Accolades

Faculty Accolades

Columbia faculty members are recognized within the University and across the world for their outstanding scholarship and cutting-edge research, which they bring into the classroom so students can gain new perspectives and learn from leaders in the field. Following are just some of the awards and honors that our faculty received in 2015–2016.

Appointments and Committees

33 1/3 Japan

  • Editorial Board: Kevin Fellezs, Assistant Professor of Music, IRAAS/Ethnomusicology

Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza

  • Accademica Olimpica Corrispondente: Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian

American Academy in Rome

  • Lester K. Little Scholar in Residence: Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of Art History

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Commission on Language Learning

  • Commissioner: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Foreign Honorary Member: Colm Tóibín, Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section on Physics

  • Andrew Millis, Professor of Physics

American Comparative Literature Association

  • President: Joseph Slaughter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

American Economic Review

  • Associate Editor: Alessandra Casella, Professor of Economics, Associate Editor

American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy

  • Vice President: Michele Moody-Adams, Joseph Straus Professor of Political

Association for Asian Studies

  • China and Inner Asia Council: Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies
  • Codirector: Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, workshop on Emerging Fields in the Study of Asia

Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts), Munich

  • Georg Friederich Haas, MacDowell Professor of Music

Board of the American Council of Learned Societies

  • Michele Moody-Adams, Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory

Burgess Professor of Political Science

  • Donald Green, Burgess Professor of Political Science

Cambridge University

  • Masterclass: Katja Maria Vogt, Professor of Philosophy

Chevalier de l’Ordre des arts et des lettres, Minister of Culture, France

  • Clémence Boulouque, Assistant Professor of Religion

Classical Association of the Atlantic States

  • President: Gareth Williams, Violin Family Professor of Classics; Chair, Department of Classics

University Professor, Columbia University

  • Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor
  • Ruth DeFries, University Professor

Dean of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

  • Peter deMenocal, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Director, Center for Climate and Life, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Drug Discovery and Molecular Pharmacology (DMP) NIH Study Section

  • Brent Stockwell, Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry

Ethics

  • Associate Editor: Michele Moody-Adams, Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory

Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology

  • Heritage Inductee: E. Tory Higgins, Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology and Professor of Business

General Relativity and Gravitation

  • Associate Editor: Szabolcs Marka, Walter O. LeCroy, Jr. Professor of Physics

GRACE Project, University of Hull, England, in collaboration with consortium partners including the University of Oviedo and University of Lodz

  • Adviser: Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Hagiography Society

  • President: Neslihan Senocak, Associate Professor of History

Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy

  • Page Fortna, Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy; Chair, Department of Political Science

Harvard University

  • Board of Overseers: Brian Greene, Professor of Mathematics and Physics
  • Visiting Professorship: Villa I Tatti, Fiesole, Italy, Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy

Higgins Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University

  • Steven Goldstein, Higgins Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Associate Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

IEMYR (Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies), Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

  • Jesús Velasco, Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures

Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation

  • Kate Ho, Associate Professor of Economics

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

  • President: Richard Davis, Howard Levene Professor of Statistics; Chair, Department of Statistics

International Society for Chinese Law and History

  • Board of Directors: Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies

International Society for Developmental Psychobiology

  • Nim Tottenham, Associate Professor of Psychology

James P. Shenton Assistant Professor of the Core Curriculum

  • N. Turkuler Isiksel, James P. Shenton Assistant Professor of the Core Curriculum

Journal of Economic Theory

  • Editorial Board: Jennifer La’O, Assistant Professor of Economics for “Credit Risk and Interdealer Networks”

Journal of International Economics

  • Coeditor: Martin Uribe, Professor of Economics

Nano Canadian Society, Ottawa, Canada

  • Honorary Member: Rafael Yuste, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience

National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Alumni

  • Jose Blanchet, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and of Statistics

National Academy of Sciences

  • Richard Friesner, William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry
  • Maureen Raymo, Bruce C. Heezen/Lamont Research Professor, Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory; Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

New Chaucer Society

  • President: Susan Crane, Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Phi Beta Kappa

