Much of the site content was researched—and continues to be researched—by Columbia University students. Below is a listing of student research, interviews, and exhibits.
Student Research Projects
2017 CU & Slavery Class
"Bright Spots Giving Sign in a Dark Sky:" The Columbia University Cross Burning of 1924 By Thomas Germain
Building Havemeyer Hall: Charles Frederick Chandler and the Sugar Refining Industry By Anne-Laure White
A History of Barnard College; Frederick A.P Barnard and the afterlives of slavery By Hannah Eyob
Race Science and Columbia By Peper Carroll
The Influence of Extracurricular Activities on Racism at Columbia University Through 1930 By Talia Balakirsky
Columbia’s Insistent Problem: Protestant Ethics, World War I, and Contemporary Civilization By Dimitri Leggas
An “Apostle of Reaction” on the Hudson Shore: John W. Burgess, Reconstruction, and the Birth of the American University By Nicholas Hallock
The Birth of a Nation and Columbia University: Racism and Activism in the Early Twentieth Century By Lawrence Grief
The Columbian League: The Life of George Edmund Haynes and the Formation of the National Urban League By Theodore Ostrow
The Enduring Legacy of Black Disenfranchisement: A Call-in for Envisioning a Blacker Future By Alejandro Patrick Desince
William Archibald Dunning: Father of Historiographic Racism Columbia’s Legacy of Academic Jim Crow By Tommy Song
2016 CU & Slavery Class
A Columbia Family: Merchants, Slavers, Americans by Daniel Echikson
“Run-away from the Subscriber”: Resistance Against King’s College and Columbia Slave-owning Students and Affiliates from the Class of 1760 to 1805 by Jordan Brewington
Erased: Columbia University and Patterns of Abuse of Black Women by Maya Zundel
On Trial: Racialized Science, Politics, and the University in the 1808 Whistelo Trial by Michaela Greer
Teaching Race and Medicine at Columbia by Elana Sulakshana
2015 CU & Slavery Class
Ambition & Bondage: An Inquiry on Alexander Hamilton and Slavery by Ankeet Ball
Necessary Evils: Slavery and Columbia College’s Revolution Era and Post-Revolution Era Finances by Lorenzo Alexander Gibson
Hardly Student Activists: Columbia College Students in the Early Republic by Chloe Hawkey
Entrenched Apathy Toward “Horrible Iniquity”: Columbia College Faculty and Slavery, 1784-1865 by Megan Kallstrom
“A Merchants’ College:” King’s College (1754-1784) and Slavery by Sharon Liao
“New Birth of Freedom”: Columbia Alumni, The New York Manumission Society and the end of Slavery in New York by Cody Nager
“Possessed of but One Idea Himself”: John Jay II’s Challenges to Columbia on Slavery and Race by Jared Odessky
“Africa’s Glory and America’s Hope”: Columbia’s Involvement in the African Colonization Movement by Sarah Schutz
Columbia's Civil War Presidents: How Charles King and Frederick A.P. Barnard's Views On Slavery Shaped Columbia by Sabrina Singer
A Tale of Two Columbias: Francis Lieber, Columbia University and Slavery by Samara Trilling
Joseph Murray, Edward Antill, and New York City's Interlocking Elite by Tyler Zimmet