Francesca Trivellato,
Professor in the School of Historical Studies, examines how an
antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the
expansion of private credit in Western capitalism in The
Promise and Peril of Credit: What a...
Institute Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf’s “Quantum Questions Inspire New Math,” published by Quanta Magazine, has been selected for inclusion in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018 (Princeton University Press).
"Quantum
Questions Inspire New Math," a column for Quanta
Magazine by Institute Director and Leon Levy Professor
Robbert Dijkgraaf, features in The
Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
(MIT Press, 2018).
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has prepared for publication and
introduced Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism
in the Safavid Period: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public
Library, Arabic...
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has authored Traditional Yemeni
Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad
b. Ismāʿīl b. al-Muṭahhar al-Manṣūr (1915-2016) and His Personal
Library (UCOPress...
Didier Fassin, James D.
Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has authored
Ragione umanitaria. Una storia morale del presente
(DeriveApprodi, 2018), an analysis of the premises, tensions, and
contradictions of the humanitarian...
In Por una repolitización del mundo. Las vidas descartables
como desafío del siglo xxi (Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2018),
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn
Professor in the School of Social Science, examines who today has
the right to a decent...
Recently, societies have become more repressive, their laws more
relentless, their magistrates more inflexible, independently of the
evolution of crime. In this book, using genealogical and
ethnographic approaches, anthropologist Didier Fassin...
Didier Fassin, James D.
Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has authored
Life: A Critical User’s Manual (Polity Press, 2018), which asks
"How can we think of life in its dual expression—matter and
experience, the living and the...