  • Visiting Scholar: Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History

Psychonomic Society

  • Governing Board: Janet Metcalfe, Professor of Psychology

Public Culture

  • Editor: Shamus Khan, Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Editorial Board: Alondra Nelson, Professor of Sociology; Dean of Social Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales de España (RACEFN; Spanish Royal Academy of Science), Madrid, Spain

  • Corresponding Member: Rafael Yuste, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience

Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España (RANM; Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine),Madrid, Spain

  • Honorary Member: Rafael Yuste, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience

Renaissance Society of America

  • President: Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History

Robert Gardiner–Kenneth T. Jackson Professorship of History

  • Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences

Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Belgium

  • Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History

Scientific Advisory Council, Blavatnik Awards

  • Szabolcs Marka, Walter O. LeCroy, Jr. Professor of Physics

Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics

  • Darcy Kelley, Harold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences

Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics

  • President: W. Bentley MacLeod, Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)

  • President-Elect: Laura Landweber, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)

  • Board of Directors: Nim Tottenham, Associate Professor of Psychology

TED Resident, Inaugural Class

  • Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy

Temporal Dynamics of Learning NSF Center, UCSD

  • Advisory Board: Janet Metcalfe, Professor of Psychology

The Middle Range, Columbia University Press

  • Series Coeditor: Shamus Khan, Associate Professor of Sociology

Thomas Alva Edison/Con Edison Professor

  • Peter deMenocal, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Director, Center for Climate and Life, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Turkish Science Academy

  • Honorary Membership: Martin Chalfie, University Professor

Université Paris Diderot

  • Visiting Distinguished Professor: Ross Posnock, Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities

Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government

  • Robert Shapiro, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government

West Chester University, Philadelphia

  • Artist- in- Residence: Christopher Washburne, Associate Professor of Music

Awards and Prizes

9th Annual Commissioning Project Winner, Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music

  • Zosha Di Castri, Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music Composition

21st Annual Health Care Research Award, National

  • Finalist: Kate Ho, Associate Professor of Economics

“Albie” Award for Best Writing on Global Political Economy, The Washington Post

  • Jack Snyder, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations

Alan Merriam Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology

  • Corecipient: Ana Maria Ochoa, Professor of Music, for Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Pure Chemistry

  • Jonathan Owen, Associate Professor of Chemistry

American Psychological Association’s Eminent Psychologists of the Modern Era

  • E. Tory Higgins, Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology and Professor of Business

Anneliese Maier Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

  • E. Tory Higgins, Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology and Professor of Business

Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Award, Annual American Society of Composers

  • Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition

Arrow Award for Best Paper of the Year, International Health Economics Association

  • Honorable Mention: Kate Ho, Associate Professor of Economics

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award

  • Luis Campos, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Association of Political and Legal Anthropology Book Award

  • Honorable Mention: Audra Simpson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, for Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler State

Best Writing on Mathematics 2015

  • Notable Writing: Justin Clarke-Doane, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, “Moral Epistemology: The Mathematics Analogy”
  • Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and of Political Science, “The Statistical Crisis in Science”

Best book award in theory of art, Festival International du Livre d’Art et du Film, Perpignan, France

  • Alessandra Russo, Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, for Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe

Best First Book, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

  • Audra Simpson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, for Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

Breakthrough Prize—with Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team

  • Szabolcs Marka, Walter O. LeCroy, Jr. Professor of Physics

Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner Institute, Wien (Austria)

  • Axel Honneth, Jack C.Weinstein Professor for the Humanities

Buck-Whitney Award, American Chemical Society

  • Wei Min, Associate Professor of Chemistry

C. Wright Mills Prize

  • Carla Shedd, Assistant Professor of Sociology, for Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

  • Wei Min, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

  • Michael Harris, Professor of Mathematics, for Mathematics without Apologies
  • Gregory Mann, Professor of History, for From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Nongovernmentality
  • Susan Pedersen, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History for The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
  • Adam Reich, Assistant Professor of Sociology, for Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
  • Seth Schwartz, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization; Chair, Department of History for The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad

Cinema Nova Award, Best Short Fiction Film, Director, Melbourne International Film Festival

