The author of several books on Kafka (Kafka's Clothes, Reading Kafka), and the editor and translator of contemporary Austrian writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard, Professor Anderson specializes in German modernism, contemporary Austrian literature, and the theory and practice of translation. In addition, he regularly offers courses on modern German-Jewish culture from 1750 to the present, on opera and the idea of music in German culture, and on German exile during the Nazi period. In comparative literature he has taught courses on "Problems of the Gothic," "The Materiality of the Book in Western Culture," and "Jewish Identity in Modern European Culture." mma2@columbia.edu

Stefan Andriopoulos (Dr. phil., Hamburg 1998) joined Columbia's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in 2000, after holding a position as a member of the Research Institute Media, Culture, Communication at Cologne University. His areas of teaching and research focus on German and European literary, intellectual, and cultural history from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, specifically on Weimar cinema, media history, occultism, interrelations of literature and science, and law and literature. His new book, provisionally titled Ghostly Visions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media, is under contract with Zone Books. In the spring of 2009, he will be teaching as a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. sa610@columbia.edu

Karen Barkey’s research is located within the fields of comparative, historical and political sociology, with special attention to structures of rule. Her research areas span from the rise of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires to the end of these empires in the late 19th and 20th centuries, and nation building in their aftermath. She specifically concentrates on the following substantive issues: comparative studies of imperial rule; emergence and state transformations in the context of empires; institutional issues of control, analyzing the organizational mechanisms of how social control is affected in empires; and analyses of imperial diversity; mechanisms for the maintenance of multiethnic diversity, toleration, assimilation. At Columbia, she participates in the Harriman Institute, the Institute for religion, Culture and Public Life where she is a member of the advisory committee and runs the undergraduate program. kb7@columbia.edu

Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, is the author of Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the “Comedy” (Princeton, 1984; Italian trans. Bollati Boringhieri, 1993), The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante (Princeton, 1992; Italian trans. Feltrinelli, 2003), and Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (Fordham, 2006). She has edited Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity (ACMRS, 2005) and, with H. Wayne Storey, Dante for the New Millennium (Fordham, 2003) and Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation (Brill, 2007). She is currently working on a commentary to Dante’s lyrics for the Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, a book on Petrarch as metaphysical poet, and a gendered study of early Italian literature. tb27@columbia.edu

Sheri Berman is an associate professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of The Social Democratic Moment (Harvard, 1998) and The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 2006). Her articles have appeared in a wide range of academic and non-academic journals and cover topics including European politics and political economy; political development; and the history of the left. She is currently working on a project re-examining the development of democracy and dictatorship in Europe through the prism of questions people are asking about political development today. sberman@barnard.edu

George Bermann is a professor at Columbia University School of Law and the Director of the European Legal Studies Center, in addition to being an international commercial arbitrator. He is a faculty member of the College d’Europe and of the Law and Globalization program at the University of Paris I and Sciences Po. Current President of the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé, Bermann is also the former president of the American Society of Comparative Law. His specialties include French, German, Swiss and EU Law, and transnational litigation and arbitration. He founded and chairs the Board of the Columbia Journal of European Law. gbermann@law.columbia.edu

Richard K. Betts is the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor and Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He has taught at Harvard University and Johns Hopkins’ Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Betts has published numerous articles on U.S. foreign policy, military strategy, intelligence operations, security issues in Asia and Europe, terrorism, and other subjects, and is author five books – Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises; Surprise Attack; Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance; Military Readiness; and Enemies of Intelligence – and co-author or editor of The Irony of Vietnam; Cruise Missiles: Technology, Strategy, and Politics; Conflict After the Cold War; and Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence. rkb4@columbia.edu

Christopher Brown, professor, specializes in the history of eighteenth century Britain, the early modern British Empire, and the comparative history of slavery and abolition. His published work, which includes, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (2006) and, co-edited with Philip D. Morgan, Arming Slaves: Classical Times to the Modern Age (2006) has received major prizes in four fields of historical study: British history, Atlantic history, American history, and the history of slavery, abolition, and resistance. He is now at work on a history of British experience along the West African coast in the era of the Atlantic slave trade.

Dean Euan Cameron currently serves as Academic Dean of the Union Theological Seminary, and is on the faculty of the Religion Department of Columbia University. Though his deanship and teaching entail a demanding schedule, Euan Cameron still finds time for frequent speaking engagements and occasional church preaching to inform interested audiences about Reformation history and to discuss the ideas in his new book, Interpreting Christian History (2005). He has also recently published an edited volume, The Sixteenth Century, in the series The Short Oxford History of Europe (2006). Cameron’s research interests include the intellectual response to popular superstitions from the Middle Ages to the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe; Christianity, the historical perspective, and historicism; and the Roman Catholic tradition. ecameron@uts.columbia.edu

Elisheva Carlebach is the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society. She specializes in the cultural, intellectual, and religious history of the Jews in Early Modern Europe. Areas of particular interest include the intersection of Jewish and Christian culture and its effect on notions of tolerance, religious dissent, conversion, messianism, and communal governance. Her books include: The Pursuit of Heresy (1990), awarded the National Jewish Book Award, and Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Early Modern Germany (2000). ecarlebach@columbia.edu

Jo Ann Cavallo specializes in Italian Renaissance literature and culture. She is the author of Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato: An Ethics of Desire (1993), The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure (2004), and co-editor of Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America (1998). She has published studies on a range of Italian authors (including Dante, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Castiglione, and Giordano Bruno) and on folk traditions that dramatize epic narratives (Sicilian puppet theater and the epic Maggio of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines). Her current focus is the non-Christian world as depicted in the epics of Boiardo and Ariosto. jac3@columbia.edu

Deborah R. Coen is assistant professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard and was a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. She teaches courses on modern Central European history and the history of science. Her current research explores the Habsburg Empire’s status as a laboratory for investigations of the relationship between nature and culture. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (2007), which won the Susan Abrams Prize for best book in the history of science, and a co-editor of Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (2006). She is also an advisory editor of Isis, the journal of the History of Science Society. dcoen@barnard.edu

