Historian Matthew Connelly was interviewed on his research into The Population Council and other Western organizations and their efforts to effect and manage global fertility rates out of fear of a 'population explosion'.
Sociologist and Department Chair Shamus Khan co-authored a piece with sociologist Angela Simms (Barnard) on the impact of the government shutdown on communities of color for the Huffington Post.
Trump’s Shutdown Will Hit Black Americans The Hardest
Historian Mae Ngai was recently profiled in an extensive interview piece where she discussed her work and the history of “illegality” as defined by past US immigration policies.
Manufacturing illegality: An Interview with Mae Ngai
Political Scientist Sharyn O'Halloran was a featured expert on a recent Bloomberg News segment where she discussed the impact of tariffs and economic tensions between the US and China.
U.S. Consumers Set to Pay Higher Prices for Goods Amid Tariffs, Stringham Says
Sociologist and co-Director, Thomas DiPrete co-authored an article published in the American Sociological Review entitled. The Paradox of Persistence: Explaining the Black-White Gap in Bachelor’s Degree Completion.
New York Lawmaker pushes parole system overhaul - article by David Klepper
“We have the second highest number of technical violations in the country,” said Vincent Schiraldi, co-director of Columbia’s Justice Lab and a former New York City probation commissioner who worked on the research.
Sociologists Adam Reich and Peter Bearman co-authored a new book entitled Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart, which confronts Walmart, the world's largest employer, and the complexity of its relationship to employees.
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.
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