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Anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughodreviewed two recent books on Palestine— Reja-e Busailah’s memoir In the Land of My Birth: A Palestinian Boyhood and Hala Alyan's novel Salt Houses — for an article published by Public Works.
Sociologist Alondra Nelson was a featured guest on the NPR program 'Code Switch' where she discussed the history of the disease sickle cell anemia and consciousness around the disease in the US.
Political Scientist Robert Jervis was quoted in a piece for the LA Times regarding Donald Trump's disruptive comments regarding an energy pipeline at this summer's NATO summit.
President Trump upended the show of unity at NATO’s annual summit on Wednesday as many allies had feared, claiming that Germany "is totally controlled by" and "captive to Russia" and inflating his demands that they spend more on defense to an unrealistic level.
Sociologist Tom DiPrete was featured in a piece in the NY Times examining how affluence may effect test scores and performance in math and language arts for boys and girls across the US.
DEAN FRED HARRIS PROFILED AND INTERVIEWED IN THE COLUMBIA RECORD
Political Scientist and Dean of the Social Science Division Fred Harris was interviewed in a front-page profile for Columbia Record, where he shared his vision and goals for his deanship.
Historian Manan Ahmed worked with a team of digital librarians to research and create Torn Apart/Separados, an interactive project that maps ICE enforcement activities across the US.
Economist Eric Verhoogen was quoted in a feature for Philly.com examining the community impact of the sneaker start-up Patos, which sustainably sources artisan-made footwear produced in Peru.
Since meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker last week , Donald Trump seems inclined to de-escalate, at least rhetorically, trade tensions with the European Union. It is not the same with China. In the middle of a commercial standoff with Beijing and as talks between the two countries are stalled, the US president is now considering a 25% tax on 200 billion dollars (more than 172 billion euros) of imported Chinese goods. , instead of the 10% mentioned so far.
Michael Carlos Best, assistant professor of Economics at Columbia University, was awarded the President’s Global Innovation Fund for the Jordanian Economic Policy Research Initiative, a project that will study economic policy in Jordan with a focus on taxation and public spending.
Assistant Professor @paullagunes studies the political economy of development; his research focuses on the issue of corruption, and especially how it affects subnational governments in the Americas: