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From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Nongovernmentality
By Gregory Mann
Cambridge University Press
Mann has written the first historical account of the rise of NGO power in West Africa. The history professor explores why, in the years following independence from French colonial rule in 1960, when state sovereignty was highly valued, international NGOs took on some of the functions of government in the West African Sahel, a stretch of land bordering the Sahara. Mann highlights the rise of ambitious and aggressive African governments, the effects of drought and…
Nicholas Murray Butler was active in Republican politics while he was Columbia’s president. Did he ever run for elective office?
Puzzles, a folding dollhouse, 19th century peep shows, pop-up books and Lego models are all on display in “Classics at Play,” an exhibition of architectural toys from the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library collection.
The life and career of New York’s first African American mayor, David N. Dinkins, is one for the history books.
Acclaimed cellist Matt Haimovitz's residency at Miller Theatre includes spontaneous performances that combine the music of Bach with new overtures by living composers.
Acclaimed cellist Matt Haimovitz's residency at Miller Theatre includes spontaneous performances that combine the music of Bach with new overtures by living composers.
Learn about the broad and ongoing investment in some of the new and renovated facilities for research, teaching and campus life across the University in recent years.
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Some of the same key survival traits that have kept us alive for thousands of generations are killing us today.
As a sociologist who studies issues of race, ethnicity and gender, as well as health and science, Alondra Nelson has for years been fascinated by the boom in genetic testing.
Columbia University experts are available to speak with the news media about the politics, policy, law and technology of cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, infrastructure protection, cryptography and more.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Dec. 17, 2015) — Columbia University experts are available to speak with the news media about the politics, policy, law and technology of cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, infrastructure protection, cryptography and more.
Jason Healey
Healey is the former White House Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Founding Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council. He worked for Goldman Sachs where he created their first cyber response program to protect the bank’s units in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He began his career in signals intelligence…
The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate— A Provisional Report
By Reinhold Martin, Jacob Moore, and Susanne Schindler
Buell Center
Inequality in America brings to mind economic measures relating to income and wealth. A new book from Columbia’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture argues that this kind of economic inequality is inseparable from social disparities of other kinds—particularly in housing. Drawing upon history, geography, architecture and design, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Professor…
Nothing the Justices heard today would justify an interpretation of the Constitution that leads to fresh burdens on universities seeking the educational benefits of a racially diverse student body. More significantly, while the arguments over this case may involve the intricacies of a single university's unique admissions process, I hope the Court will recognize that a discussion of affirmative action cannot be separated from the realities of race in America, past and present, and the critical role that our colleges and universities play in building a truly integrated society.
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