Faculty

Jeremy Dauber's research interests include older Yiddish literature, Yiddish and Hebrew literature of the Jewish Enlightenment and the nineteenth century, and Yiddish theater.

Professor de Bary's scholarly work has focused on the major religious and intellectual traditions of East Asia, especially Confucianism in China, Japan, and Korea. He began his career as a teacher at Columbia in 1949 when he undertook to develop the undergraduate general education program in East Asian Studies.

István Deák, Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, has published articles in US, British, Hungarian, Austrian, etc., books and journals on such subjects as Hungarian historiography, the cultural and political scene in Weimar Germany, the revolutions of 1848, World War I in Central Europe, the rise of fascism, collaboration and resistance in Europe during World War II, and post-World War II judicial retributions. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is working on a book dealing with collaboration, resistance, and retribution in World War II Europe.

Sonali Deraniyagala is a Sri Lankan memoirist and economist. Born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, she studied economics at Oxford and Cambridge. While on vacation at Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in December 2004, she lost her two sons, her husband, and her parents in the Indian Ocean tsunami. The tsunami carried her two miles inland and she was able to survive by clinging to a tree branch. Her 2013 memoir, Wave, recounts her experiences in the tsunami and the progression of her grief in the ensuing years. It was shortlisted for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography). Deraniyagala is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Mamadou Diouf's research interests include urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa.

Yasmine Ergas is the Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and Adjunct Professor of International Law and International Human Rights Law at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University.

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.

Patricia Grieve's areas of specialization include Medieval Spanish and comparative literature and Golden Age literature. Her most noteworthy publications include: Desire and Death in the Spanish Sentimental Romance, 1440-1550; "Floire and Blancheflor" and the European Romance; articles in MLN, Hispanic Review, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Romance Quarterly. Some of Professor Grieve's more current projects are: Framed: Legal Fictions and the Medieval and Renaissance Novella Tradition and Women and National Allegory and the Conversion of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain.