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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.FactsColumbia UniversityConnectionsIn the Other AtlasesSourcesTake a Related QuizComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsInstitution TypeWell-attestedUniversity 1Emergence EraWell-attestedEarly Modern 2Columbia UniversityFilter Results33 entriesDisciplineAllAnarchism And Libertarian Socialism (2)Classical Sociology (Founders) (1)Economic Sociology (5)Feminist Theory (2)Frankfurt School And Critical Theory (2)General Contemporary Sociology (1)Globalization And World-Systems Theory (1)Leninism, Trotskyism And Revolutionary Socialism (2)Marxist And Critical Theory (8)Other Social Theorists (8)Political Sociology (5)Postcolonial Theory (1)Postmodern And Late-Modern Social Theory (1)Race, Ethnicity And Inequality (2)Structural Functionalism (1)Symbolic Interactionism (2)Urban And Community Sociology (3)Western And Structuralist Marxism (2)EraAll1852 (1)1864 (1)1882 (1)1898 (1)1908 (1)1913 (2)1916 (1)1919 (1)1921 (1)1927 (1)1929 (1)1930 (1)1934 (1)1940 (1)1941 (1)1942 (1)1943 (1)1945 (1)1946 (1)1947 (1)1948 (1)1949 (2)1952 (1)1953 (1)1955 (1)1956 (1)1957 (1)1959 (1)1962 (1)1966 (1)1971 (1)Nationality / CultureAllAustralia (1)Bulgaria (1)Cameroon (1)France (3)Germany (5)Israel (1)Norway (2)Poland (1)Romania (1)Switzerland (1)United Kingdom (1)United States (21)In GroupAllAnarchism And Libertarian Socialism (2)Classical Sociology (Founders) (1)Economic Sociology (5)Feminist Theory (2)Frankfurt School And Critical Theory (2)General Contemporary Sociology (1)Globalization And World-Systems Theory (1)Leninism, Trotskyism And Revolutionary Socialism (2)Political Sociology (5)Postcolonial Theory (1)Postmodern And Late-Modern Social Theory (1)Race, Ethnicity And Inequality (2)Structural Functionalism (1)Symbolic Interactionism (2)Urban And Community Sociology (3)Western And Structuralist Marxism (2)Influenced ByAllJürgen Habermas (1)Max Horkheimer (1)Pitirim Sorokin (1)W. 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Columbia University (Wikipedia)Article leadColumbia 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.Lead paragraphis a private Ivy League research universityView the Source2. Research Organization Registry (ROR): Columbia University record in the Research Organization RegistryResearch Organization Registry (ROR)Record field established, year 1754Quote, Record field established, year 1754"established": 1754View the SourceWikipedia: Franz Boastier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Franz Boas, Article textQuote, Associated With: Franz Boas, Article textIn 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.View the SourceWikipedia: Margaret Meadtier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Margaret Mead, Article textQuote, Associated With: Margaret Mead, Article textShe 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.View the SourceC. Wright Mills (Wikipedia)WikipediaAssociated With: C. Wright Mills, Article textQuote, Associated With: C. Wright Mills, Article textCharles 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.View the SourceRalf Dahrendorf (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Ralf Dahrendorf, Article textQuote, Associated With: Ralf Dahrendorf, Article textThe 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.View the SourceMarshall Sahlins (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Marshall Sahlins, Article textQuote, Associated With: Marshall Sahlins, Article textHe earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1954.View the SourceSherry Ortner - Wikipediatier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Sherry Ortner, Article textQuote, Associated With: Sherry Ortner, Article textShe 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.View the SourceAshley Montagu - Wikipediatier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Ashley Montagu, Article textQuote, Associated With: Ashley Montagu, Article textHe 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.View the SourceWikipedia: Saskia Sassentier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Saskia Sassen, Article textQuote, Associated With: Saskia Sassen, Article textShe is a professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and the London School of Economics.View the SourceFlorian Znaniecki (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaAssociated With: Florian Znaniecki, Article textQuote, Associated With: Florian Znaniecki, Article textDue 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.View the SourceWikipedia: Marvin Harristier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Marvin Harris, Article textQuote, Associated With: Marvin Harris, Article textAfter 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.View the SourceRoy Rappaport (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaAssociated With: Roy Rappaport, Article textQuote, Associated With: Roy Rappaport, Article textHe received his Ph.D. at Columbia University and held a tenured position at the University of Michigan.View the SourceWikipedia: Edward Sapirtier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Edward Sapir, Article textQuote, Associated With: Edward Sapir, Article textHe studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas, who inspired him to work on Native American languages.View the SourceZora Neale Hurston (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaAssociated With: Zora Neale Hurston, Article textQuote, Associated With: Zora Neale Hurston, Article textShe conducted ethnographic research with anthropologist Franz Boas of Columbia University and later studied with him as a graduate student.View the SourceCharles Horton Cooley (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaAssociated With: Charles Horton Cooley, Article