News
Appointment / Career
2025
- Damián Omar Martínez | Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Granada (Spain)
2024
- Jin-Heon Jung | Professor at the National Institute for Unification Education, Ministry of Unification, Korea
- Farhan Samanani | Lecturer in Social Justice at the King’s College London
2023
- Arndt-Walter Emmerich | Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Hertfordshire
- Annelies Kusters | Professor of Sociolinguistics at the School of Social Sciences at the Heriot-Watt University
- Christine Lang | Assistant professor in Social Geography and Reflexive Migration Studies at Osnabrück University
- Damian Omar Martinez | Research Fellow “María Zambrano” at the Department of Sociology, University of Murcia (Spain)
- Sabine Mohamed | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University
- Raphael Susewind | Associate Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science
2022
- Irfan Ahmad | Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Elisabeth Badenhoop | Assistant Professor at the School of Human and Social Sciences in the University of Wuppertal
- Felix Bender | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics at Northumbria University
- Benjamin Boudou | Professor of Political Science at the University of Rennes 1, France (starting in Sep. 2022)
- Bouke de Vries | Ambizione Fellow (Principal Investigator) Zürich University
- Alan Gamlen | Professor at the Australian National University
- Jifeng Liu | Visiting Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University (August 2022 - August 2023)
- Jin-Heon Jung | Guest Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yosei University, South Korea
- Scott Maclochlainn | Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University
- Neena Mahadev | Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) in Columbia University
- Sabine Mohamed | Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University
- Farhan Samanani | Research Fellow at University College London
- Yang Shen | Assistant Professor in Anthropology and One-Hundred-Talent Researcher at Zhejiang University, China
- Michael Stasik | Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel
- Xiaoxuan Wang | Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Chris White | Assistant Director in the East Asian Studies Center at the Ohio State University
- Sakura Yamamura | Associate Professor at the RWTH Aachen University
2021
- Felix Bender | Postdoc research fellow at the RIPPLE (Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven) at the KU Leuven
- Benjamin Boudou | Research fellow and scientific coordinator of the Leibniz Research Group “Transformations of Citizenship” hosted in the center Normative Orders at the Goethe University Frankfurt
- Annalisa Butticci | Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University in the department of Theology and Religious Studies
- Ciulia Carabelli | Assistant Professor in Social Theory at Queen Mary University of London
- Tzu-Lung Chiu | Postdoc researcher at the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Ministry of Science Technology Center for the Advancement of the Humanities / Social Sciences national Taiwan University
- Lucas G. Drouhot | Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University
- Arndt Emmerich | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology at the University of Heidelberg
- Jiazhi Fengjiang | Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Social and Political Science
- Eijiro Hazama | Researcher and lecture at the School of Human Cultures, The University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
- Alexander Horstmann | Guest Professor at SDAC, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen 2021-22 and Guest Professor at UNESCO Chair of Peace Studies, University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
- Nicole Iturriaga | Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society
- Jin-Heon Jung | Professor at National Institute for Unification Education, Korea
- Christine Lang | Research fellow at the Institute of Geography and the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrueck
- Samuel Lengen | Scientific Officer at the Innosuisse (Swiss Innovation Agency), Bern
- Jifeng Liu | Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Xiamen University
- Sabine Mohamed | Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the department of Anthropology
- Mareike Riedel | Lecturer at Macquarie Law School at Macquarie University in Sydney
- Dora Sampaio | Assistant Professor of Human Geography (Transnational Mobilities and Wellbeing) at Utrecht University
- Samuel David Schmid | Researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland
- Yang Shen | Frieberg Post-Doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies
- Magdalena Suerbaum | Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZG) at the University of Bielefeld
- Siqi Tu | Postdoctoral Fellow for Global Perspectives in Society at New York University Shanghai
- Arpita Roy | Faculty member at the University of Michigan Science, Technology & Society
- Patricia Ward | Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Center for Integration Studies, TU-Dresden
- Jingyang Yu | Consultant at the emcra (Consulting company in the field of EU funding), Berlin
Awards
- Neena Mahadev was awarded the Clifford Geertz Prize for 2024 from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR, a section of AAA) https://mailchi.mp/ircpl/news-events-from-the-ircpl-at-columbia-10594969?e=724542c624
- Julia Martínez-Ariño was awarded the 2023 ISSR (International Society for Science and Religion) Best Book Award for her book "Urban Secularism."
