS Teaching Center, leading a workshop

Link back to contents page 4 Superscript Superscript 5 Link back to contents page been used to describe the Some fear that turning realm as well—whether that Michael Cennamo role of technology in higher toward a fully online model is in the context of a MOOC and Adrienne Garber, edu- cational technologists education. Much of the might further imperil or of a course that mixes at CCNMTL hubbub has in recent years academic jobs at a time face-to-face and online come in response to the when tenured positions elements. phenomenon of massive are already dwindling, open online courses, or while others believe that Holly Myers, a Teagle MOOCs: strictly digital it will inevitably dilute the Summer Institute combinations of text, educational experience. participant and doctoral images, and video delivered In a recent piece for the candidate in the Department to vast numbers of people online magazine The New of Slavic Languages who over the web. Because they Inquiry, Aaron Bady, a was preparing to lead are free and available to Ph.D. candidate in African a section in first-year anyone with a computer literature at the University Russian, was visibly and an Internet connection, of California, Berkeley, thrilled to be sitting next MOOCs have been heralded assailed MOOCs for being to Michael Cennamo as he as a means of making a pedagogically shallow demonstrated an application higher education accessible means of content delivery called VoiceThread on to almost everyone. Some that will benefit only the his laptop. VoiceThread proponents even believe most self-directed students, allows students to create that they might represent a and he also contended that online conversations cure for what economist and the rush to adopt them has around material they former Princeton president more to do with serving have uploaded to the web, William Bowen calls the corporate interests than and Myers could already “I had no notion “cost disease” of higher educational ones. (In an see her undergraduate that there was education, which manifests earlier post to the blog students videotaping their in ballooning tuition costs Inside Higher Education, own Russian-language this vast network and skyrocketing student Bady described MOOCs as skits, uploading the videos of professionals who debt. And they’re spreading “only better than nothing.”) to their class website, were available like wildfire: Columbia Because of these conflicting and commenting on one to help make things currently offers a number of views, and perhaps because another’s work. She was MOOCs in subjects ranging of the fundamental especially excited because, more engaging from virology to economics uncertainty that surrounds prior to attending the for students.” through Coursera, a Silicon a phenomenon that is still Institute, she hadn’t even —Holly Myers, Valley startup that at last in its infancy, the subject realized that such a thing count had more than of MOOCs tends, as Mark was possible—or that Teagle Summer nine million enrollments Phillipson says, to get someone like Cennamo Institute participant from students scattered people “very excited, and might be around to show across nearly two hundred very scared.” her how to do it. countries. things more engaging for students to get a sense of tightening of the academic The changes underway at “I had some vague notion students.” the possibilities that lie job market, which has sent The speed with which the Teaching Center could of an office somewhere in beyond academia and to increasing numbers of MOOCs have proliferated— help assuage at least some Butler if I had questions * * * find the support they will graduate students into many of Columbia’s peer of those fears. For example, about CourseWorks,” need to capitalize on them. so-called alt-ac—short for institutions have introduced more technologically she said, referring to the The idea of a “vast network “alternative academic”— their own courses, while oriented offerings ought University’s online course of professionals” hints The fear that MOOCs and careers that include Harvard and MIT have to help teachers bring the management system. “I at yet another role that other digital technologies staff and administrative partnered to create the same quality of instruction had no notion that there a reimagined Teaching will render some tenure- positions at colleges MOOC provider edX—has that Columbia students was this vast network of Center could potentially track positions obsolete is and universities, not to also raised concerns about have come to expect in the professionals who were play, as a place for graduate accentuated by the very real mention careers that the future of the technology. classroom to the digital available to help make

Link back to contents page 6 Superscript Superscript 7 Link back to contents page have nothing to do with Teaching Fellows to explore Center, which awards a training activities can only day operations of a modern the University are being all comers makes many own roles as teachers and academia whatsoever. alternative career paths, certificate of college teaching help. research university. As Dean invited to take advantage of things possible. In addition scholars will be once they, Not surprisingly, this and why Mark Phillipson preparation to graduate Alonso notes, that exposure its resources. In addition to providing TAs with too, move on to their first can be difficult terrain to says that the University students who complete a In addition to what can serve as “useful to providing faculty increased access to senior professional posts. negotiate. Many graduate would be failing graduate comprehensive training Phillipson refers to as preparation for a career in with the same support faculty, mixing populations students are uncomfortable students if it did not help program, says that many the “quiet mentoring” academia, either within the already enjoyed by their also enables more two-way Those higher up in the discussing alt-ac or them confront the realities graduates of tier-one that already takes place professoriate or in academic Teaching Fellows, this will exchanges between graduate institutional hierarchy nonacademic options with of the job market—whether research universities who as graduate students administration.” expand interaction and students—many of whom stand to benefit as well. their faculty advisers, either by assisting in the creation are lucky enough to land are exposed to alt-ac communication among have been roaming the Harvard’s Allison Pingree because they feel ashamed of the kinds of robust academic positions will likely professionals such as * * * all of those who make up halls for years and have points out that digital of abandoning a traditional professional portfolios find themselves working Cennamo and Garber, the the Columbia teaching considerable insight into the technology can provide academic career or because they’ll need to land their at liberal arts colleges, Graduate School is also Opportunities for community, tenured and culture of the University— an avenue for renewal to they are afraid that first faculty positions or which have traditionally launching an initiative mentoring of all kinds ought otherwise. And that ought to and junior faculty who senior faculty who want to betraying even the slightest by preparing them for life emphasized teaching over to explicitly address to increase as the result be good for everyone. have only recently ceased refresh their teaching with a lack of commitment could outside the ivory tower. research, or at state schools, alternative career options. of another shift, as well. being graduate students shot of something new and have catastrophic results. which have come under Beginning with the spring Until recently, the Teaching Rando, who has over the themselves. Such exchanges innovative. And many faculty advisers Phillipson is therefore increasing pressure to 2014 semester, advanced Center focused almost past five years steered can help freshly minted don’t know enough about introducing sequences of demonstrate their efficient doctoral students will have exclusively on providing the Yale Teaching Center assistant professors navigate And faculty at all levels of the world beyond academia workshops that graduate use of taxpayer dollars the opportunity to intern in teaching and professional through a similar transition the environment where seniority profit when they to be of much help. This is students can complete in with evidence of effective some twenty administrative development services to from a student-centered they hope to build their have the chance to mingle why Steven Mintz originally order to receive a formal teaching. Under those offices across the graduate students. That is organization to one that careers, while providing with colleagues from other envisioned the Teaching certification. Bill Rando, circumstances, proof of University, where they can now changing, however, also serves faculty, says grad students with a better disciplines. Universities, Center as a “safe place” for director of the Yale Teaching participation in teacher- get a glimpse of the day-to- as faculty from across that opening the doors to understanding of what their Rando says, tend to be