Professor Jean L. Cohen teaches political theory at Columbia University in the Department of Political Science. She specializes in contemporary political theory and international political theory. She is the author of many books including Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory (University of Massachusetts Press); Civil Society and Political Theory (MIT Press; co-authored with A. Arato) and Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm (Princeton, 2004). She has just completed a distinguished lecture series at the College de France, Paris and is completing a book based on this series on Rethinking Sovereignty, Rights, Constitutionalism and International Law. She is currently a collaborator in the Istanbul Seminar on Dialogues on Civilizations sponsored by Reset, the Italian journal. jlc5@columbia.edu

Sarah Cole is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, with a focus on British modernism. Her first book, Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War (Cambridge, 2003) provides a cultural and literary history of male intimacy in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She has written and taught about war from an interdisciplinary and cross-national perspective, and is currently working on a book about literature and violence in the early-twentieth century. She has articles published or forthcoming in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, and several edited collections. sc891@columbia.edu

Nancy W. Collins teaches courses in European Studies and Transatlantic History. Collins is currently writing a book entitled, An Indispensable Ally: The Rise of European Studies in Postwar America, that analyzes the development of this new intellectual enterprise from its origins in the second world war until its upheavals in the early seventies. This is the first history of the subject, a topic at the nexus of intellectual history, international relations, and transatlantic studies. Collins serves as the Research Director of The European Institute as well as the Chair of the University’s Seminar on Modern Europe, a faculty colloquium devoted to key transformations in the region. She is the past Director of the Council for European Studies and the Editor of the European Studies Forum.
nwcollins@columbia.edu

Antoine Compagnon is Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is also appointed professor at the Collège de France, where he serves as chair of the modern and contemporary French literature program. He specializes in modern French literature, literary theory, the history of criticism, and cultural history. He has published widely in French and English, including Literature, Theory, and Common Sense (Princeton 2004). Serving in many academic organizations, his most recent appointment is president of the Commission on Classic Literature and Literary Criticism of the Centre National du Livre (CNL). amc6@columbia.edu

Matthew Connelly is associate professor in the History Department, where he also directs the dual MA program in International and World History with the London School of Economics. His new book, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, was published by Harvard University Press in 2008. His first book, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post- Cold War Era, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002. His articles have appeared in The American Historical Review, Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and La Revue française d'Histoire d'Outre-mer. He has also published commentary on international affairs in The Atlantic Monthly, The National Interest, and Esprit. He received his B.A. from Columbia(1990) and his Ph.D. from Yale (1997). For more information, please see his personal webpage: www.matthewconnelly.net. mjc96@columbia.edu

Susan Crane specializes in English and French medieval literature and culture. The consequences of the Norman conquest for Britain's linguistic, literary, and social history are the focus of Insular Romance: Politics, Faith, and Culture in Anglo-Norman and Middle English Literature (1986) and subsequent articles on insular bilingualism. Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1992) argues for interrelations between literary genres and ideologies of sexuality. The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War (2002) traces premodern identities expressed in secular rituals such as tournaments, weddings, and mummings. Current projects explore the purposes of translation in the late Middle Ages, and relations between humans and animals in several medieval genres. sc2298@columbia.edu

Nicholas Dames, Theodore Kahan Associate Professor in the Humanities, is a specialist in nineteenth-century British fiction, with interests in the classical European novel, the history and theory of the novel, relations between the nineteenth-century novel and operatic and symphonic music, and the history of reading. He is the author of Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870 (Oxford, 2001) and The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction (Oxford, 2007). His current project is a history of the chapter form from late antiquity to the great era of the European novel. nd122@columbia.edu

Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, specializing in Jewish literary history, early modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature (particularly from the 16th to 18th century), Yiddish theater, and American Jewish literature and culture. He is the co-editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, and is the author of Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, and, with Joel Berkowitz, the co-editor and translator of Landmark Yiddish Plays. He is currently the Acting Director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. jad213@columbia.edu

Jenny Davidson is an associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen (Cambridge University Press, 2004); a new academic book, Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century, will be published by Columbia University Press this winter. She has also published two novels, Heredity (2003) and The Explosionist (2008). jmd206@columbia.edu

Vincent Debaene received his academic training in France, where he was a fellow of the École Normale Supérieure. He received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 2004. Principal teaching and research interests include French anthropology, 20th-century French literature, literary theory, and intellectual history. He coordinated the edition of the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Gallimard, 2008). He has published articles in French literature journals as well as in anthropology journals. His dissertation on the relationship between literature and anthropology in 20th-century France will be published by Gallimard in 2009 in the "Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines" series. vd2169@columbia.edu

Victoria de Grazia is the Director of The European Institute, and the James R. Barker Professor of History and Contemporary Civilization. She is the author of prize-winning studies on twentieth-century Italian history, including How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (1992) and the Culture of Consent in Fascist Italy (1981). For the last decade, her major work has focused on the globalization of U.S. consumer culture and recently culminated in Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth Century Europe (Harvard University Press). In 2005, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. vd19@columbia.edu

Vittoria Di Palma specializes in British and French architectural history and theory, with a particular concentration on eighteenth-century architecture and landscape. Her research focuses on connections between landscape and epistemology; ideas of the natural and the artificial; and brings art historical issues to bear upon architectural history, examining ways in which visuality, aesthetics, and perception inform our understanding of buildings and environments. Two current book projects explore intersections between the history of science, aesthetics, and ideas of nature. Wasteland is a cultural history of desolate landscapes tracing attitudes toward dereliction from the seventeenth century to the post-industrial present; Fragmented Landscapes is a study of empiricism and aesthetics in eighteenth-century British landscape design. vdp1@columbia.edu

