Faculty Books

From the history of race and caste in Latin America to the role of music in religion around the world, Columbian College faculty publish numerous thought-provoking and timely titles every year. Their work has topped bestseller lists, inspired debate and dialogue and received positive reviews from high-profile outlets like the Los Angeles Review of Books and The New York Times.
 


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What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War

Associate Professor of Anthropology Sarah E. Wagner tells the stories of the nearly 1,600 American service members still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam War,...

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Pourquoi tu danses quand tu marches?

Abdourahman Waberi se souvient de son enfance, à Djibouti, une enfance inscrite dans sa mémoire et dans son corps qui boite, qui «  danse  ». Il cherche, enquête, fait revivre les...

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Discovery and Invention: A Comparative Study of Civilization

Economics Professor Emeritus Charles Stewart surveys seven civilizations in terms of both their achievements and their failures as an explanation of the Scientific and Industrial...

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Ethics of War and Peace in Islam: A Shi‘a View

Mohammad Faghfoory, professor of Islamic studies, demonstrates that the Shia perception of war and peace is deeply rooted in the Quran and the Tradition of the Prophet and is defensive in nature. He...

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Treffpunkt Deutsch

Margaret Gonglewski, associate professor of German, takes a student-centered, communicative approach to teaching German. Her textbook, co-authored with Beverly Moser and Cornelius...

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El Encargo

¿Qué tienen en común, Iván Kohen, traductor estadounidense, y Sergio Mancino, periodista?: Un tren equivocado, un recorrido por distintos pueblos de la provincia argenti.

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Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach

Hongyuan Dong's "Semantics of Chinese Questions: An Interface Approach" looks to study the syntax, semantics, and phonology of questions and proposes a phonological scope-marking...

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Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kathryn Kleppinger's "Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France" offers a critical assessment of the ways in which...

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The Routledge Course in Business Korean

"The Routledge Course in Business Korean" is a textbook for teaching Korean to mid-intermediate to low-advanced students to learn the language used in a business context in every-day life in Korea...

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Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600

The majority of medieval and 16th-century Iberian manuscripts contain fragments or are fragments — isolated bits of manuscript material with a damaged appearance, or a piece of a larger text that...