Columbia University Press Initiatives

Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future series

Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future is a book series that focuses on Black lives in a global diasporic context published by Columbia University Press in partnership with Howard University’s College of Arts and Sciences and Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. This collaboration between a historically Black university and an Ivy League university’s press and faculty represents the first step in a larger partnership between the two universities to publish more robustly in Black studies and to recruit and support a cohort of editorial fellows to provide an entryway for recent HBCU graduates into the publishing industry. Read More

The Bengal Library series

An exciting new series of English-language translations of the masterpieces of the Bengali tradition. Read More