Thomas DiPrete is a research professor at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, has held guest professor appointments at both the Max Planck Institute für Bildungsforschung and the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, was a Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and was recently awarded an ESRC-SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex in the UK. His current research on Europe addresses the impact of unequal work hours in the U.S. and European countries on cross-national comparisons of well-being, the changing gender gap in the attainment of higher education across industrialized societies, and the question of whether social welfare policies offer diminished protection against life course risks in the U.S. and Germany. tad61@columbia.edu

Madeleine Dobie teaches in the Department of French and Romance Philology, where she is Director of Undergraduate Studies. She also serves on the executive committees of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her fields of specialization are eighteenth-century France, particularly French colonialism and modes of exoticism, and contemporary postcolonial literatures in France, the Maghreb, and Lebanon. Her work, which is of an interdisciplinary nature, examines intersections of literature, history, and material culture. She has received fellowships from NEH and the National Humanities Center. Her book Foreign Bodies won the 2002 SCMLA book award. She is currently completing a book entitled Trading Places. Colonialism & Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture. She is also working on a new book on cultural representations of hostages, with a focus on literature and cinema of the Lebanese Civil War. mld2027@columbia.edu

Gil Eyal's work deals with the sociology of knowledge, expertise and intellectuals, in particular as it relates to broader political processes. He has written about the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe, as well as about expertise in Arab affairs and the role it plays in the Israeli polity. His books include: (with Ivan Szelenyi and Eleanor Townsley) Making Capitalism without Capitalists (London: Verso, 1998); The Origins of Post-Communist Elites: From the Prague Spring to the Breakup of Czechoslovakia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003); The Disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006). Currently he is working on a book about the social origins of the recent rise in the number of autism diagnoses in a comparative perspective. ge2027@columbia.edu

Tanisha Fazal (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001) is a member of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Current research projects focus on changing compliance with the laws of war, state failure, and the relationship between geography and conflict. Her book, State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation, was published by Princeton University Press (2007). In 2002 she was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association. tmf2001@columbia.edu

Trained in French literature, Priscilla Ferguson now teaches in the Department of Sociology. She remains focused on France and things French in works on French literary culture (Literary France: The Making of a Culture, 1987, translated as La France littéraire, 1994), Paris (Paris as Revolution: Reading the 19th-Century City, 1994), and Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine (2004), to be published in French in 2009. The cultural parameters of French cuisine continue to stimulate her work, and she is at work on the political aspects of culinary discourse from the early 20th century to today. ppf1@columbia.edu

Pierre Force received his academic training in France, where he was a fellow of the École normale supérieure. He took his BA (1979), doctorate (1987), and habilitation (1994) at the Sorbonne. He first came to the United States in 1984 as a lecturer at Yale University, and he joined the Columbia faculty in 1987. His field of research is seventeenth- and eighteenth-century intellectual history. He is the author of Le Problème herméneutique chez Pascal (Paris: Vrin, 1989), Molière ou Le Prix des choses (Paris: Nathan, 1994), and Self-Interest before Adam Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He chaired the French Department from 1997 to 2007 and is also affiliated with the Department of History. He received the Columbia Distinguished Faculty award in 2005. His teaching interests include French classicism and its reception, literature and eloquence, the history of hermeneutics, and the development of moral and political philosophy in early modern Europe. pf3@columbia.edu

David Freedberg is Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. He is the author of a number of books on European art, including Dutch Landscape Prints of the Seventeenth Century (1980), Rubens: The Life of Christ after the Passion (1984), Iconoclasm and Painting in the Revolt of the Netherlands (1978), The Power of Images (1989), The Prints of Peter Bruegel the Elder (1989), The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern History (2002). He is now working on the implications of the new neurosciences for the history of art. daf5@columbia.edu

Timothy Frye (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1997) is a member of the Political Science Department and the Institute for Social and Economic Policy and Research. His research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He is the author of Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Markets in Russia (Michigan Press 2000), which won the 2001 Hewett Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Current projects include a book manuscript on the politics of economic reform in 25 postcommunist countries from 1990-2004 and a book on property rights and the rule of law drawing on surveys of business elites and the mass public in Russia. Professor Frye received an MIA degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a BA in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College. tmf2@columbia.edu

Lucy Goodhart received her Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 2002. Her thesis examined the effect of coalition government on politically motivated cycles in economic policy. In one of her current projects, Goodhart shows how a country’s electoral system affects the level of trade protection. Goodhart is also working on a book project, The Politics of Disaffection, which analyzes the changing relevance of welfare policies and demonstrates how this has altered the standard relationship between low-income voters and votes for the left, both in the United States and Europe. lmg2005@columbia.edu

Stathis Gourgouris is professor of comparative literature at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, Department of Classics, and Department of English. He is the author of Dream Nation (Stanford 1996) and Does Literature Think? (Stanford 2003), and editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham 2009). His work has been translated into Greek, French, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish, and he writes regularly on political and literary matters in Greek newspapers and journals. His current project seeks to complicate and enhance the notion of the “secular” against both secularist and anti-secularist metaphysics. A beloved side-project has been an ongoing meditation on the modes of listening to experimental music. ssg93@columbia.edu

Erik Gray specializes in British poetry, particularly of the nineteenth century. He is the author of The Poetry of Indifference (2005) and Milton and the Victorians (2009), as well as articles on poets ranging from Virgil to Christina Rossetti, and he has edited works by Edmund Spenser and Alfred Tennyson. At Columbia he teaches courses on Romantic and Victorian poetry, as well as a variety of more specialized seminars on the history of poetry and poetics. eg2155@columbia.edu

