Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of
Social Science, and Anne-Claire Defossez, Visitor in the School
since 2015, are coauthors of an article titled “An Improbable
Movement? Macron's France and the Rise of the Gilets
Jaunes,”...
Winnifred Fallers
Sullivan, Member (2010–11) in the School of Social Science, is
curating a new series of essays for The Immanent Frame, a
publication of the Social Science Research Council. The series is
centered around the theme "Sex and the...
On February 13, 2019, Didier
Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social
Science, participated in a panel discussion at the Columbia Center
for Contemporary Critical Thought on For
a Left Populism (Verso, 2018) by Chantal Mouffe...
Joan Wallach Scott, Professor
Emerita in the School of Social Science, will give the Third Annual
Ruth Benedict Lectures, presented by the Columbia University
Department of Anthropology.
Scott's week-long series, "On the Judgment of History,"
will...
“The principles that animated the New Deal are often associated
with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s proposed (but never fully enacted)
Economic Bill of Rights. These included rights to employment,
medical care, housing, education, and social security...
Writing for the Washington Post, CNN's Fareed Zakaria
examines the crisis in Venezuela and argues for active support from
American Democrats, borrowing insights from A Foreign Policy for the
Left by Michael Walzer,
Professor Emeritus in the School...