Volume 2, Issue 2 Superscript Spring 2012 The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences | Columbia University

beyond the binary Digital humanities today

The Other Side of Remembering Profiles of NSF Alumni Profile: Inequality Vaclav Havel Winners Bel Kaufman Professor Shamus Khan goes Recalling the late Czech Five GSAS students earned The author of Up the Down undercover to investigate the president, playwright, and grants in fields ranging from Staircase looks back, 75 rituals of the 1 percent. dissident’s time on campus anthropology to sequestrial years after earning her as an artist in residence. chemistry. master’s degree.

ANNOUNCEMENTS | ALUMNI PROFILE | PUBLICATIONS | LINKS GSAS Alumni Association Board of Directors CONTENTS Dale Turza, President, M.A. ’74, Art History and Archaeology 1 Message from the Dean Louis Parks, Vice President, M.A. ’95, Ancient Studies Inge Reist, Secretary, Ph.D. ’84, Art History & Archaeology 2 Beyond the Binary: Digital Humanities Today Tyler Anbinder, M.A. ’85, M.Phil. ’87, Ph.D. ’90, History From the Dean Jillisa Brittan, M.A. ’86, English and Comparative Literature 8 The Other Side of Inequality The spring semester is always an espe- the opportunity to be exposed to the rituals and conven- Robert J. Carow, M.Phil. ’94, Ph.D. ’94, Economics and Education cially busy time of year in the graduate tions of their chosen discipline. These departmental and Kenneth W. Ciriacks, Ph.D. ’62, Geological Sciences 12 Remembering Vaclav Havel school. In early January departments program settings are so diverse and self-contained that the Annette Clear, M.A. ’96, M.Phil. ’97, Ph.D. ’02, Political Science undertake the review of the sometimes experiences that arise from them may be felt by the stu- 18 NSF Winners: Profiles Leonard A. Cole, M.A. ’65, Ph.D. ’70, Political Science hundreds of applications they receive dents in them to be distinct and sui generis. For instance, Michael S. Cornfeld, M.A. ’73, Political Science for admission to the doctoral programs, a student in the Department of French and Romance Phi- 30 Alumni News Deborah Gill Hilzinger, Ph.D. ’02, History soon to be followed by the review of lology will have a very different existential and intellectual master’s applications. Finalists are invited experience of graduate school than a graduate colleague in 32 Alumni Profile David Jackson, M.A. ’76, M.Phil. ’78, Ph.D. ’81, English and Comparative Literature to campus so that they may familiarize History, or another in Mathematics. Their paths through themselves with the department, the graduate education at Columbia will be quite distinct, but 34 On the Shelf: Faculty Publications Sukhan Kim, M.A. ’78, Political Science faculty, the city, and their potential gradu- in the end the substantial majority will go on to graduate Andrew Kotchoubey, M.A. ’61, Ph.D. ’66, Applied Mathematics 36 On the Shelf: Alumni Publications ate colleagues in a dance of intellectual and become alumni of GSAS. Les B. Levi, M.A. ’76, M.Phil. ’78, Ph.D. ’82, English and Comparative Literature seduction. Doctoral applicants have until This extensive and welcome variety in student Bridget M. Rowan, M.A. ’80, English and Comparative Literature 38 Dissertations Carlos J. Alonso April 15 to accept or decline an offer of experience is one of the reasons why graduate school is Komal S. Sri-Kumar, Ph.D. ’77, Economics Dean, Graduate School of Arts admission to a Ph.D. program, whereas a particularly exhilarating context. One only has to read and Sciences; Morris A. and Alma John Waldes, M.S. ’68, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. ’71, Plasma Physics master’s admissions are done on a rolling the extraordinary range of titles of dissertations defended 44 Announcements Schapiro Professor in the Humani- basis until early June. 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Link back to contents page 3 Superscript Superscript 1 BEYOND THE BINARY Digital Humanities Today Graham Sack Character Network Sociograms by Kristin Balicki Middlemarch (George Eliot)) The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens) n recent years the expansive field of the digital humanities— network analysis, a method more often found in the social sciences. The Ambassadors (Henry James) which entails everything from computer simulations of his- “Novels can be thought of as imaginary social forums,” he remarks. torical environments to GIS mapping of archaeological sites “One of the functions they serve is as the representation of the social Ito digital analysis of texts, to cite only a few ways in which experience…I decided to use social network metrics to look at the levels digital technology is now being employed in the humanities—has of connections in Bleak House versus other novels. At first, it was all gained increasing prominence in academe. But the diversity of the manual. I went through the text and tried to figure out how everyone digital humanities is rarely reflected in the discourse surrounding was connected to everyone else.” The paper took him two years to com- it; instead, the new field is often presented either as the savior of the plete. humanities or the fad du jour. Columbia faculty and students are among those on the vanguard helping to move beyond this reductive One of the digital humanities’ greatest benefits, states Nicholas binary as they think through—and implement—the use of digital Dames, chair of Columbia’s Department of English and Comparative tools methodologically, pedagogically, and professionally. Literature, is the ability to process countless works in a manner that is General Features: General Features: General Features: impossible for the individual scholar on his own: “Quantitative meth- • Large network (112 characters) • Small network (12 characters) • Large network (99 characters) • High proporUon of isolates (20%) Graham Sack is one such researcher. A Ph.D. student in English and ods allow you to see aspects about literary form that you hadn’t seen • No isolates • Moderately high % of isolates (17%) • Very low graph density (4%) and clustering • Very high graph density (71%) and clustering • Low graph density (7%) and clustering comparative literature, Sack is using textual analysis to study 19th- and track the development of certain elements of literature over time coefficient (72%) coefficient (85%) coefficient 73%) •High average path length (2.4) • High average path length (2.2) century British novels. As an undergraduate student in physics and a more effectively than if you were to read every novel written between • Low average path length (1.3) • High degree inequality (3.0) • Low degree inequality (‐4.9) • Moderate degree inequality (1.9) • Low proporUon of strong Ues (13%) master’s student in economics, he always had a passion for literature 1750 and 1950.” Dames is careful to stress, however, that quantitative • High proporUon of strong Ues (28%) • Moderate proporUon of strong Ues (18%) but couldn’t reconcile his interests in quantitative work and culture methods alone are not enough: one must also be “sympathetic to the Conclusions until he took a literature course as a non-degree student at Colum- literary qualities of a project.” The work of digital humanist Dennis Conclusions Conclusions • Expansive but diffuse social world with • Tightly knit social world focused on deep • Large but comparaUvely integrated social bia and read Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, which he notes “con- Yi Tenen, who was recently appointed to the Columbia English de- passing social interacUons and many isolated relaUonships between small set of characters world with deep interacUon between core characters nects huge numbers of characters in strange and unlikely ways.” partment as assistant professor of digital humanities and new media • Social interacUon broadly and evenly characters • Social interacUon dominated by a single distributed across characters • Social interacUon organized “oligarchically”: Sack decided to quantify the social connections in the novel using beginning in fall 2012, is a case in point. After working as a software evenly distributed between core characters, central character interacUng episodically with but not terUary characters a profusion of secondary and terUary characters CharlesLink Dickens back to contents page 2 Superscript Superscript 3 Link back to contents page Character Network Sociograms Character Network Sociograms

Middlemarch (George Eliot)) developerThe Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens) and web designer, Tenen, currently a fellow at Harvard’s While the digital humanities is primarilyMiddlemarch (George Eliot)) conceived as a new field of The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens) The Ambassadors (Henry James) The Ambassadors (Henry James) Berkman Center for Internet and Society, earned his Ph.D. from Har- research, digital tools can also be used to enhance the classroom experi- vard in comparative literature in 2011 and is currently working on a ence. Steve Baker, an Italian Ph.D. student, brought his background as book on the poetics of human-computer interaction. a filmmaker to his work teaching intermediate-level Italian. His stu- dents use digital storytelling for their final projects on various Italian Sack’s work evinces a similar marriage of method and literary sensibil- cities. “I grew tired of students always using PowerPoint for a presenta- ity. When he began the Ph.D. program in English, he knew he wanted tion. For language class, they were simply reading off the slides. When to delve deeper into his study of representations of social interaction. you have students for four semesters in a row, you want to push them. “To do that, I have to look at as many interactions as possible, which Students are savvy with PowerPoint, and I wanted to take it to the next cannot be done manually or with a large number of texts,” he notes. level.” Instead he employs automated text analysis, name recognition, net- work analysis, and statistical analysis software. What he found was that Baker’s students use software freely available on the Internet to re-

BleakGeneral Features House had an: unusually high graph density, a ratio of maximum cord voiceovers, analyze information,General Features and edit their: final projects—an General Features: General Features: General Features: General Features: • Large network (112 characters) • Large network (99 characters) • Large network (112 characters) • Small network (12 characters) • Large network (99 characters) connections within one group. Social groups in real life have densities• Small network (12 characters) interactive process that lasts all semester and functions as a continu- • High proporUon of isolates (20%) • Moderately high % of isolates (17%) • High proporUon of isolates (20%) • No isolates • Moderately high % of isolates (17%) • No isolates around• Very low graph density (4%) and clustering 15 percent. Novels average graph densities near 40 percent. The ous thread in the subject matter,• Low graph density (7%) and clustering in contrast to the chapter-driven • Very low graph density (4%) and clustering • Very high graph density (71%) and clustering • Low graph density (7%) and clustering • Very high graph density (71%) and clustering coefficient 73%) coefficient (72%) coefficient 73%) coefficient (72%) coefficient (85%) density of Bleak House is 80 percent. coefficient (85%) study often used in language classes. Baker’s approach fully engages a • High average path length (2.2) • High average path length (2.4) • High average path length (2.2) • Low average path length (1.3) • High average path length (2.4) • Low average path length (1.3) • High degree inequality (3.0) • Moderate degree inequality (1.9) • High degree inequality (3.0) • Low degree inequality (‐4.9) • Moderate degree inequality (1.9) • Low degree inequality (‐4.9) student’s ability to write, listen to, and speak Italian, and he finds that • Moderate proporUon of strong Ues (18%) • Low proporUon of strong Ues (13%) • Moderate proporUon of strong Ues (18%) • Low proporUon of strong Ues (13%) • High proporUon of strong Ues (28%) Sack has since created sixty networks of separate British novels using • High proporUon of strong Ues (28%) students love it. “It’s amazing what happens when students are allowed text analysis data that he converts into visual graphs. The density and to be more creative in class,” he says. “Even the most reserved students Conclusions Conclusions Conclusions Conclusions Conclusions Conclusions types• Expansive but diffuse social world with of social connections he has found have shed light on genre, pe- thrive. And the viewing of the projects• Large but comparaUvely integrated social at the end of term allows for a • Expansive but diffuse social world with • Tightly knit social world focused on deep • Large but comparaUvely integrated social • Tightly knit social world focused on deep passing social interacUons and many isolated world with deep interacUon between core passing social interacUons and many isolated relaUonships between small set of characters world with deep interacUon between core riod, and character as well as the unique qualities of individual books. relaUonships between small set of characters moment of reflection, a deeper understanding of the subject and of characters characters characters • Social interacUon broadly and evenly characters • Social interacUon broadly and evenly “Each• Social interacUon dominated by a single book has a different pattern,” Sack says. “The Ambassadors is a what they’ve learned.” Baker’s use• Social interacUon organized “ of digital tools in his teachingoligarchically was so”: • Social interacUon dominated by a single distributed across characters • Social interacUon organized “oligarchically”: distributed across characters central character interacUng episodically with evenly distributed between core characters, central character interacUng episodically with evenly distributed between core characters, well-connected, small group. The Pickwick Papers is more centralized successful that it has been shared with other language departments on but not terUary characters a profusion of secondary and terUary but not terUary characters a profusion of secondary and terUary andcharacters larger.” The broad scope that digital tools offer has also been in- campus and adopted by all intermediate Italian instructors. characters strumental in suggesting new subjects of inquiry, including questions unlikely to arise through close reading. “When I began this study, I While the work of Sack and Baker illustrates some of the beneficial out- thought it would be about the networks,” Sack remarks. “But along the comes of applying digital technology to the humanities, not everyone way, I found other things I could not explain. …In The Pickwick Papers, is convinced. Some critics see a kind of triumphalism in the advocacy a majority of the characters are mentioned only a smattering of times, of the digital humanities’ most vocal proponents, while others argue and readers don’t remember them. I find it fascinating that a majority that the field is inherently limiting. Nonetheless, the new prominence of characters are there to be forgotten. They serve as narrative scaffold- of digital humanities raises questions about what constitutes the study ing.” of literature (or history, philosophy, or any of the other humanities)

