Seminars

List of Seminars

Seminar #	Title	Year Founded	Chair(s)	Rapporteur(s)
405	Studies in Religion	1945	Sidney Greenfield sidneygreenfield@gmail.com Tony Carnes editor@nycreligion.info	Elijah Ferrante emf2218@columbia.edu
407	The Renaissance	1945	Cynthia M. Pyle c.m.pyle@nyu.edu Alan Stewart ags2105@columbia.edu	Mackenzie Fox maf2292@columbia.edu
411	Content and Methods of the Social Sciences	1947	Tony Carnes editor@nycreligion.info Sidney Greenfield sidneygreenfield@gmail.com	Elijah Ferrante emf2218@columbia.edu
417	Eighteenth-Century European Culture	1962	Carrie Shanafelt carrie.shanafelt@yu.edu	Benjamin Weisgall bjw2139@columbia.edu
427	Studies in Political and Social Thought	1968	David Johnston dcj1@columbia.edu Karuna Mantena km3510@columbia.edu Daniel Luban dhl2140@columbia.edu	Mayaki Kimba msk2253@columbia.edu
429	American Studies	1954	Diane Detournay ddetournay@fordham.edu Brandy Monk-Payton bmonkpayton@fordham.edu
431	Medieval Studies	1954	Hannah Weaver hmw2147@columbia.edu Jeffrey Wayno jeffrey.wayno@columbia.edu	Lennox Németh mmn2159@columbia.edu
435	Studies in Contemporary Africa	1956	Casey McNeill cmcneill5@fordham.edu Rhiannon Stephens rs3169@columbia.edu	Mylkah Djacko md4258@columbia.edu
441	Classical Civilization	1957	Marcus Folch mf2664@columbia.edu Joel Lidov jlidov@caa.columbia.edu	Jazmín Novoa Lara jan2191@columbia.edu
443	Modern East Asia: China	1957	Nicholas Bartlett nbartlet@barnard.edu Ying Qian yq2189@columbia.edu William Charles Wooldridge william.wooldridge@lehman.cuny.edu	John Payne jhp2164@columbia.edu
445	Modern East Asia: Japan	1960	Sarah Kovner sck25@columbia.edu	Philippe Depairon pd2777@columbia.edu
451	The Study of the New Testament	1959	Colleen Conway colleen.conway@shu.edu Jeremy F. Hultin jhultin@uts.columbia.edu	Karl M. Taps kt2893@utsnyc.edu
459A	The City	1962	Mary Rocco mrocco@barnard.edu	Elizabeth Milagros Alvarez ema2200@columbia.edu
465	Law and Politics	1963	Simon Baatz sbaatz@jjay.cuny.edu	Hedwig Lieback hl3426@columbia.edu
471	Ecology and Culture	1964	Veronica Davidov veronica.davidov@gmail.com Paige West cw2031@columbia.edu	Antara Chakrabarti ac4606@columbia.edu
473	The Study of the Hebrew Bible	1968	David Carr dcarr@utsnyc.edu Karina Hogan kahogan@fordham.edu	Larry Figueroa lf2821@utsnyc.edu
477	South Asia	1964	Carla Bellamy carla.bellamy@baruch.cuny.edu	Ankush Bhuyan ab4888@columbia.edu
479	The Ancient Near East	1966	Allan S. Gilbert gilbert@fordham.edu K. Aslihan Yener akyener12@gmail.com	Shannon Oliver White sw3857@columbia.edu
483	Studies in Modern Italy	1966	David Aliano david.aliano@mountsaintvincent.edu	Ricardo Andres Belisario rab2294@columbia.edu
491	Early American History and Culture	1966	Hannah Farber haf2126@columbia.edu Claire Gherini cgherini@fordham.edu	Connor Spencer ces2272@columbia.edu
495A	Pollution and Water Resources: Scientific and Institutional Aspects	1968	Richard Lo Pinto lopintor@fdu.edu	Sarah Akhtar sa4465@tc.columbia.edu
497	Slavic History and Culture	1968	Nathaniel Knight nathaniel.knight@shu.edu Chloë Kitzinger csk2196@columbia.edu	Zachary Deming zjd2106@columbia.edu
501	Israel and Jewish Studies	1968	Elisheva Carlebach ec607@columbia.edu Rebecca Kobrin rk2351@columbia.edu	Jessica Spencer jrs2350@columbia.edu
