Faculty

Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.  She has published widely on education, religion, and culture; nineteenth-century British and colonial cultural studies; and the history of modern disciplines.

Jonathan Weiner majored in English at Harvard. He learned to write about science in the early 1980s while working at the magazine the Sciences. In 1985, Jonathan left the magazine to write his first book, Planet Earth, the companion volume to a seven-part PBS television series. He spent twenty years as an independent writer, and joined the School of Journalism in 2005.

Mabel O. Wilson teaches courses in architectural design, architectural theory, and visual cultural studies. Her seminars examine a range of subjects including raciality and architectural discourse; space and the politics of cultural memory and history; and theories of time, cinema and databases. Her architectural design studios utilize methods of parametric data-mining and visualization to explore urbanization, new technologies, and globalization in African cities and systems of aggregation and material expression

Pauline Yu became president of the American Council of Learned Societies in July 2003, having served as dean of humanities in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and professor of East Asian languages and cultures from 1994-2003.