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Witgen Professor of History, Department of History Research Interest North America 18th Century Nationalisms and Identity Ethnicity and Race Politics and Institutions Affiliated Graduate Students Simone Raya Geggie Master's Student Research Interest Atlantic Ethnicity and Race Politics and Institutions Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Phoebe Jones Master's Student Research Interest Public Health and Medicine North America Atlantic Ethnicity and Race Migrations and Diasporas Gender and Sexuality Kiwi Kiwinda Master's Student Research Interest Africa South Asia 1900-1945 Law Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Ethnicity and Race Migrations and Diasporas Keren Leonor Landron Master's Student Research Interest Ethnicity and Race Haitian-Dominican Relations Colonial Violence in Spanish and Portuguese Colonies African Influence in the Caribbean Affiliated Dissertations Anglo-Indians in the Tumultuous Years: Community, Nationalism, War and Emigration, 1939-1955 Narrating Nationalist Subjectivities During the Second World War: London, Pan-Africanism, and Black Women in Writing Leprosy in French Indochina: The Construction of a Racialized Disease, 1897-1915 Muslim Assistance in the Armenian Genocide: 1914-1919 Raising Global Families: Pearl Buck's Welcome House and the Early Years of Interracial Adoption in America Imagining Indigenous Peoples, Shaping Imperial Rule: The Aborigines' Protection Society, 1837-1870 Race, Public Policy and Philanthropy: The Development of Affirmative Action in Brazil 1940-2012 A Third Language for the Third World: Black Theology and Latin American Liberation Theology in Dialogue, 1973-1986 Other "Coloureds": Constructions of a Socio-Racial Category in Colonial Namibia under South African Rule, 1915-1939 Familiarising New Citizens: Ivorian Civil Code and Marriage Practices in Côte d'Ivoire in the 1960s Egypt and Her Inhabitants: Translation of the Science of Race in al-Muqtaṭaf, 1885-1907 ‘The Fact of Blackness’: Transitions in Knowledge and Power during the First Pan-African Psychiatry Conference, in Nigeria, 1961 "Every Courageous and Incisive Measure": The Participation of Jewish and African-American Women's Groups in the Anti-Communist Campaigns of the Crusade for Freedom, 1949-1960 Beyond Borders and Boundaries: Navigating Race, Nation, and Internationalism at the 1911 Universal Races Congress Beduphobia, Beduphilia: Competing Conceptions of Bedouin among British Commanders of the Arab Legion (1930-39) The Lingua Franca of White Supremacy: Occultism, the WUNS and the Internationalization of the Radical Right, 1958-1970 "I Consider Man-of-War Essential Here Immediately:" The Evacuation of Black British Subjects during the 1863 New York Draft Riots Histories from Fragments: A Study of the African Cavalry Guards Mediating Sanctuary: Mayoral impact on sanctuary policy in San Francisco and Los Angeles, 1981-1993 ‘A Time for Resistance’: Activist Responses to the Policing of Mexicana/o Youth, 1975-1985 Outrage! 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Wells, Lynching Rhetoric, and the Construction of White Supremacy, 1890-1900 “The Whole World is Watching:” The Montgomery Bus Boycott and its Transnational Influences, 1950-1970 Yuri Kochiyama’s Postcard Politics: Maintaining the Radical Commons through Political Practice This Fascinating Mischief: Fear, Power, and the Construction of Obeah in Jamaica, 1789-1834 That Dark and Vast Sea of Human Labor: Examining Chinese Labor, Race, and Law in Louisiana and Cuba during Reconstruction, 1865-1882 Orientalism or Modernity on Display: the Representation of China at the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition From Brooklyn to Basra: An Analysis of Contemporary Afro Iraqi History and the Practice of Diaspora, 1968-2020 Mythological Re-racination: Garegin Nzhdeh, Tseghakron, and Armenian Racialism Corporation of the Roman Catholic Clergymen and Jesuit Plantation Business in Maryland 1797-1838 The Kitchens of East Harlem: Gender, Ethnicity, & Transnational Intimacy in New York Immigrant Kitchens (1920-1950) edit edit edit edit
photo of Elazar Barkan Columbia Faculty Elazar Barkan Professor of International and Public Affairs Research Interest Politics and Institutions War, Violence, and Genocide Ethnicity and Race Post-1945
photo of Antony Best LSE Faculty Antony Best Professor, Department of International History Research Interest East Asia Europe Intellectual and Cultural Nationalisms and Identity Ethnicity and Race 1900-1945
