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Professor Jeremy Dauber Gets Serious About Jewish Comedy

Jeremy Dauber, the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture in the department of Slavic languages, was well aware that “analyzing comedy runs the risk of killing it.” Still, he forged ahead, chronicling the arc of Jewish humor.

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University Commits Another $100 Million to Faculty Diversity

Columbia University will expand its ongoing commitment to diversity in its faculty, dedicating another $100 million over the next five years—in addition to $85 million since 2005—to support recruitment and career development for professors, doctoral and post-doctoral students who tradition

Diversity - Lee C. Bollinger
David Henry Hwang with his arms crossed, smiling.

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Prof. David Henry Hwang Teaches Playwriting and Revives 'M. Butterfly' on Broadway

David Henry Hwang has an illustrious career: he’s a dramatist whose work has won Tony, Obie and Grammy awards and is also America’s most-produced living opera librettist.

Art - Theater - Literature - Faculty Q&A
Lee C. Bollinger in a navy blue suit standing in front of desks.

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President Lee C. Bollinger Discusses the University’s Vital Role in Society

Only a few blocks of Broadway separate Columbia’s classic Morningside Heights campus from the transparent glass and steel structures on the University’s new campus in Manhattanville, but the contrast between the two signifies more than a shift in architectural styles.

Lee C. Bollinger - Freedom of Speech - Diversity - Education
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5 Questions: Law Prof. Gillian Metzger on the Supreme Court's New Session

The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term with a full complement of nine justices and what is "shaping up to be a big case term,” said Gillian Metzger.
Politics - 5 Questions - Law