  • Elizabeth Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology

“Citizen of the Year” Prize, Galliate, Italy

  • Achille Varzi, Professor of Philosophy

Columbia Provost’s Junior Faculty Diversity Grant Award

  • Tanya Zelevinsky, Associate Professor of Physics
  • Jennifer La’O, Assistant Professor of Economics

Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award

  • Honorable Mention: John Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Statistics

Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award

  • Wael Hallaq, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities for The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament

Columbia University RISE Award

  • Colin Nuckolls, Higgins Professor of Chemistry
  • Molly Przeworski, Professor of Biological Sciences
  • Latha Venkataraman, Professor of Applied Physics

Copland Fund Award

  • Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition, to support his CD Music Vol. 5, on Bridge Records

Cottrell Scholar Award

  • Luis Campos, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Cundill Prize in Historical Literature

  • Susan Pedersen, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History for The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

Dansgaard Award, American Geophysical Union, Paleoceanography and Paleontology Focus Group

  • Jerry McManus, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

DeGroot Prize, International Society for Bayesian Data Analysis

  • Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and of Political Science

Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Book Prize

  • Honorable Mention: Audra Simpson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, for Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Award, National Endowment for the Humanities

  • David Scott, Professor of Anthropology
  • Alex Gil, Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature
  • Dennis Tenen, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender and Class

  • Cowinner: Carla Shedd, Assistant Professor of Sociology, for Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice

Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art, College Art Association

  • Rosalind Krauss, University Professor

Eric Hoffer Book Award in Culture

  • Gustavo Pérez Firmat, David Feinson Professor of Humanities, for A Cuban in Mayberry

Ernst Bloch Prize, Ernst Bloch Zentrum Ludwigshafen and the City of Ludwigshafen (Germany)

  • Axel Honneth, Jack C.Weinstein Professor for the Humanities

Everyday Freedom Hero Award, Underground Railroad Freedom Center

  • Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History

Excellence in Teaching Award, General Studies Student Council

  • Michele Moody-Adams, Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory

Excellence in Graduate Advising Award, Columbia University

  • Navin Kartik, Professor of Economics

Faculty Mentoring Award, Columbia University

  • Christopher Brown, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Professor of History; Director, Society of Fellows
  • Rosalind Morris, Professor of Anthropology

Golden Goose Award for Federally Funded Breakthrough Research

  • Walter Mischel, Niven Professor of Humane Letters
  • Peter Bearman, Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Sociology

Google Faculty Research Award

  • Liam Paninski, Professor of Statistics and of Neuroscience

Grand Prix Spécial du Jury, Festival International du Livre d’Art et du Film, Perpignan, France

  • Alessandra Russo, Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, for Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe

Greenleaf Scholar in Residence Award, Tulane University

  • Ana Maria Ochoa, Professor of Music

Gruber Prize in Cosmology—with Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team

  • Szabolcs Marka, Walter O. LeCroy, Jr. Professor of Physics

Harry Fielding Reid Medal, Seismological Society of America

  • Christopher Scholz, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Hawthornden Prize for Nora Webster

  • Colm Tóibín, Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities

Inaugural Legacy Award, SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology)

  • Walter Mischel, Niven Professor of Humane Letters

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Test of Time Award

  • David Blei, Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science; Director of Graduate Programs, Data Science Institute

Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences

  • Oliver Hobert, Professor of Biological Sciences and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, University of Uppsala, Sweden

  • Jon Elster, Robert K. Merton Professor of the Social Sciences

Kirkus Prize

  • Finalist: Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History; Director of the European Institute, for The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931

LASA Humanities Book Award

  • Claudio Lomnitz, Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology, for The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award

  • Marcel Agüeros, Assistant Professor of Astronomy
  • Terence D’Altroy, Loubat Professor of American Archaeology
  • Bärbel Hönisch, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Peter Kelemen, Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Deputy Director for Education, Lamont- Doherty Observatory
  • Gil Anidjar, Professor of Religion
  • Susan Boynton, Professor of Music; Chair, Department of Music
  • Michael Golston, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
  • Dana Pe’er, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Lifetime Achievement Award, International Federation of Finance Museums

  • Edmund Phelps, McVickar Professor of Political Economy

Lionel Gelber Prize

  • Shortlisted, Susan Pedersen, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History for The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

