Faculty

James Schamus is an award-winning screenwriter (The Ice Storm) and producer (Brokeback Mountain), and former CEO of Focus Features, the motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company whose films have included Milk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Pianist, Coraline, and The Dallas Buyers Club.

Conrad Schirokauer is a Professor Emeritus of History at the City University of New York. He studied at Yale (BA) and Stanford (PhD) as well as a year in Paris, and conducted research mostly in Kyoto but also in China. His published papers and articles are mostly on Zhu Xi and Hu Hong.

Melissa Schwartzberg is a political theorist whose research centers on the historical origins and normative consequences of rules governing democratic decision-making.

Allan Silver is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Columbia University.

Pamela Smith's research interests include Early modern European history and the history of science; attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution; and craft knowledge and historical techniques.

Professor Stille graduated with a B.A. from Yale University and earned an M.S. at Columbia. He has worked as a contributor to The New York Times, La Repubblica, The New Yorker magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Correspondent, U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, and The Toronto Globe and Mail.

Michael Taussig's most recent publications include Beauty and the Beast (2012) and The Corn Wolf (2015).

Andie Tucher, a historian and former journalist, is professor of journalism and director of the Communications PhD program. She is working on a history of fake news in the US for the Columbia University Press and plans to teach a seminar on the topic in the spring. She writes widely on the evolution of truth-telling conventions in journalism, photography, personal narrative, and other nonfiction forms.