Arts & Humanities

This page features Columbia faculty and research related to the arts and humanities, and highlights cultural events happening at Columbia's four campuses. 

A collage of arts and humanities images

Edwidge Danticat, Once a Barnard Student, Is Now a Columbia Professor

This fall she is teaching a course on writing in the presence of ancestors.

Christopher Payne, Columbia University alum
Self-portrait at the MTA’s 207th Street Overhaul Shop, where New York City’s subway cars are maintained.
Christopher Payne Captures the Unexpected Beauty of American Factories

The industrial photographer’s new book, Made in America, celebrates the rich history and fresh promise of U.S. manufacturing.

From left: Jill Furman (Eric Ogden / Trunk Archive), Barbara Whitman, Hal Luftig (Jörg Meyer).
From left: Jill Furman (Eric Ogden / Trunk Archive), Barbara Whitman, Hal Luftig (Jörg Meyer).
Meet the Producers Behind Some of Broadway’s Biggest Hits

These three Columbia alumni have brought to life critically acclaimed shows from Hamilton to A Strange Loop to Kinky Boots.

Exhibitions

Tharros exhibition, Italian Academy, Columbia University
Archaeological site, Tharros, western Sardinia, Italian Academy exhibition.
The Ancient City of Tharros: Rich Tombs and Extensive Ruins from Punic and Roman Times

This Italian Academy photography exhibition reveals the riches of the archaeological site of Tharros in western Sardinia, with images of buildings and roads from the Bronze Age, ancient Roman times, and the Christian era.

By Vesna Pavlović
By Vesna Pavlović
Vesna Pavlović: Stagecraft

The Harriman Institute presents a show of photographs by Vesna Pavlović (SoA '07), an art professor at Vanderbilt University who documented through these images the disintegration of her native Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

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Books

The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay co-edited by Nicole Wallack, Mario Aquilina, and Bob Cowser Jr.
The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay

Co-edited by Nicole Wallack, Mario Aquilina, and Bob Cowser Jr.

Nights of Plague by Columbia University Professor Orhan Pamuk
Nights of Plague

By Orhan Pamuk

Inventing the It Girl by Columbia University Professor Hilary Hallett
Inventing the It Girl

By Hilary Hallett

Law as Performance by Columbia University Professor Julie Stone Peters
Law as Performance

By Julie Stone Peters