Kincaid shares stage for discussion with Professor Edwidge Danticat.
Danticat received the PEN/Nabakov Award for Achievement in International Literature as part of PEN’s 2026 Literary Awards showcase last week.
IRAAS Director Jafari Allen writes opinion piece on the undoing of the field of Black studies (subscription required).
As a freshman at Columbia, Jean-Jacques had an internship with the National Urban League, where he now works as an attorney.
During her residency at Columbia, Kincaid will engage students, faculty, and the broader public through workshops, public conversations, and readings.
Novelist and short-story writer to receive the PEN/Nabakov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
His book charts racialized and class-based exclusion in Morningside Heights and its surrounding area by elite institutions.
Mamdani explains the factors and characters – Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni – that shaped post-independence Uganda.
Katori Hall is a Pulitzer Prize and Olivier Award-winning playwright and television creator/producer hailing from Memphis, Tennessee.
Shibley has written extensively about racial science and is now a visiting scholar at Yale.
Exhibit open through Dec. 31 at Soloviev Foundation Gallery in New York City.
The prize was established by Columbia and Barnard alumni to celebrate students who had made lasting contributions to the struggle for social justice on campus and in Harlem during the 1968 student revolts.