- Ke-hsien Huang was awarded the ICAS Book Prize of Chinese Language Edition 2023 for his book “危殆生活：無家者的社會世界與幫助網絡 (Precarious Living: Homeless People and the Helping Networks in Taiwan)“ 春山出版有限公司 SpringHill Publishing Ltd., 2021.
- Beatriz Aragon was awarded a First book Grant by the independent social research foundation (ISRF) in 2022 https://www.isrf.org/2022/12/21/fbg1-and-isf9-awards-announcement/
- Thi Ngoc Vuong was awarded a Ph.D. degree at the Radboud University in Nijmegen in Dec. 2022, for a dissertation, entitled “Strangers Made Intimate: Contemporary ethnic relations and everyday politics in a Sino-Vietnamese border commune”, under supervision of Dr Tam Ngo, Dr Peter van der Veer and Dr Eric Venbrux.
- Salah Punathil received the Chancellor’s Award for Contribution in Research and Teaching at the University of Hyderabad (India) in 2022.
- Sahana Udupa received Joan Shorenstein Fellowship awarded by Harvard University for her research on digital extreme speech, artificial intelligence and the autonomy of factchecking in 2021. https://shorensteincenter.org/maria-ressa-sahana-udupa-named-fall-2021-joan-shorenstein-fellows/. As part of the fellowship, she published a paper, “Ethical Scaling: Extreme Speech and the (In)Significance of Artificial Intelligence”, with her research team members.
- Francqui Foundation in Belgium awarded Sahana Udupa the “Francqui Chair” in recognition of her contribution to critical digital research in 2022.
- Neena Mahadev’s book manuscript “Of Karma and Grace: Mediating Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka” was the 2021 winner of the Claremont Prize in the Study of Religion. https://www.ircpl.columbia.edu/claremont-winners
- Article prize: Jiazhi Fengjiang’s article “The ethical labour of suspension among nightclub hostesses in Southeast China” won the 20th William L. Holland Prize for the best article published in 2021 Pacific Affairs. https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/announcements/current-holland-prize-winner/2021-holland-prize/
- Book Award: Marian Burchardt’s book “Regulating Difference: Religious Diversity and Nationhood in the Secular West” published Rutgers University Press in 2020 won 2021 ISSR (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) Best Book Award. https://www.sisr-issr.org/en/awards-and-grant
- Book Award: Alan Gamlen’s book “Human Geopolitics: States, Emigrants and the Rise of Diaspora Institutions” published by Oxford University Press in 2019 won the 2020 Distinguished Book Award for Best Book on Ethnicity and Migration from the International Studies Association. https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Awards/ENMISA-Distinguished-Book
Book Publications
2025
- Dana Schmalz. Forthcoming in January 2025. Das Bevölkerungsargument: Wie die Sorge vor zu vielen Menschen Politik beeinflusst. Suhrkamp.
- Bob van der Linden. Forthcoming in 2025. Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity: Art, Music and Philology. Routledge.
2024
- Martijn van den Brink. 2024. Legislative Authority and Interpretation in the European Union. Oxford University Press.
- Bob van der Linden. 2024. Romantic Nationalism in India: Cultivation of Culture and the Global Circulation of Ideas. Brill.
- Seyla Benhabib and Ayelet Shachar. Forthcoming in December 2024. Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders. Cambridge University Press.
2023
- Diao, Yin. 2023. Faith by Aurality in China’s Ethnic Borderland. Media, Mobility, and Christianity at the Margins. Boydell and Brewer. Link
- Gupta, Radhika. 2023. “Freedom in Captivity: Negotiations of Belonging along Kashmir’s Frontier”. Cambridge University Press” (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/freedom-in-captivity/8AF1C8BDD9BE3FECAB3D847A87CEDA90)
- Liu, Jifeng. 2023. 族群身份與跨國網絡：馬來西亞砂拉越華人基督徒研究 (Ethnic Identities and Transnational Networks: Chinese Christians in Sarawak, Malaysia). Chinese Christian Literature Council (Taiwan).