Judith Shapiro, Ph.D. ’72, Anthropology By Alexander Gelfand

When Judith Shapiro became head of system, the same system Shapiro only a month—a decision that cost Paiute of the Great Basin, the mas- In 1970 she became the first woman the Teagle Foundation this past July, herself attended (at PS 29 in Flushing her a front-row seat at the landmark sive watershed that lies between appointed to the anthropology depart- the former Barnard president took Meadows, Queens), along with class- student protests of the Free Speech the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra ment at the University of Chicago. It the reins of an organization that for mates such as Jonathan Cole, future Movement just one year later. Back in Nevada range. A few years later was, she says, an overwhelming, even nearly eighty years has given grants sociologist and provost of Columbia, New York City, a friend hipped Shapiro she undertook a series of studies of paralyzing experience to be a junior fe- to institutions of higher learning and and Stephen Jay Gould, future paleon- to the work of the French anthropol- indigenous groups in Brazil. Her re- male faculty member adrift in a sea of research with an eye toward improving tologist and public intellectual. “I used ogist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and she search among the Yanomami yielded distinguished senior male colleagues. undergraduate learning in the arts and to play teacher when I was a kid,” she applied to the graduate program in some of the earliest anthropological Though she hadn’t yet finished her sciences. Which seems only fitting, says. anthropology at Columbia, where she analysis of gender differences—not dissertation, for example, Shapiro since Shapiro herself has spent the was admitted on scholarship despite because of any ideological motiva- suddenly found herself ensconced in last forty-odd years trying to advance Nonetheless, it took her some time never having taken a single course in tion (“second-wave feminism hadn’t the office previously occupied by the the same goals. to find her subject. Armed with a the subject. yet happened,” Shapiro recalls), but revered cultural anthropologist Clifford degree in history and French from because the differences between Geertz. In what she now describes as Many of the Foundation’s efforts are Brandeis University, Shapiro entered Despite the false start, it didn’t take the lives of Yanomami men and an extremely wise professional move, aimed at bolstering the quality of the graduate program in history at the long for Shapiro to get up to speed. women were simply too obvious to Shapiro moved on to Bryn Mawr in Though she claims never to have teaching, a vocation that is in Shap- University of California, Berkeley in By 1965 she was doing “salvage ignore. 1975, discovering in the process “the considered a career in administration, iro’s blood. Her mother taught Latin 1963. She quickly realized that the life ethnography”—fieldwork aimed at wonderful world of women’s col- Shapiro was named dean of the col- and supervised the high school librar- of a professional historian was not for preserving cultures on the brink of Gender would prove to be a defining leges”—a world in which she would lege and then its first provost. The role ies in the New York City public school her, however, and dropped out after extinction—among the Northern issue in Shapiro’s professional life. spend the bulk of her working life.

Link back to contents page 8 Superscript Superscript 9 Link back to contents page siloed along departmental students. This, Rando says, departmental discussions can come to find informal Digital Humanities Center, on hunches and guesses,” “It’s often an uphill battle lines: physicists hang out is one of the most powerful of curricular planning, support and a sense of which offers technological Phillipson asks, “when to get people to commit with physicists, English aspects of a teaching center: maybe even improvised community. You could see and research support to you don’t treat your own to teaching in the ways in profs with English profs, done right, it can become study halls for students the outlines of such a space faculty and students who scholarship that way?” which they are committed and never the twain shall a University-wide faculty taking MOOCs—a physical emerging at the Teagle work in the humanities to scholarship,” Phillipson meet. While this may be center. complement, as it were, to Summer Institute, as and history. Phillipson That question gets at the says. “So it’s good to natural, it is not particularly the online classroom—and participants from different hopes that this cohabitation heart of the Teaching trouble the line between healthy. If those physicists The new and improved a laboratory where faculty disciplines temporarily will blur the line between Center’s mission and the two.” never develop a genuine Teaching Center will also and staff can gauge student coalesced into small, teaching and research in purpose. It may be Faculty at all levels appreciation for what benefit from its new and reaction to the digital informal groups where productive ways. The entire many things to many of seniority profit those English profs do improved digs: a sleek, environment. they commiserated over Columbia community people—support center, when they have the (and vice versa), they will digitally enhanced space the difficulty of balancing would gain something, for digital training ground, never develop a sense in Butler Library known as Phillipson also sees teaching and research, example, if more TAs and professional development chance to mingle of shared purpose—a Studio@Butler. Everything Studio@Butler as a talked about their job professors were to discover office, communal gathering with colleagues from situation that can eventually in it—the tables, the response to the desire prospects, and bonded with the scholarship of teaching place—but all of those other disciplines. breed mistrust. Moreover, whiteboards, the digital expressed by many one another regardless and learning, or if they roles and functions drawing together faculty projectors—is on wheels graduate students for a of their respective came to regard their own are undergirded by a from different departments and can be easily configured “third space” on campus: departmental affiliations or teaching as something fundamental commitment gives them the opportunity for a variety of uses: a refuge beyond the orbit areas of expertise. that warranted the same to helping faculty and to share their respective graduate-student workshops of one’s department and rigorous procedures of students become as serious insights into teaching and and faculty seminars, one- immediate social circle, Not incidentally, the inquiry they employ when about their teaching as they to discuss the common on-one consultations on where graduate students Teaching Center shares conducting their scholarly are about their research. challenge of reaching teaching strategies and from across the University Studio@Butler with the investigations. “Why teach

Judith Shapiro, continued she played in helping to establish and mayor; her primary role, as she saw of the credit for her alleged ac- ting to spending quality time with her of themselves as part of a community. ers isn’t a mark of failure, says Shapiro, strengthen interdisciplinary programs it, was to hold the Barnard com- complishments at the feet of her poodle, Nora. Ultimately, however, she As teachers, however, they are not: and it can help teachers use their time and cooperative arrangements with munity together and to “hear the colleagues, and claims that being a found the prospect of leading an insti- alone in their classrooms, they tend more efficiently, freeing them up to other top-tier schools such as Swarth- song of the institution”—to see its university or college president is “an tution devoted to improving the quality to assume that they must build their more effectively mentor their students. more and the University of Pennsyl- distinctiveness and to understand endless opportunity for screwing up.” of undergraduate learning—and, by courses alone as well. But that need vania helped attract the attention of its mission. When she stepped down (Along with self-deprecating humor, extension, the quality of undergrad- not be the case. Above all, Shapiro remains commit- Barnard College, where she was ap- in 2008, Shapiro was credited with traces of Shapiro’s anthropological uate teaching—to be irresistible; and ted to continuing the Foundation’s pointed president in 1994. Coming to tripling Barnard’s endowment and training can also be discerned in her when the board asked her again, she As an example, Shapiro points to Re- commitment to improving under- Barnard, she says, was like choosing doubling the number of applications take on the college presidency—for acquiesced. acting to the Past, a course developed graduate student learning, which a spouse: in addition to being a close it received, refining its curriculum, example, when she describes the by Barnard history professor Mark C. she believes is inextricably linked to sister college of Bryn Mawr, Barnard and ramping up its commitment to “rituals of opposition” that inevitably “This foundation is about my life’s Carnes with Teagle support that has the quality of teaching. That, in turn, had the advantage of being located in educational technology. (One of arise between faculty and adminis- work,” says Shapiro. As president, students explore classic texts through is why she feels it is important to her native New York, and its relation- her first moves was to get all of the tration.) Shapiro would like to maintain Tea- elaborate role-playing games. Though back the kinds of programs that the ship to Columbia felt more like a gen- members of her senior senior staff gle’s recent emphasis on pedagogical born in an elite liberal arts college for Teaching Center is developing and uine partnership than the kind a small on email, at a time when the new When she was first asked if she might innovation and assessment of student women, the course has over the years that Teagle is encouraging at other women’s college might be expected to communication platform was far like to be a candidate for the Teagle learning, but she would also like to been expanded and refined with the colleges and universities across the have with a major research university from ubiquitous.) presidency—she was a member of the promote curriculum revision and great- help of a consortium of colleges and country. across the street. search committee at the time—Shap- er sharing of information and material universities around the country, and Yet Shapiro herself dismisses much iro said no. She was content to teach between teachers at different institu- now community colleges are beginning “When you develop faculty as teach- Shapiro likens the role of a college of the praise she has received as part time at Barnard and to pursue her tions. As researchers, Shapiro says, to show interest in it as well. Borrowing ers,” Shapiro says, “you’re supporting president to that of a small-town “leadership fetishism,” lays most other interests, from singing and knit- faculty members are used to thinking or adapting courses developed by oth- students.”

