The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences | Columbia University

Volume 2, Issue 1 Superscript Fall 2011 The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences | Columbia University

WHEN INTELLECT MEETS EMOTION The academic study of 9/11 and its impact

Citizen Dead Reckoning Dissertations and On How to Build Sociologists and the Digital Age a Graduate Faculty, students, and the Dendrochronology Columbia joins other Community redefinition of downtown Researchers use tree rings academic institutions in The challenges at GSAS and Manhattan to date a piece of maritime making digital dissertations what student government history available online needs to do to overcome them

ANNOUNCEMENTS | ALUMNI PROFILES | PUBLICATIONS | LINKS CONTENTS

1 Message from the Dean 30 The Mutual Benefits of Mentoring 2 Dead Reckoning and Dendrochronology 32 Alumni Profiles 8 Dissertations and the Digital Age 36 On the Shelf: Faculty Publications 12 On the Process of Building a Graduate Community 38 On the Shelf: Alumni Publications 17 Roundtable 39 Dissertations 20 When Intellect Meets Emotion 44 Announcements 26 Citizen Sociologists 46 Alumni Awards 48 Helpful Links

GSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dale Turza, President, Art History and Archaeology M.A. (1974) To share your thoughts about anything you have read in this publication, please e-mail gsaseditor@colum- Louis Parks, Vice President, Ancient Studies M.A. (1995) bia.edu. Unless you note otherwise in your message, Inge Reist, Secretary, Art History and Archaeology Ph.D. (1984) any correspondence received by the editor will be considered for future publication. Please be sure to include in your message your name Jillisa Brittan, English and Comparative Literature M.A. (1986) and affiliation to the Graduate School of Arts and Robert J. Carow, Economics and Education Ph.D. (1994) Sciences. Kenneth W. Ciriacks, Geological Sciences Ph.D. (1962) SUPERSCRIPT is published three times per year by Annette Clear, Political Science Ph.D. (2002) the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the GSAS Leonard A. Cole, Political Science Ph.D. (1970) Alumni Association. Michael S. Cornfeld, Political Science M.A. (1973) Dean: Carlos J. Alonso Deborah Gill Hilzinger, History Ph.D. (2002) Editor: Kristin Balicki David Jackson, English and Comparative Literature Ph.D. (1981) Associate Director for Alumni Relations: Jennifer Shaw Andrew Kotchoubey, Applied Mathematics Ph.D. (1966) Design, Editing, and Production: University Publications Les B. Levi, English and Comparative Literature Ph.D. (1982) Cover Image: CSA Images/Mod Art Collection Bridget Rowan, English and Comparative Literature M.A. (1980) Komal S. Sri-Kumar, Economics Ph.D. (1977) John Waldes, Plasma Physics Ph.D. (1971) Lester Wigler, Music M.A. (1980)

Link back to contents page 2 Superscript From the Dean

The beginning of a new academic year allows us to see the tangible results of the admission and recruitment processes undertaken by the Graduate School and the various departments and programs during the previous year. GSAS received 7,264 applications for doctoral programs, resulting in the ma- triculation this fall of 297 individuals. Likewise, there were 4,842 applications for master’s programs, which produced an enrollment of 688 students. A full day of orientation activities for both entering cohorts culminated with a splendid barbeque on a spectacular late-summer New York afternoon at the lawn beside Kent Hall—a welcoming event that we intend to make a permanent fixture of the beginning of every academic year. We may gauge the international reach and reputation of Columbia by reviewing the provenance of the thousands of applications GSAS receives annually. The Graduate School received applications for doctoral programs from 131 countries and applications for master’s programs from 105 countries. The statistic that will probably surprise you, however, is that applications from countries outside of the US Carlos J. Alonso comprised 41% of the total for doctoral programs and 56% of the total for master’s programs. In the Dean, Graduate School of Arts end, 37% of the entering doctoral class is made up of international students and 49% of the incoming and Sciences; Morris A. and Alma master’s class comes from abroad. Schapiro Professor in the Humani- While the high numbers of international applicants and enrollees specific to Columbia may reflect ties; Professor of Latin American and partially the desirability of New York as a destination for a foreign student, the reality is that in recent Iberian Cultures years many U.S. universities have seen a substantial rise in applications and enrollments from abroad. Such numbers have, of course, tremendous implications. As they make evident, the internationaliza- tion of the American university is probably at its most advanced and deepest in the graduate division, and has been so for a while. In comparison, 17% of this year’s entering undergraduate class at Co- lumbia College is foreign born. GSAS professors and researchers are teaching and working alongside international students from myriad countries. These students have been schooled in educational systems that differ sometimes radically from ours, and bring with them alternative pedagogical and professional cultures and practices that can only improve our own by providing a context for comparison. Think, for instance, how different—and enriched—the concept of a Columbia Global Center must be for an international graduate student at Columbia who hails from the country in which the center is located. Furthermore, since graduate students contribute to the pedagogical enterprise of the College, they enjoy meaningful contact with Columbia undergraduates—students whose sense of the world and its citizens is unavoidably broadened by this experience. And yet, graduate schools and programs continue to see international graduate students as a desirable feature, but one requiring few adjustments in services or in the specificity of the assistance provided. While graduate schools are not in loco parentis when it comes to their students, international students have pressures, expectations, and needs that at times differ greatly from those of domestic students and that require preparedness or intervention by the hosting institution. We have in place a solid and comprehensive structure for taking care of all of our graduate students, but very few of its components deal with the specific needs of foreign students. I propose that this year the Graduate School, academic departments, and the university face squarely the fact that a sizable percentage of our graduate-student cohort comes from abroad, so we may identify precisely the transformations that must take place in the services we provide to them. Future issues of Superscript will keep you informed of our conclusions and of the plans we will devise to address the issue. As our current students enter the creative season of a new academic year, I wish our alumni a productive and enjoyable fall.

Superscript 1 or 36 years, the Tree-Ring Lab has used the versatility of tree research to Fenhance our understanding of climate, ecology, and history both natural and archaeological. Dead Reckoning and Dendrochronology

Pederson, Courtesy of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation Link back to contents page 2 Superscript Dead Reckoning and Dendrochronology

by Kristin Balicki endrochronology, the science of dating based on tree-ring analysis, is not a topic that appears in international news very often. So when the remains of a ship were discovered three floors down from street level at Dthe World Trade Center site in July 2010 and reporters wrote that dendrochronology would be used to date the vessel, the researchers in the Tree-Ring Lab at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory took notice. As Dr. Neil Pederson recalls, “On Facebook, it was funny because you could watch the interest spread [throughout the world]. People [in our field] were all asking ‘Who is going to do this?’” The Tree-Ring Lab seemed an obvious choice since it was the facility closest to the excavation site. AKRF, the environmental firm whose archaeological team was working for the Port Authority during construction, had worked with the lab on prior projects. And it did not hurt that the lab had more tree chronologies than any other in the eastern United States. “There was some discussion in the lab on whether we should do the project or not due to timing and funding,” states Pederson. “But we felt in the end that we should. It was in our backyard and was a no-brainer that we would want to date the ship.” For thirty-six years, the Tree-Ring Lab has used the versatility of tree research to enhance our understanding of climate, ecology, and history both natural and archaeological. The lab’s work is often split between cutting-edge ecological research and outreach education. Postdoctoral researcher Dario Martin-Benito describes the study of tree rings as a “tangible science” and “an obvious tool to study the environment” that is growing in popularity and demand. Researchers at the Tree-Ring Lab can be found helping scientists build labs in Nepal, Mongolia, and Vietnam, dating historic buildings like Independence Hall, or leading high school groups through their greenhouse.

Superscript 3 Link back to contents page Pederson started working in the lab as Despite the general enthusiasm, Peder- a technician after completing his master’s son and Martin-Benito had their concerns degree in forest ecology at Auburn Univer- regarding the project. In total, 24 samples sity. He quickly became “hooked on tree were taken from the keel, keelson, and rings and went on to complete his Ph.D. planks of the ship; they were likely to be in in Earth and Environmental Science at an extremely unstable state from having Columbia in 2005. His primary research lain in mud for two centuries. Along with focuses on the “interaction between climate the condition of the samples, Pederson had and ecology, how the climate impacts the questions about the original condition of environment.” He uses trees to reconstruct the ship itself as debris. “If the city decided an environment, and his reconstructions to sink a ship into a landfill, something had have been used to further our understand- to be seriously wrong with it in the first ing of drought, ecology, and carbon dynam- place.” Moreover, the ship’s origins were ics. Martin-Benito came to Lamont-Doherty entirely unknown. If the Adrian had been from Spain last September to study the built in a part of the world for which no forests of Southeast Asia, the dynamics tree-ring chronologies have been derived, within those forests, and their relation to the study would come to an abrupt and the environment. Despite their research disappointing end. focus on ecology, both Pederson and Luck, however, was on their side. When Martin-Benito were interested in the ship’s Martin-Benito began examining the remains. Martin-Benito had read about samples, he discovered that they were in the ship in the newspaper prior to coming excellent condition and sturdy enough to to the States. When he arrived at the lab to allow for drying and sanding, making the begin his work, he was excited to have the rings clearer to see and record. One sample opportunity to analyze the ship’s samples was identified as hickory, which meant the and learn about New York City history in wood was from either eastern Asia or east- the process. ern North America. Logic pointed to North Finding a ship in Manhattan is rare. The America, and since the remaining samples last such discovery was made in 1982 near were oak—the species for which the lab the South Street Seaport. Like that ship, had the best and most extensive chronolo- the one at the World Trade Center site had gies—the project quickly became a matter likely been sunk in the late eighteenth or of matching a master chronology. early nineteenth century when the city used Master chronologies are the lab’s records debris to expand lower Manhattan into the of historic tree-ring data from around the Hudson River. The site was close to what country, compiled by director and founder was once the location of Lindsey’s Wharf Dr. Edward Cook over the last few decades. and Lake’s Wharf, and it had been left They are the “perfectly dated yearly series undisturbed for at least two hundred years; of tree-ring width” the lab uses to locate its location was not included in the original samples in place and time and to tell the World Trade Center towers’ construction. story of regional forests. Like written and The sizeable remains of the USS Adrian— oral accounts in history, the collective group named after the excavation site manager— and the individual tell slightly different and their condition also made this particu- stories. “If you have one piece of wood lar find exciting. Approximately thirty feet and you want to compare it to a chronol- of the wooden hull—estimated to be about ogy, you could do that,” Pederson explains. half of the original—was intact and rela- “But if you had three or four from the same tively well preserved in its encasement of forest, you could date those and make a sludge. master chronology by averaging out the

Link back to contents page 4 Superscript Pederson, Courtesy of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation Pathologists also studied evidence such as the shipworms in the remains to determine what the ship was used for and where it traveled. Initial findings pointed to the ship being used for trade, possibly along the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean. The recent discovery this summer of the vessel’s bow, however, has led to another theory: that the ship was a British troop carrier.