Link back to contents page 4 Superscript Superscript 5 Link back to contents page and how these disciplines can incorporate differing modes of scholarship. In the case of literature, a variety of interpretive methods have been employed in the course of Digital Humanities Projects at Columbia more than two millennia of literary criticism, from the prescriptions of Aristotle and Horace to New Criticism, reader-response theory, and deconstruction—all, however, grounded in the relationship between the reader/spectator and the text. In the digital Professors Schools, Institutes, and humanities, this relationship is no longer primary, but rather mediated by a com- Research Centers puter’s Boolean logic. There is also a tendency to view the results of a given query as Susan Boynton, Music objective, although Sack is careful to guard against that conclusion. “I think an objec- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Center for Jazz Studies tion that comes up with this research is the sense that the data speaks for itself and is Jazz Studies Online Stephen Murray, Art History and Archaeology judgment-free,” he says. “I am hyperaware that there is always subjectivity built into Mapping Gothic France Center for Oral History [my] datasets .… I try to be upfront about the kind of assumptions I’m making.” Apollo Theater Project Carol Schulz, East Asian Languages and Cul- tures The digital humanities may also effect changes in pedagogy. After a widely publicized School of the Arts, Film Division Korean Through Drama Film Language Glossary study noted that many members of the so-called “digital native” generation—today’s undergraduates—were in fact largely ignorant of the logic underpinning search en- Gray Tuttle, East Asian Languages Teachers College gines, some scholars have argued that digital tools should be integrated more fully into and Cultures Mapping the African-American Past the classroom. While Baker’s use of digital tools complements the aim of his language- Engaging Digital Tibet instruction courses, Dames notes that teachers of literature courses will soon be at a crossroads. “There used to be a seamless sense that we teach close reading in the class- room, and that’s what we do in our scholarly life—we teach the methods we ourselves use,” he remarks. “That wouldn’t be the case anymore. I believe in the value of close ate students in the center by establishing a humanities libraries fellows For Dames, the importance of reading … but how do we explain the disjunction between what we teach and what we program for students from various departments whose research involves digital humanities research lies practice? That will be a serious question in the future.” the use of technology. The fellows program will include a residency at the in its ability to “produce an center and training in digital methodology. audience that gives others a Scholars may also face a rift professionally, since many traditional humanists—in- sense of community where cluding many who make hiring decisions—have not been trained in the methods of Yet even as scholars become more comfortable employing digital technolo- quantitative evaluation. “Everyone shouldn’t be doing statistical analysis, it isn’t for gy, it remains to be seen whether the digital humanities will truly constitute certain new questions may be everybody,” Bob Scott of the Digital Humanities Center says. “But everyone should an irruption that transforms the way humanities scholarship is conducted asked.” understand how it is done and what’s involved or they won’t be able to reasonably deal or become just another element in a scholar’s professional toolkit. For with it.” The Digital Humanities Center aims to provide students and faculty with Dames, the importance of digital humanities research lies in its ability to training and assistance to use digital tools. The center will move to new facilities in “produce an audience that gives others a sense of community where certain Butler Library next year, and Scott intends to work with other digital offices on cam- new questions may be asked.” Digital humanities may not replace tradi- pus and academic departments to collectively identify and meet research needs. “I am tional methods, but simply expand the methodology used. Dames states it eager to have conversations with faculty and bring on board more departments to see simply: “There is no separation. It should be a difference of method, not what they would like us to provide,” he says. Scott also plans to involve more gradu- canon.”

Link back to contents page 6 Superscript Superscript 7 Link back to contents page By James McGirk

he widening gap between rich and poor is the central focus of the Occupy movement, and one of the most press- ing issues in the upcoming presidential election. Contrary to how it may feel on the ground, however, the gap is Twidening not because of spiraling poverty, but because of increas- ing wealth. From 1979 to 2007, the income of the richest 1 percent of American households increased by 224 percent, with the income of the richest .1 percent increasing by 390 percent; conversely, over the same period of time, the bottom 90 percent of Americans experi- enced income growth of 5 percent. This period of growing inequality has challenged sociologists, since many of the traditional barriers to wealth and status such as class, gender and race, have become more permeable. Today’s elite look different from those of the 1960s. What, then, is happening? The Other Side of Inequality

Colonel and Mrs. John Jacob Astor IV aboardLink back the to Titanic contents page 8 Superscript Superscript 9 Link back to contents page Columbia sociologist Shamus tions over what were “almost but being redefined at St. Paul’s. anxieties about the people grew,” Khan’s new book, Exceptional: The not quite” arranged marriages. Khan described an institutional says Khan, “the elite moved Elites of New York and the Story shift from a preference for gain- north… and took their army with of Inequality (Princeton Univer- Once the historical research is ing knowledge to one of valuing them.” They built a barracks sity Press, forthcoming), seeks to complete, Khan will don coat and “a style of learning that quickly large enough to fit almost all of show that there is far more go- tie and attend dozens of formal becomes a style of living.” At the city’s wealthy families inside. ing on in the higher echelons of events frequented by New York’s St. Paul’s, students internalized Louis Comfort Tiffany was even society than the accumulation of contemporary elite. Working one’s three lessons: “that hierarchies commissioned to design some of wealth. Becoming and stay- way into high society might sound are natural and can be treated like the Armory’s interior spaces. ing elite means navigating fun, but Khan will have to gain the ladders, not ceilings”; that “experi- a complex culture of trust of subjects while remaining ences matter,” meaning that hard Khan joined the Columbia faculty arcane ritual and coded detached enough to watch for pat- work and talent, rather than pedi- in 2008, becoming a fellow at communication. terns of behavior and take detailed gree, help one climb the ladder; the Institute for Social Economic To understand the notes. “It is not what they say so and finally, that “privilege means Research and Policy (ISERP) and development of this much as what they do,” says Khan. being at ease, no matter what the directing both the Culture in the unique subculture, To ensure his subjects remain un- context” and that confidence helps Social Sciences research group Khan turned first perturbed, Khan will have to par- ordinary but talented people as- and the Elite Research Network. to the New York ticipate in the rituals he observes. cend hierarchies “by naturalizing Despite being on academic leave Public Library, socially produced distinctions.” this semester to do research as a where, as a Cull- This is not the first time the profes- Cullman Fellow, Khan became a man Center Fellow, sor has infiltrated America’s elite As privileged as the multinational, sort of master of ceremonies for he had unfettered ac- to conduct ethnographic research; multiethnic population at St. this generation’s own populist cess to the Astor Fam- Khan returned to teach at his Paul’s was, Khan found that race, movement, Occupy Wall Street, ily Papers, a treasure boarding school as part of his class, and gender still functioned by accompanying several groups trove of documents that research for Privilege: The Making as significant social markers that of people to the site as observ- once belonged to one of New of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s belied the “ease” assumed by ers, among them his department York’s most prominent families. School (Princeton University Press, upper-class Caucasian males who chair, Professor Yinon Cohen. 2011). He lived and dined with imagined themselves the products The archive contains a written record Khan’s ongoing research into the students for over a year, and found of a pure meritocracy. At the end of his introduction to of how the Astor family long ago nego- august Astor family will provide a a place very different from what he Privilege: The Making of an Adoles- tiated its lofty status and was able to narrative backbone for his study remembered of his student days. Professor Khan’s classes at cent Elite at St. Paul’s School, Khan remain at the center of the city’s social of the city’s elites. The archive For instance, minority students Columbia reflect his commit- writes that despite the fact that world despite massive socioeconomic contains a written record of how were no longer confined to their ment to ethnographic research. many of the 20th-century battles changes in New York City. the Astor family long ago negoti- own dorm, and students sneered During the spring of 2011 he of access have been won, “the re- ated its lofty status and was able to at peers who acted entitled to the took students from his “Elites in sults have not been what we imag- remain at the center of the city’s sumptuous social and educational Democratic America” class to visit ined. The promise of the open social world despite massive so- experience they received at St. the Seventh Regiment Armory society has proven to be a fiction. cioeconomic changes in New York Paul’s. In other words, pedigree on Park Avenue, a massive Beaux Twenty-first century America is City. Among Khan’s finds are let- no longer mattered—students and Arts structure and a monument to increasingly open yet relentlessly ters exchanged during courtships faculty admired hard work and the inequality of the Gilded Age. unequal. Our next great American in the Gilded Age, a time when the achievement instead of nobility, project is to find a way out of this Astor family ballroom was con- imagining themselves the products “Back then there was no safety paradox.” sidered the very core of American of a perfect meritocracy that al- net,” explains Khan. The threat high society. The letters reveal an lowed them to forget the advantag- of a populist revolt loomed large elaborate system of determining es they had over their counterparts. as the immigrant population marriageability and tense negotia- What constituted hard work was south of the Bowery swelled. “As

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Following Václav Havel’s death in December at Hrádecek,ˇ his country home in northern Bohemia, obituaries from all over the world focused on the many signposts of his eventful life: the privileged upbringing that became a liability once Czechoslo- vakia fell under the sway of Communism; his early successes as a playwright trafficking in an absurdist idiom that portrayed the exigencies and entanglements of Communist society and modern life more broadly; his role as a dissident who challenged the Com- munist regime as an author of Charter 77, a document protesting the state’s human- rights abuses that gave its name to a social movement and ultimately led him to spend years in prison, charged with subversion; and his 12-year tenure as head of state, first of Czechoslovakia and then, following the country’s 1993 dissolution, of the Czech Republic. With so much ground to cover, it is not sur- prising that Havel’s obituaries largely omitted his visits to New York over the years, though the city had an outsize influence on his life. In his presidential memoir, To The Castle and Back, Havel recalls his first visit to New York in the spring of 1968, when the Prague Spring made it possible for him to witness Joseph Papp’s staging of his play The Memo- randum at the Public Theater:

“The hippie movement was at its height. There were be-ins in Central Park. People were fes- tooned with beads. It was the time of the musical Hair. … It was the time when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, a period of huge antiwar The Plastic People of the Universe in concert. demonstrations whose inner ethos—powerful Source: Amnesty International USA Archives, Columbia University.