Cordula Grewe, associate professor of art history, specializes in German art of the long nineteenth century. She is particularly interested in visual piety, Romanticism and its Sacred Imaginary, and aesthetics. She has published widely on Romantic art and art theory, contributing to numerous exhibition catalogues, essay collections and journals such as Pantheon, Word & Image, Modern Intellectual History, and New German Critique. Her latest essay has appeared in the March 2007 issue of Art Bulletin titled “Historicism and the Symbolic Imagination in Nazarene Art.” She is currently preparing two books on the Romantic movement of the Nazarenes. She has received numerous grants, most recently the 2006-2007 Hans Kohn fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Since 2007, she has served as a member of the Advisory Board of Intellectual History Review (Routledge / Taylor & Francis). cg2101@columbia.edu

Patricia E. Grieve is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor in the Humanities, specializing in comparative medieval and early modern studies, especially cultural and religious history of Mediterranean societies. Areas of particular interest include frametale collections from the ancient East to Early Modern Europe, the narrative and cultural developments of hagiography and romance, and the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim cultures, especially in Spain, North Africa and the Middle East. Her work includes: The Eve of Spain: Myths of Origins in the History of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Conflict (2009), ‘Floire and Blancheflor’ and the European Romance (1997; 2006) and Desire and Death in the Sentimental Romance: 1440-1550 (1987). peg1@columbia.edu

Danielle Haase-Dubosc serves as the executive director of Reid Hall, associate provost of Columbia University and director of the University’s Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall. She also serves as faculty adviser for the MA in French Cultural Studies in a Global Context. She created Columbia’s undergraduate programs of study in France and lectures widely around the globe. Her main research interests are 17th-century French and comparative literature, gender studies, and transnationalism. She has edited and published numerous works on these and related subjects and is currently working on problems of social and legal justice for Palestinian women and gender crossings in the early modern period. dh5@columbia.edu

W.V. Harris, who is Director of Columbia's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, specializes in Greek and Roman history. In the past he has published widely on Roman imperialism and on the extent and significance of literacy in the classical world. In recent years he has worked chiefly on economic history (for example in 'A Revisionist View of Roman Money,’ Journal of Roman Studies 2006), and on psychological aspects of ancient cultures; the latter interest led him to write Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (Harvard University Press, 2002) and Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity (same publisher, forthcoming in 2009). wvh1@columbia.edu

Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the English department. Specializing in the drama and poetry of the early modern period, she is one of the editors of The Norton Shakespeare and author of Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration: Stagecraft and Audience Response, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories, and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642. A past President of the Shakespeare Association of America, Howard has served at Columbia as the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Vice Provost for Diversity. She is currently chair of the English Department and at work on a book on early modern tragedy and another on the plays of Caryl Churchill, the contemporary feminist dramatist. jfh5@columbia.edu

Martha Howell, the Miriam Champion Professor of History, specializes in the history of the greater Low Countries, northern France and Germany during the late medieval and early modern centuries. Author of books on women’s labor, family, and marriage in the late medieval North, she is co-author of From Reliable Sources, and she is completing a study of European economic culture between 1300 and 1600 called Commerce before Capitalism. She also chairs the Queen Wilhelmina committee, which brings scholars to Columbia who specialize in the history and culture of the Dutch-speaking world. In 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and for the academic year 2008-09 she was appointed to the Chaire Francqui internationale by the Belgian state. mch4@columbia.edu.

John Huber's research focuses on the study of democratic institutions in Europe. He has written numerous articles, and two books. Rationalizing Parliament (Cambridge, 1996) examined constitutional innovations in France's Fifth Republic constitution. Deliberate Discretion? (Cambridge 2002, with Charles Shipan), which was awarded the Richard Fenno Prize, the Gregory Luebbert Prize, and the William Riker Prize, examined delegation of policy-making authority from cabinet ministers to bureaucrats across Europe. Huber's current research focuses on how social and institutional factors, including church-state separation and ethnicity, influence the representation of the poor. jdh39@columbia.edu

Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, founding director of Columbia’s Center for Comparative Literature and Society (1998-2003), and one of the founding editors of New German Critique (since 1974). His books include After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986), Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995), and Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (2003). Forthcoming: Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age (Duke UP, 2008). ah26@columbia.edu

Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. His System Effects: Complexity in Political Life (Princeton University Press, 1997) was a co-winner of the APSA's Psychology Section Best Book Award. The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1989) won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is also the author of Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 1976), The Logic of Images in International Relations (Princeton University Press, 1970; 2d ed., Columbia University Press, 1989), and The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy (Cornell University Press, 1984.) His most recent book is American Foreign Policy in a New Era (Routledge, 2005) and he is completing a book on intelligence and intelligence failures. He was President of the American Political Science Association in 2000-01 and in 2006 was the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences’ tri-annual award for contributions of behavioral science toward avoiding nuclear war. rlj1@columbia.edu

David Johnston is a specialist in the history of political thought, especially the modern liberal tradition, and in ideas about justice. He has been the Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization and is currently Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy as well as Chair and Director of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia. He is author of The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation (Princeton, 1986) and The Idea of a Liberal Theory (Princeton, 1994), editor of Equality: A Reader (Hackett, 2000) and co-editor of Leviathan: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton, 1997), and is currently completing A Brief History of Justice (Blackwell, forthcoming). dcj1@columbia.edu

Branden W. Joseph received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999. His first book, Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde, examined all aspects of the artist’s development from a theoretical perspective. Joseph’s further work on Rauschenberg has appeared in journals from October magazine to the Journal of Art History (Stockholm), as well as in the Robert Rauschenberg: Combines retrospective catalogue (LACMA, 2005). Joseph’s area of specialization is post-War American and European art, focusing particularly on those individuals and practices that cross medium and disciplinary boundaries. These concerns have been explored further in the books Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works (Northwestern/Steidl, 2005) and Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (Zone Books, 2008). Joseph is also a founding editor of Grey Room, a scholarly and theoretical journal of architecture, art, media, and politics published by MIT Press since the fall of 2000. bwj4@columbia.edu

