Faculty Publication
Andrew Delbanco, The War Before the War
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"School Photos and their Afterlives," A Workshop with Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
Faculty News
Joseph Slaughter has been appointed to the Committee on Global Thought
Faculty News
T. Austin Graham awarded 2018 NEH Fellowship
Faculty News
George Stade (1933-2019)
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Rachel Adams and Branka Arsić have been named as 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Fellows
Faculty Publication
Eleanor Johnson, Staging Contemplation
Faculty News
Saidiya Hartman has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow
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Jenny Davidson's Reading Jane Austen was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2018.
Faculty Publication
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Faculty News
Andrew Delbanco is 2019 recipient of the Lionel Trilling Book Award
Faculty News
Celebration of the Life and Work of Steven Marcus
Faculty News
Hannah Weaver Announced as New Junior Medievalist
Faculty and Graduate Student News
Faculty and Ph.D. Candidates Named The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center Fellows
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Brent Hayes Edwards has received the 2019 Truman Capote Award
Faculty News
"Increasing the Visibility of the Humanities," The Record interviews Dean of Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Sarah Cole
Faculty News
Andrew Delbanco's The War Before the War Wins 2019 Lukas Prize
Faculty Publication
The Global South Atlantic, Edited by Joseph Slaughter and Kerry Bystrom
Faculty Publication
Alan Stewart, The Oxford History of Life-Writing Vol. 2
Faculty News
Columbia Spectator: "Marcellus Blount Loved to Dance: Reflections on his 33 Years at Columbia"
Faculty News
A Celebration of the Life of Prof. Edward W. Tayler
Faculty Publication
Brent Edwards, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
Faculty Publication
Colm Tóibín, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
Faculty News
Matthew Hart Awarded Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

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Congratualtions to Brent Hayes Edwards, who has won the 2019 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for his book, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination, released by Harvard University Press in 2017.
Congratulations to our esteemed colleague, Saidiya Hartman, who has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow for her outstanding work "tracing the afterlife of slavery in modern American life and rescuing from oblivion stories of sparsely documented lives that have been systematically excluded from historical archives."
The Committee on Global Thought welcomes two new faculty members, Nikhar Gaikwad and Joseph Slaughter.
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