Link back to contents page 12 Superscript Superscript 13 Link back to contents page but in no way fanatical—I admired; it theater director Gregory Mosher. the Arts Initiative aimed to present was also the heyday of psychedelic art. I “As President Bollinger walked me a comprehensive slate of events that brought many posters home, and to this to the door the day he hired me would not only do justice to Havel’s day they are hanging in Hrádecek.ˇ And in fall 2003, he told me he’d asked accomplishments in the artistic and I brought home the first record of Lou President Havel to come to Colum- political arenas, but present them as Reed with the Velvet Underground.” bia, but that the visit was uncon- the integrated phenomena they were firmed, and asked if I’d like to take in his life. Christopher Harwood, a lecturer on that venture,” Mosher, now a in Czech in the Columbia Depart- professor in Columbia’s School of Events ranged from a conversation ment of Slavic Languages, notes that the Arts, recalled. on literature and citizenship between Havel’s visit to New York occurred Orhan Pamuk, a novelist who had at a crucial moment, both in Havel’s “Not surprisingly, it took over two just been announced as the 2006 life and in 20th-century Czech his- years, and many phone calls to Nobel laureate in literature, and tory. “I think New York had a very arrange a meeting with President Columbia professor Arthur Danto, special place in his imagination Havel, but we finally met in Prague Ph.D. ‘52, Philosophy, to a concert because of that experience. Not only in January 2006, after I’d told his at The Cutting Room by the Plastic was his play produced here and well office that I ‘was going to be there People of the Universe, the Czech acclaimed, but it was also his first anyway.’ He was very interested, not band whose arrest prompted Havel trip abroad, in the one little window least because it would provide some and others to draft Charter 77, to before the Soviet tanks came in. I time to finish a play he’d abandoned readings and performances of many think later, when he thought of the when he assumed the Presidency.” of Havel’s plays. In promoting them, Prague Spring, he thought of the op- though, the Arts Initiative faced a portunity to come to New York and Havel’s schedule couldn’t be con- considerable obstacle. see New York at a moment when firmed until late spring, however, there were interesting things going which left Arts Initiative staff only a “Our biggest problem was of course on culturally and socially, and when few months to plan a residency that that almost none of the students he was young enough for everything would begin in October. were old enough to have had any to resonate with him.” connection to the events of 1989,” “We knew from the first that we Mosher recalls. “We knew, anec- Havel’s next visit to the United didn’t want to squander a once- dotally if not scientifically, that the States was in 1990 (and included a in-a-lifetime opportunity, so we students didn’t know who he was. So stop at Columbia, where he received assembled a formidable advisory we had to instill curiosity before we an honorary doctorate). He was committee of distinguished New had the big name guests, which we president of Czechoslovakia and Yorkers and reached out across the did through a wide variety of means, only saw America “from a speed- University and the city for ideas and such as the Havel at Columbia plas- ing limousine,” as he recalled. It partners,” Mosher recalled. “The tic water bottles, which prompted was only after his tenure as head of high regard so many in the artistic, the famous ‘Cool—what’s a Havel?’ state ended in 2003 that he was able civic, and political communities had comment.” to visit the U. S. with something for Havel meant we could reach out like the freedom of movement he’d to a remarkable list of individuals Perhaps the most significant mode of initially enjoyed—first as the Kluge and institutions. We welcomed any- outreach was the residency website, Chair for Modern Culture at the one who wanted to play, and were which functioned as both a peda- Library of Congress in the spring of fortunate that so many so generously gogical resource—Havel’s play The 2005, and then as Columbia’s first did.” Garden Party and his exegesis of life artist in residence in the fall of 2006. under Communism, “The Power In addition to the major events in- of the Powerless,” had, somewhat Havel’s Beggar’s Opera The brainchild of University Presi- tended to serve as “tentpoles” of the controversially, been inserted Barnard Theatre Department dent Lee Bollinger, Havel’s residency residency, such as a course-wide lec- into the undergraduate Core and The Harriman Institute was administered by the fledgling ture for the undergraduate Contem- Curriculum—and “a window on the Miller Theater Arts Initiative, which was launched porary Civilization class and a dis- residency to the rest of the world,” December 2, 2006 in 2003 under the leadership of cussion with President Bill Clinton, said the project’s supervisor, Mark

Link back to contents page 14 Superscript Superscript 15 Link back to contents page Presidents Havel, Bollinger, and Clinton Phillipson, senior program spe- cialist at the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learn- “The residency captured the ambition of our still-young Arts Initiative, ing. which had been launched two years earlier to help the arts take their Featuring primary sources and video interviews from a remark- able array of individuals—including proper place in Columbia’s interdisciplinary approach to making sense George H.W. Bush, George Soros, Edward Albee, and Lou Reed—and of complex global problems.” ­—Lee C. Bollinger anticipating some aspects of today’s curatorial Internet, the site offers an introduction to the breadth of discussions, all these interviews … of our still-young Arts Initiative, political persona with references to Havel’s influence and allows visitors it’s a scandalously rich website for which had been launched two years King Lear and The Cherry Orchard. to collect, organize, and repurpose something we put together in four earlier to help the arts take their Havel wrote most of Leaving dur- information from disparate sources. months.” proper place in Columbia’s inter- ing his residency, and Harwood disciplinary approach to making notes that the play is “a nice legacy Plastic People of the “Havel’s name opened doors,” Phil- Like the residency itself, the web- sense of complex global problems,” that Columbia has.” Universe Concert lipson said. “We had all these won- site required an unprecedented he said. “The dozens of symposia derful interviews, and, for example, degree of collaboration among and performances on the themes Havel’s own legacy is slightly CNN gave us archival footage of the different parts of the University— of art, freedom, and democratic more secure than his protagonist’s. Velvet Revolution that hadn’t been from the Libraries’ digitization of citizenship produced by Václav’s Though his acclaim abroad has broadcast—a standard meeting of documents to coordinating filming residency, including his memo- always outpaced his popularity Charter 77 leaders that was disrupt- of performances by the Barnard rable conversation with President at home, Havel’s role in guiding ed halfway through by the news that and School of the Arts theatre Clinton, deserve credit for helping the country out of Communism the entire Communist apparatus had departments—and that spirit of to make the Arts Initiative what it occupies a pivotal role in Czech stepped down. You see the raw his- cooperation is one of the enduring is today. To be with him enriched history, and the Arab Spring has tory, the outtakes left on the cutting- legacies of the residency. our lives.” revived interest in his generation’s room floor, and then you have the different, but analogous struggle option to republish it through some for human rights. “President Bollinger’s hunch that The residency also presented an kind of interpretive framework.” Havel would enliven the campus opportunity for Havel. “His time “He left a huge chapter—not proved to be a good one, because on Morningside Heights came at singlehandedly, but with the other Today the site exists as a compen- by the end of the residency, the a moment when he was reflecting dissidents of his time—in the dis- dium of events held during the playwright/president was the on his life and the historical period course of human rights,” Harwood residency and a comprehensive reigning rock star of Morningside into which he was thrust as a leader said. “They brought it to a promi- source of information about Havel; Heights,” Mosher said. “The Arts and voice of conscience,” Bollinger nence it had never had before, and especially noteworthy are the bibli- Initiative staff worked like crazy to recalled. Havel had just published going forward people who want to ography of his life and work and the support that hunch, and it was real- his presidential memoir, To The have a global outlook on human collection of documents pertaining ized through the commitment of Castle and Back, and was working rights as well as understand how to to Charter 77 from the recently es- hundreds of people who had been on Leaving, his first new play since advocate for and practically enact tablished Center for Human Rights inspired by Havel and who wanted assuming office. A meditation on them will have to keep reading Documentation and Research at the to pass along, in the best tradition power, succession, and personal Havel for a long time.” Columbia Libraries. of a university, their experience to and public memory, Leaving cen- another generation that we trusted ters on Vilem Rieger, who has re- “In building the site we tried to find would be moved by his intelli- cently resigned as head of state but information about his previous trips gence, courage, wit, and grace.” is in no hurry to move out of his to Columbia, and all we could find Bollinger agrees, noting the impor- official residence. The play revisits were a couple of newspaper articles,” tance that the residency had in es- many of Havel’s themes and tropes Phillipson said. “We’ve captured so tablishing the Arts Initiative. “[The and playfully juxtaposes notions of much—all the performances, panel residency] captured the ambition authorial subjectivity and his own