Superscript 5 Link back to contents page Martin-Benito, Courtesy of the Lower individual differences. Trees are like people. from these samples were the last few. With Manhattan Development Corporation Each has a different personality, and while this evidence, Martin-Benito and Pederson they respond differently to changes in the were confident they could date the wood environment they have the same general within a range of a few years. The last ring response…If you starve a group of people of the samples was formed in 1773, so the they get grouchy but by varying degrees.” Adrian’s timber was harvested in the early Each sample from the Adrian offered a 1770s and the ship was likely built within a “barcode of tree rings that floated in time,” year or two of that date. The Tree-Ring Lab Martin-Benito describes. First the team had sent its report to AKRF and the informa- to make a master chronology of the ship, tion was added to the conclusions of others then compare it to the oak masters from working to flesh out the ship’s history. It was clear the wood of North American regions. “It’s such a power- The lab’s dating supported the findings of ful technique, and in a way so simple. You the maritime historian studying the Adrian. the ship came from the see the rings, you see the growth, and you The ship appeared to be constructed in a Philadelphia/central can gather so much information about a way that was, as Pederson was told, like “a New Jersey region, and time when no one was measuring anything, jigsaw puzzle, less sophisticated or industri- therefore, most likely when there were no forest records at all.” alized than one would find in a ship built in from the same forest. The lab’s oak chronologies were from the a major urban shipyard.” The construction They had discovered the mid-Hudson Valley, central New Jersey, of the ship was consistent with rural meth- place; next came the and northern New Jersey, among other ar- ods, like those used in smaller shipyards question of time. eas. Looking back on the project, Pederson in central New Jersey. Its rural association is unsure exactly why, beyond instinct or corroborated the lab’s findings that the tim- happenstance, they began with the Phila- ber came from one forest. Pathologists also delphia master chronology. But when they studied evidence such as the shipworms matched the chronologies, the Adrian’s pat- in the remains to determine what the ship terns “started to lock in beautifully.” It was was used for and where it traveled. Initial clear the wood of the ship came from the findings pointed to the ship being used for Philadelphia/central New Jersey region, and trade, possibly along the eastern seaboard therefore, most likely from the same forest. and in the Caribbean. The recent discovery They had discovered the place; next came this summer of the vessel’s bow, however, the question of time. has led to another theory: that the ship was No sample of wood from a ship is perfect a British troop carrier. The USS Adrian for dating. The timber has been carved, was taken to the Maryland Archaeological shaped, and manipulated for construction, Conservation Laboratory in St. Leonard for losing the important outer ring that marks preservation and is now housed at the Cen- a tree’s final year. To complicate matters, ter for Maritime Archaeology and Conserva- the Adrian had slowly deteriorated over the tion at Texas A&M. She will continue to be course of its time underground, further rot- studied, adding to our understanding of the ting away rings. A few of the samples, how- beginnings of commerce and transport in ever, were convexly curved, showing a por- America. tion of sub wood, the last set of functional The future of the samples at the Tree- rings in a tree. Thus, the only rings missing Ring Lab will also be productive. The den-

Link back to contents page 6 Superscript sity of the rings in the samples is notable, and Pederson is looking forward to one day studying them further to understand better the history of the region’s ecology. “The beauty of tree rings, for me, is that you take some samples from a forest, and you can use them to answer a variety of questions about ecology, the climate, how the trees interact…it really pays off.” The timber’s tree-ring data will be added to the Philadel- phia master chronology, which will in turn be added to the North American drought atlas to reconstruct the drought history of the region. The discovery of the USS Adrian and the work of Pederson, Martin-Benito, and their Courtesy of the Lower Manhattan fellow researchers brought the Tree-Ring Development Corporation Lab a great deal of attention. This interview was Pederson’s third on the project. Den- drochronology does not usually garner such interest. “I think the biggest deal about the project [for us] was the response people had when the ship was first discovered. They were really fascinated and excited, and that caught me a little off-guard.” Not only had it been thirty years since such a discovery had been made in Manhattan, but the ship’s connection with the World Trade Center site also increased interest. After the Tree-Ring Lab was brought to the project, Pederson visited the site. “It was surreal to be down in the pit, to look around, and to think of what had been there.” For the public, an eighteenth-century shipwreck may have been a welcome and romantic change from the memory of more recent happenings at the site. Whatever the reasons for the ship’s sparking such curiosity and thrill, it is clear that the Adrian vividly testifies to the layered history of New York City and the ever-evolving life of Manhattan.

Superscript 7 Link back to contents page Dissertations and the Digital Age Columbia joins other academic institutions in making dissertations available online

Link back to contents page 8 Superscript Dissertations and the Digital Age Columbia joins other academic institutions in making dissertations available online

by Salvo Candela, Dissertation Defense and Deposit Office

e live in a world where free and instant access to digital information is expected, whether through a Wcomputer, a smartphone, or other device. This ex- pectation of immediate access to online content has influenced our consumption of information, so it should come as no surprise that a similar demand should have arisen for online access to academic research. As universities and other research centers have been moving steadily into the digital age, an increasing number of institutions have embraced an open-access approach to the online availability of scholarly works. Columbia is no exception to this trend. Ear- lier this year, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Colum- bia University Libraries each adopted formal resolutions calling on faculty, librarians, and other researchers to make papers and journal articles available through open-access repositories such as the university’s Academic Commons. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences took a step in the same direction earlier this year by transitioning to an electronic dissertation deposit system that makes every Ph.D. dissertation simultaneously available online through Academic Commons as well as through ProQuest/ UMI, the publisher that has provided to date the most prominent database of doctoral dissertations and theses.

Superscript 9 Link back to contents page Supporters of open access cite a number of reasons why making work digitally available is beneficial to scholars. Among these are the increase in readership and in potential citations in other scholars’ research.

Traditionally, students completing a Ph.D. degree have of works to all legitimate scholarly uses. In the years since been required to produce a dissertation that contributes these meetings, an increasing number of universities, to academic knowledge, and which is made accessible for research institutions, and publishers have embraced what other scholars to build upon. Before the advent of online has come to be called the “BBB definition”—named for the information resources, this public access was achieved three cities—in providing open-access services. through bound copies of dissertations made available Supporters of open access cite a number of reasons why through university libraries and interlibrary loan, as well making work digitally available is beneficial to scholars. as through microfilm copies accessible through the UMI Among these are the increase in readership and in potential dissertation abstracts index. Space constraints on library citations in other scholars’ research. According to the Open shelves, however, forced many universities including Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS), stud- Columbia to store dissertations off-site, where the likeli- ies have demonstrated the positive impact that open access hood of these volumes being read or cited remained low. If has on the dissemination of research, including substantial the doctoral dissertation is truly meant to be an open contri- increases in readership and citations as well as increased bution to academic knowledge, the Internet has proven to access to scholarly work for universities in developing na- be the best vehicle to enable it. tions whose budgets do not allow for institutional subscrip- An open-access work is one that is digital, available tions to traditional journals and databases. At Columbia, online, and free of price barriers such as subscriptions another benefit to students completing the dissertation is or licensing fees. Making a work available through open the permanent URL assigned to every work made available access does not require an author to give up copyright on in Academic Commons, which enables an always-valid link the work, although some authors do choose to release their to be included in CVs and citations. work without copyright or use a Creative Commons license One concern among doctoral students, particularly that permits a work to be redistributed, remixed, or built those in the humanities, is that open access may interfere upon to an extent determined by its author. Early move- with the future publication of a book based on the disserta- ments to harness the Internet for open-access archiving of tion. While opinions on this vary from editor to editor, it is academic work led to a series of meetings that took place commonly understood that a book manuscript should be in Budapest, Bethesda, and Berlin in 2002 and 2003. The a very different document from a dissertation. The online result of these meetings was a commonly accepted defini- archiving of a dissertation is unlikely to interfere with the tion for open-access content that emphasized freedom from publication of a book. Professor Stuart M. Shieber, Direc- price barriers in accessing information and the availability tor of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard

Link back to contents page 10 Superscript One concern among doctoral students...is that open access may interfere with the future publication of a book based on a dissertation.

University, addressed this issue at the 2011 meeting of the implementation of open-access mandates, bringing atten- American Historical Association. In his blog The Occasional tion to open-access issues, and advocating nationally for Pamphlet, Professor Shieber writes, “dissertations are and open-access institutions. This coalition will play a major role should be public documents, disseminated as universi- at the Berlin 9 Open-Access Conference that is sponsored ties see fit to make good on the Ph.D. degree’s promise of partially by Columbia and taking place in November in contributing to human knowledge.” He emphasizes that Washington, D.C. “even before the advent of the online dissertation reposi- Columbia doctoral students have been uploading their tory, dissertations have been publicly available documents, dissertations to Academic Commons since the arrival of obtainable from the university library and UMI.” With open electronic deposit at GSAS earlier this year. The transition access, only the method of distribution has changed. has been largely a smooth one, and the lowered costs and In recognition, however, that some doctoral students streamlined system simplify the overall process and allows may have a valid reason to place a delay on open-access students outside New York City to deposit as easily as those availability, Columbia permits students to request an em- on campus. As the system grows and open access becomes bargo on their dissertation, which prevents public access to the standard in academe, GSAS will continue to provide the work for a predetermined period of time. The embargo support to students, addressing any concerns or questions allows patents to be processed, forthcoming journal articles about the procedures that they may have. to be published, and—in cases where a student has already been negotiating with a publisher—forthcoming books to be printed. The number of open-access policies at universities and To Learn More: other research institutions continues to increase. According GSAS will be offering a workshop entitled “Your Disserta- to the University of Southampton, which maintains an on- tion: What You Need to Know about Copyright and Elec- going database of open-access mandates, over two hundred tronic Filing” on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 12:00 institutions currently require that all scholarly work or at p.m. in 555 Lerner Hall. This workshop will be presented by least all theses and dissertations be made available and open Kenneth Crews, director of the Copyright Advisory Office, online. Earlier this summer, a group of twenty-two institu- and Robert Hilliker, manager of Academic Commons, and tions including Columbia announced the formation of a introduced by Dean Carlos J. Alonso. Dissertations are avail- Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions with the able through Academic Commons at http://academiccom- intention of collaborating and sharing strategies for the mons.columbia.edu.

Superscript 11 Link back to contents page Iva Petkova, former Graduate School Advisory Council (GSAC) Chair, discusses the challenges of community-building at GSAS and what student government needs to do to overcome them.

On The Process of Building a Graduate Community

How can we build a strong student community at the Graduate School? Who are the relevant constituents of about the Graduate Student Advisory this community and what are the organizational efforts Council (GSAC) from monthly emails sent by my colleague in sociology, a in which students should engage to achieve community? representative of GSAC. Despite these When I started my program in sociol- emails, I never understood GSAC’s ogy four years ago, I identified “com- exact role until I joined it. munity” with my department and the I came to GSAC in 2008 as a rep- Ph.D. degree I was pursuing, not on resentative of my department. In 2009, social or academic interests outside my I was elected Arts & Entertainment program of study. At the time, I was Chair. The following year, I became not cognizant of a graduate govern- Chair of GSAC – a one-year position ment on campus or of an interdepart- that leads the council’s steering com- mental community, but I was interest- mittee. I have been engaged with com- ed in becoming part of one. I learned munity on campus ever since. I became

Link back to contents page 12 Superscript Iva Petkova, former Graduate School Advisory Council (GSAC) Chair, discusses the challenges of community-building at GSAS and what student government needs to do to overcome them.

“It is perhaps not up to the student government to cater to the wishes of every single graduate colleague in hopes of creating a sense of a unified community. Such a plan would be tantamount to catering to the needs of no one.”

a member of the GSAS Executive our mission statement in this way, ter. The development of an interim Committee; I serve with the Student and it is the direction GSAC needs to graduate center is now in the works. Affairs Caucus (SAC) at Columbia take in order to be integrated in the Space for students is one of the most Senate; and I am on the Alumni graduate lives of students to the same significant achievements of our Board of GSAS. I now understand degree as students are integrated in student government in recent years community to encompass all of these their own graduate programs. and an important asset in establish- constituent organizations including, We have begun to engage in ing a stronger community within the but not limited to, the student gov- such an approach. GSAC holds two school. ernment. student seats on the GSAS Execu- Compared to the level of fund- GSAC is a body of student- tive Committee, and we gained a ing we receive from student activity elected departmental representa- permanent student seat on the GSAS fees—roughly $71,000 per annum— tives from the 61 Ph.D. and 48 M.A. Alumni Board in June 2011. We also GSAC has considerable ambitions programs of GSAS. Each repre- recently established the need for for the 2011-12 year. Our current sentative is responsible for raising dedicated space for graduate students activities include sponsored events systemic issues originating in their on campus. Our 2009 Quality of Life and activities, recognition of graduate local milieu. This is our first role, in Survey (QoL) showed that students student groups, and partial funding which, according to our mission, we found lack of space a problem in con- for small-scale graduate conferences. “facilitate communication between ducting their scholarly work. 62% of These programs were not designed graduate students and administra- the respondents—19% of the entire to spearhead community-building, tors in the areas of housing, campus GSAS student population—rated the and as a consequence they tend to and study space, computer services, availability of space as average to very be viewed by the student body as an- health care, and stipends.” This role, poor. An additional 41% noted that, other channel for one-off assistance I believe, should be expanded to due to the lack of space, they worked rather than as an evolving set of pro- include a multi-stakeholder approach from home. In response, with the grams that are thoughtfully designed to community-building by working help of SAC and Dean Alonso, we to improve life on campus and foster together with the dean of GSAS, the proposed a document that called for interdepartmental community. In SAC and University Senate, and oth- an interim space for student use. terms of events, student government er professional student associations In September 2010, the University is not the sole outlet for students to on campus. The active intermediary Senate adopted a resolution for a enjoy themselves in New York, and position of GSAC allows us to expand dedicated Graduate Student Cen- we are in competition with the city.