textQuote, Associated With: Charles Horton Cooley, Article textAt 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.View the SourceWikipedia: Daniel Belltier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Daniel Bell, Article textQuote, Associated With: Daniel Bell, Article textSubsequently, he taught sociology, first at Columbia (1959-1969) and then at Harvard until his retirement in 1990.View the SourceWikipedia: Melville J. Herskovitstier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Melville J. Herskovits, Article textQuote, Associated With: Melville J. Herskovits, Article textHe 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.View the SourceLila Abu-Lughod (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Lila Abu-Lughod, Article textQuote, Associated With: Lila Abu-Lughod, Article textButtenweiser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.View the SourceMichael Taussig (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Michael Taussig, Article textQuote, Associated With: Michael Taussig, Article textTaussig (born 3 April 1940 in Sydney) is an Australian anthropologist and professor at Columbia University.View the SourceRogers Brubaker (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Rogers Brubaker, Article textQuote, Associated With: Rogers Brubaker, Article textBorn in Evanston, Illinois, Brubaker attended Harvard University and the University of Sussex before receiving a PhD from Columbia University in 1990. View the SourceWikipedia: Lewis A. Cosertier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Lewis A. Coser, Article textQuote, Associated With: Lewis A. Coser, Article textIn the Fifties, he enrolled as a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, taking his PhD at the age of forty-one.View the SourceHerbert Gans (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Herbert Gans, Article textQuote, Associated With: Herbert Gans, Article textHerbert Julius Gans (May 7, 1927, April 21, 2025) was a German-born American sociologist who taught at Columbia University from 1971 to 2007.View the SourceKimberle Crenshaw (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Kimberle Crenshaw, Article textQuote, Associated With: Kimberle Crenshaw, Article textShe is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.View the SourceWikipedia: Sudhir VenkateshAssociated With: Sudhir Venkatesh, Article textQuote, Associated With: Sudhir Venkatesh, Article textRansford Professor of Sociology & African-American Studies at Columbia University, a position he has held since 1999.View the SourceCraig Calhoun (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Craig Calhoun, Article textQuote, Associated With: Craig Calhoun, Article textEarlier 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.View the SourceWikipedia: Mark MizruchiAssociated With: Mark Mizruchi, Article textQuote, Associated With: Mark Mizruchi, Article textIn 1987 he moved to Columbia University, first as Assistant and then as associate professor of sociology.View the SourceWikipedia: Ronald Stuart BurtAssociated With: Ronald S. Burt, Article textQuote, Associated With: Ronald S. Burt, Article textHe 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.View the SourceHerbert Marcuse (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Herbert Marcuse, Article textQuote, Associated With: Herbert Marcuse, Article textHe 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.View the SourceAxel Honneth (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Axel Honneth, Article textQuote, Associated With: Axel Honneth, Article textWeinstein Professor of the Humanities in the department of philosophy at Columbia University.View the SourceRichard Sennett (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Richard Sennett, Article textQuote, Associated With: Richard Sennett, Article textHe is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University.View the SourceStein Rokkan (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Stein Rokkan, Article textQuote, Associated With: Stein Rokkan, Article textIn the United States, Rokkan was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at Columbia and Chicago from 1948 to 1950.View the SourceWolfgang Streeck (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Wolfgang Streeck, Article textQuote, Associated With: Wolfgang Streeck, Article textStreeck 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.View the SourceEviatar Zerubavel (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Eviatar Zerubavel, Article textQuote, Associated With: Eviatar Zerubavel, Article textAfter 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.View the SourceAchille Mbembe (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Achille Mbembe, Article textQuote, Associated With: Achille Mbembe, Article textMbembe 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.View the SourceJon Elster (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Jon Elster, Article textQuote, Associated With: Jon Elster, Article textMerton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University and since 2005 professor of social science at the Collège de France.View the SourceJuliet Schor (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Juliet Schor, Article textQuote, Associated With: Juliet Schor, Article textNamely, she was an assistant professor of economics at Williams College and Columbia University.View the SourceDuncan J. Watts (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Duncan J. Watts, Article textQuote, Associated With: Duncan J. Watts, Article textHe joined the Department of Sociology at Columbia University as an assistant professor in 2000, rising to full professor by 2006.View the SourceJulia Kristeva (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Julia Kristeva, Article