Faculty News and Annoucements

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2023 Book Prize Awards | American Institute of Pakistan Studies (pakistanstudies-aips.org) Congratulations to both Dr. Isabel Huacuja Alonso for receiving the 2023 AIPS Book Prize! “The committee found Huacuja Alonso’s book, Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders, to be “a fascinating history of the role of radio at

Rakesh Ranjan, Senior Lecturer and Language Coordinator, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), has been awarded the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for 2022-23 Within the Arts and Sciences, Columbia recognizes the excellence of our faculty – as teachers, scholars, and mentors within and outside the classroom

Jennifer Wenzel, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, has been awarded the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for 2022-23 Within the Arts and Sciences, Columbia recognizes the excellence of our faculty – as teachers, scholars, and mentors within and outside the classroom

MESAAS is pleased to announce that Prof. Hamid Dabashi has won the Hamid Dabashi is the recipient of the Lionel Trilling Award  for his book The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West. The announcement may be read here.