Superscript 13 Link back to contents page “One of our problems with building community is a lack of public relations… I have attended two convocations, and many graduates who passed by the GSAC table set up for the event did not know GSAC was the student government.”

One of our problems with building of a unified community. Such a plan GSAC websites; possible themes may community is a lack of public rela- would be tantamount to catering to the include technology, science, entertain- tions. As GSAC chair, I have attended needs of no one. However, GSAC’s ment, design, culture, arts, business, two convocations, and many graduates initiatives have tended to inadvertently communication, innovation, and poli- who passed by the GSAC table set up exclude one major population at the tics. for the event did not know GSAC was school: M.A. students. Representa- A final example of joining rel- the student government. We work on tion at GSAC is skewed toward Ph.D. evancy and visibility is the permanent visibility by holding speeches inform- students. Our QoL survey was also student seat on the GSAS Alumni ing incoming and outgoing students overwhelmingly answered by Ph.D. Board. I asked graduate students how of GSAC’s role on campus and by students (85%). As a result, one M.A. they view our goals with alumni, and issuing monthly e-newsletters to keep student told me master’s students feel one student’s reply was particularly students abreast of sponsored events, it is “hard to break into community- apposite. He said that as a commu- but the problem of visibility persists. building activities,” because events nity, we should be “forward thinking I think it is time to consider are “geared toward Ph.D. students.” enough to understand what GSAS adding a public relations chair to the Another student noted that there is a alumni relationships will look like GSAC steering committee. This per- “lack of quality events for students” of in 2065.” Our current ideas include son would be responsible for increas- the caliber our peers at other graduate launching a regular alumni-sponsored ing awareness of GSAC among stu- schools enjoy. series where alumni help students dents and alumni and establishing and The conclusion from this M.A. discover career routes other than the maintaining contact with other stu- student criticism is that GSAC needs academic and offer both academic and dent governments on campus, which to come up with creative ideas for con- professional advice. Such events could may lead to joint events and programs. necting both degree populations using motivate us, future alums, to contrib- The role of GSAC department rep- the budget we currently have. One ute to our school in the future as we resentatives can also be expanded solution is the website Arts4Grads. walk in the footsteps of those who suc- to increase productivity. Groups of com, where GSAC presents its social cessfully made their way forward after volunteers can be assigned to com- calendar. Another is to rekindle the graduation. plete work between GSAC monthly interest of M.A. and Ph.D. students As I look back at our graduate meetings on dedicated projects con- in our biweekly social events. Socials government in action, I think that we nected to our major programs such will be held under the name TEASE have gained a tremendous amount of as the content for our new graduate (Thursday Evening Arts & Science knowledge about the needs of our stu- student seminar series and student/ Social Event) this year, and this sum- dent body. We have worked hard and alumni interaction. Another obstacle mer we looked into expanding access succeeded in communicating those to building community is the need to to TEASE to include other graduate needs to the school’s administration. provide strong intellectual incentives schools as well. In addition to TEASE, We now need to focus on commu- for students to engage in events and we will launch a new monthly student nications with students and alumni. programs. One M.A. student summed seminar series to showcase student We look forward to firm and prosper- this up well by asking me: “How will talent. The series will feature talks by ous collaborations in the future, with I benefit from this?” It is perhaps not students about their research or other which we will continue to build pro- up to the student government to cater topics about which they are knowl- grams around community and develop to the wishes of every single graduate edgeable. The series will be videotaped instruments to gauge the success of colleague in hopes of creating a sense and made available on GSAS and their implementation.

Link back to contents page 14 Superscript Superscript 15 Link back to contents page Link back to contents page 16 Superscript RE THE Y SHA IR VIE ULT WS AC O F N CU E R L R B E A N T T D E N V U E new york N O T S R state’s marriage equality act

On June 24, 2011, New York became the sixth nation. Randall Balmer is the Ann Whitney Olin and largest state in the country to legalize Professor of American religious history. He is an same-sex marriage. A similar effort in Albany advisory editor for Christianity Today, and his work failed in 2009. This year, support for the issue was has appeared in scholarly journals, in the popular led by Governor Andrew Cuomo whose top aide press, and on PBS. Justin Phillips, Associate Profes- coordinated the efforts of local gay-rights sor of Political Science, studies American state and organizations in a campaign leading up to the urban politics, and his current projects analyze the vote. The Senate, dominated by Republicans, effects of public opinion on sub-national policy- allowed for a full vote on the act, and each mem- making and the power of governors in negotia- ber was left to vote according to his or her con- tions with legislatures. Professor Robert Shapiro, science. In the end, four Republicans joined all but Political Science, is advisory committee chair for one Democrat in support of the measure and the Public Opinion Quarterly and previously served as bill passed 33 to 29. President of the New York Chapter of the Ameri- Three faculty members provide to Super- can Association for Public Opinion Research. His script their perspectives on the Marriage Equality current work focuses on partisan polarization and Act and same-sex marriage in New York and the ideological politics in the United States.

Superscript 17 Link back to contents page What differed this year in Albany that led to the passage of the Marriage Equality Act compared to 2009 or to similar recent efforts in other states that failed?

Balmer: Aside from the particular—and often peculiar—politics of the New York Assembly, I think that the attitude of Americans has, in general, changed dramatically. Just as it is no longer okay in the eyes of most Americans to be anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, or racist, it is no longer acceptable to be homophobic, at least not openly so. The legislators in New York were merely reflecting that change. Phillips: For me, the biggest difference was Governor Cuomo. In 2009, Balmer legislation legalizing same-sex marriage was championed by a relatively ineffective and unpopular governor. By 2011, that had changed. Cuomo was a very effective advocate and he worked hard to get Republicans in the state senate to bring the marriage bill to the floor.

How significant do you feel the addition of New York as a same-sex marriage state is to the national picture of religion and politics?

Phillips: The adoption of same-sex marriage in New York is quite significant. The state contains a large portion of the country’s gay and lesbian couples, and these individuals will now have access to important legal protections. Beyond these very real benefits, the adoption of marriage Phillips equality in New York is a symbolic victory given the state’s importance as a cultural center and media hub. The process by which same-sex marriage was adopted is also significant—it occurred via legislative action as opposed to being imposed by the courts. Success here may contain important lessons for other states with governors advocating similar legislation, such as Maryland and Rhode Island. Shapiro: It is symbolically significant given New York’s national status. The numbers of gays who will marry here will move same-sex marriage toward becoming an acceptable norm.

The law passed, in part, because certain Republican senators voted against

Shapiro conservative lines. What does this show about the state and function of party politics and ideology? Could such a “vote of conscience” be possible at the federal level?

Shapiro: There were New York Republicans who tended toward being more moderate in this case compared to Republicans at the national level who face public and electoral pressure. Nationally, it will take the trend toward gay marriage becoming more prevalent, posing less of a moral threat, to enable other Republicans and conservatives to take such a vote of conscience, so to speak.

Link back to contents page 18 Superscript What does the passage of the act indicate about public opinion and its influence on politics?

Phillips: Over the past fifteen years public support of same-sex marriage has been steadily increasing. Indeed, some polls now show a slim national majority in favor of marriage equality. Political science research shows that there is a strong relationship between public opinion and policy on gay rights issues—as public support increases, states, localities, and even the federal government are more likely to adopt policies that establish legal protections for gays and lesbi- ans. However, this relationship is not perfect. It often requires large majorities in favor of gay rights before governments will act.

What role does same-sex marriage play in current American politics?

Balmer: I think same-sex marriage is the next iteration of civil rights in the country. My sense of American history is that Americans always rise to their better selves, to the principles of equal rights and opportunity.

I think same-sex What does the passage of the act mean for the state of marriage in the United marriage is the next States? What does it mean for religion and religious practices? iteration of civil rights in the country. My sense of Shapiro: It means more marriages and married couples with children as well as American history is that more divorces. Religion will play less of a role, proportionally, in the performing Americans always rise to of marriages. Formal religions may have to reconsider their rules and practices their better selves, to the if they want to have authority in affecting family values, with “family” broad- principles of equal rights ened in its definition. and opportunity. Phillips: I think the adoption of same-sex marriage will have no impact on religious practices in the state.

Do you think the passage of the act will play a role in the 2012 elections?

Shapiro: It will be useful to watch what happens with ballot initiatives and constitutional amendment proposals in individual states. In the next year, Democratic candidates and the party could use this issue as a voter mobiliza- tion vehicle to get out the vote among those less thrilled with Democrats’ work with the economy and other recent issues. Republicans may do the same on their side. This will, however, be a lesser national issue in 2012 because of the precarious state of the national economy, serious developments abroad, and the future of health-care reform. Phillips: I agree that same-sex marriage will be a fairly minor issue in 2012, especially in regards to the presidential election. Economic issues and concerns over the growing national debt will dominate that election. This does not mean same-sex marriage will be entirely absent, but cultural issues will take a back seat to economic ones next year.

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Link back to contents page 20 Superscript When Intellect Meets EmotionTHE ACADEMIC STUDY OF 9/11 AND ITS IMPACT ON SUBJECT AND RESEARCHER

by Kristin Balicki he tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001 brought with

it countless hours of television specials, documentaries,

political commentary, and public commemorations and

memorials. Individuals reflected, or mourned, while poli- Tticians and the media reminded everyone not to forget. In such an emotionally charged atmosphere, what is the place of academic re-

search? Research aims for dispassionate examination, not emotional

reaction. What does it mean to study 9/11? How is such a subject man-

aged? To answer these questions, Superscript spoke with faculty and

researchers at the Graduate School to ask them how they navigated

the minefield of grief and anger connected to the subject of Septem-

ber 11th and how their work corresponds to the national discourse.

Superscript 21 Link back to contents page Within days of the attack, Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Columbia Center for Oral History, and Peter Bearman, Jonathan R. Cole Profes- sor of Sociology, met to discuss what the mass media were delivering as truth in the immediate response to 9/11.

Mary Marshall Clark with the September 11, 2001 Oral History Archives

New York Narratives project’s goal was to collect life stories, focusing on whether and how 9/11 was a turning point for those interviewed and observing where the 9/11 story entered life narratives. The Within days of the attack, Mary Marshall Clark, Director of project evolved to include the cultural histories of communi- the Columbia Center for Oral History, and Peter Bearman, ties facing harassment in the aftermath—Muslims, Arab Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Sociology, met to discuss what Americans, and recent immigrants from the Middle East and the mass media were delivering as truth in the immedi- South Asia. When the Rockefeller Foundation learned about ate response to 9/11. As a former employee at the New York the project and offered funding, it provided logistical support Times, Clark “had an insider’s knowledge of how that message for the research on immigrant, Latino, and Muslim com- was created and produced,” and she was worried that what munities and asked the Center to include artists as well. “In happened in New York City would be “flattened out by the the end,” Clark states, “the artist interviews turned out to be univocal narrative [of the country] that developed, that we were very important, because it was hard to register change out- all one in suffering. What does ‘one’ mean?” Public memory side political terms after 9/11; but the ways in which their art can develop in different ways against a political backdrop. changed was a register of something more: the subjectivity of The public memory of New York on 9/11, Clark believed, was New Yorkers.” Approximately four hundred interviews were being “simplified by the focus on national injury.” Clark and collected by the end of 2002. Bearman were interested not in unified narratives but in indi- By that time, Jack Rosenthal of the New York Times vidual stories. Company Foundation’s 9/11 Neediest Fund had contacted The Narrative and Memory Project at the Center for Oral Clark to propose a second project focusing on the city’s official History began within two weeks of September 11th as “emer- response efforts. Through seventy interviews, the Response gency field research” funded by the National Science Foun- and Recovery Project looked at how non-profit organizations, dation. Students from throughout Columbia volunteered to government departments and agencies, and others responded participate. They and a group of professional interviewers were to the crisis. Interviewers found that government response trained by Bearman and Clark and sent out into the public to was relatively slow and limited, since several government of- speak with as diverse a group of New Yorkers as possible. The fices downtown were destroyed or rendered unusable when

