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Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. It was established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter under George II of Great Britain, on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, which makes it the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States. It took the name Columbia College in 1784 after the American Revolution, and became Columbia University when its campus moved to its present location in 1896.

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Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City, United States.
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Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City, United States.
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In 1887 he emigrated to the United States, where he first worked as a museum curator at the Smithsonian, and in 1899 became a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, where he remained for the rest of his career.
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She taught at The New School and Columbia University, where she was an adjunct professor from 1954 to 1978 a professor of anthropology and chair of the Division of Social Sciences at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus from 1968 to 1970, founding their anthropology department.
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C. Wright Mills (Wikipedia)
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Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916, March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962.
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The interest groups identity and sense of belonging are produced when people have the ability to communicate, recruit members, form leadership, and create a unifying ideology In 1960, he became a visiting professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York.
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Marshall Sahlins (Wikipedia)
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He earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1954.
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Sherry Ortner - Wikipedia
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She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College (1970-77); the University of Michigan (1977-94); the University of California, Berkeley (1994-96); Columbia University (1996-2004); and, since 2004, the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Ashley Montagu - Wikipedia
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He taught anatomy to dental students in the United States, and received his doctorate in 1936, when he produced a dissertation at Columbia University, Coming into being among the Australian Aborigines: A study of the procreative beliefs of the native tribes of Australia which was supervised by cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict.
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Wikipedia: Saskia Sassen
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She is a professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and the London School of Economics.
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Florian Znaniecki (Wikipedia)
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Due to his role as founder of so many of its building blocks, Znaniecki is considered as one of the fathers of sociology in Poland. === Later U.S. career === Keeping in touch with American sociologists, Znaniecki lectured as a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York City in 1932-34 and during the summer of 1939.
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After graduation with a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1953, Harris was hired as an assistant professor at Columbia and, while undertaking fieldwork in Mozambique in 1957, Harris underwent a series of profound transformations that altered his theoretical and political orientations. == Academic career == Harris received both his MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University, the former in 1949 and the latter in 1953.
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Roy Rappaport (Wikipedia)
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He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University and held a tenured position at the University of Michigan.
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Wikipedia: Edward Sapir
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He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas, who inspired him to work on Native American languages.
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Zora Neale Hurston (Wikipedia)
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She conducted ethnographic research with anthropologist Franz Boas of Columbia University and later studied with him as a graduate student.
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Charles Horton Cooley (Wikipedia)
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At this time he was interested in the subject matter of sociology, but due to the University of Michigan not having a sociology department, he had to continue the examination of his PhD through Columbia University.
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Subsequently, he taught sociology, first at Columbia (1959-1969) and then at Harvard until his retirement in 1990.
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He moved to New York City for graduate work, earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University under the guidance of the German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas.
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Lila Abu-Lughod (Wikipedia)
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Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.
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Michael Taussig (Wikipedia)
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Taussig (born 3 April 1940 in Sydney) is an Australian anthropologist and professor at Columbia University.
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Rogers Brubaker (Wikipedia)
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Born in Evanston, Illinois, Brubaker attended Harvard University and the University of Sussex before receiving a PhD from Columbia University in 1990.
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Wikipedia: Lewis A. Coser
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In the Fifties, he enrolled as a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, taking his PhD at the age of forty-one.
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Herbert Gans (Wikipedia)
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Herbert Julius Gans (May 7, 1927, April 21, 2025) was a German-born American sociologist who taught at Columbia University from 1971 to 2007.
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Kimberle Crenshaw (Wikipedia)
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She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.
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Wikipedia: Sudhir Venkatesh
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Ransford Professor of Sociology & African-American Studies at Columbia University, a position he has held since 1999.
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Craig Calhoun (Wikipedia)
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Earlier in his career he taught at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Columbia University, and New York University, where he founded the Institute for Public Knowledge.
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In 1987 he moved to Columbia University, first as Assistant and then as associate professor of sociology.
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Wikipedia: Ronald Stuart Burt
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He joined Columbia University in 1982 as associate professor of sociology, was promoted to full professor in 1984, and became professor of sociology and business in 1990, serving as chair of the Columbia sociology department before leaving in 1993.
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Herbert Marcuse (Wikipedia)
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He retired after the death of his first wife in 1951. === Post-war career === Marcuse began his teaching career as a political theorist at Columbia University, then continued at Harvard University in 1952.
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Axel Honneth (Wikipedia)
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Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University.
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Richard Sennett (Wikipedia)
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He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University.
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Stein Rokkan (Wikipedia)
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In the United States, Rokkan was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at Columbia and Chicago from 1948 to 1950.
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Wolfgang Streeck (Wikipedia)
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Streeck studied sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt and pursued graduate studies in the same discipline at Columbia University between 1972 and 1974. == Career == In 1974, Streeck became assistant professor in sociology at the University of Münster and in 1986 finished his habilitation in sociology at Bielefeld University.
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Eviatar Zerubavel (Wikipedia)
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After teaching at Columbia University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he has spent the bulk of his career at Rutgers University.
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Achille Mbembe (Wikipedia)
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Mbembe was assistant professor of history at Columbia University, New York, from 1988 to 1991, a senior research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1992, associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1996, executive director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria) in Dakar, Senegal, from 1996 to 2000.
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Jon Elster (Wikipedia)
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Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University and since 2005 professor of social science at the Collège de France.
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Juliet Schor (Wikipedia)
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Namely, she was an assistant professor of economics at Williams College and Columbia University.
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Duncan J. Watts (Wikipedia)
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He joined the Department of Sociology at Columbia University as an assistant professor in 2000, rising to full professor by 2006.
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Julia Kristeva (Wikipedia)
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She has taught at Columbia University, and is now a professor emerita at Université Paris Cité.
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Fredy Perlman (Wikipedia)
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Perlman received a master's degree from Columbia University and a PhD from University of Belgrade.
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Lucien Goldmann (Wikipedia)
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In 1968, Goldmann was a visiting professor at Columbia University. == Philosophy == Goldmann founded the theory of genetic structuralism in the 1960s.
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Robin D. G. Kelley (Wikipedia)
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Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia University.
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Étienne Balibar (Wikipedia)
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He has taught at the University of Paris X, at the University of California, Irvine and is currently an Anniversary Chair Professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University and a visiting professor at the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. == Life == Balibar was born in Avallon, Yonne, Burgundy, France in 1942.
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Richard Levins (Wikipedia)
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They returned to New York in 1956, where he earned his PhD at Columbia University (awarded 1965).
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