Joel Kaye is professor in the department of history at Barnard College. His area of specialization is medieval history, and within that, later medieval intellectual history, and within that, the history of medieval economic, political, and scientific thought. He has recently expanded his interests to include medieval medical writings, with a focus on the Galenic tradition. He is the author of Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1998), which was awarded the John Nicholas Brown Prize by the Medieval Academy of America. His most recent work touches on the history of balance, tracking the emergence of a new model of equilibrium within scholastic thought, c. 1250-1350. jkaye@barnard.edu

Adam Kosto (Ph.D. Harvard, 1996), specializes in the institutional and legal history of medieval Europe. He is the author of Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200 (2001), and co-editor of The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950–1350 (2005) and Charters, Cartularies, and Archives: The Preservation and Transmission of Documents in the Medieval West (2002). He is currently working on a book on hostages as a mode of surety in medieval Europe and a project on the legal and documentary practices of laypeople in the Early Middle Ages. ajkosto@columbia.edu

Marco Maiuro is currently assistant professor in ancient history. He specializes in the history of the Greek and Roman world, with a particular focus on social and economic history of the Hellenistic kingdoms and Roman Empire. As an archaeologist, he has worked on many international projects in the basin of the Mediterranean, and he is currently responsible for the classical section in the international archaeological project of Villa Magna (Central Italy, see WWW.VILLA-MAGNA.ORG). His book, The Imperial Properties in High Imperial Italy: Economy, Administration and Geography” is forthcoming. Recent research is focused on issues of acculturation, imperialism, and globalization in ancient history. mm3397@columbia.edu

Professor Marcus, Orlanda Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, specializes in nineteenth-century British and French novels, urban and architectural studies, and feminist and queer theory. In addition to Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (University of California Press, 1999), she has recently published articles on the representation of lesbians in 19th-century literary criticism and on Victorian fashion plates. She recently completed a book entitled Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton University Press, 2007), which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Prize for best book in LGBT studies. Her current research project is a book on Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, and the culture of theatrical celebrity. sm2247@columbia.edu

Kimberly Marten is a professor and the chair of the political science department at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is an expert on international security issues, including peace enforcement and stability operations; the phenomenon of warlordism in places like Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq; and military and energy questions in the post-Soviet space. She has written three books: Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past (2004); Weapons, Culture, and Self-Interest: Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia (1997); and Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation (1993), which received the Marshall Shulman Prize. Her articles have appeared in International Security, Armed Forces and Society, the Journal of Intervention and State-Building, the Washington Quarterly, and Post-Soviet Affairs. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. km2225@columbia.edu

Mark Mazower, professor, specializes in modern Greece, 20th-century Europe, and international history. He has a B.A. in classics and philosophy from Oxford (1981), an M.A. in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins (1983) and a doctorate in modern history from Oxford (1988). His books include: Inside Hitler’s Greece : The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44 (1993); Dark Continent: Europe’s 20th Century (1998); and The Balkans: A Short History (2002). His most recent book is Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950 (2004). Current interests include comparative dimensions of the post-Ottoman experience in the Balkans and Middle East, war and population movements, and the history of international norms and institutions. mm2669@columbia.edu

Alberto Medina specializes in eighteenth-century studies, contemporary Spanish literature and film, and transatlantic studies. He is the author of Exorcismos de la memoria: políticas y poéticas de la melancolía en la España de la transición, and Espejo de sombras: sujeto y multitud en la España del siglo XVIII (forthcoming), and has been published in Hispania, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Iberoamericana, and Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. His current projects include a comparative study about the interplay between sexual identities and political transitions in both Spain and Latin America, and an analysis of the connections between mysticism, economy, and the avant-garde in pre-war Spain. am3149@columbia.edu

Edward Mendelson is Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden, and The Things That Matter, and he is editor of the Complete Works of W. H. Auden. His work appears in the New York Review of Books, TLS, London Review of Books, and elsewhere. His current project is a book on the moral life of literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of the Board of Guarantors of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. em36@columbia.edu

John Micgiel teaches international and public affairs. He is the director of the East Central European Center and executive director of The European Institute. His research interests include modern history and politics of East Central and Western Europe, and he has authored several books on the history and politics of Poland, including the forthcoming Coercion and the Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1944–1947. He has been the editor for Wilsonian East Central Europe, Perspectives on Political and Economic Transitions after Communism, State and Nation Building in East Central Europe: Contemporary Perspectives, and coeditor for Poles and Jews: Myth and Reality in the Historical Context. jsm6@columbia.edu

Nelson Moe is an associate professor of Italian at Barnard College. He has written widely in cultural theory (Gramsci in particular) and diverse aspects of 19th- and 20th-century Italian history and culture. His book The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question (2002) received the Modern Language Association Scaglione Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies. He is currently writing a comparative study of the image of the Mafia in Italy and America and a cultural history of Naples. njm11@columbia.edu

Keith Moxey is a scholar of German and Netherlandish art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He is also the author of books on the historiography and philosophy of art history. His publications include: The Practice of Persuasion: Politics and Paradox in Art History (2001); The Practice of Theory: Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics, and Art History (1994); and Peasants, Warriors and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation (1989). He has also edited a number of anthologies: Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Studies (2002); The Subjects of Art History (1998); Visual Culture (1994); and Visual Theory (1991). He has directed seminars on the theory of art history and visual studies for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Getty Foundation. pm154@columbia.edu

Samuel Moyn, professor of history at Columbia, works primarily on modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and sometimes Jewish studies. He has published two books: Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics (2005) and A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France (2005). He is on leave in 2008-9 on ACLS and Guggenheim Fellowships working on the history of human rights. He is the codirector of the New York area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History. He has his A.B. from Washington University (1994), Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley (2000), and J.D. from Harvard University (2001). sam2008@columbia.edu

