Michelle Frankfurter, adjunct professor of new media photojournalism, seeks to capture the experience of undocumented Central American migrants and their perilous journey across...
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.
The Image of the Prophet between Ideal and Ideology
David Bjelajac, professor of art history and American studies, authored a chapter for this volume, which aims to elucidate Muhammad’s visualization in the West vis-à-vis his image...
Democracy's Double-Edged Sword
Catie Snow Bailard, Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs, argues that the Internet—by altering the quantity and range of information available to citizens—directly...
日本語のオノマトペの特徴は、情報を効率よく伝えるために有効だというだけではない。一般に、オノマトペは、言語的な核の外側に存在すると思われているが、日本語のオノマトペの場合、日本語の構造と切っても切れない関係にある。1986年に本書の著者が英語の博士論文(Hamano 1986)で日本語のオノマトペの音韻的な特徴を体系的に扱って以来、様々な研究者が日本語のオノマトペの音韻的、...
Physics Professor Igor Strakovsky provides an overview on free nucleon-nucleon interactions and also two-nucleon dynamics in a nuclear medium.
The Chemistry and Physics of Drugs Used in Anesthesia
Cynthia Dowd, associate professor of chemistry, co-wrote this in-depth exploration of physics to significantly expand and update "The Chemistry of Drugs for Nurse Anesthetists,"...
Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition
Carmel Chiswick, professor of economics, argues in this book that economics is a blind spot in our understanding of religion and recasts the history of American Jews as one of...
Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts
David J. Silverman, professor of history, has created a biography of Ninigret, a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians. Silverman and his co-author...
Jan van Eyck and Portugal's "Illustrious Generation"
Professor of Art History Barbara von Barghahn authored Jan van Eyck and Portugal's "Illustrious Generation": Volume I, exploring Jan van Eyck's patronage by the Crown of...