Alexandra Birch Won the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award: Alexandra Birch (Mellon Teaching Fellow; Lecturer in History) won the award from the Association for Jewish Studies for her book, Hitler’s Twilight of the Gods: Music and the Orchestration of War and Genocide in Europe (University of Toronto Press, 2025).

Aleksandar Bošković Awarded NIAS Fellowship: Aleksandar Bošković (Senior Lecturer in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian) was awarded a fellowship from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam. His project, titled “Nothing (:) Made in Yugoslavia,” focuses on experimental art practices from the former Yugoslavia.

Alexander Cooley Appointed Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs: Alexander Cooley (Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College) was among four experts selected by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs “to convene research and high-level discussions on the role of U.S. partners and allies in North America, Europe, and Asia in shaping the future international order.”

Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany, Co-authored by Ann Cooper, Runner Up for American Journalism Historians Association Book Award: Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany (Columbia University Press, 2024), co-authored by Ann Cooper (Professor Emerita, Columbia Journalism School; Editor-in-Chief, Harriman Magazine) with Larry Heinzerling and Randy Herschaft, was a runner up for the American Journalism Historians Association Book Award and a finalist for the Ann M. Sperber Book Prize.

Elise Giuliano Awarded RIMA Semester Senior Fellowship: Elise Giuliano (Senior Lecturer in Political Science; Director of the MARS-REERS Program; Director of the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations) was selected by the Russian Independent Media Archive (RIMA) for a Semester Senior Fellowship. As one of three inaugural recipients of the fellowship, she pursued research on how Russia’s ethnic minorities perceive developments related to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Valentina Izmirlieva Named 2025–26 Fellow at Institute for Ideas & Imagination: Valentina Izmirlieva (Director, Harriman Institute; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures) is part of the 2025–26 fellowship cohort at Columbia’s Institute for Ideas & Imagination in Paris. During the fellowship, Izmirlieva will be completing a monograph about the Christian hajjis of the Ottoman Empire—a distinct group of Eastern Orthodox pilgrims to Jerusalem who took as their model the Muslim Hajj to Mecca.

Jenik Radon Joined e-Governance Academy’s Supervisory Board: Jenik Radon (Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs) has joined the supervisory board of the e-Governance Academy in Estonia. Radon previously served as an advisor during the country’s independence movement and helped co-author several economic laws.

David Stark Named 2025–26 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences: David Stark (Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology; Director of Columbia’s Center on Organizational Innovation) is part of the 2025–26 fellowship cohort at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Members of the 2025–26 cohort conduct research in a variety of fields in the social and behavioral sciences. This is Stark’s second CASBS Fellowship.◆