Recent Faculty Books
On the Very Edge
Lilien Robinson, professor of art history, contributes to this work, which compiles fourteen empirical and comparative essays about modernism in the architecture, visual arts, and literature of interwar Serbia (1918-1941).
Portraits of the Queen Mother: Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters
Leah Chang, associate professor of French, and co-author Katherine Kong study and translate various documents from letters to diplomatic reports related to Catherine de Medicis.
Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
Barry Chiswick, professor of international affairs and economics, edited this handbook which analyzes academia related to a wide range of topics from labor market outcomes to the effects of international migration on various aspects of income.
Presenting at Work: A Guide to Public Speaking in Professional Contexts
Christine Clapp, lecturer of communication, created this how-to guide that provides potent and practical tools, methods, and insights to master any workplace presentation scenario.
Destino
Michelle Frankfurter, adjunct professor of new media and photojournalism, seeks to capture through photography the experience of undocumented Central American migrants and their perilous journey across Mexico in pursuit of a better life.
Research
At the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, we foster discovery and creativity in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. As a premier research facility, students work side-by-side with faculty in labs, classrooms and the field to uncover new questions and answer age-old mysteries.
Our departments are actively engaged in cutting-edge research initiatives, partnering with prestigious institutes and foundations. Through the constant development of theories, the gathering and interpretation of data and the formulation of new techniques of inquiry, our research helps find solutions to real-world concerns.
Columbian College Research News
Climate Change: What Caterpillars Can Tell Us
Discovered: Oldest Flying Reptile
GW Computational Biology Institute: Making Sense of Big Data
Planet Forward Will Lead University Consortium
Restored Jewish Documents Save a People’s History
Silenced By the Sea
Climate Change: What Caterpillars Can Tell Us
The evidence of climate change is seemingly all around us. But are we overlooking one of the smallest and most insightful signs? In a video conversation with Dean Ben Vinson, John Lill explains how a shift in a tiny caterpillar’s life-cycle can impact an entire ecosystem.
Discovered: Oldest Flying Reptile
An international team that included Columbian College Professor James Clark and his former graduate student Brian Andres, MS ’03, has discovered and named the earliest and most primitive pterodactyloid.
GW Computational Biology Institute: Making Sense of Big Data
The Human Genome Project opened a new world of genetic research—and released a vast reserve of data. How can science decipher all that information? The Computational Biology Institute is cracking the code on complex biological systems. Read More.
Planet Forward Will Lead University Consortium
Planet Forward announced the launch of the Planet Forward University Consortium, a multimedia digital story-telling collaborative to engage universities around the world in addressing environmental threats. The consortium will study sustainability and crises in food security, water, energy and climate change.
Restored Jewish Documents Save a People’s History
The fate of Jewish artifacts during the Nazi and Soviet domination of Eastern Europe has long been a source of angst. The Fleischman Lecture—funded through an endowment to Columbian College and hosted by Poland’s Embassy—revealed how a long-lost archive was recovered.
Silenced By the Sea
For centuries, the legacy of sunken slave ships has been lost at the bottom of the ocean. Now, Stephen Lubkemann is part of an historic collaboration between cultural institutions and a team of international maritime archeologists trying to raise these stories from the deep.
New Research Grants
Research Grants Pave Way for Discoveries
From scientific investigations on the origins of diabetes and the consequences of melting Arctic ice, to historical perspectives on the Ottoman Empire and D.C.’s African-American cultural legacy, to research projects in Java and Uganda, it’s been a banner year for major new research grants at Columbian College. Read more.
Research Publication
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