Prof. Camille Robcis, Chair of History department says…

 

 

Professor Camille Robcis, incumbent Chair of the History department, was featured in The Columbia News. In the piece, Professor Robcis discusses her vision for the department, emphasizing history’s dual role in documenting the past while actively engaging with the present. She reflects on the importance of public-facing scholarship, the responsibilities of historians in moments of political and social uncertainty, and the direction she hopes to guide the department during her term as chair. Read the full interview here

Pablo Piccato was interviewed by El Pais on Violence in Mexico

 

Professor Pablo Piccato was interviewed by El País about Mexico’s justice and security system, which he argues was shaped under the PRI to fail by design—favoring corruption, discretion, and political control over real justice. He explains that violence became part of the system itself, allowing criminal and state interests to merge and sustain each other. Read the full interview here

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2025 Book Releases

Martha HowellMaking Merchants, The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany. October, 2025: Cambridge University Press.

Mark MazowerOn Antisemitism: A word in History. September, 2025: Penguin Press.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II. 2025: Basic Books.

2024 Book Releases

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History. 2024: Columbia University Press

Mae Ngai, Chee Wang Ng, and Corky Lee (eds.), Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice. 2024: Clarkson Potter

Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC, 4th Edition. 2024: Wiley-Blackwell.

2023 Book Releases

Neslihan Senocak. Lateran IV: Theology and Care of Souls. 2023: Brepols Publishers.

Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon (eds.), Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally. 2023: Berghahn Books

Neslihan Senocak and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani . A People’s Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050 – 1300. 2023: Cornell University Press.
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