textQuote, Associated With: Julia Kristeva, Article textShe has taught at Columbia University, and is now a professor emerita at Université Paris Cité.View the SourceFredy Perlman (Wikipedia)Associated With: Fredy Perlman, Article textQuote, Associated With: Fredy Perlman, Article textPerlman received a master's degree from Columbia University and a PhD from University of Belgrade.View the SourceLucien Goldmann (Wikipedia)Associated With: Lucien Goldmann, Article textQuote, Associated With: Lucien Goldmann, Article textIn 1968, Goldmann was a visiting professor at Columbia University. == Philosophy == Goldmann founded the theory of genetic structuralism in the 1960s.View the SourceRobin D. G. Kelley (Wikipedia)Associated With: Robin D. G. Kelley, Article textQuote, Associated With: Robin D. G. Kelley, Article textRansford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia University.View the SourceÉtienne Balibar (Wikipedia)Associated With: Étienne Balibar, Article textQuote, Associated With: Étienne Balibar, Article textHe 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.View the SourceRichard Levins (Wikipedia)Associated With: Richard Levins, Article textQuote, Associated With: Richard Levins, Article textThey returned to New York in 1956, where he earned his PhD at Columbia University (awarded 1965).View the SourceKingsley Davis (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaAssociated With: Kingsley Davis, Article textQuote, Associated With: Kingsley Davis, Article textfrom Harvard University and taught at Smith College, Clark University, Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern California.View the SourceDaniel De Leon (Wikipedia)Associated With: Daniel De Leon, Article textQuote, Associated With: Daniel De Leon, Article textWhile he maintained an attorney's office until 1884 he was more interested in pursuing an academic career at his alma mater, Columbia.View the SourcePeter Lamborn Wilson (Wikipedia)Associated With: Peter Lamborn Wilson, Article bodyQuote, Associated With: Peter Lamborn Wilson, Article bodyWhile undertaking a classics major at Columbia University, Wilson met Warren Tartaglia, then introducing Islam to students as the leader of a group called the Noble Moors.View the SourceFranklin Henry Giddings (Wikipedia)Associated With: Franklin Henry Giddings, Biography, Columbia UniversityQuote, Associated With: Franklin Henry Giddings, Biography, Columbia UniversityFrom 1891 until his death, he was on the faculty of Columbia University.View the SourceHelen Merrell Lynd (Wikipedia)Associated With: Helen Lynd, Early life and educationQuote, Associated With: Helen Lynd, Early life and educationMerrell earned a master's degree from Columbia University in the History of Ideas in 1922View the SourceRobert Morrison MacIver (Wikipedia)Associated With: Robert Morrison MacIver, Career, Columbia UniversityQuote, Associated With: Robert Morrison MacIver, Career, Columbia UniversityHe was subsequently named Lieber Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Columbia University and taught there from 1929 to 1950.View the SourceWilliam Fielding Ogburn (Wikipedia)Associated With: William Fielding Ogburn, Lead, ColumbiaQuote, Associated With: William Fielding Ogburn, Lead, ColumbiaHe was a professor of sociology at Columbia from 1919 until 1927View the SourceSiegfried Kracauer (Wikipedia)Associated With: Siegfried Kracauer, Life and career, ColumbiaQuote, Associated With: Siegfried Kracauer, Life and career, Columbiadirector of research for applied social sciences at Columbia UniversityView the SourceElsie Clews Parsons (Wikipedia)Associated With: Elsie Clews Parsons, Lead, educationQuote, Associated With: Elsie Clews Parsons, Lead, educationShe received her master's degree (1897) and Ph.D. (1899) from Columbia University.View the SourceRobert Staughton Lynd (Wikipedia)Associated With: Robert Staughton Lynd, Early life and educationQuote, Associated With: Robert Staughton Lynd, Early life and educationLynd received a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia in 1931 using an abridged version of Middletown as his dissertation.View the SourceJohn Dewey (Wikipedia)Associated With: John Dewey, CareerQuote, Associated With: John Dewey, CareerFrom 1904 until his retirement in 1930 he was professor of philosophy at Teachers College at Columbia UniversityView the SourceChen Da (sociologist) (Wikipedia)Associated With: Chen Da (sociologist), Biography, doctorateQuote, Associated With: Chen Da (sociologist), Biography, doctorateobtained his doctorate degree from Columbia University.View the SourceRalph Linton (Wikipedia)Associated With: Ralph Linton, Academic career, ColumbiaQuote, Associated With: Ralph Linton, Academic career, ColumbiaIn 1937 Linton came to Columbia University, appointed to the post of head of the Anthropology department after the retirement of Franz Boas.View the SourceF. Stuart Chapin (Wikipedia)Associated With: F. Stuart Chapin, Background, Columbia degreesQuote, Associated With: F. Stuart Chapin, Background, Columbia degreesHe received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1909, as well as his PhD from the same school in 1911.View the SourceGeorge A. Lundberg (Wikipedia)Associated With: George A. Lundberg, Career, ColumbiaQuote, Associated With: George A. Lundberg, Career, Columbiahe soon left Pittsburgh for a faculty position at Columbia.View the SourceSamuel P. Huntington (Wikipedia)Associated With: Samuel P. Huntington, Academic career, ColumbiaQuote, Associated With: Samuel P. Huntington, Academic career, ColumbiaFrom 1959 to 1962 he was an associate professor of government at ColumbiaView the SourceTake a Related QuizInstitutions and the People Who Explained ThemCovers this kind of entry.Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. 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