503	Economic History	1969	Alan Dye adye@barnard.edu David Weiman dweiman@barnard.edu	Minwoo Kong mk5106@columbia.edu
507	Death	1971	Karla Rothstein kmsr16@columbia.edu Christina Staudt christinastaudt@gmail.com	Sarah Akhtar sa4465@tc.columbia.edu
509	The Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas	1971	Zoë Strother zss1@columbia.edu Lisa Trever lt2731@columbia.edu
511	Innovation in Education	1970	Elizabeth Cohn ec2341@columbia.edu Ronald Gross grossassoc@aol.com	Lorna Jepkoech Kimaiyo ljk2158@columbia.edu
515	Latin America	1971	Ken Erickson kpe973@gmail.com Elizabeth Hansen egrhansen@gmail.com Peter Winn pwinn2@gmail.com	Victoria Korzin vk2590@columbia.edu
521	Population Biology	1971	Alison Cucco alisoncuc@gmail.com Michael Tessler MICHAEL.TESSLER61@mec.cuny.edu	Victor Lievens vjl2116@columbia.edu
523	Political Economy of Society and Nature	1971	Omar Dahbour odahbour@hunter.cuny.edu Alyssa Battistoni abattist@barnard.edu	Sara Wexler sara.wexler@columbia.edu
525	The Middle East	1971	Gary Sick ggs2@columbia.edu James Ketterer jkettere@bard.edu Frank Stewart henfew@gmail.com	Sara Godfrey sjg2223@columbia.edu Ruby Topalian rmt2162@columbia.edu
529	Appetitive Behavior	1972	Allan Geliebter allan.geliebter@mountsinai.org John Glendinning jg263@columbia.edu	Faris Zuraikat fmz2105@columbia.edu
533	The History and Philosophy of Science	1973	Pamela Smith ps2270@columbia.edu Marwa Elshakry me2335@columbia.edu	Stephanie Reitzig scr2165@columbia.edu
535	Irish Studies	1973	Mary McGlynn mary.mcglynn@baruch.cuny.edu Seamus O’Malley seamusomalley@gmail.com	Audrey Siraud ads2277@columbia.edu
539	Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation	1974	Cynthia Lucia cindylucia@aol.com William Luhr luhrwg@aol.com	Alan Ke ak5485@columbia.edu
545	Women and Society	1974	Amy Adamczyk adamczykamy@gmail.com Emily Sohmer Tai etai@qcc.cuny.edu	Katy Habr kjh2172@columbia.edu
551	Ottoman and Turkish Studies	1974	Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular leyla.amzi@rutgers.edu A. Tunç Şen ats2171@columbia.edu Louis Fishman lfishman@brooklyn.cuny.edu	Yasemin Akçagüner ya2300@columbia.edu
553	Drugs and Society	1975	Frank McCorry famcc127@gmail.com Steve Rabinowitz steverabinowitz55@gmail.com	Lynder Atieno Ogembo lao2133@columbia.edu
557	Brazil	1976	Diana Brown dbrown@bard.edu John F. Collins John.Collins@qc.cuny.edu Sidney M. Greenfield sidneygreenfield@gmail.com Vania Penha-Lopes penhalopesv@montclair.edu	Chazelle Rhoden c.rhoden@columbia.edu
559	Arabic Studies	1977	Muhsin al-Musawi ma2188@columbia.edu	Ruwa Mohammed Alhayek rma2152@columbia.edu
561	Human Rights	1978	George J. Andreopoulos chrights@jjay.cuny.edu	Carolin Klein ck3267@columbia.edu
567	Neo-Confucian Studies	1979	Ari Borrell arinborrell@gmail.com Tao Jiang tjiang999@gmail.com On-cho Ng oxn1@psu.edu	Liuyu Ivy Chen lc3131@columbia.edu
581	Shakespeare	1982	Allison Deutermann allison.deutermann@baruch.cuny.edu Lauren Robertson lr2859@columbia.edu	Steven Glavey seg2219@columbia.edu
583	Southeast Asia in World Affairs	1982	Ann Marie Murphy amm31@columbia.edu
585	Ethics, Moral Education, and Society	1983	Elizabeth Cohn ec2341@columbia.edu Ronald Gross grossassoc@aol.com	Lorna Jepkoech Kimaiyo ljk2158@columbia.edu
603	Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience	1986	Christopher Baldassano cab2304@columbia.edu Herbert S. Terrace terrace@columbia.edu	Craig Poskanzer crp2170@columbia.edu Elvinas Butkus eb3407@columbia.edu
