CSER | Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

Made in Korea Book Tour

Join writer Jeremy Holt for a NYC area tour, the author talk will be moderated by CSER’s own Marie Myung-Ok Lee. This co-sponsored event will be in person on Saturday, January 29th 4 to 6 pm at Yu and Me Books. No registration required.

School of the Arts awards Deborah Paredez for the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Columbia University School of the Arts awards CSER’s Deborah Paredez for the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. Nominated by students, colleagues, chairs, and deans, these faculty represent “the highest achievements of research, teaching, and service to Columbia and to the world.” Congrats!

Office of the Provost awards Frances Negron-Muntaner & Colleagues for Addressing Racism: A Call to Action for Columbia Seed Grant

The Office of the Provost awards CSER’s Frances Negron-Muntaner and colleagues for their proposal, The Sky Is For Everyone, The Land Isn’t, seed grant funding for projects designed to address structural racism. Congrats!

Jennifer Lee is now a Regular Contributor for Science

Jennifer Lee is now a Regular Contributor for Science, marshaling social science research to write about issues affecting Asians & Asian Americans with the aim to help move the scientific community toward a more equitable, inclusive, and just future. Read her first piece: “Racial foundations of immigration law.”

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Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas

Watch historians Mae Ngai, Rebecca Kobrin, Wright Kennedy, and collaborators launch Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas: an interactive map that visualizes census data on maps of NYC from 1850 to 1910. Visit the project here.

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Mae Ngai with Eric Foner: The Chinese Question

Watch Eric Foner & Mae Ngai in a conversation about her book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (W.W. Norton, 2021), which explores the intertwined 19th-century stories of the Chinese diaspora, an emerging global economy, & the rise of enduring anti-Chinese racism.

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The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) serves as Columbia’s main interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity, race and indigeneity and their implications for thinking about culture, power, hierarchy, social identities, and political communities, in the U.S. and around the world.

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