Lionel Trilling Book Award

  • Susan Pedersen, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History for The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

Lora Romero Award for Best First Book, American Studies Association

  • Audra Simpson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, for Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

Louis J. Battan Author’s Award, American Meteorological Society

  • Adam Sobel, Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and of Earth and Environmental Sciences, for Storm Surge

Ludwig Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry

  • Gerard Parkin, Professor of Chemistry

March Read of the Month, Southern Literary Review

  • Gustavo Pérez Firmat, David Feinson Professor of Humanities, for A Cuban in Mayberry

Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching

  • Liza Knapp, Professor of Slavic Languages

McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award

  • Daphna Shohamy, Associate Professor of Psychology

McKnight Scholar Award

  • John Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Statistics

NARSAD Young Investigator Award

  • Dean Mobbs, Assistant Professor of Psychology

New-York Historical Society American History Book Award

  • Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, for Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

New York Writers Hall of Fame

  • Colm Tóibín, Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities

NSF CAREER Award

  • Ryan Abernathey, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Lars Dietrich, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

“One of the Top 10 Best Academic Books of 2015,” Flavorwire

  • Joseph Massad, Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, for Islam in Liberalism

Premio Terzani

  • Finalist: Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory

Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching

  • Honorable Mention: David Blei, Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science; Director of Graduate Programs, Data Science Institute

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

  • Marcel Agüeros, Assistant Professor of Astronomy

Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises (Vermeil Medal), Académie Française

  • Pierre Force, Professor of French and Romance Philology

Proclamation: City of Miami designating February 1, 2016, “Dr. Carl Hart Day

  • Carl Hart, Dirk Ziff Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry); Chair, Department of Psychology

PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American

  • Michael Harris, Professor of Mathematics, for Mathematics without Apologies

SAGE and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Award, Stanford University

  • Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs

SEAS Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarly Leadership

  • Aron Pinczuk, Professor of Applied Physics and Physics

Sharon Stephens Prize for Best First Book, American Ethnological Society

  • Audra Simpson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, for Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

Sheikh Zayed Book Award

  • Nominee, Muhsin Al-Musawi, Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, for The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction

Simons Collaboration Award

  • Mohammed Abouzaid, Professor of Mathematics

Simons Investigator Award

  • Andrei Beloborodov, Professor of Physics

Society for Social Science Research (India) “Social Scientist” Award

  • Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy; Director, South Asia Institute

Society of Columbia Graduates Great Teacher Award

  • Julie A. Crawford, Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities

Sol Stetin Award for Labor History

  • Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Test of Time Award

  • Honorable Mention: David Blei, Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science; Director of Graduate Programs, Data Science Institute

Tang Prize in Sinology

  • William Theodore de Bary, John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus; Provost Emeritus; Special Service Professor

“Ten best articles published in philosophy in 2014,” Philosopher’s Annual

  • Justin Clarke-Doane, Assistant Professor of Philosophy for “Moral Epistemology: The Mathematics Analogy”

Thompson Reuters ISI Highly Cited Author

  • Shahid Naeem, Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

Top Ten Papers of 2015 in Regulatory and Systems Genomics from the International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology

  • Harmen Bussemaker, Professor of Biological Sciences

Ulysses Medal, University College Dublin (Ireland)

  • Axel Honneth, Jack C.Weinstein Professor for the Humanities

Visible Award (with Karrabing Film Collective)

  • Elizabeth Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, for Salt

Young Investigator Award, Inter-American Photochemical Society

  • Luis Campos, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research

  • Luis Campos, Associate Professor of Chemistry
    Ozgur Sahin, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Physics

Young Scientist Award, World Economic Forum

  • Ozgur Sahin, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Physics

Zipcar’s Number One Coolest College Class in the U.S.

  • Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, for his course A Cultural History of Japanese Monster

Featured Performers and Composers

2015 SEAMUS Conference (with Terry Pender and Gregory Taylor)

  • Featured performer: Brad Garton, Professor of Music

Electroacoustic Barn Dance 2015 (with Terry Pender and Gregory Taylor)

  • Brad Garton, Professor of Music

Featured artist, Santa Cruz Jazz Festival

  • Christopher Washburne, Associate Professor of Music

Featured soloist: Firehouse Space, Aaron Davis Hall, The Egg, Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Catskill Jazz Factory Festival at Bard College, and Django Festival at Birdland Jazz Club

  • Christopher Washburne, Associate Professor of Music

Fellowships and Grants

Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship

  • Cory Dean, Assistant Professor of Physics

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics

  • Marcel Nutz, Associate Professor of Statistics

Alliance Joint Project Grant

  • Karen Barkey, Professor of Sociology, for her project Negotiating Pluralism in Shared Religious Sites: A Comparative Study of Coexistence in the Eastern Mediterranean and India
  • Diane Bodart, David Rosand Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Art, for her project Scribbles and Scribbling in the Early Modern Period
  • Jean L. Cohen, Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum, for the conference Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism
  • Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, for her project Objects and Archives in Science, Technology, and Society Studies: Promoting Research and Innovative Teaching Co-initiatives

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow

  • Terry Plank, Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English; Codirector, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
  • Edward Mendelson, Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities
  • Andrei Okounkov, Samuel Eilenberg Professor of Mathematics
  • Terry Plank, Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Susan Pedersen, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences Fellow

  • Thomas DiPrete, Giddings Professor of Sociology; Co-Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

  • Marc Van De Mieroop, Professor of History

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant

  • Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English; Dean of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to establish the Center for Spatial Research

Association for Computing Machinery Fellow

  • David Blei, Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science; Director of Graduate Programs, Data Science Institute

Association for Psychological Science Fellow

  • Janet Metcalfe, Professor of Psychology

Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, University of Chicago, Distinguished Fellow

  • Pierre-André Chiappori, E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics

British Academy Corresponding Fellow

  • George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of Music

British Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant

  • Małgorzata Mazurek, Associate Professor of Polish Studies, for her project Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Connections between the ‘Second’ and ‘Third World’ 1945–1991

Center for Advanced Jewish Studies Fellowship

  • Rebecca Kobrin, Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History

Center for Advanced Studies Fellowship, Munich

  • Katja Maria Vogt, Professor of Philosophy

Center of Advanced Study Visiting Fellowship, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität (CASLMU)

  • Holger Klein, Professor of Art History and Archaeology

Center for the Study of Social Difference Grant

  • Kevin Fellezs, Assistant Professor of Music, IRAAS/Ethnomusicology, for the project, “Pacific Climate Currents”

CESifo Research Network Fellow

  • Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy

Chang-Chavkin Global Core Grant

  • Marcus Folch, Riggio Professor of Art History

Collaborative Fellowship, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London

  • Christopher Peacocke, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy

Columbia Global Centers Grant

  • Debashree Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies for her project Practicing Media: Ecologies of Labor in South Asia’s Media Industries

Columbia Provost’s Junior Faculty Diversity Grant Award

  • Mana Kia, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

Course Development Grant, Center for Science and Society

  • Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Course Development Grant, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

  • Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
  • Eliza Zingesser, Assistant Professor of French and Romance Philology, for her course Reading and Writing (on) the Body in Medieval France, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Columbia University

Daimler Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin

  • Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy

David and Lucille Packard Fellowship

  • Cory Dean, Assistant Professor of Physics

Diamond Jubilee Visiting Fellow, University of Southampton

  • Peter Kelemen, Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Deputy Director for Education, Lamont- Doherty Observatory

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship

  • Hilary Hallett, Associate Professor of History
  • Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship, Harvard University

  • Alexandre Roberts, Assistant Professor of History

Economic Theory Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory

  • Pierre-André Chiappori, E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics
  • Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy

Econometric Society Fellow

  • Serena Ng, Professor of Economics

Emile Noël Fellowship, Jean Monnet Center, New York University

  • N. Turkuler Isiksel, James P. Shenton Assistant Professor of the Core Curriculum

Emmy Noether Visiting Fellowship, Perimeter Institute

  • Rachel Rosen, Assistant Professor of Physics

English Association Shakespeare Award, Corresponding Fellow, Festival Shakespeare, Buenos Aires

  • James Shapiro, Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Guggenheim Fellowship

