a specialist on the Balkans, her current research focuses on transitions from civil war to peace, international security and state failure, and post-war state-building. Susan L. Woodward is professor ...

Is the humanities degree going the way of the dodo bird? An article in The New Yorker, “The End of the English Major,” posits as a eulogy for the bustling humanities programs of yesteryear, citing ...

Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind (Oxford University Press, 2011). Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is “boring,” said the founding father of the American ...

Aesthetics (especially environmental aesthetics and public art) History of late 18th-19th c. Philosophy (especially Kant and Schopenhauer) History of ethics ...

Ofer Tchernichovski uses the songbird to study mechanisms of vocal learning. Like early speech development in the human infant, the songbird learns to imitate complex sounds during a critical period ...

A biological physicist, David Schwab applies statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics to problems in biology. To explore these issues, he draws on a diverse set of analytical and computational tools ...

Robert Courtney Smith (Ph.D. Columbia, 1995) is a Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs at the School of Public Affairs, and in the Sociology Department, Graduate Center, CUNY ...

Alexander Gamburd joined the faculty as Presidential Professor of mathematics in the fall of 2011. He specializes in spectral problems in number theory, probability, and combinatorics. His recent work ...

Friend or foe? Academics advise on how to teach alongside ChatGPT and other AI chatbots. (Image created with the assistance of DALL·E 2) ChatGPT is the talk of the ivory tower. The AI language ...

Peter Beinart is Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is also a Contributing Opinion Writer at The New York Times, an MSNBC Political Commentator, ...

Professors Martin D. Ruck (left) and Van Tran (right) with 2025 BRES faculty and student fellows: from left: Professor Raj Korpan, Professor Felicia Arriaga, Professor Simone Martin-Howard, Shu Hao ...

Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser Awards winners: (top row, left to right) Ana Gantman, Qiushi Guo, and Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides, (bottom row, left to right) Matthew Lindauer, Sarah Ita Levitan, ...