- Mahadev, Neena. 2023. Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka, Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/karma-and-grace/9780231205290 (discount with CUP20).
- Vevaina, Leilah. 2023. Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of the City, Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/trust-matters
2022
- Ahmad, Irfan & Kang, Jie 2022 (Eds.). The Nation Form in the Global Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Link
- Chan, Felicity Hwee-Hwa 2022. Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles. University of Toronto Press. Link
- Iturriaga, Nicole 2022 Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past. Columbia University Press. Link
- Liu, Jifeng. 2022. Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen. Penn State University Press. Link
- Maclochlainn, Scott (Upcoming in November). The Copy Generic: How the Nonspecific Makes our Social Worlds. The University of Chicago Press. Link
- Sampaio, Dora. 2022. Migration, Diversity, and Inequality in Later Life. Ageing at a Crossroads. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Scholz, Maximilian Miguel. 2022. Strange Brethren. Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Link
- Simone, AbdouMaliq 2022. The Surrounds--Urban Life within and beyond Capture. Duke University Press. Link
2021
- Ahmad, Irfan. 2021 (Ed.). Anthropology and Ethnography are not equivalent. Berghahn. New York. Oxford. Link
- Lisa Björkman. 2021 (Ed.). Bombay Brokers. Duke University Press. Link
- Paul Bramadat, Mar Griera, Marian Burchardt, Julia Martinez-Ariño 2021 (Eds). Urban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces. Bloomsbury. Link
- Jayeel Cornelio, François Gauthier, Tuomas Martikainen, Linda Woodhead. 2021 (Eds.). Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society. Link
- Ran Hirschl 2021. City, State. Constitutionalism and the Megacity. Oxford University Press. Link
- Hudson, Alexander. 2021. The veil of participation: Citizens and political parties in constitution-making processes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Link
- Jung, Jin-Heon. 2021. Berlin-esŏ mannan Seoul kwa Pyongyang: (T’al)pun-dan tosi-ui yŏlmang iyaki (Seoul and Pyongyang meeting in Berlin: An Essay of (post)Division Cities’ Aspirations). Seoul: Yŏllinch’aktŭl (in Korean)
- Jung, Jin-Heon. 2021. Ku-sul-saeng-ae-sa-lŭl t'ong-hae pon 5.18ŭi ki-ŏk-kwa yŏk-sa 11: tok-il-p'yŏn (A Memory and History of 5.18 through Life Histories11: Koreans in Germany). kwang-chu: 5.18ki-nyŏm-chae-tan. (in Korean)
- Jung, Jin-Heon. 2021. (Co-authored) Tok-il han-in-i-chu-yŏ-sŏng-ŭi ch'o-kuk-chŏk salm-kwa chŏng-ch'e-sŏng (German-Korean Women’s Transnational life and Identities). Seoul: Bookkorea. (in Korean)
- Jung, Jin-Heon. 2021. (Co-authored) T'ong-hap kŭ i-hu-lŭl saeng-kak-ha-ta (Thinking the Aftermath of a unification). Seoul: sa-hoe-p'yŏng-lon-a-k'a-te-mi. (in Korean)
- Martínez-Ariño, Julia. 2021. Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York. Link
- Meyer, Birgitt & van der Veer, Peter. 2021 (Eds.). Refugees and religion: Ethnographic studies of global trajectories. Bloomsbury, London. Link
- Seethaler-Wari, Shahd.; Chitchian, Somayeh.; Momić, Maja. 2021 (Eds.). Inhabiting displacement: Architecture and authorship. Birkhäuser, Basel. De Gruyter. Link
- Türkmen, Gülay. 2021. Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity. Oxford University Press. Link
- Udupa, Sahana; Gagliardone, Iginio; Hervik, Peter. 2021 (Eds.) Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech. Bloomington, Indiana USA: Indiana University Press. Link
- Weinbach, Christine. 2021. Systemtheoretische Geschlechtersoziologie: Bestand, Kritik, Perspektiven. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim. Link
- Yang, Fenggang and White, Chris. 2021 (Eds.). Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies. Lehigh University Press. Link