  • Peter Bearman, Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Sociology

Henry Luce Foundation Grant

  • Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, for her project Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence

Hettleman Summer Fellowship, Columbia University

  • Karen Benezra, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures

Heyman Center for the Humanities Fellowship, Columbia University

  • Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor of History
  • Tarik Amar, Associate Professor of History
  • Catherine Fennell, Associate Professor of Anthropology
  • Marcus Folch, Riggio Professor of Art History
  • Hilary Hallett, Associate Professor of History
  • Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities
  • Natasha Lightfoot, Associate Professor of History
  • Rhiannon Stephens, Associate Professor of History
  • Gauri Viswanathan, Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities

Huntington Library Distinguished Fellow

  • Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh Distinguished Visiting Fellow

  • Susan Pedersen, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History

Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Durham University

  • Zoe Crossland, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Institute of Latin American Studies Summer Research Grant

  • Karen Benezra, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures

InterAsian Contexts and Connections Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship, Social Science Research Council

  • Mana Kia, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

Invited Guest Professor and Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin, Center of Advanced Studies (BildEvidenz)

  • Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of Art History

Junior Research Fellowship, King’s College, Cambridge

  • Kathryn Tabb, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Program

  • Sonya Dyhrman, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Language Resource Center Grant

  • Taoufik Ben-Amor, Gordon Gray Jr. Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies

Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant

  • Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor of History
  • Karen Benezra, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
  • Allison Carnegie, Assistant Professor of Political Science
  • Daniel Corstange, Assistant Professor of Political Science and of International and Public Affairs
  • Yang Feng, Associate Professor of Statistics
  • Catherine Fennell, Associate Professor of Anthropology
  • Marcus Folch, Riggio Professor of Art History
  • Hilary Hallett, Associate Professor of History
  • Matthew Hart, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
  • Joseph Howley, Assistant Professor of Classics
  • N. Turkuler Isiksel, James P. Shenton Assistant Professor of the Core Curriculum
  • Mana Kia, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
  • Natasha Lightfoot, Associate Professor of History
  • Duncan Menge, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
  • Tonya Putnam, Associate Professor of Political Science
  • Carla Shedd, Assistant Professor of Sociology
  • Dennis Tenen, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
  • Tobias Wilke, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages
  • Yao Lu, Associate Professor of Sociology

Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism, and International Affairs Grant

  • Katherine Pratt Ewing, Professor of Religion

Magic Grant, Brown Center for Media Innovation

  • Dennis Tenen, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Visiting Fellow, Berlin

  • Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History

National Academies Education Fellow in the Sciences

  • Gerard Parkin, Professor of Chemistry

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

  • Benjamin Steege, Assistant Professor of Music

National Resource Center (NRC) Grant, U.S. Department of Education

  • Zhaohua Yang, Sheng Yen Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhism

National Scialog Fellow

  • Brian Metzger, Assistant Professor of Physics

National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, “CAREER: Statistical Inference of Network and Relational Data,” Principal Investigator

  • Yang Feng, Associate Professor of Statistics

New Music USA Grant

  • Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition to underwrite the commission of Chaconne by the Daedalus Quartet

Oceanography Society Fellow

  • Arnold Gordon, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering

  • Ivan Corwin, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Peter Szondi Institute Visiting Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin

  • Kathy Eden, Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics

President’s Global Innovation Fund Grant, Columbia University

  • Thomas DiPrete, Giddings Professor of Sociology; Co-Director, Institute for his project Social and Economic Research and Policy, for his project School to Work Transition and Inequality in Brazil and the US: A Collaborative Investigation
  • Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages; Chair, Department of Slavic Languages, for her project Black Sea Networks: Rethinking Slavic Studies in the Global Age
  • Jack Snyder, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations, for his project Human Rights Treaty Body Reform Process: Towards a Stronger Human Rights Protection Regime

Provost Leadership Fellowship

  • Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Public Voices Fellowship, Columbia University

  • Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
  • Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology
  • Madeleine Dobie, Professor of French and Romance Philology
  • Eleanor Johnson, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
  • Ana Paulina Lee, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
  • Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
  • Josef Sorett, Associate Professor of Religion