613	Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity	1987	Gertrude S. Goldberg trudygoldberg@njfac.org Charles Bell charleswfbell@gmail.com	Carolin Klein ck3267@columbia.edu
615	Iranian Studies	1987	Mahnaz Moazami mm1754@columbia.edu Marisa McCrone m.mccrone@yahoo.com
661	Religion in America	1997	Gale Kenny gkenny@barnard.edu Courtney Bender cb337@columbia.edu	Kristin Perkins khp2121@columbia.edu
667	The History of Columbia University	1998
681	Language and Cognition	2000	Robert Remez remez@columbia.edu	Keying Wang kw2903@tc.columbia.edu
689	Memory and Slavery: Social and Human Consequences	2001	John Delfs john@goodwolf.org	Chazelle Rhoden c.rhoden@columbia.edu
691	Early China	2002	Glenda Chao gchao@ursinus.edu Ethan Harkness harkness@nyu.edu	Songgu Cai sc5345@columbia.edu
701	Modern British History	2004	James Stafford jms2533@columbia.edu Ren Pepitone ren.pepitone@nyu.edu	Audrey Siraud ads2277@columbia.edu
703	Modern Greek	2005	Dimitrios Antoniou da2500@columbia.edu Nikolas P. Kakkoufa nikolas.kakkoufa@columbia.edu	Chloe Tsolakoglou ct3118@columbia.edu
711	Literary Theory	2005	Emily Apter emily.apter@gmail.com Bruno G. Bosteels bb438@columbia.edu
717	Cultural Memory	2007	Marianne Hirsch mh2349@columbia.edu Andreas Huyssen ah26@columbia.edu Sonali Thakkar st4617@nyu.edu	Isabel Blankfield imb2142@columbia.edu
721	Comparative Philosophy	2007	Allison Aitken allison.aitken@columbia.edu Jonathan C. Gold jcgold@princeton.edu Hagop Sarkissian hagop.sarkissian@baruch.cuny.edu	Helen Han Wei Luo hl3631@columbia.edu
727	Theory and History of Media	2009	Stefan Andriopoulos sa610@columbia.edu Debashree Mukherjee dm3154@columbia.edu	Hannah Pivo hp2524@columbia.edu
735	Sites of Cinema	2010	Racquel Gates rjg2184@columbia.edu Jane Gaines jmg2196@columbia.edu	Haoze Guan hg2731@columbia.edu
737	Narrative, Health, and Social Justice	2010	Mario de la Cruz md2998@columbia.edu Zahra Khan zhk2107@columbia.edu
739	Columbia School Linguistics	2011	Daan van Soeren dpvansoeren@gmail.com Joss Sackler josscsling@gmail.com Andrew McCormick A.mccormick081@gmail.com	Chazelle Rhoden c.rhoden@columbia.edu
741	Global and Interdisciplinary Core Curricula	2011	Rachel E. Chung ec61@columbia.edu Gareth D. Williams gdw5@columbia.edu	Valeria Diaz Ferraz Tedesco vd2479@tc.columbia.edu
743	Complexity Science, Modeling, and Sustainability	2011	Joshua Fisher jf2788@columbia.edu Jacqueline Klopp jk2002@columbia.edu Christoph Meinrenken cjm2177@columbia.edu
749	Studies in Dance	2011	Lynn Garafola lg97@columbia.edu	Juliana Ariel DeVaan jad2265@columbia.edu
751	Religion and Writing	2011	Dagmar Riedel dar2111@columbia.edu	Heidi Elizabeth Hansen heh2135@columbia.edu
757	Global Mental Health	2012	Claire Greene mg4069@cumc.columbia.edu Kathryn L. Lovero kll2153@columbia.edu	Rachel Groth rmg2215@columbia.edu
759	Defense and Security Studies	2013	N.W. Collins nwcollins@columbia.edu Whitney Kassel Vice Chair Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Vice Chair Michael Irving Vice Chair	Vikram Vinod vv2360@columbia.edu General Inquiries defensesecurity@columbia.edu
763	Beyond France	2014	Ralph Ghoche rghoche@barnard.edu Madeline Woker madeline.woker@princeton.edu	Hugo Logez hl3738@columbia.edu
