Faculty

Eileen Gillooly, Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, is the Executive Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows.

Saskia Hamilton joined the Barnard faculty in 2002. She is the author of As for Dream (Graywolf Press, 2001), Divide These (Graywolf, 2005), and Canal: New and Selected Poems (Arc Publications [UK], 2005).

Saidiya Hartman's major fields of interest are African American and American literature and cultural history, slavery, law and literature, and performance studies.

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University; Research Associate, Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge University; and, since 2012, President of the Social Science Research Council. He served as President of the American Political Science Association in 2005-06, as Chair of the Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees from 1999-2002, and as President of the Social Science History Association in 1997-98.

Nicholas Lemann is the Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism and a former New Yorker staff writer.

Mark Mazower is a historian and writer, specialising in modern Greece, 20th century Europe, and international history.

Sanjay G. Reddy is an Associate Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research and co-Academic Director of the India China Institute at the New School.  His areas of work include development economics, international economics, and economics and philosophy.

Emmanuelle Saada’s main field of research and teaching is the history of the French empire in the 19th and 20th century, with a specific interest in law.