Senior Emile Noël Fellowship, Jean Monnet Center, New York University

  • Jean L. Cohen, Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum

Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics by the Simons Foundation

  • Zoltan Haiman, Professor of Astronomy

Sloan Research Fellow in Ocean Sciences

  • Ryan Abernathey, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Templeton Fellowship

  • Katja Maria Vogt, Professor of Philosophy

Tsunoda Senior Fellowship, Waseda University

  • Kevin Fellezs, Assistant Professor of Music, IRAAS/Ethnomusicology

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Harvard University

  • Benjamin Steege, Assistant Professor of Music

Society of Experimental Psychology

  • Janet Metcalfe, Professor of Psychology

W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship, Stanford University

  • Daniel Corstange, Assistant Professor of Political Science and of International and Public Affairs

Wang Grant

  • Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, for the Tengyur Translation Initiative

Whitman Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory

  • Darcy Kelley, Harold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

  • William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History

Honorary Degrees and Fellowships

Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), McGill University

  • Andreas Wimmer, Lieber Professor of Political Philosophy

Honorary Degree of Vakpati (Master of Literary Arts), Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, U. P., India

  • Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies

Honorary Doctorate, Aix-Marseille University

  • Bernard Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law

Honorary Doctorate, Brown University

  • Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities

Honorary Doctorate, McGill University

  • Ruth DeFries, University Professor

Honorary Doctorate, Pierre and Marie Curie University

  • Dusa McDuff, Professor of Mathematics

Honorary Doctorate, University of Warwick

  • Dusa McDuff, Professor of Mathematics

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Lehigh University

  • Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Princeton University

  • Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History

Honorary Doctorate of Science, Middlebury College

  • Martin Chalfie, University Professor

Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Chile

  • Martin Chalfie, University Professor

Honorary Professor, Nanjing Tech University, China

  • Liang Tong, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences; Chair, Department of Biological Sciences

Honorary Professor, University of Trento, Italy

  • Achille Varzi, Professor of Philosophy

Honorary Professorship, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile

  • Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Jerome H. and Matthew S. Grossman Professor of Development Economics

Invited Speakers and Dedications

18th Putcha Venkateswarlu Memorial Lecture, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

  • Martin Chalfie, University Professor

30th Louis H. Nahun Lecture in Physiology, Yale University

  • Martin Chalfie, University Professor

A.W. Mellon Lectures, National Gallery of Art

  • Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art

Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture, University of Ghana– Legon

  • Gayatri Spivak, University Professor

Bay Area Lectures in Ancient Philosophy, San Francisco

  • Katja Maria Vogt, Professor of Philosophy

Berger Family Holocaust Lecture, Colby College

  • Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English; Codirector, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Birch Lecturer, American Geophysical Union, Tectonophysics Section

  • Maya Tolstoy, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dakin Lecture, Adelphi University

  • Martin Chalfie, University Professor

Distinguished Lecturer, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

  • Carol Prives, Da Costa Professor of Biology

Donnel Foster Hewett Lecture Series, Lehigh University

  • Bärbel Hönisch, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Edward Said Memorial Lecture, American University in Cairo

  • Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science

Festschrift, Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater

  • Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities

Frank K. Edmondson Lecture, University of Indiana

  • Kathryn Johnston, Professor of Astronomy

Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

  • Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of Art History

Hallie Memorial Lecture, Wesleyan University

  • Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of Art History

Karl G. Jansky Lectureship, awarded by the National Radio Astronomical Observatories

  • Jacqueline van Gorkom, Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy

Marius B. Jansen Memorial Lecture, Princeton University

  • Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Master-Seminar, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  • Christopher Peacocke, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy

Nancy B. Tucker Memorial Lecture, Woodrow Wilson Center

  • Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

President’s Endowed Plenary, Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society

  • George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of Music

Sound/Image/Data Conference Keynote Speaker, New York University

  • Brad Garton, Professor of Music

Swiss Chemical Society Lecturer

  • Tristan Lambert, Professor of Chemistry

Visiting Distinguished Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA

  • Eleanor Johnson, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Werner Grilk Annual Lecture in German Studies, University of Michigan

  • Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature