Ira Katznelson
In this episode, Professor Katznelson talks to Dean Harris about how he decided to cross the Brooklyn Bridge to attend college in Morningside Heights, how he decided to pursue the study of history in graduate school, but has centered his intellectual career in the discipline of political science. I also invited Ira to reflect on his longstanding engagement with the study of liberal democratic societies and liberalism more generally.
Mario L. Small
Sociology Professor Mario L. Small joins Dean Fredrick Harris on The Dean’s Table to reflect on whether being born and raised in Panama shaped his insights as a sociologist, to discuss how and when he became interested in being a sociologist, and to talk about his intellectual contributions to the study of urban poverty, personal networks, and qualitative methods.
Josef Sorett
Professor Sorett speaks with the dean about his upbringing in Boston, attending college at an evangelical Christian school in Tulsa, his graduate work at a theological seminary and doctoral studies at Harvard, as well as his research and teaching.
Miguel Urquiola
Professor Urquiola speaks with Dean Harris about how he decided to become an economist, reflects on his work exploring whether increased school choice helps families and students choose schools, and gives insight into how the United States became a leader in producing world class research.
Page Fortna
Professor Fortna speaks with Dean Harris about how she came to focus on terrorism as an area of study, what her experience has been like researching terrorism via field research, some of the policy implications of her findings, as well as her work on gender equity in the field of political science.
Rosalind C. Morris
Professor Morris speaks with Dean Harris about how she decided to become an anthropologist, to reflect on her ethnographic and creative work in South Africa, to share with us how important collaboration is to research and the creative process, and to provide some insight into the joys and challenges with working in various mediums.
Mario L. Small
Sociology Professor Mario L. Small joins Dean Fredrick Harris on The Dean’s Table to reflect on whether being born and raised in Panama shaped his insights as a sociologist, to discuss how and when he became interested in being a sociologist, and to talk about his intellectual contributions to the study of urban poverty, personal networks, and qualitative methods.
MABEL O. WILSON
Professor Wilson speaks with Dean Harris about how she decided on becoming an architect, reflecting on her work which explores the history of Black exhibitions and museums, and shares insights into scholarship and practice of race, space, and culture.
Manan Ahmed
Professor Ahmed speaks with Dean Harris about the process of becoming a historian, his scholarship that challenges conventional wisdom about the origins of Muslims in South Asia, and offers some insight into how he fuses his scholarship with public engagement.
Dan O'Flaherty
The Dean’s Table is visited by Dan O’Flaherty, Professor of Urban Economics at Columbia University and member of the Columbia University Senate. Professor O’Flaherty has published widely on urban politics and public finance, authoring numerous books including Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness, City Economics, How to House the Homeless, and most recently The Economics of Race in the United States.
Frank A. Guridy
Dean Harris speaks with Frank Guridy, Associate Professor of History and African-American and African Diaspora studies at Columbia University. Professor Guridy specializes in sports history, urban history, and the history of the African diaspora in the Americas. He is the author of Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow, which won the Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians, and the Wesley-Logan Book Prize from the American Historical Association.
Andreas Wimmer
Professor Wimmer speaks with Dean Harris about his research on and definitions of nationalism and ethnic exclusion, his turn from anthropology to sociology, and why he uses a wide range of methodological tools to make sense of nationalism, war and ethnicity.
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Professor Griffin speaks with Dean Harris about her scholarly trajectory into African-American studies, her research on the Black Migration and Harlem of the 1940s, and the establishment of the new Department of African-American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia.
Jennifer Lee
On the podcast, Professor Lee reflects on her trajectory through Columbia as both an undergraduate and graduate student, as well as a faculty member. She recalls her work with esteemed sociologists Herbert J. Gans and Robert K. Merton. And she shares her thoughts on contemporary issues facing the Asian American community, including the Tiger Mother thesis and the ongoing affirmative action lawsuit against Harvard University.
Ester R. Fuchs
On The Dean’s Table, Professor Fuchs speaks to the critical economic importance of American cities and how the understanding of their significance has changed in the study of Political Science over the years. She reflects back on her work as a graduate student with leading scholars such as Norman Nie and Paul Peterson. She shares advice for academics who seek to bring their particular skills to City Hall or other forms of public service. And she defines for us what it means to her to be a “pragmatic utopian”.