Professor Harro Müller (Ph.D. Cologne 1973; Habilitation Bielefeld 1979) has been teaching at Columbia University since 1991. He has held visiting professorships at Cornell University (1982), Emory University (1987), the University of Bordeaux (1988), and at Columbia (1991). Since 1991, he acts as Vice President of the Groupe de Recherche sur la Culture de Weimar at the Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, and he was executive editor of The Germanic Review (1996-2002) and Chair of the Department (1996-1999). Harro Müller has published nine books, including Theodor Storms Lyrik (1975), Geschichte zwischen Kairos und Katastrophe. Historische Romane im 20. Jahrhundert (1988), Giftpfeile. Zu Theorie und Literatur der Moderne (1994), Systemtheorie der Literatur (1996, co-editor with Jürgen Fohrmann), and Authentizität. Diskussion eines ästhetischen Begriffs (2006, co-editor with Susanne Knaller). He is author of numerous articles, on literary history from Schiller to Kluge, and on literary theory from hermeneutics and critical theory (Benjamin, Adorno) to deconstruction (Paul de Man, Derrida) and systems theory (Luhmann). hm26@columbia.edu

Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Culture and chair of the Slavic department at Barnard, where she is also affiliated with the comparative literature and human rights studies program. She is also the director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Nepomnyashchy's research and teaching interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian literature and popular culture (including television and dance), Russian women's studies, and the works of Alexander Pushkin, Andrei Sinyavsky, and Vladimir Nabokov. Nepomnyashchy is a past president of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. cn29@columbia.edu

Susan Pedersen, professor, specializes in British history, the British empire, comparative European history, and international history. Her publications include: Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (2004); Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century (co-ed., 2005); Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France , 1914-1945 (1993); and After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain (co-ed., 1994). She is now writing a book on the mandates system of the League of Nations and its impact on the imperial order. Her review essay surveying recent scholarship on the League, “Back to the League of Nations,” appears in the October 2007 issue of the American Historical Review. Professor Pedersen received her B.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1989) from Harvard University, where she taught until joining the Columbia faculty in 2003. sp2216@columbia.edu

Julie Stone Peters is Professor of English and Comparative Literature. A specialist in comparative drama (early modern to modern), her work also focuses on the literary and cultural dimensions of the law. Her most recent book is Theatre of the Book: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe 1480-1880 (Oxford 2000) (winner of the ACLA’s Harry Levin Prize, English Association White Award, and an honorable mention from ASTR). She is currently working on two book projects: a study of anthropology, globalism, and the concept of theatre (c.1770-1918); and a study of theatricality and performance in the history of the law. jsp2@columbia.edu

Anne Lake Prescott, Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of English at Barnard, is the author of French Poets and the English Renaissance and Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England as well as the author of essays on Marguerite de Navarre, Clément Marot, Louise Labé, Philip Sidney, Donne, Jonson, Elizabeth I, Spenser, and others. A co-editor of Spenser Studies, and on the board of Studies in English Literature, Renaissance Studies, and The John Donne Journal, she has served as President of the Sixteenth Century Society and was until recently on the board of the Renaissance Society of America. Her current interests include early modern calendars and the Renaissance image of David and the psalms. aprescot@barnard.edu

Wayne Proudfoot, professor of religion, works on philosophy of religion and modern European and American Christian thought. He teaches a course called Religion and its Critics, a survey of European philosophical and religious critical thought about religion from Spinoza to Nietzsche, and he has taught seminars on figures or topics in this period, most recently Kant and Kierkegaard on religion. Religious Experience (California, 1985) draws on some of these thinkers. His current work is on pragmatism and American religious thought. wlp2@columbia.edu

Martin Puchner (Ph.D. Harvard 1998) holds the H. Gordon Garbedian Chair in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is also the Co-Chair of the Theatre Ph.D. Program. He is the author of Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-gardes (Princeton 2005), which won the James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the MLA, among others, and of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality and Drama (Hopkins, 2002; expanded German edition, 2006). His editorial work includes The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings (Barnes and Noble 2005) and the four volume Critical Concepts: Modern Drama (Routledge 2007). He is the new general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature and the Norton Anthology of Western Literature. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Theatre Survey (Cambridge UP). hmp10@columbia.edu

Before joining the Barnard/Columbia faculty in 2005, Professor Rios-Font was Associate Professor at Brown University and Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. Her main academic specialization is Spanish peninsular literature and culture from 1800 to the present, with a special focus on the cultural history of modern Spain, on issues of literary historiography, and on transatlantic cultural exchanges. She is the author of Rewriting Melodrama: The Hidden Paradigm in Modern Spanish Theater (Bucknell 1997) and The Canon and the Archive: Configuring Literature in Modern Spain (Bucknell 2004). Her work has also been published in journals including Hispanic Review, Hispania, MLN, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and in the Cambridge History of Spanish Literature, among other venues. She is currently writing a third book on the construction of Puerto Rican nationality in the context of historical, political, economic, and literary exchanges with the late Spanish empire (1808-1898). wriosfon@barnard.edu

David Rosand, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, specializes in the Renaissance tradition in art, with special focus on Venice, and the history of graphic arts. Some of his publications include Titian (1978), Places of Delight: The Pastoral Landscape (1988, with Robert Cafritz and Lawrence Gowing), Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State (2001), and Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation (2002). He currently serves on the executive board of the Renaissance Society of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. dr17@columbia.edu

Nicole Rudolph is Director of the Maison Française at Columbia University. She earned her Ph.D. from the Institute of French Studies at New York University and holds a joint D.E.A. in Social Sciences from the École Normale Supérieure and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is the former Managing Editor of French Politics, Culture & Society and is currently working on a social and cultural history of French homes during the Trente Glorieuses. Her research interests include the history of domestic space, women's history, history of the family, and studies of utopias. nr2275@columbia.edu