Link back to contents page 10 Superscript Superscript 11 Link back to contents page Writing) at Columbia and First-Year English at Barnard. has the potential to move a student into a fun and exciting Teaching at BCC has been a different, and in many ways place, a place where truly original thinking can take place. more satisfying, experience. These moments I’ve described are rare and unpredictable, Most books about pedagogy seem to be written for people but when they arrive—what a great class it can be. (And I at elite universities. For example, at BCC there is little need feel happy on my end.) to challenge a student’s sense of privilege—the college has open admissions, and many of our students are part * * * of the working class, new immigrants, and members of Report from the Field: traditionally understood minority groups. We don’t have Community colleges these days are gaining popularity with to push the institution toward a more student-centered the rising expense of private colleges and universities. But classroom, since that is already the law of the land. We community colleges are still outsiders to the Ivy League and Teaching at a also don’t have to convince students that professors are not most four-year colleges. Maybe someday we won’t seem distant authoritarian figures, since few see us that way to so alien. Ironically, one of the strongest imperatives of my Community College begin with. There is no academic “star system,” or anything graduate study at GSAS was to pay attention to suppressed precious about the college environment. To illustrate the voices, repressed populations, and underrepresented latter: one rainy spring day, the BCC commencement was viewpoints. Community colleges are a repressed population held on the ground level of the parking garage. in the world of higher education. It’s surprising that more GSAS graduates wouldn’t be interested in exploring this My greatest hope as an instructor is to create an world of the Other! opportunity for pleasure in discovery during each class. I work in an academic environment that could seem generic As I was writing this short piece, I received an email and rudimentary, a force that pushes against unquantifiable announcement for the 2014 annual meeting of the or even improvisational aspects of teaching. But over the Eastern Sociological Society: “Invisible Work: Exploring years I have carved out my own special classroom space in the Invisibility of Teaching, Learning and Researching By Sarah Markgraf, M.A. ’86, M.Phil. ’89, Ph.D. ’94, the area of Cinema Studies. at the Community College.” The précis reads as follows: “Community colleges—their students, faculty, and role English and Comparative Literature Most of my students come into class with the view that in higher education and American society—remain school is a burden. I’ve found that teaching “critical largely invisible, despite growing national attention and thinking skills” does little to help that situation. In fact, I’ve swelling numbers. In academia, we continue to talk about enure-track positions at community colleges GSAS graduates have applied for tenure-track or lecturer had greater success deliberately ignoring those very skills ‘traditional students’ and ‘college’ as if most students are offer valuable job opportunities for people with positions—somewhat odd given the paltry job offerings at times. (Any self-satisfied teaching of these “skills,” as between the ages of 18 and 21 and attending residential graduate degrees in the humanities. In the early for those with Ph.D.s in the humanities in the past few if in a list, defeats the purpose of this approach anyway.) four-year institutions. They aren’t. . . . What are the 1990s when I was looking for a job, it seemed decades. The dearth of applicants for positions at BCC is Quite wonderful bursts of ideas can emerge when students consequences of this invisibility for those at community Tthat taking a position at a community college wasn’t normal particularly surprising, since the school is located only eight experience moments of chaos and surprise, such as when colleges and for higher education itself?” for those with Ivy League Ph.D.s. It didn’t initially occur miles from Manhattan (in fact, many of my colleagues live they watch Paul Sharits’s T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G or Maya to me, either. Having taught part-time for four years—and in Manhattan and Brooklyn). Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon. Apparently I’m not the only one thinking about such after interviewing at four-year colleges to no avail—I had issues. largely given up the search for a tenure-track position in Another professional consideration to note is that there is My students at BCC generally feel not only burdened but English and was working as a legal secretary when I saw no “publish or perish” culture at the typical community also tired. I teach evening classes, and many of them have an ad in The New York Times for an opening teaching college. Tenure, usually granted after five years of good worked a full eight-hour day—often involving physical college composition at Bergen Community College (BCC) service to the college, does not depend on getting a book labor—before coming to class. Why should a college class in northern New Jersey. Once I joined the BCC faculty, out. This frees up those who wish to publish to work on make a person even more burdened and tired? In the world though, I found that a few of my colleagues also had whatever they want, at their own pace. It also provides more of open admissions (compared to Columbia and Barnard), degrees from GSAS in English and Comparative Literature, time to focus on the college’s core mission: teaching. pleasure is generally thought to be unrelated to classroom including Bonnie MacDougall, M.A. ’70, Ph.D. ’82 and the experience. One way I try to address this problem is to late David Kievett, M.A. ’70, M.Phil. ’74, Ph.D. ’75. * * * encourage students to become interested in new and unusual things, such as the discontinuity editing at the However, since joining Bergen in 1994 I have served on Previous to BCC, I taught Logic and Rhetoric (the beginning of City of God. Energy can be created from that a number of search committees, and in that time very few introductory writing course now known as University interest. Exposure to unanticipated—even bizarre—ideas

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The call first came at four a.m. Ramona Bajema, then a doctor- al student in modern Japanese history, was on spring break, finish- ing up her dissertation at her mother’s house in picturesque Ojai, California. Her best friend, Ella Gudwin, vice president of emergency response for the aid organization AmeriCares, was trying desper- ately to reach her. “The first couple of calls, I thought, She probably just thinks I’m in New York, and doesn’t know the time difference,” Bajema recalls. “I picked up the phone and she said, ‘Do you know what’s going on?’ I said, ‘No, are you okay?’ I was laughing, thinking, Ella, I’m in California, it’s five in the morning. She said, ‘Okay, I need you to sit down for a second and turn on your computer.’”