Link back to contents page 22 Superscript Mary Marshall Clark with the September 11, 2001 Oral History Archives

the towers collapsed. Furthermore, large organizations like the tion to 9/11 because their exposure to raw trauma prevented Red Cross had no models for urban disasters. Local grassroots them from doing anything more than narrating what actually organizations, in contrast, were effective. For example, Safe happened [that day].” The interviews became on outlet for peo- Horizons, a network of city services for battered women, was ple to share their more harrowing stories. Such a response was one of the most productive due to its connection to resources new for Clark. Oral histories are often collected in retrospect, throughout the city and experience in quickly responding to long after events occurred and interviewees have processed basic needs like housing and money. their experiences. The 9/11 projects, in contrast, were recorded After the Response and Recovery Project had begun, Clark only weeks and months after the attack. started to think about the possible role oral history could play The Narrative and Memory Project was a longitudinal beyond documentation alone. Inspired by Elders Share the study, so it consisted of two rounds of interviews. In the first, Arts, an organization that brings collected stories from elderly people discussed their 9/11 experiences. Eighteen months (or communities to artists for scripting and staging, Clark began more) later, subjects were encouraged to discuss their experi- the Telling Lives Project. “There is a value to the act of telling ences since September 11th and their life stories in general. lives back to the people who told them as a means to strength- Each second interview began with “How have you been since en their capacity to share their stories...” Two of Clark’s inter- we last met?” Thus, people could avoid the subject of 9/11 if viewers, Gerry Albarelli and Amy Starecheski, took the project they wished and had the opportunity to talk instead about what into city schools in Chinatown to teach students the life stories was on their mind at the time. It was now 2003 and 2004. of people who survived other difficult times in history. Time had passed, the war in Iraq had begun, and people had The Telling Lives project was, in many ways, a response to continued their lives. “Often something more important had the lessons interviewers learned when working with a sub- happened to people other than 9/11,” Clark explains. “As one ject’s suffering. The initial goal of the first project, Narrative man said to us, ‘I’m so glad you didn’t ask about 9/11, because and Memory, was to record full life stories, but it was clear my wife is battling brain cancer and 9/11 was nothing com- during interviews that that could not happen in the immediate pared to this. If you asked me about 9/11, I would have left the aftermath of 9/11. “We didn’t know at first that it was literally room.’” impossible for people to form a story about their lives in rela- For the second interviews, Clark also asked for assistance

Superscript 23 Link back to contents page When she began interviewing therapists, one of Seeley’s first observations was their struggle to properly label their patients’ suffering. Existing psychiatric categories did not fully capture it.

Professor Karen Seeley

from Marylene Cloitre, a research and clinical psychologist patients’ suffering. Existing psychiatric categories did not fully and trauma specialist at NYU. Cloitre brought to the project capture it. “There was a general consensus that [Post-Trau- a team of psychologists who advised on interview techniques matic Stress Disorder (PTSD)] was the closest thing psychiatry and provided professional services to subjects and researchers had to offer” in terms of defining what was happening. PTSD when needed. Sometimes, however, their services as therapists requires the existence of an external event in order to be diag- were not wanted. Many interviewees were willing to talk with nosed, and 9/11 fit the bill for many New Yorkers. PTSD, how- the oral historians because they were not psychologists. Clark ever, was not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual could understand that reaction. “Human suffering precedes of Mental Disorders until 1980, and many of the therapists and supersedes medical diagnosis. It can’t be fully expressed.” Seeley was interviewing had no training or experience with it. Before September 11th, few therapists specialized in trauma. Who Counsels Though Seeley thought that “PTSD may not have been the the Counselors? most appropriate way to categorize what people felt after 9/11, therapists started to take crash courses in trauma just to try to Practicing psychotherapist and anthropology professor Karen get a sense of what it was and how to treat it.” Seeley was not a trauma specialist when she began her 9/11-re- Seeley also found that therapists were struggling with more lated research. In fact, she didn’t want to research September than their professional ability to address patient trauma. They 11th at all. “My first instinct was to find some distance.” In were struggling with trauma themselves. “I anticipated that 2002, however, Columbia sociologist David Stark contacted therapists would have processed their personal reactions to her. He was completing a study of the response to 9/11 in the 9/11. I was surprised to see how desperate many of them were city and wished to include specific occupational groups (see to talk…about what they were going through [in their personal page 26). He asked if Seeley would be interested in studying and professional lives]. They were having very powerful reac- therapists and their post-9/11 work. tions to their work that they couldn’t quite get a handle on.” When she began interviewing therapists, one of Seeley’s For many of the therapists, meeting with Seeley was the first first observations was their struggle to properly label their opportunity they had in over a year to reflect on their own ex-

Link back to contents page 24 Superscript periences. They had been working nonstop since 9/11, making the same nightmares and fears of their patients. Many decided themselves available to communities and individuals in need against going into therapy themselves. “They did not want such as first responders and the newly widowed. Seeley saw to traumatize someone else. They did not want it to spread.” that many therapists had not expected their own distress to Often, when talking to Seeley, they would censor themselves, escalate when they listened to patients’ stories. sparing her images and details. This type of professional reaction was new to Seeley. Her previous work had focused on cultural psychotherapy, the study of culture’s influence in therapy and how emotion and cognition vary in different cultural settings. Differences Research and Researcher between patient and therapist can provide a buffer between them. “When therapists’ work is emotionally taxing, one Despite these precautions, Seeley began to experience a form thing that helps them stay grounded is an awareness of the of secondary trauma through her research. During her inter- boundary between themselves and their patients.” This was views in 2002 and 2003 and throughout the writing of her not possible for therapists who lived and worked in New York book—Therapy After Terror: 9/11, Psychotherapists, and Mental City and had directly experienced 9/11. The event produced a Health (2008)—she “couldn’t get away from 9/11. It really af- rare instance of simultaneous trauma, where therapists were fected my perceptions of it.” One day, after interviewing three harmed by the same event that injured patients. therapists, she arrived to interview the fourth and the thera- Graphic images that patients described during sessions pist told her, “You look traumatized.” It was then that Seeley stayed in therapists’ minds. Some therapists had suffered decided to slow the pace of her research, allowing herself more losses of their own or had offices downtown or near the site space from the subject. “It was too much to have in my mind.” of the attack. Many went to work with the smell of the de- Clark, too, found the emotional impact of her oral his- struction in the air, walking past missing person flyers. The tory work challenging. “I didn’t know how I could be analyti- experience began to take a toll. Some suffered fatigue or lack cal while recording people’s grieving.” She remembers oral of motivation to listen during sessions, or began to experience historian Alessandro Portelli offering her advice. “He said,

Superscript 25 Link back to contents page Citizen Sociologists avid Stark, Arthur immediately. He told Stark that they wife and fellow social scientist Monique Lehman Profes- must “witness what was going on in the Girard hosted a dinner with students, sor of Sociology recovery room in New Jersey. We were and Girard declared that the “time for and International the only social scientists working in [the giving blood was over. We were social Affairs, was in the WFC then], and he told me that it was scientists, and we needed to use our work midst of fieldwork of historical importance.” Being invited to do something for the city.” It was a call studying traders at into a community at such a time was “the to arms. Several students halted work on the World Financial Center on September highest honor to an ethnographer.” their dissertations and Stark and his wife D11, 2001. On the day itself, he and Daniel The uniqueness of the situation set aside projects in order to study the Beunza, a graduate student working with yielded questions and observations Stark response and recovery efforts in the city. him, decided to stay on campus to discuss would not have come across otherwise. Stark remembers thinking, “We are here. the project instead of heading downtown. In the end, his research with the traders There are important lessons to learn, and When the WFC was destroyed, Stark focused on recovery as a form of innova- we have to do this. It was an extension of assumed their work had come to an tion within an organization. “Recovery is our understanding of what it meant to be indefinite end. He waited until trading a response to extreme uncertainty,” and it a social scientist in New York at that time. resumed six days later to call his contact requires a group of people to respond to We had to respond ourselves and take at the company, now operating in New challenge in new ways. It quickly became responsibility as citizens.” Jersey, and ask if everyone was all right. clear to Stark and his students that such Their research focused on forms of, When Stark said he would call again innovation was not confined to organi- in Stark’s words, “public assemblies”— after time had passed, his contact quickly zations alone. It could be studied in all such as not-for-profit organizations, large replied, “No, you won’t.” He insisted of lower Manhattan. Stark recalls one companies, select professions, and public Stark and Beunza resume their research evening in October 2001 when he and his demonstrations—operating in downtown

‘You can’t move around suffering. You have to move through ever, there is a balance between being open to emotion and it. You have to acknowledge it before you can analyze it.’” In taking in too much. Seeley now teaches a course on trauma. retrospect, Clark is glad to have brought the NYU psycholo- While she encourages students not to shy away from trauma gist team to the Narrative and Memory Project in its later study, she also warns that students with trauma in their back- development. After a year of recording stories, the work had ground should take care if they decide to remain in the class. begun to wear on the interviewers and the offer of free therapy Like Seeley, Clark feels that emotion is necessary for the sessions became a necessary resource. “It was a relief to me to integrity of research. It is not possible to separate oneself from have someone to call if something happened in the field that I the emotion of the work, and one should not wish to do so. “A needed to talk about.” part of oral history is to not make that divorce. We will always Despite its emotional impact, Seeley believes trauma study respect the suffering of people and at the same time be able to is helpful to her work as an anthropologist and psychothera- stand back and use our brains to analyze.” pist. “People’s subjectivities are important. It is very dangerous Time is also beneficial. “It takes time to make meaning,” when we only look at disasters in a distanced or clinical way. explains Clark. “Oral history is a process, not a product.” The I don’t think you have to take the emotion out of academic September 11, 2001 oral history archives have been open work. Instead, we need to find ways to put emotion back in so for more than a year. They have been used by students and we can better understand what happens to those who experi- researchers, but their existence has remained relatively quiet. ence traumatic events and to those who study them.” How- This may change after they are officially opened and Clark and

Link back to contents page 26 Superscript Manhattan or involved in the recovery and Reinhold Martin of the Graduate School of reconstruction of the area. The research Architecture, Planning and Preservation demonstrated that the process of recon- on an exhibit highlighting their project struction had as much influence in reshap- archive. The exhibit opened September 12 ing the public sphere in lower Manhattan in Columbia’s Avery Hall. as the final constructed product itself. Stark does research on organizations Stark described the project as the “sociol- and their search for meaning and value. ogy of collaborative production.” His time studying the response to Septem- In spring 2002, Girard and Stark ber 11th was unplanned and sometimes organized a conference at Columbia with challenging, but when he discusses it one the architecture studios and urban plan- can sense that he feels honored by the ners that were proposing plans to the city opportunity. He got to see “democracy in to discuss publicly the development of action and an outpouring of creativity that lower Manhattan and what could be done came from New Yorkers as they responded to redefine the downtown district. This led to and recovered from the event.” When to another study on the use of technologies asked what he learned from his September in social assemblies, and how PowerPoint 11th work, Stark explains that the lesson he in particular was used as a tool for public carries with him is the positive impact that persuasion at events such as the first participatory endeavors can have. architectural competition for the design on the new World Trade Center site. This year, Girard and Stark collaborated with

Bearman release their new book this month. After the Fall: New this effect because it was true to the work. “The interviews are Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed not intended to create sound bites. They are human conversa- (The New Press) features nineteen stories from the projects. tions.” For some who have worked in the archives, the experience of listening to interviews mirrors the experiences of the j interviewers who recorded them. Oral History M.A. alumna Ellen Klemme focused her thesis on the interviews of two first- History is more than sound bites, and research is not without responder paramedics. Before coming to Columbia, Klemme emotion. It can be driven by it, ultimately served by it. By not was an emergency medical technician, and as a student was steering away from emotion—their subjects’ or their own, interested in the role of memory in the work of a paramedic. Clark and Seeley approached the subject of 9/11 in an organic Like the interviewers, she also had difficulty processing way, incorporating the complexities and contradictions that information without ingesting it. “Listening to the interviews made up people’s experience of September 11th in New York was very challenging. My head was simultaneously in 2001 City. Their work complicates the national narrative of 9/11 and in the present. [There were] moments…when I was pulled to the benefit of understanding more fully what happened between 2001 and 2010 too quickly or when what the para- on that day and on the days that followed. Staying true to medics said stuck with me for too long and haunted me in my complexity increases understanding, and understanding is as day-to-day life.” Overall, however, Klemme was not troubled by important as remembering.