Havel with Lou Reed Photos: Eileen Barroso Superscript 17 Link back to contents page For the 2011-12 academic shaped streams, fountains. Instead of they said, “No, you should take history communication. There’s been too much year, five GSAS students Justin Anspach looking at them as architectural layouts classes, anthropology classes.” So I was of people getting into their field and in temples, I’m trying to look at them as able to take a GIS class, a Latin Ameri- they don’t realize these larger issues Department and Program: received research grants sensual experiences. can history class, where we were looking that they can actually collaborate on and Anthropology, Ph.D. at some of the earliest documents that bring knowledge together on. There’s from the National Science Undergraduate Institution: When people were there at these sites came out of there and were written by also been some fear in academia, that Grinnell College listening to the fountains and seeing Spanish soldiers that arrived, a Peruvian you don’t want to share information Foundation (NSF). The how the light was hitting the rocks and art history class where we look at some sometimes because you’re worried about How did you become interested in stones, what kind of corporeal experi- of the murals and drawings and ethnog- somebody else taking it or you’re not variety of research subjects anthropology? ence would they have had? How does raphy as well. I’ve also taken Quechua getting the right credit. that carry over into the ethnographic, language classes and learned the native I was first introduced to anthropology at historic, and chronological records language – at NYU actually, through And it’s losing the focus of what we’re Grinnell in a strange class called “The demonstrate the breadth we have? I’m trying to recreate what the consortium. I’m trying to catch a lot supposed to be doing, which is trying to Anthropology of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and would’ve actually been an experience in of different sources of information that make the world a better place through Yeti.” They were trying to do a class that of inquiry that the NSF that time instead of just remains in the wouldn’t normally fall under archaeol- knowledge. And that was one of the wasn’t as disciplined and academically modern day. ogy. things I was able to draw out of my proj- funds, from archaeological oriented, where we could mess around ects. I want to spread this knowledge. I with it and have fun and write papers, as And how are you doing that? What are some of the greatest chal- want to create an online forum as well, an introduction to get us used to college. lenges and obstacles you’ve had to where people from the area that we’re exploration to statistical The final paper was “Does Bigfoot Exist, There are several streams that come down into Cusco, and each one of them face during your research? studying can contribute as much as Yes or No?” they’re able to. I want their voices in it as analysis. has its own valley. I’m looking at one of Trying to do this kind of work ten years well. I think that was one of the things May I ask what you concluded? those valleys, and we’re GIS mapping it ago would’ve been almost impossible. that impressed itself on the NSF, that I and building some 3D models of what it It’s a new field that Terry D’Altroy, who I definitely came down on yes. The best wanted a multifocal project where every- Interviews conducted by Kristin Balicki would’ve looked like without the mod- is my direct supervisor and one of the part of the class was looking at different one had a voice and everyone had a say ern buildings that are in the valley and world’s foremost experts on the Inca and types of evidence. We looked at scien- in creating this collaborative project that without a lot of the eucalyptus trees that the Quechua people, and I and a few tific evidence, interviews, ethnographic other people can continue to contribute were brought in by the Spanish. others are working in, and we’re calling mythological histories, and then we had to even after I’ve finished. it ethnoarchaeology, a way of looking Justin Anspach, Cusco to decide how much weight to put on all We’re trying to show what an environ- at how the past is still carrying into and of it. Tell me more about this collaborative ment would’ve looked like with foun- manipulating the present, and how tains running down both sides so that project. I thought, “Well, what if I want to give people are drawing on that past. you have a valley that’s filled with the One of the goals with the data, eventu- weight to the fact that I think oral histo- sound of running water, light reflecting So I’m very lucky in that archeologists ally, is to create a website that is based ries are just as important as whether or off these fountains, these temples which themselves have begun to recognize on the map of the Cusco Sacred Valley. not we actually have a documented piece have been knocked down would be set that the sources of information are a And people would be able to go to this of fur or a bone?” I began to question high on the hills and loomed over the lot broader than they have been in the map and traverse these landscapes virtu- how much weight we currently put on travelers as they came down the valley. past. Every once in awhile, I do run into ally. In the process of doing so, they can certain sources of information in West- somebody who doesn’t consider what discover what different chroniclers and ern academia and how much weight we The idea that you can have free-flowing I do archaeology – especially funding researchers have written about differ- don’t put on other sources. And that did fountains—especially in the Andes, sources, which tend to be a lot more con- ent spots. They can also read about the it for me. I said, “All right. Anthropol- which are really dry—shows this ability servative most of the time. Fortunately, people who still live there, when they ogy is where I want to go. I want to start to both work with and control the envi- the NSF was willing. came there, and what they’re doing now studying people and cultures.” ronment. The Inca were very much into – and how they see the sites. propaganda, so their ability to make the When they saw my project, they es- We all engage with this world in dif- environment itself propaganda for the sentially said, “We want to be on the It’s not just the academic voice anymore, ferent ways and give it meaning and empire is important. Our goal is to give cutting edge. We know you’re explor- but layers of voices: Is there a farmer importance. And each of those ways has people an actual recreation of what that ing something new and it’s going to be that lives there now? When did they get become essential and fundamental to a environment would’ve felt like. difficult. Because of that, you’re blazing the land? What are they doing with it? different group of people for different a new trail and the information may be What difficulties are they facing now? reasons. And I think that’s fascinating. I a little bit harder to get. It’s not an easy Where do they see it going in the future? think they should all be given a voice. Did you have a tech background to be able to work with the GIS mapping? project at all. It’s a difficult project.” So I I want it to be open, where people can What’s the subject of your research? was happy that they were willing to take I had to learn all of that here. That’s one a chance on that and try to explore new continue to add information to it if I’m basing my research on the phe- of the wonderful things about Colum- areas of knowledge. they’ve contacted and verified. It can nomenology of the Sacred Valley bia. When I was applying to different become something that people can around Cusco, which is a very narrow schools, some of them have departments I think the NSF recently has realized continuously see how this valley has area around the old Inca capital that’s that are very segregated. It’s hard to take that they want research that spans sev- changed over time and how it contains extremely developed, with tons and tons classes across them. But when I came to eral fields and tries to draw on several information that wouldn’t normally be of built environment—carved rocks, interview at the archaeology department, sources of knowledge and creates more available to a strict archaeological study.

Link back to contents page 18 Superscript Superscript 19 Link back to contents page James Cornwell intractable nature of many of the debates primarily as a means to avoiding them. in our current political environment. However, historically, morality has been Department and Program: This research is part of a larger program much more closely associated with hap- Psychology, Ph.D. of research attempting to understand the piness, and I think there may be a way Undergraduate Institution: motivations underlying our moral judg- to get back to that idea empirically via New York University ments and ethical decisions. psychology.

Tell me more about your research. How has the NSF grant affected your How did you first become interested studies? in psychology, and what led you to I’m researching three things in par- Columbia? ticular. First, I’m interested in the In some ways, the NSF grant has made motivational grounding behind particu- research more flexible. It has freed me to I became interested in psychology while lar political positions based on moral focus my time and resources on projects I was an undergraduate at NYU. I was values, and how we can influence those of my own choosing (although this was interested in moral and political dif- who hold these positions to make them largely the case prior to receiving the fel- ferences, and how and why people are more amenable to constructive debate, lowship as well; our department is very motivated to maintain and argue their rather than having them “dig in” in an good about this). It also opens up the beliefs. unproductive way and contribute to the possibility of an additional year of fund- perceived polarization of many issues. ing from the university, so I don’t have During my studies as an undergraduate, Second, I’m interested in how standards to feel rushed to complete my disserta- I was introduced to the theories of Wal- of moral excellence (i.e., virtues) differ- tion, and I can focus on making it the ter Mischel and E. Tory Higgins, both entially influence or motivate behaviors best quality work possible. of whom are faculty here at Columbia. I compared to standards of moral expec- found their approaches extremely useful tations (i.e., duties), particularly in the Do you plan to do anything more with in explaining different aspects of human area of generous or charitable behaviors. your research once your dissertation behavior, and they provide a great frame- Third, I’m interested in how what we is complete? work to explore the subjects which are of learn about these two questions can be interest to me. I was drawn to Columbia built into existing theoretical models of Well, like most graduate students in in particular among other graduate pro- motivation and decision-making within my position, ideally I’d like to see my grams because of its incredibly collegial psychology. work published. I also hope to continue atmosphere, and its continuing empha- the lines of research I’ve begun here in sis on multi-level and interdisciplinary Do you have an objective in your post-doctoral or faculty positions at other approaches to research. research? universities in the future.

What was your NSF I’d say the closest thing I have to an What are your plans after graduation? proposal? agenda in my research is to try to reha- bilitate the idea that morality is integral That’s still a long way off, but at the mo- My NSF proposal was a series of studies to a good and fulfilling life. Typically, ment I hope to be teaching and doing to examine the motivational underpin- the emotions one finds associated with research at a university in an environ- nings of political beliefs that have a mor- morality these days are negative emo- ment similar to the one I’ve found at al foundation in order to understand the tions like guilt, and morality is seen Columbia.

Benjamin Bay Link back to contents page 20 Superscript Superscript 21 Link back to contents page Cassandra Nader value of higher education and a univer- allowed me to enter an interdisciplin- sity diploma. I wanted to investigate the ary, research-based master’s program, Department and Program: persistent issue of inequality between in which I have been able to ground Statistics, Quantitative Methods in the immigrant and native German students my research in quantitative psychol- Social Sciences M.A. in college access and completion in the ogy while drawing on the best theories Undergraduate Institution: German education system, a situation and methodology available from other that in many ways mirrors our own in disciplines to study my topic. Colum- Stanford University the United States. bia University and Teachers College in particular have given me access to the What’s the subject of your research? For my undergraduate honors thesis the data I need for my research through the following year, I compared language mi- Community College Research Cen- In the past decade, there has been a lot nority students to non-language minor- ter—an opportunity I would not have of focus on test scores as measures of ity students on reading achievement and had without the benefit of NSF support teacher and school performance. In a motivation, with a special focus on the to carry out my graduate studies here. sense, we have been using test scores to role that home and school contexts play Particularly since my research aims to determine whether schools are adequate- in these factors during the transition impact a population in need of support ly preparing students to be competitive from elementary to middle school. After in the education system—low-income 21st-century workers after secondary realizing that socioeconomic status was and minority students—I will eventually school. the primary driver of the gaps in read- be able to disseminate my findings to a ing achievement that I found between wider, interdisciplinary audience in the I am interested in looking at the “non- the two groups, I wanted to look more education community with NSF support. cognitive” side of what students accumu- deeply into achievement gaps by family late by the end of K-12 schooling—skills income and education. I also wanted to In what spheres, and in what way, do like persistence, attentiveness, and participate in the ongoing debate about you hope that your research will have cooperation with others—and relating the appropriateness of test scores as an impact? these to earnings and employment after measures of teacher and school quality. high school, particularly for low-income My current topic has been a natural out- With No Child Left Behind (NCLB) still students who enter the low-wage labor growth of these long-standing interests. market directly after high school. I up for review, there is legislative room to change the single-minded focus on test suspect that there are also non-cognitive Your undergraduate major was Eng- scores that characterizes our nation’s achievement gaps that have largely been lish, but your current research inter- current education policy. If test scores overlooked when creating accountability est has a broader, interdisciplinary are indeed the most important factor standards for schools, gaps that corre- scope. Had you studied economics in preparing the most disadvantaged spond to the test score achievement gaps and psychology before you began your students to succeed after high school, by race and socioeconomic status that master’s program? we have documented so well. then we can continue with the current Although I always found my studies of NCLB agenda. If, however, it turns out I will be using data on high school stu- English to be very valuable, I was con- that other factors are equally or more dents collected by the National Center stantly looking for ways to broaden my important in predicting what makes a for Education Statistics from 2002 to knowledge of social processes through successful worker and citizen, then I 2006 to predict earnings and unemploy- statistical analysis. The great thing about hope my research will raise awareness ment outcomes for students in the labor learning social science through research about which attributes we should be de- market using both their cognitive and is that you get to test the theories out veloping in our students and how we can non-cognitive skills gained by the end of for yourself rather than learning them quantify and measure them as markers high school. I will also be comparing the second-hand from a textbook. Until this of student progress. This will be valuable magnitude of achievement gaps in non- year, I had mostly explored the psycho- information for education policymakers, cognitive skills to the magnitude of the logical literature around education and principals, and teachers. Through their test score gap by socioeconomic status in hadn’t delved much into the economics combined efforts, I hope my research particular. literature. The newness of the person- will positively impact the population of ality and economics literature for me low-income and minority students on How did you find your way to this makes my current research all the more which my study focuses. topic? exciting. I plan to publish my research after it Since I first began doing quantitative How has the NSF research grant is completed and work for a few years research, I have always been interested helped you conduct your research? conducting quantitative research in the in issues of educational equity. In Ger- education policy arena. Eventually, I many, I conducted a small study com- My NSF fellowship has been indispens- would like to return to graduate school paring immigrant and native German able to me in conducting my research. and obtain a doctoral degree. university students’ perceptions of the The flexibility of the NSF fellowship has

