Press Releases | 2008
ISERP's press releases are made available through our public affairs division and are released to Columbia University’s Office of Public Affairs and other media outlets. A complete chronology of these press releases is available below.
29. April 2008
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.
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29. January 2008
An opinion survey on "Racial Attitudes and the Presidential Nomination," conducted by Fredrick Harris, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and director of the Center on African American Politics and Society, has determined that African-American votes are up for grabs for both leading candidates of the Democratic Party and the skin color of the candidate will not automatically translate in African-American votes.
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1. January 2008
The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University today announced the launch of the Center on African-American Politics and Society which will conduct research on the political, social and economic conditions affecting blacks in the United States.
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