Faculty News and Annoucements

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

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