Link back to contents page 22 Superscript Superscript 23 Link back to contentsOtto page Steininger Laura Paler actually be explaining things, or under people who pay the tax in the context of what conditions, or how these differ- the public awareness campaign versus Department and Program: ent stories related to one another. I use those who don’t, we can examine how Political Science, Ph.D. a technique that’s common in political having to go through that experience Undergraduate Institution: science, and also in developmental eco- in the campaign affected their political George Washington University nomics now, of field experiments, which behavior. involves a lot of field work and actually What led you into political science, studying different interventions and ran- There was another component to that and why did you choose Columbia? domly assigning people to treatment and that also looked at information. Another control groups and using that to assess big concern is that people don’t have Growing up in Wisconsin, I read a lot the empirical story. good information on how government is of books about far-off places and distant actually spending money. So an overlap- countries. When I got the chance to go Which governments do you focus on? ping treatment was to create a treatment to George Washington, I jumped on it: group in which people that received I wanted to be in D.C., where policy was Most of the field work for my disserta- better information on how government being made and there was a significant tion takes place in Indonesia. The ques- had actually spent money in recent international component to life. After tions are very microlevel. The disserta- years, versus a control group that did graduating, I worked in international tion itself focuses on how these different not get any substantive information. So development for about three years for types of government revenue affect the what this lets me study overall is not just the National Democratic Institute. I political behavior of citizens: whether whether windfalls and taxes create differ- was working on the Asia program, so citizens are more likely to monitor their ence in political behavior, but whether I spent time in China, Cambodia, and government, whether they’re more likely having better information is what Hong Kong, actually implementing to turn out and vote or mobilize against mobilizes people to hold government democracy programs. My specialty at government in protest, and whether accountable versus not. So that project that time was particularly in China, but they’re more likely to be critical of the overall lets me look at how this tax and what I had seen on the ground was very coming political climates. the incentive story versus the informa- different from what I had learned in the tion story affect political behavior. classroom. When I was applying to go In one district in Indonesia I partnered And what did you find? back to graduate school, Columbia had with a bunch of local NGOs and we some professors who were very strong in conducted a public awareness campaign, I find that taxes matter. In the context of China, and it was in New York and close which had a number of different varia- this campaign, people who played the tax to the UN and the policy world. tions. Because of the way we designed game, who were in the tax group, were the campaign and how we assigned peo- on average five percentage points more What is your dissertation about? ple to it, I’m able to compare how people likely to want to monitor government, react differently depending on what to want to become politically informed. One of the persistent questions in politi- version of the campaign they received, And that effort to become politically cal science is where government gets which lets me figure out how different informed is central to a lot of political its revenue from. Whether government revenue information and different in- science theorems about how people gets its revenue from taxes or other types formation on government expenditures behave politically. I also found that being of windfall—natural resources, oil, or affected how people behave politically. in the tax group and receiving the tax gas—has a big impact on how govern- The idea is to try to show some of the payment made people more critical of ment performs and on the relationship fundamental underlying relationships, the district government. So it did shift between governments and citizens. even within one district in Indonesia. people toward being more likely to want The idea is that when government gets to punish the people who are currently its revenue from taxes, there are more How did you design the public aware- in power as a result. incentives to be accountable and respon- ness campaign? sive to citizens. But when it’s getting its I did not find any evidence that it caused money from oil or from gas and other It’s the exact same idea as for a clinical people to turn out in higher numbers. natural resources—there are higher drug trial. If you want to test the effec- There are different reasons for that that levels of corruption, weaker accountabil- tiveness of a particular medicine, you I talk about in the paper, but overall it ity, and politicians have fewer incentives have your trial group and your placebo suggests that there really is something to to be held accountable by its citizens, group. So this is the same concept ap- this idea that taxation creates a stronger which creates some of the pervasive plied to the real social-science world. motivation for citizens to hold govern- underlying development problems. While I couldn’t randomize an actual ment accountable. But I also find, how- tax, the behavioral exercises that I used ever, that taxation’s not necessary for What I’m trying to do in my dissertation make a very compelling case to say that that to happen. The information also has is use different empirical methods to these really simulate the core elements a big effect. So if you provided people distinguish which of these stories might of an actual tax payment. So, looking at with better information—which was the

Laura Paler, Aceh Link back to contents page 24 Superscript Superscript 25 Link back to contents page overlapping experiment – that also led better outcomes because villages know So that was one project, and then the to higher levels of a willingness to learn what they want. But it’ll also lead to second project was my dissertation about government and a greater partici- more satisfaction with decision-making project. pation in government. because it’s going to be transparent and participatory. The goals of these proj- And then there’s a third project? In addition to your dissertation proj- ects are to promote development and ect, you’ve also worked on other field improve social cohesion in the villages The new one is very early stage. That’s projects in Indonesia. that receive them. to study a new World Bank intervention back in Aceh. That’s looking at the fact I’ve been involved so far in two big ones, When we looked at how that money that a lot of the former combatants who and I have a new one that’s just starting. had actually been spent in villages, what were involved in the conflict have now The first one I was involved with, as I they chose to spend the projects on gotten into illegal enterprises—illegal mentioned, was funded by the World was quite interesting. The result was logging, for instance. Bank and organized through my advisor. some evidence of economic benefit, but That was focused on Aceh, Indonesia, not a lot. And there was also evidence The World Bank had an idea for an with the goal of looking at the causes that rather than strengthening social intervention that would provide train- of the 30-year conflict that lasted until cohesion between different groups in ing and employment to at-risk youth 2005, shortly after the tsunami hit in the villages—like former combatants to work in their communities as forest 2004. The goal was to do a survey of and civilians—there’s a chance that it rangers and see if that created an exit civilians, former combatants, and village might’ve exacerbated tensions between opportunity for them to move out of leaders to collect a lot of data. Instead of those groups. illegal forest logging and into what they focusing on the causes of the conflict, call a “noble profession.” So that again we looked at why people joined the sepa- Part of what I’m doing in my disserta- is an experiment where we’re studying ratist insurgency and how post-conflict tion, with one of my papers, is looking a the effect of being in that program, on construction was going—what were bit more deeply into how these villages how well at-risk youth respond. Does it people receiving? how was the rebuild- use this money and how it might’ve improve their integration? Does it make ing going?—and in particular at the affected dynamics between different them more likely to get married and effectiveness of one of the World Bank competing groups in the villages. When have stable jobs and careers in the long development interventions. you’re in a post-conflict society and run? Also, how do communities address you have a history of tensions between environmental protection issues? What did you find? different groups that were involved in the conflict, a lot of the thinking behind Is this going to be a longitudinal This was a community-driven develop- these aid interventions is that you’re go- study? ment project, a type of development ing to just drop money into these places intervention that’s been getting a lot of and that’s going to help bring about It will take place over two to three years, acclaim for organizations like the World welfare improvements and it’s going to so yes. There will be data collection at Bank. So in these interventions, villages make things better. the beginning and end, over a two- or are given cash grants—windfalls—and three-year period. Having three different the idea is that the villages decide them- But it’s possible that that’s not necessar- NSF grants has freed me to go and work selves how to spend that money. ily the case; you have to pay attention to in the field with the World Bank from the underlying power dynamics. Re- a very early stage in my career, where Do they vote on it democratically? search indicates that there are different I developed the connections that have conditions under which things might led to these follow-on projects, which is Exactly. You introduce democratic not improve, which maybe the devel- something I think will continue to be a institutions to make the process very opment community hadn’t thought part of my career going forward. So it’s transparent. You try to make it participa- through clearly or been as aware of. In nice to have had that in place. Already, tory and inclusive. Villages will come my dissertation I’m looking at the dif- I’m seeing the opportunities for new together and decide how to spend the ferent contexts of the various power dy- projects arising with these people I met money with the idea that the collective namics and how that affected how well early on. village decision making will lead to this money was used, which contributes to a larger debate on aid effectiveness and post-conflict reconstruction.

Link back to contents page 26 Superscript Superscript 27 Link back to contents page Amelia Paukert Tell me a little bit more about your system is so complicated, and to un- field work in Oman. derstand it we really need to consider Department and Program: Earth and so many different angles. You have to Environmental Sciences, Ph.D. Oman basically has a piece of mantle consider the chemistry, the physics, rock and sea floor that has been lifted Undergraduate institution: sources of water, and mixing. It’s just a onto the surface of the earth. So it’s out University of Southern California complicated system. So I think it’s hard of equilibrium at the surface. It should to consider all the different factors. But be at higher pressure and temperature, it’s also important. Once you have a bet- What sparked your interest in earth so it’s pretty reactive. It has a lot of mag- ter understanding of how it works and and environmental science? nesium in it, so when that rock reacts how the same process works in other with water it releases its magnesium and areas, then we can look at trying to use a I grew up on a farm in California, and some calcium, and then that combines natural process to combat global warm- we were always dealing with water with carbon dioxide to form these min- ing. issues for irrigation and flooding in erals that sequester atmospheric carbon the winter, which led to my interest in dioxide. But it also makes the water high groundwater and water quality issues. pH – it’s like pH 12. Not the kind of What are your plans for At USC I studied geology and interna- water you want to put your hands in, but after graduation? tional relations, thinking I would go into it makes these gorgeous blue pools. international water policy—I wanted I enjoy teaching and research, so aca- to be at the intersection of science and We go out to these springs and we demia is an obvious pathway. Grading is policy and was debating which way to sample water that’s emerging from the always unpleasant, but actually teach- go. After graduating I did a Fulbright in deep subsurface. So we go out every ing the class and getting to talk to the Kazakhstan, looking at implementation January and camp for two or three weeks students is great. I think it’s exciting of international water rights treaties, and and take a bunch of water samples and to see when a concept goes from being decided the world of policy was a little rock samples. I bring these back to the confusing to when the light bulb goes on too personality-dependent. lab at Columbia and analyze them for and they get it and get interested. composition and then use these real data I realized I wanted to be more on the to constrain a model. But I’m also considering research with science side, so that made me want to a national lab. It could be interesting go to graduate school and get a Ph.D. in We have a basic understanding of how to do something policy-related but still earth science. Columbia was one of the this natural system reduces atmospheric science-oriented. Once we have a bet- top programs for sequestrial chemistry, carbon dioxide. But we have big ques- ter understanding of how this system so when offered admission I decided tions like what’s the time scale for the works, I’d love to get a pilot project in to come here. In choosing a project, I natural system? What are the limiting place. I think carbon sequestration is wanted to do something that was inter- factors? We’re trying to figure out if we going to be a necessary measure to try to national in scope and that had a direct can eventually enhance the natural pro- ameliorate the effects of global warming societal impact. I met with Juerg Matter, cess, so I’m creating a computer model as we try to switch to renewable energy. who was working on carbon sequester- for the natural system, constrained by We’re going to need a number of differ- ing in Oman, looking at a natural system real field data. ent mechanisms for sequestering car- where groundwater is absorbing atmo- bon, and I think this is one of the better spheric carbon dioxide and turning into What would you say is the greatest ones since it would be permanent and carbonate minerals, thereby combating challenge you’ve faced in your work safe. If we could get a pilot project going the greenhouse effect. That sounded like thus far? to prove this technology, then it could be an interesting project, so I joined it, and more widely implemented. that’s what I’ve been working on for the I guess it’s trying to get this model to last three and a half years. mimic the natural system. The natural

