Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Political Theory and Contemporary Civilization
Columbia University
Jean Cohen specializes in contemporary political and legal theory, continental political thought, contemporary civilization, critical theory, and international political theory.
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Sarah Cole specializes in British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the modernist period. Areas of interest include war; violence, sexuality and the body; history and memory; imperialism; and Irish literature of the modernist period.
Professor of Journalism
Columbia University
June Cross is an award-winning producer and writer with over thirty years of television news and documentary experience. She is currently in pre-production on a film about HIV in rural America, and researching a story in Pakistan. Her latest documentary, "The Old Man and the Storm," followed the travails of an extended New Orleans family for three years post-Katrina, aired on PBS' "Frontline" in early 2009.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Columbia University
Zoe Crossland is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the historical archaeology of Madagascar, and on forensic archaeology and evidential practices around human remains.
Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture
Columbia University
Jeremy Dauber's research interests include older Yiddish literature, Yiddish and Hebrew literature of the Jewish Enlightenment and the nineteenth century, and Yiddish theater.
Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History
Columbia University
Mamadou Diouf's research interests include urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa.
Author, Chair of the Writing Program
Columbia University School of the Arts
Timothy Donnelly is the author of two books of poetry, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010; Picador, 2011), for which he won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
Professor of Psychology
Columbia University
Professor Downey's main interest is the study of personal and status based rejection. In her current work, she is exploring people's expectations of rejection and their impact on the perception of other people's behavior, in anticipation of and following social encounters.
