Intellectual and Spiritual Debates in Islam
Sayed Hassan Akhlaq, Professor of Religion, talks about issues of interest and impact from the rich and diverse intellectual traditions of Islam from its inception to present.
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.
English Professor Alexa Joubin writes King Lear's history, and co-edits a critical blend of First Folio and Quarto lines, enhancing Shakespeare's legacy.
Corcoran's Dana Tai Soon Burgess charts the diverse histories of dance through ten key moments that have shaped the different forms and genres we see today.
Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs
University Writing's Caroline Smith explores food memoirs to understand the ways women are renegotiating their relationships with the kitchen and food.
Political science's Harris Mylonas argues that nationalism is an empirically variegated ideology and explores five dimensions along which nationalism varies.
Orian Zakai, Israeli/Hebrew literature and culture professor, explores modern debates on both Zionism and feminism, and how they are prefigured in the legacies of early Zionist women.
Religion Professor Xiaofei Kang shows how the Communist Party used religion as a model for its own aims and explores propaganda's influence in global politics.
Jews, Judaism, and Success: How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement
Religion Professor Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern Western world?
Professorial Lecturer Sayed Hassan Akhlaq from the Religion Department offers both insider and outsider views of how a scholar becomes an Ayatollah in Shia Islam.
English's Thea Brown draws on parallel universes, video games and ghost towns to immerse the reader in grief, utopia, disaster—and, ultimately, love.