Emmanuelle Saada, Associate Professor, specializes in the history and sociology of colonization and immigration in the francophone world. Her first book, Les enfants de la colonie: les métis de l'Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté ( La Découverte, 2007) was awarded the Auguste Pavie Prize from the Académie des Sciences d?Outre-mer. She recently completed a collaborative research project on illegal immigrants in France, to be published by La Documentation Française in 2009, and is currently working on a historiographical book on European colonialism. She is the director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Columbia and a member of the editorial boards of Geneses. Sciences sociales et histoire and French Politics, Culture and Society. es2593@columbia.edu

Charles Sabel is professor of law and social science at Columbia Law School. His most recent work on the EU is a paper co-authored with Jonathan Zeitlin: “Learning from Difference.” His other interests include economic development and organizational theory. His current projects include child welfare, the Nordic welfare state, and contract theory. cfs11@columbia.edu

Saskia Sassen is the Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement based on a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ]. Her books are translated into sixteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy.net, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, the Financial Times, among others. sjs2@columbia.edu

Vanessa Scherrer teaches European Politics and Qualitative Analysis at the School of International and Public Affairs. She is also the Director of the Alliance Program, a partnership between Columbia University and three major French universities (the Ecole Polytechnique, Sciences Po and the Université Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne). Vanessa Scherrer holds an MA in Political Sociology and European Comparative Politics from Sciences Po and a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po. vcs2002@columbia.edu

Melissa Schwartzberg (Ph.D. 2002, NYU) is an associate professor of political science. Her research as a political theorist centers on the emergence of rules governing democratic decision-making. Her interests include ancient Greek political institutions and eighteenth-century political thought, particularly that of Rousseau. She is the author of Democracy and Legal Change (Cambridge, 2007) as well as articles in journals including Political Theory, Journal of the History of Ideas, the American Political Science Review, and Political Studies. She is currently writing a book examining the historical origins and normative justification of vote thresholds, from majority to supermajority to unanimity rule. ms3125@columbia.edu

Neslihan Senocak specializes in the history of medieval Europe. She has so far published on the intellectual organization and the libraries of the medieval Franciscan Order, and is about to finish her monograph on this subject. Her more recent interests are in the field of social history. Her next project will be dedicated to figure out the complex relationship between the urbanization in the 12th and 13th century Italy, and patterns of crime in Italy. She is teaching courses on the religious life and thought, Italy, and crime and punishment in the Middle Ages. nsenocak@columbia.edu

Stephen Sestanovich is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University and the George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1997 to 2001, Ambassador Sestanovich served as ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state for the former Soviet Union. Previously he was vice president for Russian and Eurasian affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and director of Soviet and East European studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Between 1981 and 1987 he was a member of the State Department’s policy planning staff and of the National Security Council staff. Ambassador Sestanovich received his PhD from Harvard University and his BA from Cornell University. ss2059@columbia.edu

Pamela H. Smith, professor, specializes in early modern European history and the history of science. She received a B.A. from the University of Wollongong (1979) and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins (1990). Her books include The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (1994; Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society) and The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004), which won the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association. Edited volumes include Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe (ed. with P. Findlen, 2002) and Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800 (ed. with B. Schmidt, 2008). Her current research focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques. ps2270@columbia.edu

Jack L. Snyder is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations in the political science department and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His books include Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War (MIT Press, 2005), co-authored with Edward D. Mansfield; From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict (Norton Books, 2000); Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition (Cornell University Press, 1991); The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 (Cornell 1984); and Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention, co-editor with Barbara Walter (Columbia University Press, 1999). His articles on such topics as democratization and war (“Prone to Violence: The Paradox of the Democratic Peace,” The National Interest, winter 2005/2006), imperial overstretch, war crimes tribunals versus amnesties as strategies for preventing atrocities, international relations theory after September 11, and anarchy and culture have appeared in many academic journals. His commentaries on current public issues have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, and on National Public Radio. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. jls6@columbia.edu

Robert Somerville, Tremaine Professor of Religion and Professor of History, is a historian of pre-modern Christianity in the West, with particular interests in the Middle Ages. His research centers on religious law and the papacy, particularly in the eleventh through the thirteenth centuriess. Currently he is finishing a monograph on Pope Urban II's Councils of Piacenza (1095) and Rome (1099); and Somerville and Brasington are preparing a second edition of Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity. He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is also a member of the editorial board of Studies in Medieval and Early-Modern Canon Law; and is the Editor of the Columbia University Press's Records of Western Civilization. somervil@columbia.edu

Joanna Stalnaker is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia. She works on the French Enlightenment, with a focus on knowledge and its literary representations. Her first book manuscript, entitled The Unfinished Enlightenment, treats eighteenth-century attempts to compile comprehensive descriptions of the natural and social world. She is currently working on a second project on last works and the testament as a literary form in the Enlightenment. She has published articles on Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Mercier and de Staël. jrs2052@columbia.edu

David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, working in the fields of economic sociology and organizational analysis. Recent publications on European topics include: “Recombinant Property in East European Capitalism” (Am. J. of Sociology 1996); Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Property and Politics in East Central Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1998); “Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary” ( Am. J. of Sociology 2006); and “Rooted Transnational Publics: Integrating Foreign Ties and Civic Activism” ( Theory and Society 2006). A recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stark has held visiting appointments in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Durham England, London, and Cologne. dcs36@columbia.edu

Anders Stephanson is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of History at Columbia University. He specializes in 20th-century American foreign relations as well as history and theory. He received a B.A. from Gothenburg (1975), an M.Phil from Oxford (1977), and a Ph.D. from Columbia (1986). His published works include Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy (1989) and Manifest Destiny (1995). He is currently working on a historiographical book on diplomatic history and a work tentatively entitled The United States as a Cold War. ags8@columbia.edu

Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of four books: Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian-Jewish Families Under Fascism, (1991); Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (1995); The Future of the Past; and The Sack of Rome: Money + Media + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi. He has written for a wide range of publications, from The New York Times and the New Yorker to the Atlantic, The New Republic in the United States as well as La Repubblica in Italy, El Pais in Spain and the Financial Times in the U.K. as786@columbia.edu