Amelia Paukert, Oman

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32 Alumni Profile 34 On the Shelf: Faculty Publications Join Us Network 36 On the Shelf: Alumni Publications 38 Dissertations • GSAS Alumni Association Annual Meeting Whether it is receiving the latest about what’s hap- Wednesday, April 25, 2012, New York, NY pening on campus, meeting alumni and students, 44 Announcements or finding a job, contact us to let us know of your 48 Helpful Links Join Dean Carlos J. Alonso for the election of interest! new GSAS Alumni Association members and a panel discussion led by current GSAS students • Update your information online researching African American and Caribbean • Mentor a student literature, biodiversity, and the history of the • Post a job; hire a Columbian United States’ War on Crime. A reception will follow. • Network online • Access online career resources • Convocation Sunday, May 13, 2012, New York, NY Celebrate GSAS’s graduating Master’s and Ph.D. Research & Learn students at our Convocation ceremonies. A variety of options, from the Cafés Columbia series to podcasts and online seminars, are available. Or • Commencement come back to campus for an exhibit or conference, Wednesday, May 16, 2012, New York, NY all free and open to the public. The University Commencement ceremony honors graduates from all of Columbia’s • Comic New York: A Symposium (March 24-25, schools. Tickets are required. Low Library) • Félix Candela 1910–2010, on the architect and “wizard of concrete shells” (Wallach Art Gallery, closes March 31) • Florine Stettheimer: Alternative Modernist (Columbia Libraries, closes June 1) • Gorey Preserved, on illustrator Edward Gorey (Columbia Libraries, closes July 27).

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Bel Kaufman English and Comparative Literature M.A., 1936

After graduating with a master’s degree in English literature, Kaufman became a teacher in the New York City’s public schools and the New York Times best-selling author of Up the Down Staircase (1965). Today, Kaufman is a public speaker, writer, and adjunct professor at Hunter College.

Why did you decide to attend You graduated 75 years ago. How What inspired you to write Up the Columbia University and study would you describe the graduate Down Staircase? English literature? experience in the 1930s, and how Necessity and guilt. I had published After my undergraduate degree from do you think it has changed over a very short piece in Saturday Review Hunter College, I was eager to con- the years? titled “From a Teacher’s Waste Bas- tinue my education in literature. In a There were no electronic devices then, ket.” An editor at Prentice Hall, Gladys literary family—my grandfather was no instant answers at the push of a but- Carr, saw it and invited me to lunch. the celebrated Jewish author Sholem ton. I loved the slow, painstaking detec- She asked me to expand it into a novel. Aleichem—I had been exposed to clas- tive work of research. Into my cubicle I had never written novels, only short Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times/Redux sics in world literature. I chose Colum- would arrive eighteenth-century books, stories, but she offered me an advance, bia for my graduate work because I manuscripts, papers, and translations which I desperately needed. I had just What was the greatest challenge me of “lack of background in English received a notice from the Board: “Fail- was familiar with its reputation and the that I would request. I have no knowl- left my husband and I was penniless. you had to face in your career? and poor interpretation of poem.” This ure stands. Should you take the exam quality of its faculty. edge of what has occurred since then, I accepted the money and repaid my My greatest challenge was the Board time, I got angry. I sent the Board next year, we are confident…” It was a but with computers everywhere, it must debts, so I had to write the book. of Education of New York City. I had letters from my professors attesting face-saving device. The following year, What was your research focus? seem miraculous. come to New York from Russia at to my literacy, honors and plaques in having served as a substitute the years My research was in eighteenth-century How did your graduate education the age of 12 and still had a trace of a English, awards in poetry, etc. I also before, I took the exam, passed with literature, particularly Grub Street—all What are you working on now? relate to your work? Russian accent when I took the exams wrote to Ms. Millay telling her ex- flying colors, and become a regular the little scribblers, garreteers, and I am now working on my memoirs—if My education directly related to my to teach English in high school. It was actly how I had interpreted her poem. teacher—one of the best in the city. pamphleteers buzzing around the big not now, when?—that will be in the work. It made me an educated teacher, my first failure. I enrolled in speech She mailed me a three-page letter in authors like Swift and Pope. I lived in form of letters to my grandfather, writer, and public speaker. Of the three courses and totally erased my accent. return, stating that she herself could If you could offer any advice to my cubicle in the new (now old) library answering his letter to me from 1915 careers, I think I prefer public speak- The Board, however, failed me the fol- not have explained her poem better. current students, what would it for two happy years. As I read my thesis when I was four in which he asks me ing. It’s easier and gives me instant lowing year. I had been given “Euclid I submitted her letter to the Board be? today, I am still struck with its timeless to learn to write. Now, at 100, I do. applause and often standing ovations. Alone” by Edna St. Vincent Millay to as well, and they met to vote on my When you know you are right never vividness and humor. Typewriters and computer keys never interpret. It was a sonnet I loved and little case, which had become a minor give up, no matter how difficult it may jump up to applaud. knew by heart, but the Board accused cause célèbre in educational circles. I be.

Link back to contents page 32 Superscript Superscript 33 Link back to contents page On the Shelf Faculty Publications EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art Bergson Postcolonial: L’élan vital dans la pensée de A Behavorial Theory of Elections Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil Kellie Jones, Art History and Archeology Léopold Sédar Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal Michael Ting, Political Science; Jonathan Bendor, Timothy Mitchell, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Duke University Press Books Souleymane Bachir Diagne, French and Romance Daniel Diermeier, and David Siegel African Studies Princeton University Press Verso eaturing selections of her writings from the past Philology twenty years, this collection highlights Prof. CNRS Editions ing and his co-authors provide a behavioral eginning with the history of coal power, FJones’ efforts to bring attention to the work iagne studies the importance of the philoso- theory of elections based on the notion that all Mitchell discusses the rise of democracy, the of African American, African, Latin American, and pher Henri Bergson in the work of Léopold Tactors—politicians and voters—are only bound- Bdevelopment and dependence upon oil, and the women artists who have challenged established art DSédar Senghor and Mohamed Iqbal, both of edly rational. The theory accordingly posits a model reorganization of political life around the manage- practices. Interviews with and works on a variety of whom played fundamental roles in the independence of learning via trial and error: actions that surpass an ment of the economy. This book shows a complex artists such as Lorna Simpson, Kcho, and Jean-Michel of their own nations and took inspiration from Berg- actor’s aspiration level are more likely to be used in picture of the world’s dependence on oil, addressing Basquiat illustrate Jones’s curatorial sensibility and son’s theories. Diagne received the Dagnan-Bouveret the future, while those that fall short are less likely how it shapes the politics of oil-producing regions as offer a survey of some of the most important figures Prize from the French Académie des Sciences Morales to be tried later. Based on this idea of iteration, the well as of countries that rely on it. in contemporary art. et Politiques for this work. authors construct formal models of party competition, turnout, and voters’ choices of candidates. These mod- els predict substantial turnout levels, voters ultimately dividing into parties, and winning parties adopting centrist platforms.

Link back to contents page 34 Superscript Superscript 35 Link back to contents page On the Shelf ALU M NI Publications Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past [sic]: A Memoir Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Kelly Enright, M.A. ’02, Museum Anthropology Nancy K. Miller, Ph.D. ’74, French and Romance Joshua Cody, M.A. ’06, D.M.A. ’12, Music Village to Capital of Black America Norton Jonathan Gill, ’86CC, M.A. ’92, M.Phil. ’94, Ph.D. his biography follows the lives and adventur- Philology ‘99 English and Comparative Literature ers of Osa and Martin Johnson, a public and University of Nebraska Press bracing account of a talented young com- Grove Press Tdaring couple who brought the jungles of Africa fter her father’s death, Miller discovered poser’s diagnosis with, and recovery from, an and the South Pacific to millions of Americans in the a minuscule family archive: a handful of Aaggressive cancer, [sic] provocatively outstrips ill, currently a professor at the University of early 20th century. They established their reputation photographs, an unexplained land deed, a the generic conventions of the cancer memoir. Amsterdam, traces the vicissitudes of New as an independent and fearless duo with their first A York’s most protean neighborhood. postcard from Argentina, unidentified locks of hair. G expedition to the South Seas, and their decades of Miller follows their traces from one distant relative to Helvetica and the New York City Subway System work influenced everything from science and wildlife another, across the country, and across an ocean. As Paul Shaw, M.A. ’78, M.Phil. ’80, History conservation to children’s literature. a third-generation descendant of Eastern European MIT Press Jews, Miller learns that the hidden lives of her ances- tors reveal as much about the present as they do about haw’s investigation of the transit authority’s the past. choice of typeface—in fact, it was Standard, not Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex Helvetica that established the subway’s familiar Edited by Erica Jong, M.A.’65, English and Compara- S look and feel—gives way to a larger survey of the mid- tive Literature century transit system. Ecco his collection explores what women want with and from sex. Works by writers such as Susan TCheever, Jennifer Weiner, and Molly Jong-Fast discuss everything from casual sex to Catholic up- bringing to octogenarian libido. These works together reflect how sex can be as fleeting, mundane, and intense as the rest of life.

