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Turning social
How can music mediation foster social cohesion and dialogue? A critical exploration of its social-transformative potential.
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Warriors of the cloisters
How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist AsiaWarriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead conte...
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When ivory towers were black
Tells the story of how a cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from Columbia University’s School of Architecture. Follows two university units that steered the school toward an emancipatory approach to education. Assesses the triumphs and subsequent unraveling of an experiment to achi...
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Who's afraid of academic freedom?
Celebrated scholars, including Joan Scott, Noam Chomsky, Stanley Fish, Judith Butler, Jon Elster, Akeel Bilgrami, and Jonathan R. Cole, examine contemporary pressures on the free pursuit of knowledge.
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Windows into the past
Judith M. Brown analyzes the lives of South Asians in recent history with a focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Wisdom's workshop
An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite re...
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