Link back to contents page 14 Superscript Superscript 15 Link back to contents page bring relief to people America,” Bajema recalls. fleeing Lehman’s Tokyo “Ramona would always take had postdoctoral positions affected by the earthquake “I thought, Oh, great, I’m offices in the middle of the on very difficult things,” to apply for, and most and tsunami. going to become this in- night. “It was not me, it was Gluck says. “She wouldn’t pressingly, a dissertation to between force between not my values, it was not a just work in her comfort finish. For her dissertation, “The difference with Japan and America.” good fit,” Bajema says. “I zone.” Bajema had returned to Ramona,” her adviser, Carol came back to the United art, writing about Japanese- Gluck, George Sansom Having witnessed the States just going, ‘Oh my * * * American artists between Professor of History and precarious life of the artists God, my ten-year plan, what the world wars. Bajema Professor of East Asian around her, Bajema was am I going to do?’” When Bajema saw the had found a lost history of Language and Cultures, determined to be pragmatic. images coming out of Japanese artists—most of notes with admiration, “was “I thought, I will go and Unsure of what to do next, To-hoku, she was whom immigrated from that Ramona went—and she make money and take Bajema came to history immediately reminded of Japan as educated laborers stayed.” care of all these people,” out of frustration. A friend her time in Fukui. and intended to return Bajema said. She did her who worked at the BBC To-hoku and Fukui are both to their homeland—who * * * undergraduate thesis at the repeatedly picked her brain largely rural places, made became American. The University of California, about Japanese history for up of fishing and farming painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ramona Bajema has Berkeley, not on the arts or news segments, and Bajema villages, and both are home for instance, originally In the aftermath of always been an outlier. She culture of Japan, but on the obliged—but always without to many nuclear power from Japan, was the first grew up around artists, history of Japanese financial receiving attribution in the plants. “It just looked like American artist to be the earthquake, many intellectuals, and academics: markets. resulting programs. “I was it had happened to Fukui,” honored by the Whitney in the Columbia her mother is an artist and in the shower, getting so Bajema says, “and I saw Museum of Art with a community helped. art dealer, and her father is After graduation, she frustrated that once again I these flashes of the faces of retrospective while still an actor and writer. Raised participated in the was getting called upon and my kids and the teachers alive. But Bajema went outside the mainstream of Japanese Exchange and not getting any credit for it, that I worked with.” one step further. American culture, Bajema Teaching (JET) program, and then I realized, Oh, if I Though Bajema was Temporarily setting was drawn to Japan from a Japanese government had a Ph.D. then they’d have Bajema found she could passionate about her topic, Ramona Bajema gardening in Tōhoku an early age. Her mother initiative to place native to cite me,” Bajema says. “I process the shock by the tragedy in To-hoku aside her academic introduced her as a young English speakers as got out of the shower and helping. She connected preoccupied her. Reminders career, she signed on child to Japanese art, assistant language teachers said, ‘Now’s the time to do it, Gudwin with her contacts were everywhere. That as a program director What Bajema saw when reactor. Thousands were cinema, and cuisine, and in Japanese schools. I have to go back.’” from SAIS and colleagues semester, she served as she opened her computer evacuated from areas Bajema, who has no familial Bajema taught English from Columbia who were a teaching assistant with - for AmeriCares’s were images of devastation near the plant, and two ties to the country, was for two years in the idyllic Bajema’s background made in Tohoku. She spent hours Carol Gluck in a course on relief efforts in Japan. that shocked and horrified years later authorities still intrigued by what appeared prefecture of Fukui. She her an attractive candidate researching and emailing the history and memory the entire world. On struggle to keep tons of to her to be a drastically then completed a master’s for the Graduate School clinics and hospitals— of World War II. One day that morning, March 11, radioactive wastewater from different world. degree at the Paul H. of Arts and Sciences. “She unaware that many of the during lecture, Gluck put up 2011, a 9.0-magnitude contaminating the local Nitze School of Advanced knew contemporary Japan clinics she was trying to a photo of Hiroshima next earthquake struck just off water supply. The early infatuation International Studies at as well as the history and contact had been swept to a photo of Rikuzentakata, the coast of the To-hoku eventually blossomed into Johns Hopkins University. culture of Japan, she had out into the sea. “I realized a village obliterated by region of Japan. It was the In the aftermath of the a lifelong interest, fueled After graduating from very good language skills, within twenty-four hours the tsunami. “She talked fifth-largest earthquake earthquake, many in the in part by her politics: as a SAIS, Bajema accepted and she was dedicated and that, in this case, I could about the visual impact ever recorded, and it was Columbia community high school student in San a position with Lehman committed,” Gluck says of actually help, and that was it must have on so many followed by a tsunami with helped. But Bajema Francisco, she protested Brothers, where she had the decision to take Bajema an amazing feeling, to not elderly people who were record-breaking, 133-foot went one step further. against the Gulf War. The interned the summer on as a student. just hear about something born into World War II high waves. Entire villages Temporarily setting aside young Bajema saw Japan before graduation; she horrific passively,” Bajema and are leaving with the were swept into the sea. her academic career, she as a counterbalance to seemed to be on the way Bajema would find her says. tsunami,” Bajema recalls, The final death toll would signed on as a program American power. “This was to a lucrative career in openness and independence “and I realized that this was reach upwards of fifteen director for AmeriCares’s during the time of ‘The finance. to be valuable assets, not But Bajema didn’t fly to going to be a huge historical thousand people. The relief efforts in Japan. She Japan That Can Say No,’ only in graduate school, but Japan immediately. When moment for Japan, and that tsunami also precipitated arrived in To-hoku in June this alternative capitalism, But Bajema soon found in her future disaster relief spring break ended, she I wanted to stay attached to a partial meltdown of the 2011 and has stayed ever state capitalism. It looked that finance wasn’t for her. work—a vocation she never returned to New York as she this.” Fukushima Daiichi nuclear since, helping AmeriCares like Japan could rival She quit in a hurry, literally anticipated. had originally planned. She

