Ian Hodder, Shannon Dawdy, and Edward Soja
Friday May 23
Geohistories of the City: Spatial Causality and Urban Revolution
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall 5:00 - 7:00pm
News and Highlights
Spotlight People
Charles Tilly Remembered
The Columbia University community mourns the loss of one of its beloved members, Charles Tilly, the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, who passed away on April 29 after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. Tilly, who had a joint appointment with the University's Departments of Sociology and Political Science, is widely considered the leading scholar of his generation on contentious politics and its relationship with military, economic, urban and demographic social change.
Spotlight ISERP Fellows in the News
Frederick Harris discusses Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Fredrick Harris, Director of the Center on African American Politics and Society, speaks to NPR about the announcement of Barack Obama's former preacher, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, as the Detroit NAACP's keynote speaker for their 53rd annual fundraiser. Harris speaks with Renee Montagne about the generational shift among black political leaders, and the significance and controversy surrounding Rev. Wright. Listen here
Spotlight Program
Joseph Stiglitz on the "Three Trillion Dollar War"
The cost of war in Iraq reaches far beyond the tab for bullets and bombs, says economist Joseph Stiglitz, co-author, with Linda Bilmes, of the new book The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict.
Current Research
Income Inequality and Partisan Polarization
Recent studies have started to outline a new consensus on politics and inequality in the United States. These studies analyze outcomes at a high level, relating partisan control of government to economic outcomes. Epstein, Fowler, and O'Halloran, with support from the Russell Sage Foundation, will extend this work into the legislature, at the level of individual votes, coalition formation, and the passage of legislation.
Featured Working Paper
On Social Networks and Social Protest
How do large-scale protest events differ across nation-states? Do social networks play different roles in different places and, if so, how do they matter? This paper compares the roles that social networks play in mobilizing participants in large-scale domestic protest.
Featured Seed Grant
Foreign Economic Policy Preferences in the United States
Given the strong economic arguments in support of openness to trade and investment, the mass public's resistance to free trade policies and economic integration presents a puzzle for social science. This project aims to explore this puzzle by identifying the determinants of mass support for free trade and foreign investment in the United States.
Spotlight Program
Request for Proposals on Global Health
The Columbia University Global Health Research Center in Central Asia is pleased to issue a request for seed grant proposals. Seed grants support proposal development, pilot research, and other activities that address HIV, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and related issues that have relevance for the global health challenges facing Central Asia.
Newsletter Article
Health Care Reform: Building From the States?
Health care reform promises to be a hot issue in the 2008 presidential elections. By any measure, this discussion is long overdue. The number of uninsured Americans has risen substantially since 1993, and now numbers over 46 million. Health care costs have climbed to 16 percent of the GDP, about twice as much per capita in real dollars as any other country spends.
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