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30 The Mutual Benefits of Mentoring 32 Alumni Profiles 36 On the Shelf: Faculty Publications 38 On the Shelf: Alumni Publications 39 Dissertations 44 Announcements 46 Alumni Awards 48 Helpful Links

Link back to contents page 28 Superscript “I became involved to give back to a community that gave me so much.” —Bridget Rowan ’80 “Involvement in the Alumni M.A. in English and Comparative Literature Association has opened my eyes to the resourcefulness of Columbia’s professors and students.” —Inge Reist ’85 Join the Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology conversation GSAS graduates are getting involved with Columbia. Here’s how:

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Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association Superscript 29 Link back to contents page The Mutual Benefits of Mentoring

by Ruth Longobardi and Rani Roy Center for Career Education Graduate Student Career Development

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni have been an increasingly integral part of the Columbia community in recent years. At the Center for Career Education (CCE), we find that alumni have not only played an active role during these difficult economic times, but that their participation has been impactful and beneficial for students and fellow alumni both. Several years ago, as the economy began to wreak havoc with students’ plans for employment, our Hire Colum- bians initiative asked alumni to reach out to their fellow graduates when searching for employees and to hire Columbians looking for jobs and internships. This initiative focused on the many ways in which alumni could help students or other alumni find jobs, but it also asked that alumni take time to connect with students, to mentor them, and to provide advice as they began to build their careers. CCE’s focus on building connections between alumni and students is supported by career development research dating back thirty years that shows that mentorship– direct engagement with students and young professionals with respect to their careers – pays dividends for students and alumni alike. Educause, a higher education professional organization, reports that mentoring provides enhanced career development, retention, and compensation for the mentee, and also encourages a greater degree of career satisfaction for the mentor. Mentoring is a collaboration, a mutually beneficial evolving relationship whose advantages for mentees can be tangible, such as providing greater career opportunities; or more abstract, such as building confidence and insight. For mentors, the interaction allows for opportunities to recognize abilities in individuals with less exposure, which can result in diversifying talent and fostering a fertile environment for the fresh viewpoints necessary for academic and business success. Professional mentoring is especially valuable in today’s job market. While the advisor- student relationship requisite for graduate study provides a mentoring relationship aimed at academic employment, professional mentoring proves a means of nurturing productive careers outside of academia at a time when the number of full-time faculty positions is shrinking.

Link back to contents page 30 Superscript The Mutual Benefits Alumni interested in connecting (or reconnecting) with the Columbia community can participate in CCE’s of Mentoring networking and alumni events: information sessions, alumni panels, professional-in-residence opportunities, and on-campus recruiting efforts. by Ruth Longobardi and Rani Roy Center for Career Education Graduate Student Career Development

Because of the condition of job markets within idly growing Columbia Career Connections, which was and without academe, the need for mentorship on the introduced in July and has over 1,000 members thus Columbia campus has never been more pronounced. As far. Jill Galas Hickey, Director of Programming at CCE, such, the number of opportunities for alumni to get in- suggests that Columbia Career Connections is “an ideal volved as mentors is growing. Alumni interested in con- way for members to connect with other Columbians as- necting (or reconnecting) with the Columbia community sociated with an especially broad range of industries to can participate in CCE’s networking and alumni events: engage in wide-ranging discussions, to locate jobs, and information sessions, alumni panels, professional-in- to schedule informational interviews.” residence opportunities, and on-campus recruiting ef- Finally, for students and alumni looking for men- forts. Alumni can also submit a career profile to the CCE torship opportunities, there are opportunities beyond website or make themselves available for emails and CCE and the Internet. Numerous companies match requests for information sent by Columbia students and new employees with professionals in official mentoring graduates. Students frequently ask whether alumni will programs, and professional associations in many fields be annoyed by such communications, and the answer is provide mentoring opportunities, as do formal mentor a resounding no. A majority of emails are answered and networks such as MentorNet. There are also a variety of informational interviews granted. mentoring programs run through the University, includ- The availability of social media also makes different ing Virtual Mentor at GSAS. styles of mentoring readily available. Today’s web culture Mentorship is a concept that embraces several types has vastly changed the traditional mentor/mentee rela- and styles of engagement, but one of the most important tionship. Where mentees might once have sought a sin- aspects of the mentoring relationship, no matter what gle mentor in their field, new social networks have given the approach, is inspiration. The building of a profes- rise to a growing sense of community where students sional relationship in which collaborative practices and have a forum to find information and solicit advice from discussions are central brings with it long-lasting ben- large groups of professionals. Our efforts to enhance so- efits and deeper insight into new perspectives and direc- cial networking at CCE have focused in part on LinkedIn tions for everyone involved. as a means of building a professional online community. There are LinkedIn groups that all Columbia students To learn more or to get involved, visit the Center for and alumni may join, including the Columbia Alumni Career Education alumni website at Association (now over 19,000 members) and the rap- http://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/alumni.

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Shahram Hashemi Human Rights Studies M.A., 2007

What are you doing now? What was your research focus? What career paths have you taken I am currently the Executive Director of My thesis was a socio-political exami- since graduation? Student World Assembly, a grassroots nation of Iranian history told through After graduation, I began my work international student organization dedi- the prism of three generations of my as Executive Director at the Student cated to promoting democratic values, family. By providing narratives within World Assembly (SWA). I met the human rights, and youth leadership. a broader context of Iranian politics, founder at one of their meetings in I am also on the Board of Directors of economics, and society, I shed light New York City a few months prior, Amnesty International USA and have on some of Iran’s history and current and his vision of establishing the first served as its Treasurer since 2008. national challenges. international organization for students built around activism and leadership Why did you choose your What did you most and least resonated with me. As a young person degree program and enjoy about your time as a in Iran, it would have been enormous- Columbia? student at the Graduate School? ly helpful to connect with other young I had been actively involved in human In the Human Rights Studies program, people in order to communicate and rights and political activism since I and among other graduate students, be more effective. came to the U.S. from Iran over ten there was a breadth of knowledge from At Amnesty International, I found a years ago, and I founded a chapter different fields and areas of research significant amount of space for stu- of Amnesty International at my un- which made classes stimulating. It dents, and I ran for the Board in my dergraduate college. I heard about a was much more interesting in class to last year at Columbia. human rights program at Columbia discuss refugee issues in Sudan when through a mentor and was attracted to a student had lived there for a few years How have you applied your the program because of the university’s working for a humanitarian agency and degree work to your career devel- reputation and the program’s combina- could bring his experiences to bear on opment and job? tion of flexibility and focus. My degree the conversation. The professors were Before I attended the Human Rights was specialized in economic develop- also very supportive. Studies program, I abstractly under- ment, but I was able to take a broad What I liked least was the confu- stood human rights and economic range of courses from other schools sion and red tape surrounding course development. I didn’t know their within the university and expose myself registration and the lack of funding many legal and normative components to many facets of human rights and available to international master’s and the questions surrounding their development issues. students. implementation. I was able to develop a keener sense of these issues, and

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I’ve applied it to my work to develop We are now working on a project If you could give advice to current more effective ways to advocate for to raise awareness of the civil rights students, what would it be? human rights. The program also gave component of the Arab Spring and the Take courses that relate to the issues me the language to frame many human role of young people. With this project you will face in your career and that rights issues, which is critical when I and others, the greatest challenge is give you some type of marketable skill, am applying for grants. raising funds, especially in the current because graduate school is about hon- economy. ing in on an expertise or specific skill What is the most satisfying and set. Also, attend as many events on and challenging aspect of your current Have you found your field off campus as you can to expand your job? surprising in any way? network, build relationships with men- It has been enormously rewarding to I think many people find the human tors, and take advantage of the large work with students and see how effec- rights field extremely competitive and amount of resources and expertise tive they can be in bringing about social frustrating. There are many forces available to you. change. Students at SWA have estab- against you, whether it is government lished chapters all over the world, even or bureaucratic red tape. Sometimes What are your future in countries where the government is you find yourself discussing what career plans? opposed to any form of civil society. seems like trivial details when the I would like to go back to school in the These students come up with fantas- issues at hand are so important, but near future for a law degree or Ph.D. in tic ways to raise awareness for causes that’s just politics. Middle Eastern politics. and to have a positive impact on their communities. It is a constant source of inspiration to me.

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Ari Buchalter Astronomy Ph.D., 1999

What are you doing now? in the universe evolved from a relatively two to tenure and a full professorship. I am currently Chief Operating Officer smooth distribution to the structured A year into my postdoc, the financial of MediaMath, a digital media technol- distribution we see today; improving markets were booming, and I devel- ogy company. Our platform helps ad- an observational test of the expansion oped an interest in financial derivatives vertisers and agencies figure out where of the universe that used a type of radio modeling. At first it was a purely math- they should buy ads and how to pay for galaxy as a unit for measuring distance; ematical interest, but as I started to them, execute the buy, and analyze the and identifying large-scale clusters of apply it in practice as a part-time trader, results. I also advise a number of tech- galaxies from data from a radio survey I met with success. nology startups in the New York area. of the sky. After my degree, I pursued I decided a few months later to start a postdoctoral fellowship in theoretical a small hedge fund, which I ran while Why did you choose your degree astrophysics at Caltech, where I did re- pursuing my postdoctoral studies. It program and Columbia? search on the formation and evolution was invaluable experience in starting of galaxies and on the properties of cos- and running a business and it opened After completing my undergraduate mic microwave background radiation. my eyes to the worlds of finance and studies in physics at Stanford Univer- business. After much deliberation, I sity, I took a year off to work part-time, What did you like most and least decided to explore it further, leaving travel, and generally see if the world academia and the hedge fund behind could dissuade me from my long-time about your time as a student at the Graduate School? to apply for quantitative trading posi- interest in pursuing a graduate degree tions at various investment banks. I was I enjoyed having the latitude to work in astrophysics. It couldn’t. So when it offered a job as a general consultant. In on a wide range of research topics that came time to apply to programs, I was my work, I found myself drawn to me- interested me, and the chance to do so driven by two factors: first, wanting a dia. I spent a majority of my years work- with brilliant and supportive faculty. top-tier program, and second, wanting in the media practice with a focus I didn’t mind the trips to Sicily or the ing to be closer to New York City, my on digital media, innovation, marketing French Alps for conferences, either. hometown. Columbia was the obvious analytics, and consumer marketing I enjoyed the subway ride least, choice. strategy. given that I lived downtown. After nearly a decade working at What was your research focus? large- and medium-sized companies, My Ph.D. research was in theoreti- How did you get into your I decided to join a friend who was cal cosmology—understanding the current field? launching a new technology startup— origin of the universe. There were When I finished my Ph.D., I had every MediaMath—which seemed like the three different areas of investigation: intention of continuing on the tradi- perfect chance to blend the skills I had describing the statistics of how matter tional academic path from a postdoc or developed over the prior decade.

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What are the most challenging and most satisfying aspects of How have you applied your de- our bid optimization algorithm that de- your work? termines how much advertisers should gree work to your career develop- What I enjoy most is working with bid on different types of ads based on ment and current position? a highly talented team in a dynamic the data associated with those ads and sector of the market. There’s a sense of The business world, and marketing each advertiser’s goals. in particular, is increasingly being electricity. We’re building something driven by data and analytics, so a strong Have you found your field sur- that could be big, that could change the quantitative background is a unique prising in any way? way marketing is done. The most chal- and valuable asset. A few years into my The things that drive success in the lenging is prioritizing in a fast-moving time as a consultant, I started to explore business world are different from what market. the application of advanced quantitative drives success in academia. In the methods to business problems such academic world, research success often If you could give advice to current as customer segmentation and predic- comes from applying highly specialized students, what would it be? tive modeling of consumer behavior. knowledge and skills to a very specific Don’t plan more than two years ahead. I found that I not only enjoyed it but aspect of a discipline to discover some- Plan to spend the next two years doing was valued for the ability to “bridge the thing original. The business world is something you enjoy and are excited gap” between designing and building less about originality and more about about, and do a great job at it. Build a approaches and putting them to practi- impact. Decisions have to be made strong network of contacts, colleagues, cal application while explaining them to quickly and often on little to no data, and mentors. Opportunities present non-technical audiences. and much of achievement hinges on themselves to people who are In my current job, I’ve also put my practical judgment, common sense, passionate, talented, and plugged into quantitative skills to use by designing and people skills. the world around them.