Link back to contents page 16 Superscript Superscript 17 Link back to contents page Bajema was not the only stay, and work full time for Formally hired in April cavities. At the same time, Columbian who felt the relief effort. And Bajema 2011, Bajema began the tsunami and earthquake compelled to assist in the does not compromise on commuting three or four had destroyed many nearby relief effort. Columbia has a what she feels is right. “I days a week to Stamford dental clinics. In response to large population of Japanese told myself after Lehman to train at the AmeriCares this crisis, AmeriCares set up students, as well as many that I was never going to headquarters. Her fellow three prefabricated, mobile students and faculty with a do what I thought I should students and professors dental clinics to allow local direct connection to Japan. do ever again,” she says, “I were very supportive. Chief dentists to attend to their There were fundraisers was only going to do what I among Bajema’s supporters: patients. “You don’t know and initiatives—bake believed in.” her adviser, Carol Gluck. these things until you come sales, armbands for sale, here,” Bajema says. “How photography auctions—at Aside from a sense of a “Carol said, ‘Oh, perfect, could you know about this almost every school at the personal mission, sheer we’ll see this as a social- problem from New York? University raising money coincidence helped to draw service postdoc,’” Bajema Nobody writes about it!” for the Japan Society, Bajema into working for recalls. the Red Cross, and other the relief effort. Her friend Bajema had a lot to learn relief organizations. These Ella Gudwin’s organization * * * about the nonprofit world. individual initiatives AmeriCares was looking for AmeriCares paired her coalesced into an a director for their Japan When Bajema arrived in with an experienced umbrella organization, efforts. “Ella was saying, To-hoku in June 2011, she humanitarian aid worker, the Consortium for Japan ‘Oh God, I don’t know what was primarily worried about and Gudwin grilled her Relief, which organizes I’m going to do, I need a finding dentures. on stack after stack of symposia on topics related program manager on the grant proposals in a to the disaster, such as ground to spend the money AmeriCares specializes custom-made crash course mental health issues and right,’” Bajema recalls. “So in providing immediate in NGO management. the lingering effect of I said, ‘Would you consider medical care in the wake The learning curve was radiation. me?’” of disasters. Robert sometimes daunting, but Macauley, the founder of Bajema discovered that her “Many of us from Japan Gudwin accepted the offer, the organization, started academic background was living in New York City and Bajema passed through his aid efforts by personally helpful for the learning most beautiful scenic views make promises, and depart emphasize pharmaceutical The Tōhoku gardening project were struggling because we the gauntlet, meeting with chartering a commercial process. “A lot of it was in all of Japan. But there before those promises were treatments and institu­ had mixed feelings. Relief decision makers in every jet to rescue 243 stranded being really honest about has also been a dark side fulfilled. And she also knew, tionalization. Japan has - that we avoided the crisis, department and at every Vietnamese orphans. A what I didn’t know. What to that beauty. “Tohoku based on her knowledge only one psychiatrist for but at the same time guilt level of the AmeriCares relatively small organization my academic background has a hideous history of of Japanese culture and every ten thousand people, for not being able to do organization. She emerged in the field of disaster aid, gave me most of all was famine and has always the specific history of the roughly half the ratio of anything and a desire to do the overwhelming favorite particularly when compared the ability to say ‘I don’t been neglected by Tokyo,” region, that the next great the United States, and something for the mother to head up the Japan with giants like the Red know, you have to teach Bajema says. “None of the medical need would be many Japanese clinics country,” recalls Daiyu program. “People identified Cross, AmeriCares seeks me,’” she says. issues raised during the psychological care. don’t employ any clinical Suzuki, president of the two key elements,” Gudwin to fill gaps left by the larger tsunami are new.” The counselors. “Japan has - consortium and a student says of the decision to hire organizations. But Bajema also found suicide rate for Tohoku even The challenge was more psychiatric beds per at Teachers College. “The Bajema, “One, she’s very she had a lot to offer before the disaster was the addressing those needs capita than any country in fact that so many things ‘spongy’: she’s smart, and In To-hoku the gap was AmeriCares. For one, she highest of any region in in a way that would reach the world,” notes Gudwin, happened immediately she’s going to absorb new dental care. The population knew the history. To-hoku Japan. the Japanese. Despite “but it does not have a toward Japan relief was information and come to in rural To-hoku is is renowned in Japan for having the highest suicide tradition of counseling or a manifestation of those a point of decision on that overwhelmingly elderly, its physical beauty. The Knowing the history of rate in the developed talk therapy or anything feelings.” information very quickly. and the tsunami had poet Bash wrote a famous the region, Bajema was world, cultural norms and like that.” Two, she’s a natural literally swept away their travelogue of his journey determined to stay in government policy have - Bajema felt that guilt and communicator, she’s a dentures. Children trapped to the region, and the Tohoku, in the city of discouraged mental health But Bajema was trained obligation particularly storyteller, and I think that’s in temporary shelters and Matsushima islands, just Sendai. That way, she could treatment approaches built to look beyond cultural strongly. She began to feel rooted in her appreciation subsisting on crackers and off the coast of To-hoku, prove that she was not just around talk therapy in stereotypes and would that she had to go herself, for history.” sugary snacks developed are considered one of the another person to arrive, favor of approaches that simply not tolerate any

Link back to contents page 18 Superscript Superscript 19 Link back to contents page mention of Japanese the elderly, this could be a nine-to-five job. But as a To-hoku earthquake, and finished her dissertation on And, she asserts, it is a stoicism. “Because of real answer.” graduate student Bajema Bajema and AmeriCares time, flying to New York to detour that any Columbia working with people like had faced those conditions still have much to do. defend it in December 2011. student is capable Carol Gluck and Harry Her solution was culturally before: it was not unlike the Bajema is overseeing “She didn’t put it off! God of taking. “The NPO Harootunian and Marilyn specific. The residents of beginning of dissertation the reconstruction of bless her, she finished and [nonprofit organization] Ivy, cultural explanations rural To-hoku had always research. group homes and not-for- she defended, and then she field needs people who are anathema to me,” gardened, and Bajema and profit workshops for the took the manuscript back have analytical skills to Bajema says. “I approach her partners planned the Undaunted, Bajema got disabled. She is managing and completed the deposit be able to question how it as, All human beings gardens in a way that would to work. Partnering with what AmeriCares calls copy with all the footnotes successful X, Y, or Z are going to have a similar help the residents of To-hoku a local organization, “community-directed and deposited and received is. The work demands response to disasters of maintain their ties to the Peace Boat, Bajema initiatives.” These are her degree,” Gluck says. tremendous physical and this nature. People were land where they had lived disbursed more than tiny grants for grassroots “That’s Ramona!” emotional fortitude, and saying, ‘The Japanese are for generations. Many of the one hundred thousand organizations, supporting I think that analytical not going to let you in.’ gardens were even built on dollars to build over a cultural activities vital to Bajema hopes eventually thinkers, people who are I said, ‘Oh yeah, they’re the foundations of homes hundred community community well-being, to be able to write a history doing the humanities have human. It’s emotional. that had been swept away by gardens. Displaced such as traditional summer of the earthquake, the that,” Bajema says. “You They cry, too.’” the tsunami. tsunami survivors who festivals and storage sheds tsunami, and the recovery can work for an NPO. We Displaced tsunami had spent months cooped for taiko drums. efforts, but believes that she have something to offer.” To devise an innovative Bajema’s co-workers up in cramped, temporary will need time and distance. survivors who had solution, Bajema did what at AmeriCares were shelters emerged to work And a final frontier for “Once she leaves To-hoku, I spent months cooped any good graduate student supportive, but skeptical. the land. Elderly survivors To-hoku relief beckons: think she will have a story up in cramped, would do—research. She They specialized in who had been sullen and the areas of Fukushima to tell,” Gluck says. “The came across articles on how disbursing funds to withdrawn opened up to prefecture affected by the story she will tell will not temporary shelters horticultural therapy and distribute medicine and explain the finer points of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear be a story that begins on emerged to work gardening programs have build clinics. They had growing daikon radishes. crisis. Bajema had always 3/11. As a historian, she’ll the land. Elderly aided in the rehabilitation never built gardens. They All of the participants who wanted to do a garden have a longer background to of violent criminals applied close scrutiny were monitored showed a project in Fukushima, the story and a wider angle survivors who had and veterans suffering to the project, in an marked decrease in blood where obesity rates for of vision on the present been sullen and from PTSD. Intrigued, attempt to make sure that pressure. Altogether, residents afraid to leave response.” withdrawn opened she searched for more Bajema accounted for AmeriCares estimates that their homes are on the information on gardening every contingency and this program has brought rise, but was stymied by For now, Bajema must up to explain the programs and came across the project succeeded. over five thousand the radiation in the soil. cultivate her gardens, which finer points of a study conducted after “My boss and immediate survivors together and out This year, she finally plans means delaying her return growing daikon an earthquake in Niigata, team never said no, but I of their homes to talk and to expand the program to to academia. She wants Japan. Researchers had built was getting a lot of push- to exercise. Fukushima, bringing in soil to insure the projects she radishes. a garden in a temporary back from them,” Bajema from outside and placing started will survive when community of elderly recalls. “Then I had a But one data point in it in raised beds. “Usually, she leaves. She also wants evacuees. The residents meeting in December of particular demonstrates the people hear about these to write a report on her of the community with a 2011 with the CEO, with remarkable success of the programs through word of gardening programs, to help garden, when compared a menu of all the things gardening program. mouth. But we’ve already organizations replicate these with a control group, had that I wanted to do. He had eleven people sign efforts in other disaster- lower blood pressure, immediately looked at “Ramona,” Gudwin asserts, up just by doing a mailer, affected areas. lower rates of dementia, the garden on the list and “has been the recipient of which is really amazing,” and less severe arthritis. went, ‘That makes sense.’” more hugs than anyone else Bajema notes. But she does not regret “So I thought, This is in the entire organization.” this academic detour at all. phenomenal,” Bajema says, There was no road map for At the same time, Bajema “Based on the results I’ve “because if it could help on building these gardens, nor * * * never lost sight of her seen here, I’ve never been a psychological well-being would her supervisors be academic goals. Working as proud of anything I’ve and emotional level, and able to tell her what needed This year marked the nights in Sendai, at the done in my life,” Bajema also on a physical level for to be done. It was not a second anniversary of the height of the earthquake says. recovery efforts, she