Lisa Tiersten is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has been the recipient of a Chateaubriand Fellowship, a French Historical Studies Society Fellowship, and a Getty Fellowship. She received the Emily Gregory Teaching Award at Barnard College in 1996. Her publications include Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-siècle France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). She is also a co-author of The Western Experience, vol. II., a modern European history textbook (McGraw-Hill, 2006). She is currently at work on a history of bankruptcy and credit in modern France, entitled Sentimentality Modernity: Business Culture in Nineteenth-Century France, and, with Lars Trägårdh, a comparative history of children’s rights in the twentieth-century U.S., France, and Sweden, entitled The Child and the Nation-State. Her research interests include modern France, gender, consumer culture, empire, and the comparative culture of capitalism. ltierste@barnard.edu

Nadia Urbinati (Ph.D European University Institute, Florence) is Professor Political Theory at Columbia University. She specializes in modern political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She is co-editor with Andrew Arato of the journal Constellations. She has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. She is the author of several books in Italian and also Representative Democracy (U. of Chicago Press 2006), and of Mill on Democracy (U. of Chicago Press, 2002; Italian trans. 2006), which received the David and Elaine Spitz Prize. Among her co-edited books: Giuseppe Mazzini on Nation Building, Democracy, and Intervention (Princeton U. Press, forthcoming) and, Le socialisme libéral. Une anthologie: Europe-Ëtats-Unis (Ėditions Esprit, 2003; Italian trans. 2004). nu15@columbia.edu

Professor Deborah Valenze, Barnard College History Department, specializes in eighteenth-century British social and cultural history. Her most recent book, The Social History of Money in the English Past (Cambridge, 2006), examines how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we understand as its purely economic functions. She is also the author of The First Industrial Woman (Oxford, 1995) and Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England (Princeton, 1985). She is currently at work on a cultural history of milk as a modern commodity. dvalenze@barnard.edu

A literary critic, poet and narrator, Paolo Valesio was born in Bologna, studied at that ancient universtiy, then moved to the United States where he continued his studies and research at Harvard University, New York University, and Yale University. He taught at the latter institution for a quarter-century, and recently moved to Columbia University where he is currently the Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor in Italian Literature, as well as the Director of the Italian Poetry Review (IPR) housed in the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. Paolo Valesio's areas of teaching and research include the literature of the 19th and 20th century, rhetoric in its connection with literary analysis and with spirituality, as well as comparative approaches to contemporary Italian literature, and the theory and practice of creative writing. pv2115@columbia.edu

Karen Van Dyck is the Kimon A. Doukas Chair of Modern Greek Literature and the Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies in the Classics Department. She teaches courses on Modern Greek and Greek diaspora literature, gender and translation theory. Her publications include Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967 (Cornell, 1998; Greek translation, Agra, 2002), The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women Poets (Wesleyan, 1998, bilingual edition), and A Century of Greek Poetry: 1900-2000 (Cosmos, 2004, bilingual edition). Her collection of translations The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poetry by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was published by Anvil in 2008 (UK) and is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2009 (US). krv1@columbia.edu

Dorothea von Mücke holds a Ph. D. in Comp. Lit. (Stanford 1988) and has been teaching at Columbia since 1988. She has published the following books: Virtue and the Veil of Illusion. Generic Innovation and the Pedagogical Project in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Stanford University Press, 1991); with Veronica Kelly (ed. and intro.), Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 1994); and The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale (Stanford University Press, 2003). She is a coeditor of the New History of German Literature (Harvard University Press, 2004). Currently she is working on a book about changing models of authorship and creativity in the arts and sciences during the long eighteenth century. dev1@columbia.edu

Phil Watts’s research and teaching focus on 20th-century French literature and film and the relation between politics and aesthetics. His first book Allegories of the Purge (Stanford, 1999) was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize. Since then he has continued to study how literature and film participate in democratic formations. His current research focuses on the persistence of classical forms in postwar French literature and film. An edited volume of essays on Jacques Rancière is forthcoming from Duke University Press. pcw28@columbia.edu

Caroline Weber is an associate professor of French and Comp Lit at Barnard, and teaches as well in the Columbia Department of French and Romance Philology. Her areas of specialization include the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, modern literary theory, and costume history. Her most recent book is Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (2006), which was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Borders Books. Her two new research projects are a study of ideology in the drame bourgeois, and a book about Coco Chanel's collaborationist circle during the Nazi Occupation of Paris. She is also a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, and publishes widely in other mainstream as well as scholarly journals. ceweber@barnard.edu

Carl Wennerlind, Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College, specializes in seventeenth and eighteenth century political economy. He is currently completing a monograph on the intellectual history of the British financial revolution. He has also published extensively on David Hume's political economy. cwennerl@barnard.edu

Josh Whitford joined the Columbia Sociology faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2004, after a post-doctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, Germany. He has also been at the European University Institute in Italy, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Turin and at the University of Modena. His research interests include economic and organizational sociology, comparative political economy, and economic geography. His current work focuses on the social, political and institutional implications of productive decentralization (outsourcing) in manufacturing industries in both the United States and Europe, with a particular concentration on regions (industrial districts) in northwestern and in central Italy. jw2212@columbia.edu

Emma Winter, assistant professor of History, specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of 18th and 19th century Europe, particularly Britain and Germany. She is interested in taste and tastemaking; cultural change and trans-national exchange; nationalism and the construction of national cultures; state promotion of the arts, aesthetic governance and the interaction between art, politics, and religion. Her publications include: “German Fresco Painting and the New Houses of Parliament at Westminster , 1834–51’, The Historical Journal 47 (2004) and “Between Louis and Ludwig: from the Culture of French Power to the Power of German Culture, c. 1789-1848,”’ in H. Scott and B. Simms, eds., Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century (2007). She is currently writing a book entitled Art and Taste, State and Nation in Europe c. 1789-1848. ew2176@columbia.edu