photo of Christopher L. Brown Columbia Faculty Christopher L. Brown Professor of History Research Interest Europe Africa Atlantic Politics and Institutions Economic, Business, and Finance Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Ethnicity and Race 18th Century 19th Century
photo of Merlin Chowkwanyun Columbia Faculty Merlin Chowkwanyun Donald H. Gemson Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Dept of Sociomedical Sciences Research Interest Public Health and Medicine Ethnicity and Race North America Post-1945
photo of Ansley T. Erickson Columbia Faculty Ansley T. Erickson Associate Professor of History and Education, History & Educ, Teachers College Research Interest North America Education Ethnicity and Race Social History Post-1945
photo of Barbara J. Fields Columbia Faculty Barbara J. Fields Professor of History, Department of History Research Interest North America Ethnicity and Race War, Violence, and Genocide Social History 19th Century
photo of Sarah Haley Columbia Faculty Sarah Haley Associate Professor of History, Department of History Research Interest Gender and Sexuality Ethnicity and Race Crime and Policing North America Post-1945
photo of Karl H. Jacoby Columbia Faculty Karl H. Jacoby Allan Nevins Professor of American History, Department of History Research Interest North America Environment War, Violence, and Genocide Ethnicity and Race 18th Century 19th Century Crime and Policing
photo of Ira I. Katznelson Columbia Faculty Ira I. Katznelson Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History; Distinguished Fellow for Columbia World Projects, Dept of Political Science Research Interest North America Europe Politics and Institutions Social History Intellectual and Cultural Ethnicity and Race 1900-1945 Post-1945
photo of Natasha J. Lightfoot Columbia Faculty Natasha J. Lightfoot Associate Professor of History, Department of History Research Interest Latin America and the Caribbean Atlantic Africa Ethnicity and Race Migrations and Diasporas Nationalisms and Identity 19th Century
photo of Andrew C. Lipman Columbia Faculty Andrew C. Lipman Associate Professor, History, Barnard College Research Interest North America Atlantic Environment Science and Technology Ethnicity and Race War, Violence, and Genocide 17th Century 18th Century
photo of Premilla Nadasen Columbia Faculty Premilla Nadasen Professor, History, Barnard College Research Interest North America Gender and Sexuality Ethnicity and Race Economic, Business, and Finance 1900-1945 Post-1945
photo of Celia Naylor Columbia Faculty Celia Naylor Professor, History, Barnard College Research Interest North America Latin America and the Caribbean Ethnicity and Race Migrations and Diasporas Nationalisms and Identity Gender and Sexuality 19th Century 1900-1945
photo of Mae Ngai Columbia Faculty Mae Ngai Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Department of History Research Interest North America Ethnicity and Race Migrations and Diasporas Nationalisms and Identity 1900-1945
photo of Emmanuelle M. Saada Columbia Faculty Emmanuelle M. Saada Professor of French and Romance Philology, French & Romance Philology Research Interest Europe Africa Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Ethnicity and Race Law 19th Century 1900-1945 Post-1945
photo of Imaobong Umoren LSE Faculty Imaobong Umoren Associate Professor, Department of International History Research Interest Latin America and the Caribbean North America Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Migrations and Diasporas Ethnicity and Race Gender and Sexuality 19th Century 1900-1945 Post-1945
photo of Michael J. Witgen Columbia Faculty Michael J. Witgen Professor of History, Department of History Research Interest North America 18th Century Nationalisms and Identity Ethnicity and Race Politics and Institutions
Simone Raya Geggie Master's Student Research Interest Atlantic Ethnicity and Race Politics and Institutions Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial
Phoebe Jones Master's Student Research Interest Public Health and Medicine North America Atlantic Ethnicity and Race Migrations and Diasporas Gender and Sexuality
Kiwi Kiwinda Master's Student Research Interest Africa South Asia 1900-1945 Law Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Ethnicity and Race Migrations and Diasporas
Keren Leonor Landron Master's Student Research Interest Ethnicity and Race Haitian-Dominican Relations Colonial Violence in Spanish and Portuguese Colonies African Influence in the Caribbean