Link back to contents page 20 Superscript Superscript 21 Link back to contents page f you asked someone been almost exponential galaxy clusters and testing also part of the collective. ten years ago what ever since. Today nearly cosmological models, to As the list of departments “astrobiology” is, a thousand confirmed contact fellow scientists at and organizations indicates, you may have gotten exoplanets and a few Columbia and two other astrobiology is not one Ia blank stare in return. thousand more candidates institutions on Manhattan’s singular discipline but an As a scientific pursuit, have been detected, thanks Upper West Side—the inherently interdisciplinary astrobiology is relatively to both ground-based and NASA Goddard Institute for pursuit with many lines of new. But the underlying space-based telescopes. Space Studies (GISS) and inquiry. disciplines—astronomy, Astronomers use several the American Museum of physics, chemistry, biology, techniques to infer the Natural History (AMNH)— Daniel Wolf Savin, senior geology—have been around presence of exoplanets, but to gauge their feelings on research scientist in the By Andrew Ng for ages, and the underlying the most common involve astrobiology. Astrophysics Laboratory, question—“Are we looking for tiny changes in represents one of the alone?”—is an ancient one. a star’s velocity due to the “Our initial workshops biggest successes of a gravitational influence of were like confessionals,” member of the center. Savin Simply put, astrobiology planets and looking for the Scharf says, “where people has built an experimental is the study of life in dimming of a star’s light as a from different disciplines apparatus at Columbia’s the universe. This study planet crosses in front of it. would raise their hands and Nevis Laboratories in includes life on Earth, but admit, ‘Yes, I’m interested Irvington, New York, to with our knowledge of While these exoplanet in astrobiology.’ We quickly investigate how carbon Earth’s processes as simply discoveries were surging, realized that many of us combines with hydrogen one data set of hopefully a more gradual realization were already doing research under the conditions many to come. had been building in the that could be broadened into that one would find in field of microbiology. addressing the question of interstellar space. Organic “For a long time, astrobiology Scientists were discovering life in the universe.” molecules like these seed was seen as science without bacteria living in places the universe with the data,” says Caleb Scharf, on Earth that were once From these workshops and ingredients for life, and director of the Columbia thought inhospitable— meetings, the Columbia thus are of great interest Astrobiology Center. “But from hot springs and Astrobiology Center was to astrobiologists. While then the game changed, deep-sea vents to deep born—not a physical similar experiments have and suddenly we were in a within the crust and even center per se, but a virtual faced technical challenges position to study it.” up in the clouds. If life on collective of scientists in the past, Savin’s team Earth could thrive in these with a common interest is using their unique The turning point that extreme locales, then the in the topic. The center instrument to better control Scharf refers to was the prospect of life on other includes scientists from the the temperatures and surge in the detection of worlds was becoming more Departments of Astronomy, energies of the chemical “exoplanets”—planets that and more enticing. Physics, and Psychology, reactions and circumvent orbit other stars—over the Columbia’s Astrophysics these past limits. past decade or so. The first So in 2005 the time was Laboratory, the Lamont- confirmed discovery of a ripe for Scharf, who had Doherty Earth Observatory, Another project on the planet around a sunlike spent the previous five the Earth Institute, and horizon involves “Model E,” star happened in 1995, and years at Columbia as a Barnard College. Scientists which is a state-of-the-art Iconic image of Earth rising over the rate of discovery has research scientist studying from GISS and AMNH are climate model for the the moon, taken in 1968

