Please join us in congratulating Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, on receiving the 2018 Leopold-Hidy Award for the best article published in Environmental History, an interdisciplinary journal that addresses issues relating to human interactions with the natural world over time. The article, “Attacked by Excrement: The Political Ecology of Shit in Wartime and Postwar Tokyo,” was recognized for its superb writing style, quality of argument and research, and contribution to the fields of environmental history and forest history. Professor Kreitman will be honored for his work at the awards ceremony of this year’s American Society for Environmental History conference in Columbus, Ohio. The department echoes the sentiments of Environmental History and has no doubt that Professor Kreitman will continue to produce great scholarship as his career progresses.
Madeleine Zelin Elected Trustee of Business History Conference
The department is pleased to announce that Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, has been elected a trustee of the Business History Conference, a scholarly organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history and the environment in which businesses operate. Professor Zelin has been a leader in the field of Chinese economic and business history and in bringing work on Chinese business history to the wider audience of business historians as a teacher and mentor. She is also a longstanding member of the editorial board of the Business History Conference’s journal, Enterprise and Society. Please join us in congratulating Professor Zelin on this well-deserved honor.
Undergraduate Open House
Columbia undergraduates are invited to attend our open house on Tuesday, February 26 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in 403 Kent Hall. There will be a Q&A session led by EALAC faculty for those interested in the East Asian Studies major or concentration, and current majors and concentrators will be present to help answer questions as well. Food will be served.
We hope that you will join us for friends, food, and information that could help you choose your field of study!
