Faculty News and Annoucements

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

Congratulations to Professor Wael Hallaq for winning the King Faisal Prize for Islamic Studies for 2024, with its theme “Islamic Systems and their Contemporary Applications.” https://www.facebook.com/KingFaisalFoundation/  

Summer 2024 Allison Busch Memorial Language Study Fellowship Summer 2024 Language Study for Undergraduate International Students. Application due March 15, 2024:  In 2020, the University Committee on Asia and the Middle East (UCAME) announced the Allison Busch Memorial Language Study Fellowship, to honor the late Allison Busch, Professor of Hindi