Superscript 35 Link back to contents page On the Shelf FACULTY PUBLICATIONS From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, Padma Desai, Economics | Columbia University Press the Media, and Public Opinion n this book, Professor Desai makes the com- Brigitte Nacos and Robert Shapiro, Political Science; plexities of economic policy and financial reform and Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, Institute for Social accessible to a wide audience. Merging narrative and Economic Research and Policy | University of I Chicago Press with scholarly research, she begins with a systematic breakdown of the factors leading to America’s recent rawing on an in-depth analysis of counterter- recession, describing the monetary policy, tax prac- rorism in the years after 9/11, the authors tices, subprime mortgage scandals, and lax regulation Dpresent the case that the Bush administration that contributed to the crisis. Desai follows with an hyped fear while obscuring civil liberties abuses and analysis of stress tests and other economic measures issues of preparedness. The media, meanwhile, largely and offers a frank assessment on whether the U.S. abdicated their watchdog role, choosing to amplify the economy is on the mend. administration’s message while downplaying issues that might have called the administration’s statements and strategies into question.

PHYSICS OF Solar Energy

C. JULIAN CHEN

Link back to contents page 36 Superscript After Tobacco: What Would Happen If Americans No Return, No Refuge: Stopped Smoking Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation Edited by Peter Bearman, Sociology; Kathryn Necker- Elazar Barkan, Institute for the Study of Human man; and Leslie Wright | Columbia University Press Rights; and Howard Adelman | Columbia University Press his book considers the economic impact of re- ducing smoking rates on tobacco farmers, ciga- eviewing cases of ethnic displacement through- Trette factory workers, the southeastern regional out the twentieth century in Europe, Asia, economy, state governments, tobacco retailers, the Rand Africa, Adelman and Barkan discuss how hospitality industry, and nonprofit organizations who the emphasis on repatriation during the last several might benefit from the industry’s philanthropy. It also decades has obscured other options, leaving refugees weighs how reduction in smoking will affect mortality in camps for years. Rather than perpetuate a belief in rates, medical costs, and Social Security and considers return as a right without the prospect of realization, the implications of more rigid tobacco control policy. the authors call for solutions that bracket return as a primary focus in cases of ethnic conflict. Physics of Solar Energy C. Julian Chen, Applied Physics | John Wiley & Sons n recent years, the world has been calling for an energy revolution. The renewable energy industry Iwill drive an expansion of the global economy and create more “green” jobs. Solar energy offers a ubiqui- tous, inexhaustible, clean, and highly efficient way of meeting the energy needs of the twenty-first century. This book is designed to give the reader solid footing in the general and basic physics of solar energy, which will be the basis of research and development in future solar engineering.

Superscript 37 Link back to contents page On the Shelf ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regula- The Politics of Extremism in South Asia tion in the World Economy Deepa Ollapally, Political Science Ph.D. (1991) | Tim Büthe, Political Science Ph.D. (2002), and Walter Cambridge University Press Mattli | Princeton University Press n this book, Ollapally examines extremist groups in üthe and Mattli examine the political process Kashmir, Afghanistan, Northeast India, Pakistan, in three powerful global private regulators: the IBangladesh, and Sri Lanka to offer a fresh perspec- BInternational Accounting Standards Board, the tive on the causes of extremism. What accounts for its International Organization for Standardization, and rise in societies not historically predisposed to extrem- the International Electrotechnical Commission. The ism? What determines the winners and losers in the authors offer both a new framework for understand- identity struggles in South Asia? What tips the balance ing global private regulation and detailed empirical between more moderate versus extremist outcomes? analyses of such regulation based on multi-country, The book argues that politics and interstate and in- multi-industry business surveys. ternational relations often play a more important role in the rise of extremism in South Asia than religious Governing Global Finance: The Evolution and Reform identity, poverty, and state repression. of the International Financial Architecture R. Anthony Elson, Economics Ph.D. (1973) | Palgrave A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me Macmillan About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really his book examines the origins and evolution Matter of financial globalization and the attempts William Deresiewicz, English and Comparative Litera- Tthat have been made at the international level ture Ph.D. (1998) | Penguin Press to establish a system of global financial governance self-styled intellectual rebel dedicated to writers to safeguard the functioning of the international such as James Joyce and Joseph Conrad, Dere- financial system. Elson explains how the international siewicz never thought Austen’s novels would financial architecture has come to take the form that it A have anything to offer him. But when he was assigned has, and why it was unable to prevent the recent global to read Emma as a graduate student, he began viewing financial crisis. the world through Austen’s eyes and treating those around him as generously as Austen treated her characters. Weaving his own story around those in the novel, Deresiewicz shows how Austen’s books are about education and are an education themselves.

Link back to contents page 38 Superscript Dissertations Elsa Hao Lin Lam, Wilderness Florencia Marcucci, Axon develop- Kathryn Marie Lemberg, Ferropto- nation: Building Canada’s railway ment and synapse formation in olfac- sis: A novel form of cancer cell death Deposited landscapes, 1885-1929 tory sensory neurons induced by the small molecule erastin Heather Marie McKellar, Aberrant Recently Art History and Biomedical Engineering assembly and function of a hippo- Archaeology Anthropology Amin Katouzian, Quantifying campal circuit in a genetic mouse Fabio Mariano Peter Barry, Paint- atherosclerosis: IVUS imaging for model of schizophrenia Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda, ing in stone: The symbolic identity of lumen border detection and plaque Genealogies of the citizen-devotee: colored marbles in the visual arts and characterization Chemical Engineering Popular cinema, religion and politics literature from antiquity until the in south India Enlightenment (Distinction) Timothy Martens, Novel platforms Eliot Thomas Campbell, Toward for cardiovascular repair a general dehydrogenase enzymatic Nadia Guessous, Genealogies of Christina Rosanna Ferando, scaffold for industrial biocatalysis feminism: Leftist feminist subjectivity Staging Canova: Sculpture, con- Yue Zhang, Regulation and pat- in the wake of the Islamic revival in noisseurship and display, 1780-1843 terning of cell differentiation and Chunmei Qiu, Novel molecular contemporary Morocco (Distinction) pluripotency engineering approaches for genotyp- ing and DNA sequencing Alejandra María Leal Martínez, For Andrea Sharon Renner, Housing Delano Junior McFarlane, Compu- the enjoyment of all: Cosmopolitan diplomacy: United States housing aid tational methods for analyzing health Roland E. Stefandl, Polymerization aspirations, urban encounters and to Latin America, 1949-1973 news coverage (Distinction) in confined space class boundaries in Mexico City Anna Vallye, Design and the politics Xiang Zhou, Dissecting transcrip- Chemistry Suren Pillay, The partisan’s violence, of knowledge in America, 1937-1967: tional regulatory networks with law and apartheid: The assassination Walter Gropius, Gyorgy Kepes systems biology approaches Jaclyn Irene Catalano, Ligand-pro- of Matthew Goniwe and the Cradock tein interactions in cytochromes four (Distinction) Astronomy Business Rockford Winthrop Cosica, Zainab Muhammad Saleh, Dimin- Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Isaac Max Dinner, The interpreta- Development of palladium-catalyzed ishing returns: An anthropological Investigation in time and of space tion of marketing actions and com- and iodine-mediated formal [4+1] study of Iraqis in the U.K. using the FIRST survey: Radio source munications by the financial markets annulation protocols; Progress toward variability and the evolution of FR II a new fulvene-based organocatalytic Applied Mathematics quasars Vyacheslav Fos, Three essays on cor- platform for carbonyl -functionaliza- porate governance and institutional tion Nicholas McMurray Hoell, Com- Biochemistry and Molecular investors (Distinction) plex-analytic methods in reconstruc- Biophysics Brendan Douglas Kelly, Part I: tive integral geometry Yoko Kathleen Iwaki, The culture of Development of new methods for Daniel T. Radoff, Molecular mecha- green: The role of cultural worldviews, Wenjia Jing, Corrector theory in multicatalysis: Bismuth(III) triflate- nisms controlling synaptic vesicle psychological connectedness, time random homogenization of partial catalyzed hydrofunctionalizations. fusion discounting, and social norms in differential equations (Distinction) Part II: Development of a novel environmental decisions paradigm for nucleophilic substitu- Braxton Ryan Osting, Spectral opti- Biological Sciences tion: Aromatic cation activation of mization problems controlling wave Jeffrey R. Parker, When shelf-based alcohols phenomena (Distinction) Myungin Baek, Development of leg scarcity impacts consumer preferences motor neurons in Drosophila mela- (Distinction) Ferenc Köntés, Strategies for the nogaster (Distinction) Applied Physics controlled synthesis of oligomeric Denis Roland Saure Valenzuela, natural products (Distinction) Charles Joseph David, Studies on Essays in consumer choice driven as- Paul Wesley Brenner, Confinement mammalian pre-mRNA splicing: sortment planning (Distinction) of non-neutral plasmas in stellarator Civil Engineering and Engineering Connections to transcription and magnetic surfaces Mechanics cancer (Distinction) Rom Y. Schrift, Complicating choice (Distinction) Robert Victor Caldwell, Synthesis Melissa Katherina Di Marco, The Mariana Dorrington Quiñones, and electronic transport in single- roles and impacts of boundary span- Studies on the mechanisms that con- Zaozao Zhang, Dynamic targeted walled carbon nanotubes of known ners and boundary objects in global tribute to the endoplasmic reticulum pricing in B2B settings chirality project networks quality control system in Saccharo- myces cerevisiae Cell Biology Xabier Sarasola Martin, Plasmas of Classical Studies arbitrary neutrality Jason Gorman, Visualizing the Thomas Gregory Lipkin, Actin James Tan, Competition between one-dimensional diffusion of DNA cable function and regulation in Architecture public and private revenues in Ro- mismatch repair proteins at the the budding yeast, Saccharomyces man social and political history, cerevisiae Jennifer Louise Gray, Ready for single-molecule level (Distinction) 200-49 B.C. experiment: Dwight Perkins and Cellular Physiology and Biophysics progressive architectures in Chicago, Reka Rebecca Letso, Investigating Classics neurodegenerative diseases with small 1893-1918 Julia Eva-Sofia Sommer, Control of molecule modulators James Frederick Uden, The invis- neuronal circuit assembly by GTPase ibility of Juvenal Hyun Tae Jung, Organization regulators and abstraction: The architecture of Ji Li, Temporal control of vulvar Skidmore, Owings and Merrill from precursor cell fate patterning in Cae- Roshni Basu, Requirement and 1936 to 1956 norhabditis elegans regulation of actin polymerization during endocytosis