Link back to contents page 36 Superscript Superscript 37 Link back to contents page Dissertations Ophir Gaathon, Incorporation of Biochemistry and Molecular Noah Lee, Synergizing human- Cellular, Molecular and Biomedi- Chien-Yang Chiu, Putting molecules Rohitha Poornami SriRamarat- Communications nonconventional crystalline materi- Biophysics machine intelligence: Visualizing, cal Studies in molecular electronics nam, Application and development Deposited als onto the integrated photonics labeling, and mining the electronic of methods towards the target iden- Philip Kay, ‘Guttersnipes’ and ‘Elit- platform Andrew Stephen Kuziemko, Using health record Michael Thomas Englander, The Margaret Mary Elvekrog, The role of tification of biologically-active small erates’: City College in the popular Recently structure to explore the sequence ribosome discriminates the structure initiation factor dynamics in transla- molecules imagination Jie Gao, Chip-scale photonic devices alignment space of remote homologs Mohammad Reza Taei-Tehrani, of the amino acid at its peptidyl- tion initiation for light-matter interactions and Pseudo random arterial modulation transferase center (Distinction) Rachel Elizabeth Tundel, I: Multi- Computer Science quantum information processing Qiangfeng Zhang, Towards the (PRAM): A novel ASL approach to Ethan Lawrence Fisher, I: Prog- Anthropology catalysis: Development of a Bi(Otf)3- integration of structural and systems measure flow and blood transit times Ian Jay Orozco, Functional charac- ress towards the total synthesis of catalyzed nucleophilic addition/hy- Hila Becker, Identification and Maria Kamenetska, Single molecule biology: Structure-based studies of terization of hippocampal synapses platensimycin. II: Aromatic ions: drofunctionalization reaction in the characterization of events in social Mireille Sylvie Abelin, Fiscal sover- junction conductance and binding protein-protein interactions on a Biomedical Informatics in a mouse model containing a Carbon-based nucleofuges and chiral synthesis of complex heterocycles; II: media eignty: Reconfigurations of value and geometry (Distinction) genome-wide scale (Distinction) mutation in the dystrobrevin-binding cyclopropenones and formamides C-H arylation of heteroarenes: Map- citizenship in post-financial crisis Ninad Pradeep Dewal, Integration protein 1 (DTNBP 1) gene ping the mechanism of palladium- Malek Ben Salem, Towards effective Argentina Architecture Biological Sciences of germline and somatic variation in Evangelos George Gatzogiannis, carboxylate catalyzed direct arylation masquerade attack detection tumor data Jeremiah Dane Osteen, Character- Functional imaging through dark Gajendran Ayyathurai, Foundations Shantel Blakely, The responsibili- Anthony Michael Barsotti, Negative ization of cardiac Iks channel gating state dynamics Lingle Wang, Towards more robust Omer Boyaci, Advancing multi- of anti-caste consciousness: Pandit ties of the architect: Mass production regulation of gene expression by the Biostatistics using voltage clamp fluorometry and efficient methods for the calcula- media: Application sharing, latency Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and and modernism in the work of Marco tumor suppressor p53 Michelle Lynn Hall, Density tion of protein-ligand binding affini- measurements, and user-created the marginalized in south India Zanuso, 1936-1972 Nanshi Sha, On testing the change- Yann Ravussin, Molecular and functional theory: Development and ties (Distinction) services William Michael Behnke-Parks, point in the longitudinal bent line physiological adaptations to weight applications Anderson Hall Blanton, Until the Art History and Archaeology Gates and latches: The mechano- quantile regression model perturbation in mice Zhang Wang, I: Total synthesis and Oliver Strider Cossairt, Tradeoffs stones cry out: Materialities of faith chemistry of ATP affinity in Kinesin David James Hardee, I: structural revision of (±)-tricholo- and limits in computational imaging and technologies of the Holy Ghost in Patrick Robert Crowley, Forms of 1 and Eg5 (Distinction) John Henry Spivack, The limb-leaf Chemical Engineering Lanthanum(III) triflate-catalyzed malides A and B. II: Synthetic stud- southern Appalachia (Distinction) spectrality in ancient Rome (Distinc- design: A new way to explore the dose cyclopropanation via intramolecular ies towards (+)-cortistatin A Dana Dachman-Soled, On black- tion) Mo Chen, Regulation of alternative response curve in adaptive seamless Nicholas Dennis Carbone, Pho- methylene transfer. II: Reaction de- box complexity and adaptive, uni- Ronald C. Jennings, Cosmopolitan splicing and its connections to cancer phase II/III trials (Distinction) tochemical crosslinking reactions in sign with aromatic ions-nucleophilic Laura Michele Wingler, Harnessing versal composability of cryptographic subjects: An anthropological critique Sonja Irene Drimmer, The visual (Distinction) polymers acyl substitution and organophotore- Saccharomyces cerevisiae genetics for tasks of cosmopolitan criminal law and language of vernacular manuscript Business political modernity dox catalysts (Distinction) cell engineering (Distinction) illumination: John Gower’s Confessio William Allen Freed-Pastor, Gain- Cherry Chen Chen, Engineering Kevin Tyler Egan, Frequency analy- Emily C. Bianchi, Worse off but Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS of-function effects of mutant p53 microbubbles with the buried-ligand Kuo-Ying Huang, Ubiquitin con- sis and sheared filtering for multidi- Vishnupad Mishra, Parables of the happier? The affective advantages Civil Engineering and Engineering M.126) (Distinction) explored using a three-dimensional architecture for targeted ultrasound formational dynamics and hydration mensional effects in rendering market: Advertising, middle class, of entering the workforce during an Mechanics culture model of breast cancer (Dis- molecular imaging shell dynamics by solid state NMR and consumption in post-reform Teresa Marie Harris, The German tinction) economic downturn (Distinction) Bert Chi-Yuan Huang, Learning India (Distinction) Ben Adam Leshchinsky, Enhanc- Garden City movement: Architecture, James Jing Kwan, Phospholipid en- with degree-based subgraph estima- Haibin Hurwitz, Litigation risk ing ballast performance using geocell politics, and urban transformation, Lisa Christine Green, Trans-acting capsulation properties and effects on NaeYoung Jung, Optical response of tion António Andrade Tomás, Refracted and the optimism in long-horizon confinement 1902-1931 factors affecting retroviral recoding microbubble stability and dynamics chemically doped and/or intercalated governmentality: Space, politics, and management forecasts of bad news thin layers graphene: Raman and Xueyu Pang, Effects of curing Neeraj Kumar, Describable visual social structure in contemporary Albert Narath IV, The baroque Charles Clifford Keller, Microtu- and good news Matthew Raymond Stachowiak, contrast study temperature and pressure on the attributes for faces Luanda effect: Architecture and art history in bules, acetylation, and MEC-3-regu- Mechanisms of actomyosin contractil- chemical, physical, and mechani- Berlin, 1886-1900 lated genes in C. elegans mechano- Peter Olof Jarnebrant, Antecedents ity in cells Bumjung Kim, Single-crystal growth cal properties of Portland cement Arezu M. Moghadam, Applica- Applied Mathematics sensation and consequences of loss aversion: of organic semiconductors and (Distinction) tion platforms, routing algorithms, Sara Emily Switzer, Correggio and Mental accounting and allocation of Chemical Physics organic electronic applications and mobility behavior in mobile Benjamin William Diehl, Work- the sacred image Adam Max Packer, I: Under- attention Mehdi Tavakolan, Development of disruption-tolerant networks ing up hills: Dynamics over sloping standing the nervous system as an Zheyuan Chen, Interaction between Jeffrey Ransdell Lancaster, A ‘tool- construction projects scheduling with topography with bottom-enhanced Laura Suzanne Weinstein, Varia- information-processing machine: Hyun Ah Lee, Creditor coordination zero-dimensional and two-dimension- kit’ of small molecules for polymer evolutionary algorithms Joshua Reich, Minimally invasive diffusion tions on a Persian theme: Adaptation effects and bankruptcy prediction Dense, nonspecific, canonical mi- al materials assembly and post-synthetic modifica- solutions to challenges posed by and innovation in the early manu- crocircuit architecture of inhibition mobility changes Anil Raj, Large-scale machine learn- tion using ‘click’ and photoactive Kirubel Teferra, Developments in scripts from Golconda (Distinction) in neocortex. II: A neural circuit for Xiaojing Meng, Analyst reputation, Qiongying Hu, Dynamics of melt- ing in biology communication, and information chemistries the theory and applications of the angular velocity computation mediated crystallization of amor- variability response function concept Blake Shaw, Graph embedding and Astronomy acquisition (Distinction) phous silicon films nonlinear dimensionality reduction Michael Vidne, State-space models Yunqing Lin, Studies towards selec- Gulsen Surmeli, Positional tive synthesis of resveratrol-based Classical Studies and latent processes in the statistical Kathryn Joyce Kreckel, Gas in void Ryan Michigan, Essays on intel- Dinesh Subhraveti, Record and coordinates for spinal sensory-motor Jianing Li, Towards high-resolution oligomeric natural products analysis of neural data galaxies lectual property connnectivity (Distinction) computational approaches for David Martyn Ratzan, Contract vPlay: Problem determination with structure-based drug discovery Ellane Ji Hae Park, Development norms and contract enforcement in virtual replay across heterogeneous Yutian Wu, Midlatitude storm track Takamitsu Tanaka, Mergers of su- Yiqun Mou, Limits to arbitrage Biomedical Engineering of photochemical surface modifica- Graeco-Roman Egypt systems response to increased greenhouse permassive black hole binaries in gas- and commodity index investment Chemistry tion technique warming rich environments: Models of event (Distinction) Sean Adam Burgess, Development Classics Earth and Environmental Engi- rates and electromagnetic signatures and applications of laminar optical Julia Margaret Allen, I: Diaziridin- neering Applied Physics Min Wang, Supply chain manage- Christopher Wainwright Plummer, tomography for in vivo imaging ium ions: First reported synthesis and Applications of tandem reactions in Patrick O’Farrell Glauthier, Science Neil Thomas Zimmerman, High- ment: Supplier financing schemes reactivity studies. II: Tropylium ion Xinxin Li, A computational model Owen Clark Clancey, Dosimetric complex natural product synthesis: and poetry in imperial Rome: Ma- contrast observations with an integral Roger Eric Goldman, Analysis, and inventory strategies mediated -cyanation of amines. III: for multi-objective optimization of optimization method for CyberKnife α Rapid access to the (iso)cyclocitrinol nilius, Lucan, and the Aetna field spectrograph algorithms, and control for intelligent Multicatalytic synthesis of complex zero-emission power plants robotic radiosurgery system using a Cell Biology core (Distinction) surgical exploration and intervention tetrahydrofurans Ian Halim, Aristotle’s explanation memetic algorithm Kun-Yi Lin, Design, synthesis, and (Distinction) Severin Thomas Schneebeli, Com- for the value of the external goods Naureen Quibria, Characterization evaluation of liquid-like nanoparticle Lisa Marie Ambrosini Vadola, I: puters for chemistry and chemistry Michael Frei, Force and conduc- Stanley Huang, Supra-character- of Gf, a /Drosophila/ trimeric G organic hybrid materials (NOHMs) Development of synthetic methods for computers: From computational Tobias Anthony Myers, Models of tance spectroscopy of single-molecule istic-frequency response in gerbil audi- protein alpha subunit for carbon dioxide capture for application in multicatalytic prediction of reaction selectivities to reception in the divine audience of the junctions tory nerve frequency tuning curves reactions. II: Investigation of stable novel molecular wires for electrical Iliad (Distinction) carbenium catalysts as hydride devices (Distinction) transfer agents

