Lynn Westwater, Italian Professor, celebrates Tarabotti’s Venetian nun experience, colored by 17th-century religious culture.
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.
A Cultural History of Disability: Volumes 1-6 (The Cultural Histories Series)
The volumes describe different kinds of physical and mental disabilities, their representations and receptions and what impact they have had on society.
Principles of Animal Research Ethics
DeGrazia co-authored this volume to present a framework of general principles for animal research ethics and an analysis of the principles' moral requirements.
Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs David Shambaugh edited this comprehensive and timely scholarly assessment of China’s position in all regions of...
Sarra Copia Sulam: A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice
Associate Professor of Italian Lynn Westwater authored this first biography of Sarra Copia Sulam, the 17th century Jewish poet and polemicist who led one of the most...
Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Masha Belenky, associate professor of French, examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in 19th-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus—a...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...