Faculty News and Annoucements

Dissent: Popular Uprisings in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa MESAAS Graduate Conference 2025 Call for Papers The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University is pleased to invite academic essays from graduate students and early career scholars from across universities and departments for

New MESAAS Courses Spring 2025 MDES GU4952 Leaving the Ottoman Empire Nora Lessersohn          T 10:10am-12:00pm This course will examine the experience of Ottoman American communities before, during, and after their migration to the United States, with a particular focus on Ottoman Armenians pre- and post-genocide. Through

Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, received the second annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies from the Modern Language Association of America, for her book, Radio for the Millions: Hindu-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders.

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