Link back to contents page 38 Superscript Superscript 39 Link back to contents page Huijie Lu, Structural and functional East Asian Languages and Cul- Electrical Engineering Elizabeth Andrews McArthur, Nar- History Ruxian Wang, Multiproduct pricing Middle East, South Asian and Daniel Brett Rubin, A novel circuit microbial ecology of denitrifying bac- tures rative topography: Fictions of county, management and design of new African Studies model of contextual modulation and teria using different organic carbon Se Gi Hong, Mitigating network ser- city, and suburb in the work of Vir- Sarah Bridger, Scientists and the service products normalization in primary visual sources (Distinction) Chad Richard Diehl, Resurrect- vice disruptions in high-bandwidth, ginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo ethics of Cold War weapons research Kaveh Farzad Niazi, A comparative cortex (Distinction) ing Nagasaki: Reconstruction, the intermittently connected, and peer-to- Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan (Distinction) Italian study of Qutb. al-Din Shirazi’s texts Earth and Environmental Sciences Urakami Catholics, and atomic peer networks and models on the configuration of Evan Shuman Schaffer, Transient memory, 1945-1970 Christine Marie Varnado, The Sheetal Chhabria, Making the Gian-Maria Annovi, In the theater the heavens dynamics in neural networks Jennifer Leigh Aminzade, Water Yu-Jen Hsu, The integration and shapes of fancy: Queer circulations modern slum: Housing, mobility, and of my mind: Authorship, personae, availability in a warming world Takuya Hino, Creating heresy: applications of organic thin-film tran- of desire in early modern literature poverty in Bombay and its peripheries and the making of Pier Paolo Paso- Hamid Rezai, State, dissidents, and Tanya C. Sippy, Asynchronous inhi- (Mis)representation, fabrication, sistors and ferroelectric polymers (Distinction) lini’s work contention: Iran 1979-2010 bition in neocortical microcircuits Jennifer Amy Arbuszewski, and the Tachikawa-ryu Megan K. Doherty, PEN Inter- Towards the global calibration of the Matthew Leigh Johnston, Thin-film Environmental Health Sciences national and its republic of letters, Kristen Renner Swann, Historiciz- Music (D.M.A.) Dara Lynn Sosulski, Representa- Globigerinoides ruber (white) Mg/Ca Jimin Kim, Representing the invis- bulk acoustic resonators on integrated 1921-1970 ing maternity in Boccaccio’s Ninfale tions and transformations of odor paleothermometer ible: The American perceptions of circuits for physical sensing applica- Allan Carpenter Just, Exposure to fiesolano and Decameron Milan Alexander Mincek, Pendu- information in the mouse olfactory colonial Korea, 1910-1945 tions (Distinction) phthalate mixtures and inner-city George Emmanuel Fiske, The lum V: DM: Vitality, exhaustion, system (Distinction) Adrienne Elena Block, Geophysical pediatric allergic disease and airway socioeconomics of state formation in Materials Science and Engineering and fleeting equilibrium (Distinc- perspectives of subglacial settings and Anri Yasuda, Imaging the world: Serdar Kocaman, On-chip group inflammation (Distinction) medieval Afghanistan tion) Theodore Katsuyuki Yanagihara, their influence on glacial dynamics The literature and aesthetics of Mori and phase velocity control for classical Austin Joseph Akey, Nanomaterials The dissociation of valence and in- Ogai, the Shirakaba school, and and quantum optical devices Epidemiology Carlos Martín Gálvez-Peña, Writ- from nanocomponents: Synthesis and Katharine Penland Soper, Voices tensity using alliesthesia and thermal Antonio Salvatore Buono, High- Akutagawa Ryûnosuke ing history to reform the empire: properties of hybrid nanomaterials from the Killing Jar (Distinction) stimulation pressure melting of iron with non- Xiaoping Liu, Nonlinear applica- Veronica Maya Frajzyngier, Toward Religious chroniclers in seventeenth- (Distinction) metals sulfur, carbon, oxygen, and Ecology, Evolution and Environ- tions using silicon nanophotonic a better understanding of urinary century Peru Music (Ph.D.) Nursing hydrogen: Implications for planetary mental Biology wires fistula repair prognosis: Results from Timur Dykhne Davis, Finger- cores a multi-country prospective cohort Robert Marshall Neer Jr., Napalm, printing analysis of non-crystalline Tyler J. Bickford, Children’s Pamela Blythe de Cordova, Off-shift Mary Elizabeth Blair, Habitat Inanc Meric, Characterization of study an American biography pharmaceutical compounds using music, MP3 players, and expressive nursing and quality patient outcomes Martin Lee Collier, Spatial- modification and gene flow inSai- graphene field-effect transistors for high-energy X-rays and the total scat- practices at a Vermont elementary statistical properties of geochemical miri oerstedii: Landscape genetics, high performance electronics Samantha Virginia Garbers, Valerie Paley, Founders and funders: tering pair distribution function school: Media consumption as social Nowai Lorpu Keleekai, Prevalence variability as constraints on magma intraspecific molecular systematics, Improving contraceptive method Institutional expansion and the organization among schoolchildren and predictors of HIV, sexually transport and evolution processes at and conservation Simeon Dimitrov Realov, Com- choice and use with a computer-based emergence of the American cultural Teresa Anne Fazio, Nanolitho- (Distinction) transmitted infections, and Staphy- ocean ridges bined C-V/I-V and RTN CMOS contraceptive assessment module capital, 1840-1940 graphic control of double-stranded lococcus aureus co-infection among Michelle Brown, Intergroup en- variability characterization using DNA at the single-molecule level Andrew Lawrence Haringer, Liszt New York State prison inmates Wei Du, Excess volume and exsolu- counters in grey-cheeked mangabeys an on-chip measurement system (Dis- Chien-Chin Hsu, Epidemiological Abigail E. 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Timothy Frye (photograph by Eileen Barroso) Elizabeth M.C. Hillman (photograph by Eileen Barroso) David Stark, Arthur Lehman Pro- Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, assis- The Graduate School of Arts and fessor of Sociology and International tant professor of biomedical engineer- Sciences has launched a new M.A. in Affairs, and Balazs Vedres, Ph.D. ing, has been awarded a National History and Literature at ’04, Sociology, co-authored the paper Institutes of Health Research Project Reid Hall, Columbia’s campus in “Structural Folds: Generative Disrup- Grant of $1.7 million over five years to Paris. The program will train students tion in Overlapping Groups” for the study the resting brain. in historical approaches to the study 2010 issue of the American Journal of literature and in the interpretation of Sociology. This paper received the Pasha Mohamad Khan, Middle of texts for the study of history. 2011 Viviana Zelizer Prize from the Eastern, South Asian, and African Economic Sociology Section for best Studies Ph.D. student, has won a Lara Nettelfield, Ph.D. ’06, paper in economic sociology and the 2011 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ Political Science, received the 2011 Roger V. Gould Prize for the best American Council of Learned Societ- Marshall Shulman Prize for Court- paper published in the journal over ies Dissertation Completion Fellow- ing Democracy in Bosnia and Herze- the past two years. ship for his work “The Broken Spell: govina: The Hague Tribunal’s Impact The Romance Genre in Late Mughal in a Postwar State. This annual prize Timothy Frye, Marshall D. Shul- India” which examines the social con- sponsored by the Harriman Institute man Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign text of the Urdu romance genre and of Columbia University is awarded Policy and Director of the Harriman reactions to it from about 1500-1900. by the Association for Slavic, East Institute, recently opened a new European, and Eurasian Studies for research center, along with colleague Computer Science Ph.D. student the best monograph dealing with the Andrei Yakovlev, in Moscow at the Aaron Bernstein was award the international relations and foreign Higher School of Economics. The Best Student Paper Award at the As- policy of former Soviet Union or East- Center for the Study of Institutions sociation for Computing Machinery- ern European states. and Development aims to bring Society for Industrial and Applied together Russian and foreign experts Mathematics Symposium on Discrete Aly Raafat, Ph.D. ’57, Architec- in economics and political science Algorithms for his work titled “Near ture, a professor of architecture at to conduct international research on Linear Time $\oeps$-Approximation Cairo University, was awarded the Dirk Englund (photograph by Eileen Barroso) Reid Hall, Paris development. for Restricted Shortest Paths in Undi- Nile Award in Arts in June in recog- rected Graphs.” nition of his five decades of work in Assistant Professor of Electrical En- architectural practice and scholarship. gineering and Applied Physics Dirk Earth and Environmental Sciences The Nile Awards are the most presti- Englund received a Presidential Professor Arlene Fiore received gious state cultural awards in Egypt Early Career Award for Scientists and the 2011 James B. Macelwane Medal, and are determined by the Supreme Engineers, the highest honor given by one of the highest honors given by Council of Culture in Cairo. the United States government on sci- the American Geophysical Union, in ence and engineering professionals in recognition of her contributions to the beginning stages of their research the geophysical sciences as a young careers. scientist.

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Imre Bartos John Ashbery (photograph by David Shankbone) Computer science Ph.D. student the Seoul National University Mu- Peggy Barlett, Ph.D. ’75, An- Jeremy Andrus has been named seum of Art. thropology, has been awarded Emory one of 12 winners of the 2012-13 Face- University’s inaugural Faculty Sus- book Fellowship. Andrus is working Poet John Ashbery, M.A. ’50, tainability Leadership Award, which on technology that will allow mobile English and Comparative Literature, acknowledges a faculty member who phones to have multiple user profiles. and Andrew Delbanco, Julian works to increase the breadth and Clarence Levi Professor in the Hu- depth of sustainability education. The Physics Ph.D. student Imre Bar- manities at Columbia, were awarded Goodrich C. White Professor of An- tos (profiled in the Spring 2011 National Humanities Medals by thropology, Barlett co-authored Sus- issue of Superscript) was named one President Barack Obama. tainability on Campus and has helped of Forbes’ Rising Stars of Science 30 to develop influential workshops on sustainability. Under 30. Shu Chien, Ph.D. ’57, Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, was awarded Biango Manieri, M.A. ’88, the National Medal of Science by Poet Tan Lin, MA ‘81, MPhil ‘88, M.Phil. ’92, Ph.D. ’95, Political Sci- President Barack Obama. PhD ‘95., was one of two poets—and ence, has been appointed director of 14 artists, in total—to receive a grant through the Foundation for Contem- research at PFM Advisors, after serv- Paul Maya, M.A. ’03, Quantitative porary Arts’ Grants to Artists pro- ing as an investment officer with the Methods in the Social Sciences, was gram Federal Reserve. named global head of Bloomberg. com and Businessweek.com. He pre- Hyung-min Chung, M.A. ’92, viously worked at Turner Broadcast- Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the M.Phil. ’93, Art History and Archaeol- ing and led CNN’s digital technology Construction of the Mexican ogy, has been named director of the strategy and product implementation. Public Sphere by history professor National Museum of Contemporary Pablo Piccato received an honor- Art in Seoul. She previously served able mention for the 2010 Best Book as a professor of art history at Seoul in Mexican History Award granted by National University and as director of the Council of Latin American His- tory.

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