Get to know Professor Josef Sorett a little better by reading his profile in Columbia College Today's Summer 2019 issue.
Congratulations to Mark Balmforth, a doctoral candidate in South Asian Religions, who was awarded the Henry Barnard Prize from the History of Education Society for his article, “A Nation of Ink and Paint: Map Drawing and Geographic Pedagogy in the American Ceylon Mission.” The Barnard Prize is awarded every two years to the best graduate student essay in educational history. Mark’s essay, part of his dissertation “Schooling the Master: Caste Supremacy and American Education in British Ceylon, 1796–1855,” will be published in a forthcoming edition of The History of Education…
In this Q&A, Claire Tow Professor of Religion Jack Hawley — unofficially named an honorary citizen of the Braj region of North India earlier this year — discusses India’s religious and cultural landscape.
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Having passed her third-year review with flying colors, Professor Clémence Boulouque will officially be Carl and Bernice Witten Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, starting April 1, 2019. Congratulations to Professor Boulouque!
Read Barnard sophomore Leora Lupkin's op-ed entitled The Value of Religion Courses in Today’s America, published in the Daily Columbia Spectator.