Superscript 39 Link back to contents page Communications Ecology, Evolution, and English and Comparative Sarah-Louise Raillard, Perilous ped- Environmental Biology Literature agogies: Female education questioned Pablo Leandro Calvi, The parrot in the epistolary novels of Rousseau, and the cannon: Journalism, litera- Daniel Francis Baker Flynn, Patricia Owamare Akhimie, Cul- Laclos, Sade, and Charrière ture, and politics in the formation of Linking plant traits and herbivory tivating difference in early modern Latin American identities in grassland biodiversity-ecosystem drama and the literature of travel Genetics and Development functioning research Joe Hale Cutbirth, Satire as journal- Leora Bersohn, Melville’s England Alison Elizabeth Barber, Examin- ism: The Daily Show and American Maria Esther Quintero Rivero, ing the role and regulation of cell-cell politics at the turn of the twenty-first Avian diversification in the Andes: Rebecca Ann Calcagno, Publishing adhesion in aggressive prostate cancer century Understanding endemism patterns the Stuarts: Occasional literature and and historical biogeography politics from 1603 to 1625 Andrew David Goldsmith, Neu- Sophie Elizabeth Guité, Hot stocks ronal laterality in Caenorhabditis el- and cold comfort: A comparative Jessica Erin Rogers, The effective- Bina Suzanne Gogineni, God and egans: Morphological and functional study of optimism in financial news ness of protected areas in central novel in India aspects and household participation in Africa: A remotely sensed measure of equity markets, in the United States, deforestation and access Paul Michael McNeil, The unforgiv- History France, and Hong Kong, 1985-2008 ing margin in the fiction of Christo- Economics pher Isherwood Sergei Alexandrovich Antonov, Computer Science Law and the culture of debt in Mos- Ezequiel Aguirre Capurro, Essays Nicole Ariana Seary, The Italianate cow on the eve of the Great Reforms, Ricardo Andres Baratto, THINC: A on exchange rates and emerging Wordsworth 1850-1870 virtual and remote display archi- markets tecture for desktop computing and Environmental Health Services James Stephen O’Connor, Armies, mobile devices (Distinction) Jae Bin Ahn, Three essays on firms’ navies and economies in the Greek behavior in international trade Robert Dean Prins, Effective dose world in the fifth and fourth centuries Fadi Biadsy, Automatic dialect and estimation for U.S. Army soldiers B.C.E. (Distinction) accent recognition and its application Bruno Cara Giovannetti, Essays on undergoing multiple computed to speech recognition asset pricing and downside risk tomography scans Nathan Raoul Perl-Rosenthal, Cor- responding republics: Letter writing Brian Bowen, Design and analysis of David Michael Grad, Essays in Epidemiology and patriot organizing in the Atlan- decoy systems for computer security international finance and the global tic revolutions, ca. 1760-1792 financial crisis Maria Argos, Genetic susceptibility Rebecca Lynn Collins, Data-driven to arsenic exposure and arsenical skin Anatoly Zorian Pinsky, The indi- programming abstractions and opti- David López Rodríguez, Essays on lesion prevalence in Bangladesh vidual after Stalin: Fedor Abramov, mization for multi-core platforms the political economy of redistributive Russian intellectuals, and the revital- and allocation policies in competitive Natalie Danielle Crawford, Exam- ization of Soviet socialism, 1953-1962 Ilias Diakonikolas, Approxima- democracies ining the association between dis- tion of multiobjective optimization crimination and risky social networks Edward Andrew Reno III, The problems (Distinction) Matthew Grant Wai-Poi, Three among illicit drug users authoritative text: Raymond of essays on developmental economics: Penyafort’s editing of the Decretals of Charles Soo Han, Synthesis, editing, Household welfare Yael Hirsch-Moverman, TB or not Gregory IX (1234) and rendering of multiscale textures TB: Treatment of latent tuberculosis Electrical Engineering infection in Harlem, New York Robert Mark Savage, Where subjects Steven James Henderson, were citizens: The emergence of a Augmented reality interfaces for Aleksandr Biberman, Silicon pho- Matthew Raymond Lamb, Patient republican language and polity in procedural tasks tonics for high-performance intercon- non-retention, loss to follow-up, colonial American law court culture, nection networks and death after ART initiation at 1750-1776 Oren Laadan, A personal virtual HIV care and treatment facilities in computer recorder Gilbert Rowley Hendry, Archi- sub-Saharan Africa: The influence Taco Tjitte Terpstra, Trade in the tectures and design automation for of adherence support and outreach Roman Empire: A study of the insti- Chi Zhang, Quantum algorithms photonic networks on chip services (Distinction) tutional framework and complexity for numerical problems Mariya Kurchuk, Signal encod- Katherine Ornstein, Caregiving over Matthew Vaz, The jackpot mentality: ing and digital signal processing in time: The impact of the behavioral The growth of government lotteries Earth and Environmental continuous time (Distinction) and psychological symptoms of de- and the suppression of illegal num- Engineering mentia on caregiver depression bers gambling in Rio de Janeiro and Caroline Phooi-Mun Lai, Cross- New York City Jonathan Scott Levine, Relative layer platform for dynamic, energy- Jamie Ann Ruffing, The association permeability experiments of carbon efficient optical networks between bone mineral density, lifestyle Kareen Felicia Williams, The evolu- dioxide displacing brine and their factors, and body composition in a fit tion of political violence in Jamaica, implications for carbon sequestration Na Lei, Microsystem based on college population 1940-1980 CMOS multielectrode array for Earth and Environmental Sciences extracellular neural stimulation and French and Romance Philology Maria del Pilar Zazueta Avilés, recording Milk against poverty: Nutrition Amy Michelle Balanoff, Oviraptoro- Matthew Victor Bridge, A monster and the politics of consumption in sauria: Morphology, phylogeny, and Christine Elizabeth Smit, Charac- for our times: Reading Sade across twentieth-century Mexico endocranial evolution terization of the singing voice from the centuries polyphonic recordings Michelle Leigh Spaulding, Phylog- Mallika George Lecoeur, Conversa- eny and evolution of locomotor modes Jun Wang, Semi-supervised learning tion and performance in seventeenth- in Carnivoramorpha (Mammalia) for scalable and robust visual search century French salon culture

Link back to contents page 40 Superscript IEOR: Operations Research Chenyan Wu, F-virtual Abelian Pathobiology and Molecular Political Science varieties of GL2-type and Rallis inner Medicine Yu Hang Kan, Quantitative model- product formula Lauren Janine Aguilar, Identity ing of credit derivatives Roger Lefort, Investigating the role threat in same and mixed-gender Rumen Ivanov Zarev, Bordered of APP dimerization in the pathogen- negotiations: Speech accommodation Italian sutured Floer homology esis of Alzheimer’s disease and relational outcomes Patrizio Ceccagnoli, FTM redux: Mechanical Engineering Latarsha Juanita Reid, Analysis of Katherine Megan Nautiyal, Mast Studio sull’ultimo Marinetti the RING domain and BRCT repeats cells affect brain physiology and Selin Arslan, Micro-evaporator Susanne Christine Knittel, Uncan- of BRCA1 behavior design and investigation of phase ny homelands: Disability, race, and change in tailored microchannels Seung-hyun Woo, Identification Kavita S. Reddy, Benefits of belong- the politics of memory (Distinction) and characterization of epithelial ing: Dynamic group identity as a Saba Ghassemi, Dynamics of cel- Law progenitor niches in skin protective resource against psychologi- lular rigidity sensing on the micron cal threat Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Separating and sub-micron scale Physics law-making from sausage-making: Sylvia del Carmen Rodriguez, The case for judicial review of the Middle East, South Asian, and Tatia Kristina Engelmore, Electron- When school fits me: The role of regu- legislative process African Studies muon correlations in proton+proton latory fit in academic engagement and deuteron+gold collisions at and learning Yaniv Heled, Regulation of novel Mouannes Mohamad Hojairi, PHENIX biomedical technologies Church historians and Maronite Religion communal consciousness: Agency Tzu-ling Kuo, Probing static disorder Sang Yop Kang, Understanding and creativity in writing the history of in protein unfolding and chemical Mimi Hanaoka, Umma and identity controlling shareholder regimes Mount Lebanon reactions by single-molecule force in early Islamic Persia spectroscopy Matthais Lehmann, From conflict of Andrea Leigh Siegel, Women, James Patrick Hare, The garland of laws to global justice violence, and the “Arab question” in Matthew Benson Lightman, Delta devotees: Nbhadas’ Bhaktamal and early Zionist literature I equals three halfs kaon to two pion modern Hinduism Materials Science and Engineering decays using lattice QCD with do- Music main wall fermions Yung-Fen Ma, The revival of Tiantai Charlton James Chen, Precision Buddhism in the late Ming: On the tuning of silicon nanophotonic devic- Justin Paul Hoffman, Listening Hui Zhou, Probing the properties thought of Youxi Chuandeng (1544- es through post-fabrication processes with two ears: Conflicting perceptions of molecular adlayers on metal sub- 1628) of space in tonal music (Distinction) Zhang Jia, Interfacial studies in strates: Scanning tunneling micros- copy study of amine adsorption on Roy Tzohar, Metaphor (Upacara) in organic field-effect transistors Edgardo Raul Salinas, Modernity’s Au(111) and graphene nanoislands early Yogacara thought and its intel- hearing loss: Beethoven, Romantic on Co(0001) lectual context (Distinction) Sean M. Polvino, Accuracy, preci- critique, and the music of the literary sion, and resolution in strain mea- Slavic Languages surement on diffraction instruments Nursing Political Science Nina Lee Bond, Tolstoy and Zola: Vsevolod Gunitskiy, From shocks Mathematics Sharron Meredith Close, An ex- Trains and missed connections ploratory study of physical phenotype, to waves: Hegemonic transitions and Jonathan Michael Bloom, Monopole biomarkers, and psychosocial health democratization in the twentieth Bella Grigoryan, Noble farmers: The Floer homology, link surgery, and odd parameters in boys with Klinefelter century provincial landowner in the Russian Khovanov homology (Distinction) syndrome cultural imagination Cyrus Dara Samii, Microdynamics Joelle Brichard, On using graphical Roberta Louise Salveson, Expan- of war-to-peace transitions: Evidence Social Work calculi: Centers, zeroth Hochschild sion of the New York state newborn from Burundi homology and possible compositions screening panel and Krabbe disease: Jennifer Elkins, Developmental Fatima Sbaity Kassem, Party of induction and restriction functors A systematic program evaluation outcomes in a nationally representa- in various diagrammatical algebras variation in religiosity and women’s tive sample of sexually abused boys: Nutritional and Metabolic Biology leadership: Lebanon in comparative The moderating influence of family Benjamin Seth Elias, Soergel dia- perspective and peer context grammatics for dihedral groups Russell Erick Ericksen, The recruitment and function of tumor microen- Joel Robert Wuthnow, Beyond Erica Lynne Smith, The play behav- Allison Leigh Gilmore, Knot Floer vironment components during gastric the veto: Chinese diplomacy in the iors of young children exposed to a homology and categorification carcinogenesis United Nations Security Council traumatic event

Min Lee, Approximate converse Polina Golovatch, Smoking and Psychology Sociology theorem high-fat diet: Risk factors regulating Seth Caughron, Search for emphysema formation Dennis Bogusz, Corporate gover- Alon Levy, Moduli spaces of dynami- vector-like quark production in the nance or corporate governments? cal systems on P^n Chao-Ling Kuo, Characterization of lepton+jets and dilepton+jets Voluntary firm practices on paths to Athsq1, an atherosclerosis modifier lo- final states using 5.4-1 of run II data regulation Qing Lu, Bounds for spectral mean cus on mouse chromosome 4: Identifi- Jameson Rollins, Multimessenger value of central values of L-functions cation of Cdkn2a as a modifier locus Vincent Antonin Lepinay, Codes of astronomy with low-latency searches mediating monocyte/macrophage cell finance: Engineering derivatives in a for transient gravitational waves Lindsay Carter Piechnik, Lattice proliferation global bank subdivisions and tropical oriented matroids, featuring products of simplices

