Professor Adam Tooze teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history. From a start in modern German history with a special focus on the history of economics and economic history his interests have widened to take… Continue Reading
Nadia Urbinati (Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, 1989) is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political and Social Thought and founded… Continue Reading
Audra Simpson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014), winner of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book in… Continue Reading
Antonio “Toni” Negri is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university. Negri founded the Potere Operaio (Worker Power) group in 1969 and was a leading… Continue Reading
Dennis Yi Tenen’s research happens at the intersection of people, texts, and technology. His recent work appears on the pages of Amodern, boundary 2, Computational Culture, Modernism/modernity, Public Books, and LA Review of Books on topics that range from book piracy to algorithmic composition, unintelligent design,… Continue Reading
Jean Louise Cohen is Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Political Thought and Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University. Professor Cohen’s fields of expertise include critical theory, sovereignty, human rights, religion and democratic constitutionalism, gender and the law. Professor Cohen… Continue Reading
On Standing Rock 1. https://therednation.org/2016/09/18/fighting-for-our-lives-nodapl-in-context/ 2. https://items.ssrc.org/what-standing-rock-teaches-us-about-environmental-justice/ 3. https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/ Primary Readings Glen Coulthard’s Red Skins White Masks Audra Simpson’s Mohawk Interruptus Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done Julian Brave NoiseCat, “A tale of two housing crises, rural and urban: How one Indigenous family… Continue Reading
The Jerome Greene Annex, where all seminar dates are held (with the exceptions of 12/15/16 and 1/5/17, which, as noted on the schedule, will be at the Columbia Global Center in Paris), is located on 410 West 117th Street. To find the Annex,… Continue Reading