Jean Howard Receives the 2020 Presidential Teaching Award
The former CSSD director and current CSSD Executive Committee member is honored for outstanding teaching by faculty.
Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities and former director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) has been selected for the 2020 Presidential Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching by Faculty. The honor is reflective of a commitment to excellent and innovative teaching as recognized by the entire Columbia community.
To learn more about Jean Howard’s work at CSSD view her past working groups at the Center below:
Reframing Gendered Violence
Engendering the Archive
Women Mobilizing Memory
Frontline Nurses: Leaders in Pandemic Response Video Now Available
The recent On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics working group webinar can now be found on the CSSD YouTube channel.
On May 6, 2020 the On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics working group held their first webinar entitled, “Frontline Nurses: Leaders in Pandemic Response,” where the group discussed the 2014-16 Ebola crisis in the context of the current corona virus pandemic. Speakers included working group members, Mary Marshall Clark, Jennifer Dohrn, Wilmot James, Susan Michaels-Strasser, Annette Mwansa Nkowane, Margaret Loma Phiri, and Victoria Rosner.
Visit the Center for the Study of Social Difference YouTube channel or the Frontline Nurses event page to view the video.
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Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City Co-director Interviewed by MSNBC
Ana Paulina Lee discusses Brazil’s response to the coronavirus.
Ana Paulina Lee, Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City co-director, was recently interviewed by MSNBC, where she discussed Brazil’s response to the current coronavirus pandemic.
The full MSNBC segment can be viewed here.
Queer Aqui Working Group Fellow Wins Prestigious Award
Camille Robcis has been announced as a recipient of the 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Camille Robcis, Associate Professor of History and French and Queer Aqui working group fellow, has been announced as a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship winner. The fellowship was awarded to Professor Robcis in the field Intellectual & Cultural History.
View the full list of 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship Winners here.
CSSD Project Directors featured in the Notes on Feminism Series
Jack Halberstam and Saidiya Hartman have contributed essays to the Feminist Art Coalition project.
Queer Aqui co-director Jack Halberstam and Engendering the Archive co-director Saidya Hartman have each contributed essays to the Notes on Feminism series from the Feminist Art Coalition.
“Off Manifesto” by Jack Halberstam can be read here.
“The Plot of Her Undoing” by Saidiya Hartman can be read here.
Former CSSD Director receives 2020 Faculty Mentoring Award
Marianne Hirsch is honored for exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring.
Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature and former Center for the Study of Social Difference Director, is a recipient of the 2020 Faculty Mentoring Award, which recognizes senior faculty who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring.
To learn more about the award and other recipients click here.
To learn more about Marianne Hirsch’s work at CSSD check out her past working group pages below:
Lila Abu-Lughod cited by the New York Times Book Review
The former Reframing Gendered Violence co-director’s Do Muslim Women Need Saving? was referenced in a review of a new book on 21 Women Across the History of Islam.
Lila Abu-Lughod, former co-director of the Reframing Gendered Violence working group, had her work Do Muslim Women Need Saving cited in a New York Times book review of Hossein Kamaly’s new book A History of Islam in 21 Women.
Christia Mercer is interviewed in The Harvard Crimson
In the article, the Pedagogies of Dignity co-director discusses the need for university divestment from the private prison industry.
Christia Mercer, Columbia University Philosphy professor and former co-director of the CSSD Pedagogies of Dignity working group, argues for Harvard’s divestment from the private prison industry in The Harvard Crimson article “Harvard and Divestment Advocates Disagree Over How Much the University Puts Into Private Prisons. Here’s Why.”
Pedagogies of Dignity was an interdisciplinary initiative that brought together formerly incarcerated people, activists, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Geographies of Injustice co-director pens piece in The Conversation.
Ana Paulina Lee writes about an upcoming Dread Scott documentary on the 1811 German Coast Uprising.
Ana Paulina Lee, co-director of the Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City working group, writes about a modern day reenactment of the 1811 German Coast uprising slave rebellion and the new Dread Scott documentary on this historical moment for the The Conversation. Her article has been republished in numerous forums including, the San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate, San Antonio Express-News (TX), The Telegraph (Alton, IL), The Raw Story, among others.
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women co-director, interviewed for Ms Magazine
The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies chair discusses the new department and Black feminism in the article.
Farah Jasmine Griffin, former co-director of the Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women working group and inaugural chair of the new Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies was recently interviewed in Ms Magazine. In the article she elaborates on the new department, Black Feminism and her own work.
You can find the full article here.
Visit the Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women page here.
Pedagogies of Dignity Director Featured in The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing in the World
Christia Mercer is one of a number of women Janice Kaplan has included in her recently published book.
Christia Mercer, former director of the Pedagogies of Dignity working group, is one of a number of women included in Janice Kaplan’s recently published book The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing in the World.
A description and audio excerpt of the book can be found here.
