Congratulations to the CSER Class of 2024!

Please see some pictures from our gathering on May 15, 2024 to honor and celebrate CSER’s graduates here and request access to the event folder.

 

Congrats to CSER’s Senior Honor students on presenting on their ongoing research this past Friday, April 5th at the 16th Annual Senior Research Symposium.

Click here for the zoom link to view the presentations!

 

Mae Ngai’s essay, “The 100-Year Old Racist Law that Broke America’s Immigration” is part of a series, “The Border Is the Crisis” commissioned by Catherine Ramirez and A. Naomi Paik, where contributors examine the legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924 and the simultaneous launching of the Border Patrol, which, together, inaugurated the most restrictive era of US immigration history until our own.

 

Mae Ngai’s new book, Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice (coedited with Chee Wang Ng), was reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the PBS-News Hour.

Ngai also discussed the book in several interviews and podcasts, including They Call Us Bruce.

 

On March 8th, 2024, International Women’s Day, Professor Elsa Stamatopoulou, Director of ISHR’s Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program, was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York City Bar Association, on the occasion of the 5th International Law Conference on the Status of Women.

The award, established in 2020, recognizes women and women-centric organizations focusing on justice work. The International Law Conference dealt with the current status of women and highlights the role of judges, lawyers, human rights experts and policy advocates working to improve the status of women and girls by enforcing their legal rights through accountability and improving their economic opportunities to support themselves and their families.

Before joining Columbia University in 2011, Elsa spent 23 years working on human rights issues at the United Nations, in addition to seven years as the first Chief of the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues starting in 2003.

 

Karl Jacoby, Allan Nevins Professor of American History – Department of History, was named as a recipient of the 2024 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for his deep commitment to teaching and mentoring, his curricular advancements in areas such as the history of the borderlands, Indigenous peoples, ethnicity and racialization, and the environment, and his role in strengthening the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race as its co-director.

Writer in Residence at CSER, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, was recently published in both the New York Times and Bomb Magazine.

 

Matt Sandler, Program Director for MA in American Studies, published an essay in The Baffler about the novelist, screenwriter, critic, and folklorist Cecil Brown. “Stand Up and Spout” focuses on his hard-fought and quixotic attempt to revive, using artificial intelligence technology, the enslaved poet George Moses Horton.

Read more here.

 

Come hang out with fellow CSER students and catch up on work every Monday!

All are welcome – drinks and snacks are provided!

Time/Location: 12-2 PM at Hamilton 420

Professor Stamatopoulou shared the news that, finally, after many years of work on Indigenous Peoples’ rights, her book Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena: The Global Movement for Self-Determination, published by Routledge, is coming out on July 12th. In the author’s words, “I am grateful to all those from around the world who encouraged the creation of this book with such care and expectation. There have been many over the years, as advocates, officials, colleagues, friends or mentors, without whose multiple contributions to Indigenous Peoples’ rights this book would not have been possible. The Indigenous Peoples’ movement continues!”

Here is the link to the book page www.routledge.com/9781032734156 for further information. Routledge has provided the code SMA22 to order the book at a reduced price.