Recent News from Columbia
June 19, 2025
Columbia Launches PhD Program in African American and African Diaspora Studies
Applications for the PhD program open in fall 2025. The program will welcome its inaugural cohort in fall 2026.
June 19, 2025
A New Book Traces the Rise of the Vietnamese Language
John Phan shows how modern notions of language history are often hampered by nationalist narratives.
June 18, 2025
Our Release of the Summer 2024 Campus Climate Survey from the Task Force on Antisemitism
The data from this survey helps us understand what took place on our campus during the 2023-2024 academic year and reaffirms the need for the many changes we have implemented.
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Hannah Chazin's research interests include human-animal relations, bodies and medicine, archaeological theory and methods, and political anthropology.
With Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin challenges familiar narratives.

Rachel Adams' research interests include 20th- and 21st-century American literature, disability studies, medical humanities, history of science, feminism, and pop culture.
In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams explores care as a form of work, a feeling, an ethic, and an art.

From left to right: Columbia professors and co-organizers of the 50-30 conference: John Phan (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Lien-Hang Nguyen (History), Duy Linh Tu (Journalism), and Tony Bui (School of the Arts).
The 50-30 symposium, presented by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, focuses on war and peace.
Columbia in the News
Gangs Terrorize Peru in an Epidemic of Extortion
The New York Times, June 10
The 100-Year-Old Psychologist Is Still Listening
The New York Times, June 8