Racial Capitalism Media Fellow Honored by the World Economic Forum
Larry Madowo, Columbia Journalism 2020, has been selected as a Young Global Leader of 2020.
Larry Madowo, Columbia Journalism class of 2020 and Center for the Study of Social Difference Racial Capitalism working group Media Fellow, has been selected as a Young Global Leader of 2020 by the World Economic Forum.
To see a full list of honorees click here.
New Netflix Docu-series Inspired by the book 'On Her Own Ground' Reaches Number 1
The show, titled Self Made, was inspired by the work of A’Lelia Bundles, CSSD Women Creating Change Leadership Council member.
The new four part docu-series on Netflix, titled Self Made, chronicles the life of Madam C.J. Walker. The show, starring Octavia Spencer was inspired by the book originally titled On Her Ground : The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker and was written by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter and Women Creating Change Leadership Council member A’Lelia Bundles.
Watch the limited series now out on Netflix.
New Post from Women Mobilizing Memory Working Group Member for International Women's Day
Women Mobilizing Memory book editor, Ayşe Gül Altınay, penned the recent post Feminist Curious Steps Through History: Illumination in Dark Times for Social Difference Online.
Ayşe Gül Altınay, editor of the recently published Women Mobilizing Memory book and member of the Women Mobilizing Memory working group penned the recent Social Difference Online blog post Feminist Curious Steps Through History: Illumination in Dark Times . The post was submitted in honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2020.
Ana Paulina Lee Participates in Workshop Discussing Restitution of Plundered Objects
The workshop was hosted by the Decolonial Collective on Migration of Objects and People at Brown University.
On February 7, 2020, Ana Paulina Lee, co-director of the Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City working group, delivered a presentation of her research, “Sorcery and Violence in the Archive,” in a workshop titled “Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma.” The workshop brought scholars together to discuss the restitution of plundered objects as part of “world repairing.”
Read about the workshop here.
Geographies of Injustice Fellows Featured in Rio On Watch
Fernando Ermiro and Antônio Carlos Firmino are both fellows of the CSSD Geographies of Injustice working group and partners in the Sankofa Museum.
Fernando Ermiro and Antônio Carlos Firmino, fellows of the CSSD working group Geographies of Injustice, are highlighted for the work they have done with the Sankofa Museum. Ermiro discusses his participation in the resident-led tours of Rocinha and suggests that they are essential to accurately depict the community’s long history and to support local development. He argues that community-led tours should “touch on certain points: the law is not a synonym for justice; income distribution what moves the local economy thinking globally and acting locally.”
For their whole account and the rest of the article, read here.
To learn more about the work of Geographies of Injustice, read here.
Join Geographies of Injustice Co-Director for a Book Talk
Anupama Rao is the editor of Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More by Satyendra More
Anupama Rao, co-director of Geographies of Injustice and former co-director of CSSD working groups Gender & The Global Slum and Reframing Gendered Violence, will be featured in a discussion of the recent publication she edited, Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More by Satyendra More, and will be joined by Elleni Zelleke and Sudipta Kaviraj.
To learn more about the book and to RSVP, click here.
To learn more about the Geographies of Injustice working group, read here.
Unpayable Debt Co-director Featured in Podcasts The Takeaway and Hilando Fino
Frances Negron Muntaner discusses the Puerto Rican diaspora in these interviews.
Frances Negron Muntaner, former co-director of the CSSD working group Unpayable Debt, was recently featured on WNYC’s podcast, The Takeaway, and Hilando Fino, a podcast produced by Cadena Radio of Universidad de Puerto Rico. In these episodes, “How West Side Story Culturally Defined the Puerto Rican Diaspora - For Better or for Worse” and “La isla que se vacía [The island that empties],” respectively, Muntaner discusses various aspects of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
To listen to The Takeaway episode, click here.
To listen to the Hilando Fino episode, click here.
To learn more about the Unpayable Debt working group, click here.
Former CSSD Director Marianne Hirsch’s New Book Featured in Columbia News
School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference was co-authored by Leo Spitzer.
Former CSSD Director and project director of Women Mobilizing Memory, Marianne Hirsch, is interviewed about her new book, School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference, by Columbia News. She discusses the idea behind the book, her personal connection to the subject matter, the revealing nature of photographs, and her research on memory, amongst other things.
To read the whole interview, click here.
Environmental Justice Working Group Event Featured in Spectator Article
The film screening of “Antonio and Piti” was organized as a part of Columbia’s Year of Water initiative.
Center for the Study of Social Difference working group, Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized a film screening of Antonio and Piti as a part of Columbia’s Year of Water initiative. Panelist Esther Hamburger described the film as being about “the prejudices this [mixed] couple had to face when they decided to marry, but it’s also about the success of their family… They turned what could be thought of as a problem into something powerful.” Antonio and Piti is co-directed by Brazilian-French filmmaker Vincent Carelli and indigenous filmmaker Wewito Piyãko.
For the full Spectator article, click here.
To learn more about the Environmental Justice working group, click here.