Superscript 41 Link back to contents page Sociomedical Sciences Teachers College: Yu Zhang, The determinants of Teachers College: Applied Behavioral Analysis national college entrance exam per- Physical Disabilities Megan Joy Wolff, The money value formance in China, with an analysis of risk: Life insurance and the trans- Alison Mary Corwin, A functional of private tutoring (Distinction) Rebecca Langley Wilson Jackson, formation of American public health, analysis of the effects of the induction The Montessori method’s use of 1896-1930 of naming and observing teacher- Teachers College: Seguin’s three-period lesson and its modeling on accelerated learning English Education impact on the book choices and word Statistics of academic skills for children with learning of students who are deaf or autism Naoko Akai, Poststructural explora- hard of hearing Qinghua Li, Two approaches to non- tions into relations among self, zero-sum stochastic differential games Carly Moher Eby, Effects of social language, reader-response theories: Teachers College: of control and stopping reinforcement versus tokens on the (Im)possibilities of autobiographical Politics and Education spontaneous speech of preschoolers inquiry Tyler Harris McCormick, Statisti- Zachary I. Lynn, Predicting the cal methods for indirectly observed Jacqueline Maffei, The effects of the Leigh Ann Reilly, Zimbabwe ruins: results of school finance adequacy network data (Distinction) acquisition of conditioned reinforce- Claims of responsibility within specu- lawsuits ment for adult faces and/or voices lations on psycho-social experiences of Amal Moussa, Contagion and on the rate of learning and attention exile and diaspora Daekwon Park, School choice systemic risk in financial networks to the presence of adults for children overseas: Are parents citizens or (Distinction) with autism spectrum disorder Teachers College: consumers? Intellectual Disabilities Johannes Karl Dominik Ruf, Opti- Teachers College: Jennifer Burns Stillman, Tipping mal trading strategies under arbitrage Cognitive Studies in Education Amanda Levin Mazin, Preparing in: School integration in gentrifying teachers in autism spectrum disor- neighborhoods Xiaoru Wu, Some nonparametric Amanda Jane Holman Crowell, ders: Reflections on teacher quality methods for clinical trials and high Assessment of a three-year argument dimensional data skill development curriculum Teachers College: Teachers College: Mathematics Education School Psychology Shouhao Zhou, Bayesian model Ming-Tsan Pierre Lu, The effect of selection in terms of Kullback-Leibler instructional embodiment designs on Edward Ham, Beginning mathemat- Moona Alidoost, Acculturation and discrepancy Chinese language learning: The use ics teachers from alternative certifica- mental health in Chinese immigrant of embodied animation for beginning tion programs: Their success in the youth Sustainable Development learners of Chinese characters classroom and how they achieved it Beth Jillian Chase, An analysis of Solomon Mendel Hsiang, Essays Hartono Hardi Tjoe, Which ap- Humberto Abel Rodriguez, How the argumentative writing skills of on the social impacts of climate proaches do students prefer? Analyz- regulatory focus impacts knowledge academically underprepared college (Distinction) ing the mathematical problem-solving accessibility students behavior of mathematically gifted

Chandra Kiran Bangalore Krish- Ayelet Segal, Do gestural interfaces students Jeffrey A. DeTeso, Student-teacher namurthy, Essays on climatic promote thinking? Embodied interac- relationships as predictors of reading extremes, agriculture, and natural tion: Congruent gestures and direct Jenna Renee Van Sickle, A history comprehension gains in second grade resource management touch promote performance in math of trigonometry education in the United States, 1776-1900 Anisa Khadem Nwachuku, Teachers College: Lindsay A. Reddington, Gender dif- Critiquing economic frameworks Counseling Psychology Nicholas Henning Wasserman, ference variables predicting expertise in sustainable development: Health When beginning mathematics in lecture note-taking equity, resource management and Nancy Moonhee Cha, The role of teachers report acquiring successful materialism coping and racial identity in the attributes: Reflections on teacher Pooja Chhagan Vekaria, Lecture relationship between racism-related education note-taking in postsecondary students Teachers College: stress and psychological distress for with self-reported attention-deficit/ Anthropology and Education Asian Americans Teachers College: hyperactivity disorder Measurement and Evaluation Akiko Murata, Brokering culture Teachers College: and labor: An anthropological analy- Economics and Education Jisung Cha, Application of ordered Teachers College: sis of IT offshore labor between Japan latent class regression in educational Social-Organizational Psychology and India Radhika Iyengar, Social capital as a assessment determinant of school participation in Alice Marie Cahill, Use of teams to Teachers College: rural India: A mixed methods study Yoon Soo Park, Rater drift in con- accomplish radical organizational Applied Anthropology (Distinction) structed response scoring via latent change: Examining the influence class signal detection theory and item of team cognitive style and leader Todd Evans Nicewonger, Fashion- Jessica K. Simon, A cost-effectiveness response theory emotional intelligence ing the moral aesthetic: An ethno- analysis of early literacy interventions graphic study of the socialization of (Distinction) Teachers College: Alice Miriam Mann, Managing Antwerp-trained fashion designers Philosophy and Education uncertainty during organization (Distinction) Cecilia Speroni, Essays on the design decision-making processes: The economics of high school-to-college Winston Charles Thompson, A moderating effects of different types of transition programs and teacher ef- higher degree of justice: Considering uncertainty fectiveness (Distinction) fairness and capability in higher educational access (Distinction) Robert Bruce Morris II, Can Amrit Thapa, Does private school chameleons lead change? The effect competition improve public school of resistance to change on high performance? The case of Nepal self-monitoring leaders’ strength of purpose

Link back to contents page 42 Superscript Naira Musallam, Examining the perceived internal and external effectiveness of NGOs in the Palestin- ian territories: The role of complexity, resilience and job adaptability

Teachers College: Sociology and Education

Isabel Anne Martinez, Making transnational adults from youth: Mexican immigrant youth in pursuit of the Mexican dream

Michelle Jhaleh Van Noy, Creden- tials in context: The meaning and use of associate degrees in the employment of IT technicians

Theatre

Mirabelle Ordinaire, The stage on screen: The representation of theatre in film

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Katherine Allen Jae Woo Lee Tyler Bickford

The University’s 2011 Presidential Professors MAXWELL E. GOTTES- CATHERINE POMPOSI, Earth and Teaching Award was presented to MAN, Biochemistry and Molecular Environmental Sciences; three graduate students at this year’s Biophysics; MARK MAZOWER, His- ELLIOTT ASH, Economics; Convocation. Awardees were Ph.D. tory; JAMES SHAPIRO, English and KARSTEN GIMRE, Mathematics; students KATHERINE ALLEN, Earth Comparative Literature; and SHOU- and JULIET DAVIDOW, Psychology. and Environmental Sciences, and JAE WU ZHANG, Mathematics, were The fellowship recognizes outstand- WOO LEE, Computer Science; and elected to the American Academy of ing graduate students in science, Ph.D. graduate TYLER BICKFORD, Arts and Sciences and will be in- technology, engineering, and math- Music. The Award was also presented ducted at a ceremony in Cambridge, ematics. to faculty members RICHARD KORB Massachusetts in October 2011. of Germanic Languages and JILL S. LIA CORRALES and ERIKA HAM- SHAPIRO of Ecology, Evolution, and Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical DEN, Ph.D. students in the Depart- Environmental Biology. The Presi- Studies Ph.D. student EL-AD ment of Astronomy, received fellow- dential Teaching Award is given an- DAVID AMIR was awarded the ships from NASA’s Earth and Space nually to current Columbia students Howard Hughes Medical Institute In- Science Program, which supports the and faculty who have had a significant ternational Student Research Fellow- research training of talented individu- influence on the intellectual develop- ship in recognition of his exceptional als in earth and space sciences. ment of students at the University. academic achievements in science. The fellowship supports international NAOMI ROBBINS, Mathematical JAMES MANLEY, Julian Clarence students for years three through five Statistics Ph.D. alumna (1971), was Levi Professor of Life Sciences and of the Ph.D. program. named an Associate Fellow of the former chair of the Department of Society for Technical Communica- Biological Sciences, has been named Thirty doctoral students received tion for having achieved eminence in a member of the National Academy the National Science Foundation’s the field of technical communication of Sciences. His research focuses on Graduate Research Fellowship this through contributions to the profes- understanding the mechanism and fall term. Among them are DANIEL sion, consulting corporations and regulation of gene expression and D’ORAZIO, Astronomy; KRISTEN organizations on the effective presen- how these processes become deregu- LEE, Biomedical Engineering; tation of data for wide audiences. lated by disease. MICHAEL PERALTA, Chemistry;

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Professors IOANNIS MYLONOPOU- Biomedical Engineering professor Political Science Ph.D. graduate LOS, Art History and Archeology, and GORDANA VUNJAK-NOVAKOVIC CYRUS SAMII received the Warren J. LIZA KNAPP, Russian Literature, received the BioAccelerate NYC Prize Mitofsky Student Paper Award from received the 2011 Faculty Mentor- for her research involving growing the New York Chapter of the Ameri- ship Award. The award is given every bone in a laboratory for the rebuilding can Association for Public Opinion year by Graduate School of Arts and of bones in a patient’s head and face. Research. In the paper “Who wants Sciences students to faculty members The prize awards critical funding to forgive and forget? Transitional jus- who have gone above and beyond to researchers so they can complete tice preferences in post-war Burundi,” their duty to support and guide stu- work on healthcare and biomedi- Samii used original survey data to dents. cal products that will be brought to study justice preferences during the market. transition from conflict to peace. Sociology professor SHAMUS KHAN and assistant history professor EVAN Ecology, Evolution, and Environ- RICHARD BULLIET, Professor of HAEFELI have been appointed as mental Biology associate professor Middle Eastern History, has podcast new Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman MARIA URIARTE was awarded a his courses History of the World to Center fellows at the New York Public five-year National Science Foundation 1500 CE and History of the Modern Library. The Cullman Center offers Long Term Research in Environmen- Middle East on iTunes. All course fellowships to academics, writers, and tal Biology grant for her work on the lectures are available in video format researchers whose work will benefit impact of climate change in neotropi- and are free to the public. from access to the collections at the cal forests. library.

Professor KARTIK CHANDRAN, Earth and Environmental Engineer- ing, received a $1.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Founda- tion to fund a project developing and implementing human waste-to-bio- diesel technology in Ghana.

Superscript 45 Link back to contents page Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association would like to congratulate three special alumni. 2011 CAA Alumni Medalist

DALE CHAKARIAN TURZA ’74 M.A. in Art History and Archaeology

Ms. Turza has been active in the GSAS Alumni Association since 1998, and Chairman of the Association’s board of directors for over ten years. She has served on the Advisory Committee for the Armenian Oral History Project for Columbia University Libraries, and the University’s Art History and Archaeology Advisory Council. Her outstanding dedication and service to Columbia was recognized at the 2002 Master of Arts Convoca- tion, where she received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Achievement. Mrs. Turza is a white collar litigation partner in the law office of Cadwalader, Wickersham, and Taft, LLP, specializing in international criminal and national security law. Mrs. Turza and her husband Peter Turza established the Turza Family Endowment for the benefit of GSAS students. They are the proud parents of three Columbia graduates, Kristin ’02CC, Lauren’04CC, and Allison ’07CC, ’15GSAS. Their son-in-law, Daniel Bajger ’07CC, is also an alumnus.

2011 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Distinguished Achievement Award (Ph.D.)

JOHN MATTESON ’92 M.A, ’95 M.Phil., ’99 Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature

Dr. Matteson is a professor of English at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he has taught literature and legal writing since 1997. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his biography Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father (2007). He has written articles for The Harvard Theological Review, Architectural Record, CrossCurrents, New England Quarterly, Streams of William James, and other publications. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biogra- phy. Dr. Matteson earned an A.B. in history from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard University

2011 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Distinguished Achievement Award (M.A.)

PETER STRAUB ’66 M.A. in English and Comparative Literature

Mr. Straub is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre. His works include Julia (1975), his first horror novel which was later adapted into the film “The Haunting of Julia,”Ghost Story, Shadowland, and Floating Dragon. He also wrote suspense thrillers such as Koko, Mystery, and The Throat. Mr. Straub co-wrote the novels The Talisman and Black House with his friend and fellow horror writer, Stephen King. Most recently, he has written Pork Pie Hat (2010), The Juniper Tree and Other Sto- ries (2010), A Dark Matter (2010), and Five Stories (2007), which won the Bram Stoker Award. In addition, he has received literary honors such as the World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award. Is there something we should know? Tell us about GSAS alumni achievements by emailing [email protected]. Link back to contents page 46 Superscript The GSAS Alumni Association invites you to meet

Carlos J. Alonso Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Reception: 6:00-7:30 p.m.

BRASSERIE 8 ½ 9 West 57th Street New York, New York

For more information contact [email protected].

Dear GSAS Alumni,

THANK YOU to the nearly 3,500 alumni and friends who made gifts to the GSAS Annual Fund last academic year. Gifts totalled a record-breaking $912,000, all of which was used to provide financial aid to graduate students. This great show of support is an encouragement to all of us. Sincerely,

Carlos J. Alonso Dale Chakurian Turza Angela Jia Dean President Chair GSAS GSAS Alumni Association Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC)

If you would like to make a gift to GSAS in the new academic year, go to https://giving.columbia.edu/giveonline. For more information about the GSAS Annual Fund, contact Kate Jones at [email protected] or 212-851-7964.

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