Faculty News and Annoucements

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

To view the MESAAS Spring Newsletter, click on the link below: MESAAS Newsletter- Spring 2024

Call for papers available here: Call For Papers: MESAAS Graduate Student Conference 2024 The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference to be held on April 18-19 2024. This conference is a space for graduate students to present their original work in a