Faculty News and Annoucements

The Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award is funded by the office of the Provost. It will be awarded annually by the Press to a book by a Columbia University faculty member that brings the highest distinction to Columbia University and Columbia University Press for its outstanding contribution to academic

MESAAS’ Mamadou Diouf has been elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts in one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. https://news.columbia.edu/news/american-academy-arts-and-sciences-inducts-nine-columbia-faculty-members

Elleni Centime Zeleke joined MESAAS and the Columbia University community in 2018, after completing her Ph.D. in the history of social and political thought at York University in Toronto in 2016. Her 2019 book, Ethiopia in Theory: Knowledge Production and Social Change, 1964-2016, attracted wide admiration both for its suggestive analysis

Congratulations to Sourav Chatterjee, who is one of three graduate student instructors who were named recipients of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching for 2024. This is a very competitive and distinguished award awarded to only 3 students in the entire university per year. The Presidential Awards for Outstanding Teaching were established in 1996

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award Established in 2005 by a gift from late Columbia University Trustee Gerry Lenfest, the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award recognizes the excellence of Arts and Sciences faculty as teachers, scholars, and mentors within and outside the classroom. For her René Welleck Prize-winning monograph, Becoming Palestine: Toward an