769	Human-Animal Studies	2014	Brian Boyd bb2305@columbia.edu Naama Harel nh2508@columbia.edu	Elena G. Vanasse egv2112@columbia.edu
771	Indigenous Studies	2014	Pamela Calla pc1210@nyu.edu	Isaiah Cruz ic2659@tc.columbia.edu
773	The Integrative Study of Animal Behavior	2014	Dustin Rubenstein dr2497@columbia.edu
775	The Future of Aging Research	2014	Jennifer Manly jjm71@cumc.columbia.edu Elizabeth Bradshaw emb2280@cumc.columbia.edu Kavita Sivaramakrishnan ks2890@cumc.columbia.edu	Matthew Coulson mjc2287@cumc.columbia.edu
777	Affect Studies	2015	Patricia Dailey pd2132@columbia.edu Thomas Dodman td2551@columbia.edu Lauren Mancia laurenmancia@brooklyn.cuny.edu	Jianna Rose Walker jrw2233@columbia.edu
779	Disability, Culture, and Society	2015	Julia Miele Rodas julia.rodas@bcc.cuny.edu Irina Carlota Silber isilber@ccny.cuny.edu
783	Sustainable Finance	2016	Caroline Flammer cf2870@columbia.edu Robert K. Massie rkm2158@columbia.edu	Yangyang (Kira) Wang yw3786@columbia.edu
787	Material Texts	2017	Alexis Hagadorn ah333@columbia.edu Joseph Howley jah2220@columbia.edu
791	Science and Subjectivity	2018	Robert Pollack pollack@columbia.edu Elaine Bernstein ESBern@aol.com	Tara Anne Hillman tah2168@columbia.edu
793	Columbia University Collaborative of Community Programs for Youth and Families	2018	Shaba Keys sk3785@columbia.edu Alissa Mayers am4459@columbia.edu	Patrícia Santana da Silva pc3463@tc.columbia.edu
797	Korean Studies	2019	Hosu Kim hosu.kim@csi.cuny.edu Dong-Sei Kim dongsei.kim@nyit.edu Sohl Lee sohl.lee@stonybrook.edu	Hetty Lee yl2693@columbia.edu Ye Lim Oh yo2294@columbia.edu
799	Menstruation and Society	2021	Marni Sommer ms2778@cumc.columbia.edu Inga Winkler inga.winkler@wur.nl	Isabella Wegner iw2288@cumc.columbia.edu
801W	New Directions in African Diaspora Studies	2021	Natasha Lightfoot njl2106@columbia.edu Rochelle Malcolm rochelle.malcolm@columbia.edu
805	Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy	2021	Amy Chazkel ac2227@columbia.edu Eileen Gillooly eg48@columbia.edu	Claire Dwyer ccd2147@columbia.edu
809	International Relations and Contemporary Foreign Policy	2021	Ingrid E. Gerstmann ig79@columbia.edu Olivia Jenelle Grinberg-Phillips ojg2112@columbia.edu Peter Clement pc2630@columbia.edu
811	Drama, Theatre, and Performance	2023	Derek Miller dmiller@fas.harvard.edu Rebecca Kastleman rrk2157@columbia.edu María José Contreras mc4873@columbia.edu	Wesley Franklin Cornwell wfc2112@columbia.edu
813	Cuba	2023	Margaret E. Crahan mec55@columbia.edu Antonio A. Mendez antoniomendezruiz@gmail.com Gabriel Vignoli gabrielvignoli@gmail.com	Elijah Ferrante emf2218@columbia.edu
815	Current Research in Applied Microeconomics	2023	Elizabeth Ananat eananat@barnard.edu Judith Scott-Clayton scott-clayton@tc.columbia.edu Ebonya Washington ebonya.washington@columbia.edu Anja Tolonen atolonen@barnard.edu	Kamelia Stavreva kes2220@columbia.edu
817	World Philology	2024	Mana Kia mk3586@columbia.edu David Lurie dbl11@columbia.edu	Jacob William LeMaster jwl2196@columbia.edu
819	Comics and Graphic Albums	2024	Aubrey Gabel aag2188@columbia.edu	Ethan Fraenkel egf2125@columbia.edu
821	Families and Inequality	2024	Clare Huntington ch104@columbia.edu Chris Wimer cw2727@columbia.edu	Demre Ianoglu demre.inanoglu@columbia.edu

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