Faculty

Roger Luckhurst is Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London.  In Spring and Summer of 2016, he will serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Columbia University.

David Lurie, Associate Professor of Japanese History and Literature, received his B.A. from Harvard (1993) and his M.A. (1996) and PhD. (2001) from Columbia. His first book, on the development of writing systems in Japan through the Heian period, is entitled Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011).

Wolfgang Mann joined the Columbia Philosophy Department in 1992 and is the author of The Discovery of Things: Aristotle’s Categories and Their Context (Princeton, 2000).

Sharon Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University as well as the co-founder and co-editor in chief of Public Books, a bimonthly review of books, arts, and ideas.

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

Frederick Neuhouser's areas of expertise include German philosophy, Marxism, psychoanalysis, critical social theory, and social and political philosophy.

Benjamin Orlove is a Senior Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, and is one of the four co-directors of the Center for Research in Environmental Decisions at Columbia University. As an anthropologist he has conducted field work in the Peruvian Andes since the 1970s and also carried out research in East Africa, the Italian Alps, and Aboriginal Australia. More recently he has studied climate change and glacier retreat, with an emphasis on water, natural hazards and the loss of iconic landscapes.

Stephanie L. Pfirman is a Professor of Environmental Science, the Alena Wels Hirschorn '58 and Martin Hirschorn Professor of Environmental and Applied Sciences. and co-Chair of Barnard's Department of Environmental Science.  She holds a joint appointment with Columbia University where she is a member of the faculties of the Earth Institute and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and an adjunct research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Professor Pfirman’s scientific research focuses on the Arctic environment, in particular on the nature and dynamics of Arctic sea ice under changing climate.  Her previous research activities have included melting and surging glaciers and pollution transported by sea ice.