Course development grants are due today at 11:59PM ET. Among surveyed recipients, 100% would recommend the funding opportunity to other members of the Columbia University community. Learn more: tinyurl.com/css-course-dev

Only one week left for applications for the 2025-2026 #SakipSabanciCenter for Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Why create a Research and Teaching Companion? To answer that, we flashback to 2014, when Professor Pamela Smith founded the Making and Knowing Project to study a 16th-century French artisanal manuscript via interdisciplinary teaching, research, and digital analysis.

📢 Mark your calendars! On March 7, #SakipSabanciCenter at Columbia University is hosting an exciting symposium on Ottoman science and technology, featuring a stellar lineup gathered by our Center's postdoctoral fellow Meriç Tanık. 🔗 For registration: bit.ly/3EExp00

Read Professor Kim Phillips-Fein in The New Republic on the legacy of the Reagan Administration and its similarities and differences to the Trump Administration.

Applications for Archives as Data are open until the end of March! 📅 Decisions will be announced shortly after. Don’t miss this opportunity—submit your application today! lab.history.columbia.edu/content/worksh… #ArchivesAsData #DigitalHistory #OpenData

Professor Kim Phillips-Fein was interviewed by Charter to discuss the parallels between the Trump Administration's actions against federal workers and those of the Reagan Administration. Read the full interview in TIME here: time.com/charter/726854…

Professor Kim Phillips-Fein has been awarded the 2025 LaGuardia Book Prize for her book "Fear City: New York's Financial Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics." See more about the award here: laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu/pages/Fiorello…

Don't miss Professor Kim Phillips-Fein on April 24th at LaGuardia Community College, where she will present on her book "Fear City: New York's Financial Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics," for which she was awarded the 2025 Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize.

🎬 Film Screening & Discussion – May 2 Join us for Antoine the Fortunate: One Man at the Crossroads of Empires with director Prof. Nefin Dinç & historian Prof. Edhem Eldem. 📍 Schermerhorn 612, Columbia 🕛 12:00–1:45 PM 🔗 Register: bit.ly/SSCNefinDinc

This Thursday at 1pm LaGuardia and Wagner Archives LaGuardia Community College will award the Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize to Columbia University historian Kim Phillips-Fein for her work "Fear City" on the fiscal crisis of 1975. I'm excited to be in conversation with her. Please register at the link below.

Today's the day! We look forward to seeing you all in Long Island City at 1 PM, and at 6 PM at Queens Public Library Jackson Heights!

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, a CU History Department professor, was just five months old when her family set out to flee Saigon on April 29, 1975. “When the sun rose the next day, we realized Saigon had fallen.” @Matthew Kendrick explores the fall and its legacy. gzeromedia.com/news/analysis/…

Professor of History Lien-Hang T. Nguyen was interviewed for a piece in GZERO Media on her family's experience fleeing Saigon on April 29, 1975. CU History Department

Julia Burke, a doctoral candidate in the History Department, has been named a 2025 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow. newcombefoundation.org/fellowships/

Our former Deputy Director and current Executive Committee member Ahmet Tunç Şen’s first book is out! Congratulations!

Professor Lori Flores' recent article for The Guardian explores how recent ICE raids will negatively impact America's food labor system, exploring the profound harm caused to both immigrant workers and the food supply: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Read Professor Kim Phillips-Fein's latest in Jewish Currents on the historical lessons we can learn from Fiorello La Guardia's tenure as mayor.

Congratulations to CU History Department prof. Manan Ahmed Asif, whose book DISRUPTED CITY was selected for the 2025 Cundill History Prize longlist!

Professor Manan Ahmed's book "Disrupted City" is featured on the 2025 Cundill History Prize longlist - see the enclosed link for more!