Link back to contents page 22 Superscript Superscript 23 Link back to contents page Earth developed by GISS parallel, GPUs have found Oppenheimer, an four gas giant planets hoping to recruit the “But new discoveries in scientists. Scharf and GISS an alter ego as inexpensive astrophysicist at AMNH orbiting it. Although public’s help by starting a astrobiology indicate that colleagues are hoping supercomputers, with and another member these planets are probably citizen science project that the story is not that simple. to kick-start a five-year applications ranging from of the Astrobiology inhospitable (they average will allow people to lend As we continue to learn the project to make Model E quantum mechanics to Center. Veicht currently 1,340 degrees Fahrenheit their computers to run details of other planetary applicable to any planet molecular modeling. works on two projects in with ammonia or methane these simulations over the systems, it appears that or moon. With millions Oppenheimer’s lab. atmospheres), the same Internet. our solar system is not of lines of computer code For his own enjoyment, techniques can hopefully be typical. For example, most and parameters that are Veicht created a program The first is direct imaging applied to more Earthlike “Today’s graduate students, exoplanets’ orbits are more currently fine-tuned for that modeled physical of exoplanets—an extremely planets in the future. like Aaron Veicht, comprise elliptical than those found Earth, generalizing the systems forward in time, difficult endeavor, given the generation that will in our solar system. Also, model is not a trivial given a set of initial how much brighter and In addition to this cutting- see the greatest leaps exoplanets ranging between endeavor. But armed parameters. To test the larger a star is compared to edge research, Veicht in astrobiology,” says Earth-sized and Neptune- with such a model, which program, he decided to its planets. Several times continues working on the Scharf. “If you want to be sized are very common, but would first be calibrated by input something he thought a year, Oppenheimer’s project that brought him to a scientist, astrobiology is our solar system does not studying the environmental had a known answer—how team travels to the Palomar astronomy in the first place: an excellent option—there have any of those.” history of familiar worlds the orbits of planets around Observatory near San the modeling of planetary are so many interesting such as Mars, Venus, and stars evolve over millions Diego, California, where the orbits. Observations of things happening in this These discoveries and Titan, scientists would of years. He contacted Hale Telescope resides. To an exoplanetary system field, right now and in the more continue to fuel the Four exoplanets (circled) orbiting star HR 8799 Caleb Scharf, who promptly conduct their observations, do not give precise values foreseeable future.” interests of scientists in with the starlight suppressed be able to characterize the climate systems of informed him that the the team points the for attributes like mass, the Columbia Astrobiology In addition to promoting exoplanets and determine problem was, in fact, still telescope at a given star location, and orbits of the Center. For Scharf, astrobiology within their suitability for life. at the core of modern and employs a high-tech planets. Rather, the best astrobiology sits right planetary science. suite of instrumentation one can do is to infer a academic circles, Scharf is alongside evolution The allure of astrobiology and software to block out range of possible values. A spreading the word among and the Big Bang as is pulling in the next A year later, Veicht its light, allowing them computational model can the general public. He has science topics with the To conduct their observations, the generation of scientists as continued stoking his to find planets normally help winnow down these written articles and op-eds potential for huge impacts well. Aaron Veicht, M.A. burgeoning interest in overwhelmed by the light possible values by running for The New Yorker, Wired, on human culture. If team points the telescope at a given ’10, M.Phil. ’11, Physics, astronomy by taking a of the star. Incredibly, their simulations on them—those and Nautilus magazines, scientists find an exoplanet started his doctoral seminar on exoplanets at technique has allowed that result in stable orbits as well as The New York tomorrow with strong and star and employs a high-tech suite program at Columbia with Columbia. The seminar them to find planets that over the next 10 to 100 Times. He maintains a blog clear indications of life, the of instrumentation and software to a research focus on nuclear revealed to him just how are up to one million times million years are considered on Scientific American’s impact on society would be physics and no astronomy fertile the field was for new fainter than the star itself. more “true,” whereas those website called Life, as exciting to imagine as block out its light, allowing them to background whatsoever. scientific discoveries. Once they have isolated the that result in chaos (i.e., Unbounded, which covers the discovery itself. But he eventually switched faint light coming off the planets falling into the star, a wide range of space- “It blew my mind,” says to exoplanetary research planets, they can deduce crashing into one another, related topics and drew “Before 1968, when the find planets normally overwhelmed Veicht. “This was a field after a series of events led the abundance or absence or getting flung out of the an audience of more than iconic photo of Earth rising in which I thought I could him to discover his true of chemicals in the planets’ system) are discarded. 350,000 last year. And over the moon was released, by the light of the star. Incredibly, make a large impact. So I scientific passion. atmospheres by examining in 2014 he will publish many people still didn’t switched my research focus their technique has allowed them to their light spectra— Running these simulations an astrobiology-themed have a genuine vision that to exoplanets. My advisers Around 2009 Veicht began the unique and telltale requires substantial popular science book we lived on a sphere,” says at Columbia were very find planets that are up to one million tinkering with graphics “fingerprints” created by computing power. The called The Copernicus Scharf. “If just a picture of supportive of my proposal processing units, or GPUs, different chemicals. Earlier number of simulations Complex. our planet can dramatically to change projects and times fainter than the star itself. purely as a hobby. GPUs this year Oppenheimer’s for each planetary system shift our thinking, how will follow my passion, and “Copernicus’ heliocentric were invented to handle team published a paper could be anywhere from evidence that we are not they ensured a smooth model removed us— complex computer visuals, in The Astrophysical 100,000 to 1,000,000, alone change our culture? It transition.” humankind and the like those found in video Journal detailing this with more than a thousand would be revolutionary.” games and other graphics- possible systems to model. Earth—from the center of With Scharf’s “reconnaissance” method heavy programs. However, The use of GPUs helps all things, and spurred the encouragement, Veicht on HR 8799, a star about with their ability to process considerably, but Veicht notion that we are not that joined the lab of Ben 128 light-years away with massive amounts of data in and his advisers are also special,” Scharf explains.

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Steven G. Mandis M.A. ’10, Museum Anthropology, M.Phil. ’13, Sociology

Interview by Andrew Ng

You spent twelve years at taking classes in anthropolo- banking industry, and that parts of the rocket called Goldman Sachs, left Gold- gy and sociology. I could make an original “O-rings” were the prob- man in 2004 to cofound contribution to the field in lem—they were off by a a multi-billion dollar asset What motivated you to enter that area. At the same time, tiny fraction, and that’s management firm, then a doctoral program at GSAS? because of the financial why the shuttle blew up. served as senior adviser to At first I wasn’t sure wheth- crisis, people were starting However, Vaughan went McKinsey & Company and er to apply to the Business to raise questions about Wall back and asked, “Why were worked at Citigroup. After School or GSAS, but ulti- Street and Goldman Sachs’ the O-rings off in the first sixteen years on Wall Street, mately, I decided on GSAS culture. When I saw other place?” She concluded that what motivated you to enroll because I already had a Goldman alumni, we’d talk a variety of pressures had in Columbia as a student in business background, and about whether the culture caused the scientists to take 2008? I thought GSAS would give had changed. Everyone had incremental risks, and that What drew me back to aca- me a broader perspective. an opinion, but I realized no these risks had added up to demia was the desire to sat- When I told my friends I one had a framework or had an organizational failure. isfy my intellectual curiosity, wanted to study sociology researched it in an academic to ask questions, and think and anthropology, they said, way. Similarly, in my disserta- about how to answer them. “What?!” The teachers also tion, I look at the various This emphasis on education wondered how seriously I Your dissertation examines organizational, competitive, Vaughan discussed a similar have the potential to cross My editor at the Harvard came from my parents, who would take classes. But in the “organizational drift” of and regulatory pressures at idea in her work. over to mass audiences. I Business Review Press, Tim are Greek immigrants. They the end I finished with a 4.0 Goldman Sachs—its move- Goldman Sachs over time to met with her about my dis- Sullivan, totally understood would say, “People can take GPA! ment away from its founding explain its evolution, adding In October, you published a sertation, and she said, “This the message and approach. a lot of things away from you principles over time. Can an emphasis of technological book called What Happened is not a book about Goldman He helped me focus and in life, but no one can take How did you settle upon you summarize your applica- pressure to the framework to Goldman Sachs: An Insid- Sachs. It’s a book about turn it into a story that both away your education.” Goldman Sachs as the sub- tion of sociological theory to that Vaughan established. er’s Story of Organizational organizations, and it would leaders of organizations and ject of your dissertation? explain this evolution? And I use the idea of “orga- Drift and Its Unintentional appeal to leaders of organi- academics could enjoy. It I started looking into classes I took a class in econom- I drew from the framework nizational drift” to describe Consequences. How did your zations. The best publisher was very hard to write a book at Columbia’s School of Con- ic sociology and wrote a of Diane Vaughan, a sociol- the company’s incremental dissertation turn into this to approach would be the that satisfied both. tinuing Education to figure paper related to Wall Street. ogy professor at Columbia departure from its found- book? Harvard Business Review out what I was interested Afterward, my professor, who studied the Challenger ing principles. People don’t At some point, I came in Press.” By that time I had This interview has been con- in and to prove myself as a David Stark, pointed out that space shuttle disaster. The notice organizational drift, contact with a literary agent, 600 pages worth of text and densed and edited; read the student, after being away for many sociologists don’t have official investigation into because it happens so Susan Rabiner, who special- notes, and hundreds of pages full interview on the GSAS so many years. I ended up my level of expertise in the Challenger concluded that slowly that they can’t see it. izes in academic topics that of footnotes and appendices. website.

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ith coauthor Heidi Grant Halvorson, E. Tory Higgins delves into two different types of mo- tivation that drive human behavior: promo- ith coauthor Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner chronicles the contentious political and ethical issues surrounding lead poisoning in the acalester Bell offers a far-ranging account ofacalester Bell offers a far-ranging account the nature of contempt and its use and abuse. eborah R. Coen explores how the seismic eborah R. Coen explores Twain, Dickens, and other accounts of Darwin, a natural experiment citizen-observers comprise harles K. Armstrong explores the motivations, explores the harles K. Armstrong Korea’s foreign and effects of North processes, the Cold War era. relations during arol Rovane explicates a notion of relativism thatarol Rovane explicates a notion of relativism practi- has a consistent logical, metaphysical, and thecal significance, and how relativism influences at the nexus of the physical and human sciences. at the nexus of the physical of Science and the Fate of Amer- Lead Wars: The Politics ica’s Children Sciences David Rosner, History and Sociomedical The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon from Science Disaster Observers: Earthquake The to Richter Deborah R. Coen, History The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism Carol Rovane, Philosophy tion-focused and prevention-focused. twentieth century and the efforts to protect Americantwentieth century and the efforts to protect children. Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt Macalester Bell, Philosophy Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, the World, Korea and North of the Weak: Tyranny 1950–1992 Armstrong, History Charles K. moral choices we make. Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Suc- cess and Influence Edward Tory Higgins, Psychology W W Superscript 31 Superscript C C M D

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30 obel laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the obel laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the rise in prosperity in many nations between 1820s and 1960s was fueled by widespread - rawing together literature, media, and philos ophy, Stefan Andriopoulos traces connections between Kant and phantasmagoria, the Gothic ssays by Stathis Gourgouris present a new theory Gourgouris present ssays by Stathis the success of and examine of radical democracy religion. politics from efforts to separate arah Griffin gives a rich account of three black arah Griffin gives a rich account of three social female artists and the strides they made for - justice during World War II, laying the ground i Feng draws on recent scholarship and archaeo- i Feng draws on recent provide an overview of early logical discoveries to from the beginning of human Chinese civilization, Early China: A Social and Cultural History A Social and Cultural Early China: and Cultures Li Feng, East Asian Languages novel and print culture, and spiritualist research and the invention of television. Lessons in Secular Criticism in Secular Lessons Classics Gourgouris, Stathis innovation, which is now under threat. Poli- Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive tics During World War II Literature Farah Griffin, English and Comparative work for the civil rights movement. Gothic Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Novel, and Optical Media Stefan Andriopoulos, Germanic Languages history in China to 220 C.E. history in China to 220 Grassroots Innovation Created Mass Flourishing: How Change Jobs, Challenge, and Edmund Phelps, Economics N F D E L

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Link back contentsLink to page ordon L. Weil examines the life of General examines the life ordon L. Weil during Howard, a Union officer Oliver Otis of the Freed- the Civil War, commissioner va Chamberlain unearths the tragic story of va Chamberlain unearths of Elizabeth Tuttle, the “crazy grandmother” the eighteenth-century American theologian The Good Man: The Civil War’s “Christian General” General” War’s “Christian The Civil Man: The Good Racial Equality Fight for and His Law and Govern- Weil, Ph.D. ’61, Public Gordon L. ment Jonathan Edwards. men’s Bureau during Reconstruction, and one of men’s Bureau during University (which bears his the founders of Howard name). Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, The Notorious Elizabeth of Jonathan Edwards and Madness in the Family ’80, M.Phil. ’85, Ph.D. ’90, Ava Chamberlain, M.A. Religion A G

ith coauthor Jan Rak, Michael J. Tan- ith coauthor Jan Rak, nenbaum gives an experiment-oriented momentum overview of large transverse ith coauthor Heidi White, Michaelith coauthor the initial formulationShenefelt examines ago and 2,300 years of logical principles rawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, rawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, - Lara J. Nettelfield and coauthor Sarah Wag ner trace the impact of the fall of the United Physics in the Heavy Ion Era Physics in the Heavy T Nations “safe area” of Srebrenica during the Bosnian Nations “safe area” of Srebrenica during war. subsequent discoveries, all situated within their social discoveries, all situated subsequent and historical contexts. High-p If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic Discovered the World B: How If A, Then ’90, Philosophy Ph.D. Shenefelt, Michael particle physics. of Genocide Srebrenica in the Aftermath Ph.D. ’06, Lara J. Nettelfield, M.A. ’99, M.Phil. ’01, Political Science Michael J. Tannenbaum, M.A. ’60, Ph.D. ’65, Physics Michael J. Tannenbaum, W W Superscript 33 Superscript D

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32 atthew Sakakeeny’s book, based on his atthew Sakakeeny’s book, the lives of brass dissertation, follows Orleans before band musicians in New his first book by Isabel M. Estrada examines by Isabel M. Estrada his first book film and tele- media, specifically how mass played a role in the vision documentaries, and after Hurricane Katrina. “recovery of memory” process of the Spanish Civil “recovery of memory” Franco dictatorship. War and the ensuing on the Streets of New Roll with It: Brass Bands Orleans Ph.D. ’08, Music Matthew Sakakeeny, El Documental Cinematográfico y Televisivo Con- Televisivo y Cinematográfico El Documental temporáneo Ph.D. ’99, Latin M.Phil. ’97, Isabel M. Estrada, and Iberian Cultures American T M - perspec global a offers Margolis L. axine - relatively recent phenom tive on the emigration, asking enon of Brazilian raig Steven Wilder lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing how the slave economy tephen Massimilla’s new poetry collection tephen Massimilla’s and suffering that treats “the loss, beauty, humanity.” define our common Goodbye, Brazil: Émigrés from the Land of Soccer of Soccer from the Land Émigrés Brazil: Goodbye, and Samba Anthropology Margolis, Ph.D. ’70, Maxine L. who the émigrés are, why they left home, how they who the émigrés are, native and host countries traveled, and how their responded. His Hull-Shaped Hat: Poems The Plague Doctor in ’96SOA, M.A. ’98, M.Phil. Stephen Massimilla, and Comparative Literature ’01, Ph.D. ’05, English Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities Ph.D. Craig Steven Wilder, M.A. ’89, M.Phil. ’93, ’94, History and higher education grew up together. C M S

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