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Bill Zavatsky
Poet
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
Christopher Johnson
Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Author of 'Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought' (Harvard UP, 2010)...
History & Cultural Studies
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Daphna Shohamy
Associate Professor of Psychology
Psychology & Psychoa
Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Dennis Yi Tenen
Associate Professor, English & Comparative Literature
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
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Dhananjay Jagannathan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Director of Graduate Studies, Classical Studies Program
Author of 'Aristotle's Practical Epistemology' (Oxford University Press); PhD in Philosophy from...
Philosophy & Ethics
Dorothea von Mücke
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Other/Interdisciplin
Literature & Writing
Edwin Turner
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Other/Interdisciplin
Physics & Cosmology
Elise Giuliano
Lecturer in Political Science; Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program, Harriman Institute
Author of 'Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics' (Cornell UP, 2011);...
Social Sciences
Elizabeth Barnes
Professor of Philosophy
Author of 'The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability' (Oxford UP, 2016) and 'Health Problems:...
Literature & Writing
Elizabeth Birkelund
Novelist
Author of 'The Runaway Wife,' 'The Dressmaker,' and 'A Northern Light in Provence' (2024); Brown...
Literature & Writing
Harry L. Watson
Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture
History & Cultural S
History & Cultural Studies
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Jared Weinstein
Professor, Mathematics & Statistics
Mathematics & Comput
Mathematics & Computer Science
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele
Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Biology & Medicine
Biology & Medicine
Mark Hansen
Professor of Journalism; Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Eight patents; 60+ published papers; former Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories; prior...
Journalism & Media
Michael Hecht
Professor of Chemistry
Created one of the first de novo designed proteins (Felix); discovered the first known de novo...
Biology & Medicine
Nouchine Hadjikhani
Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Professor in Experimental Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Gothenburg
Niclas Oberg Life Watch Award (2016); Leenaards Award (2010); pioneering fMRI research on migraine...
Biology & Medicine
Patricia Dailey
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship; translator of Giorgio Agamben's The Time That Remains...
Literature & Writing
Polly Young-Eisendrath
Psychologist, Jungian Psychoanalyst, Mindfulness Teacher, and Speaker
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
Spyros Papapetros
Associate Professor of Art and Architectural Theory and Historiography
Creative & Performin
Creative & Performing Arts
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W. Warner Burke
Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education
Fellow of the Academy of Management, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for...
Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Alberto Bisin
Professor of Economics
Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society; Fellow of NBER and CEPR; co-editor of the Handbook of...
Social Sciences
Alice Quinn
Executive Director, Poetry Society of America
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
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Joseph Salerno
Professor of Economics, Lubin School of Business, Pace University; Research Associate, NYU
Academic Vice President of the Mises Institute; editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian...
Philosophy & Ethics
Luis Cabral
Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics and International Business; Chair, Department of Economics, NYU Stern
Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); author of Introduction to...
Social Sciences
Miklos Toth
Professor of Pharmacology
Biology & Medicine
Biology & Medicine
Nancy DiTomaso
Distinguished Emerita Professor
C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (2013); Inequality,...
Social Sciences
Paul Linton
NOMIS Foundation Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies; Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience
NOMIS Foundation Fellowship; Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia; author...
Neuroscience & Cognition
Paula McDowell
Professor of English
John Ben Snow Foundation Prize (North American Conference on British Studies) for The Invention of...
Literature & Writing
Rebecca Seal
Assistant Professor
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
Selina Chen-Kiang
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Researcher of the Year, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; NCI Program Project Grant for...
Biology & Medicine
Theodore Shapiro
Professor Emeritus
Biology & Medicine
Biology & Medicine
Alma Steingart
Assistant Professor, History
History & Cultural S
History & Cultural Studies
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David Rosenthal
Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science
Philosophy & Ethics
Philosophy & Ethics
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Aaditya Rangan
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Mathematics & Comput
Mathematics & Computer Science
Alan Richardson
Professor of English
Literature & Writing
Literature & Writing
Alex Abdo
Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Led landmark First Amendment litigation including challenge to Trump's blocking of Twitter critics;...
Social Sciences
Andrea Gadberry
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature (joint appointment with Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
Author of Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking (University of Chicago Press, 2020); coeditor of...
Literature & Writing
Andreas Keller
Neuroscientist and Philosopher of Olfaction, Rockefeller University
Other/Interdisciplin
Neuroscience & Cognition
Anna Balas
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Training and Supervising Analyst...
Biology & Medicine
Apkar Apkarian
Professor of Physiology, Anesthesiology, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Director, Center for Translational Pain Research
Pioneer in fMRI-based pain research; first to identify grey matter changes related to chronic back...
Neuroscience & Cognition
Dmitry Rinberg
Professor, Department of Neuroscience & Physiology
Neuroscience & Cogni
Neuroscience & Cognition
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Eric R. Marcus
Director, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia University President's Teaching Award; Roeske Teaching Award (American Psychiatric...
Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Erica Robles-Anderson
Associate Professor of Media, Culture, & Communication
History & Cultural S
History & Cultural Studies
James Higham
Professor of Anthropology
Director of the Primate Reproductive Ecology and Evolution group; faculty member of the New York...
Social Sciences
Kathryn Hall
Assistant Professor of Medicine (part-time), Harvard Medical School; Director of Placebo Genetics, Program in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Coined the term 'placebome'; author of Placebos (MIT Press, 2022); Deputy Commissioner of...
Biology & Medicine
Kristen Lindquist
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience (incoming Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Chair in Social Psychology, Ohio State University)
Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science (2013); Fellow of the Society for...
Neuroscience & Cognition
Larry Amsel
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Co-director of Trauma Studies and Services Division at NYSPI following 9/11; organized first APA...
Biology & Medicine
Laura Hirshbein
Professor of Psychiatry
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award; dual MD (University of Michigan) and PhD in...
Biology & Medicine
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