Visiting Speakers

Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer and writer. His books include the highly praised Strangers in the House (2002); When the Bulbul Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege (2003) Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (2007), for which he won the 2008 Orwell Prize for Political Writing; and A Rift in Time, Travels with my Ottoman Uncle (2010).

Tim graduated with honors in history from Columbia College in 2007. At Columbia, he chaired the College's Academic Awards Committee, served as Opinion Editor and Managing Editor of The Columbia Daily Spectator, and was founding Editor of The Eye, a weekly magazine published by the Spectator. From 2007 to 2009, Tim attended the University of Cambridge on a Kellett Fellowship. He received a MPhil in Historical Studies with distinguished performance for a dissertation on "Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and The New-York Tribune, 1851-1861." Tim was also a Prize Research Student at the Centre for History and Economics and winner of a Mellon Prize Research Grant. In 2008, he began work on a biography of Maurice Dobb, an English economist, historian, and Communist.

Asheesh Siddique is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. He is writing a book about paperwork and archives in the early modern British empire. He received his PhD in History from Columbia University in 2017.

Eva Stefani is a documentary filmmaker and a visual artist. She currently works as an assistant professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Athens and as a visting professor at Freie University, Berlin.

Philip Stern's work focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the early modern period (loosely defined). His current book is a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is also working on or planning projects related to the history of eighteenth-century British overseas exploration and cartography, the historiography of British India, early modern economic thought, and the history of companies and colonization.

Cameron B. Strang, a doctoral student in the Department of History, lists the prestigious 2012 Graduate Harrington Dissertation Fellowship, as just one among many other awards and accolades that have won him national recognition.

Professor Adam Tooze teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history.

Camila Vergara is a PhD student in Political Theory at Columbia University and an adjunct professor of Political Theory at NYU, McGhee Division. Her dissertation seeks to analyze the promises and dangers of a specific constituent process: one initiated by a President elected with a mandate to create a new constitution through a constituent assembly. She holds a MA in Political Science from The New School for Social Research and a MA in Latin American Studies from NYU.