October 13, 2020

Announcing the Winner of the Sixth Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award

Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost of Columbia University, is pleased to announce that A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America by Lance Freeman is the winner of the sixth annual Columbia...

October 12, 2020

Columbia University Press Congratulates Author Paul Milgrom on Winning the Nobel Prize in Economics

American economist Paul Milgrom along with his colleague Robert Wilson have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to auction theory, announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday, October 12. Milgrom, the Shirley...

October 12, 2020

Webinar: Lionel Barber in Conversation with Gilles Kepel

 “Gilles Kepel has long been France’s most sophisticated scholar of radical Islam, and Away from Chaos is his personal and political summa—a remarkable synthesis of decades of passionate engagement with the Middle East.” ~Robert F. Worth, The New York Times Magazine...

October 11, 2020

Q&A: M’hamed Oualdi on A Slave Between Empires

“M’hamed Oualdi’s biography cum social history is dazzling. In life and death, General Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah’s story reveals unlikely itineraries, unsuspected traveling companions, and hidden transactions that call into question conventional histories of nineteenth-century North Africa and the Ottoman Empire....

October 10, 2020

Video: Todd McGowan in Conversation with Richard Boothby on Emancipation After Hegel

 “Todd McGowan’s Emancipation After Hegel could not come at a more appropriate time: the time when we truly need to carefully (re)think and reestablish the idea of emancipation. The book does this in a brilliant and compelling way, taking contradiction—as understood...

October 10, 2020

Take a Tour of Our MESA Virtual Exhibit with Caelyn Cobb

Hello and welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for this year’s meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. This year is unusual in more than one way for MESA. Not only are we all attending the conference...

October 10, 2020

Noëlle McAfee on Our Paranoid Politics

“In exploring the fear of breakdown that underlies human existence, Noëlle McAfee creates a genuine intellectual breakthrough—her book is a stunningly original exploration of the political significance of mourning. This is one of the most thrilling books I have read...

October 9, 2020

Webinar: #RaiseUP How University Presses Work for Overlooked Authors & Ideas

 In a time when information moves faster than ever, it’s critical that books about the most important events of the day are nurtured, championed, and made widely available. In this webinar, staff and authors from the university press community...

October 9, 2020

Video: Penelope Deutscher and Jana Sawicki in Conversation with Lynne Huffer on Foucault’s Strange Eros

 “In a provocative take on eros as a verb—as erosion of the thinking subject bound by grids of intelligibility that define her identity—Huffer offers the splendid final installment of her Foucault trilogy. Forcefully written with a capacious imagination, this book...

October 8, 2020

Join Wendy Lochner for a Tour of our SPEP Virtual Exhibit!

Hello, philosophers of all stripes and types. I’m Wendy Lochner, the philosophy editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the fall/winter conferences—the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association Eastern...

October 6, 2020

New Book Tuesday! A Community of Scholars and Hire Purpose

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbiana seires A Community of Scholars Seventy-Five Years of The University Seminars at Columbia Edited by Thomas Vinciguerra A Community of Scholars is a seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding...

September 30, 2020

Introducing the Hong Kong Literature Series!

From the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

In this video, series editor John Minford introduces the Hong Kong Literature Series and speaks to how this collection reveals the hidden depths of Hong Kong’s soul. The series is published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Now...