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Facing History Today: Using Facial Recognition Tools to Identify Unnamed Ancestors

In contrast to vital records, family photos do not impart clear, standardized information and have always posed a genealogical challenge. In 2019, amateur genealogist and data scientist Scott Genzer developed a technique for using free online facial recognition tools to identify people in photographs, and has successfully applied it to historical photos of the Jewish community of his ancestral town,…

New Fellows 2019-20

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

Fall 2019 and Spring 2020            Dušan Borić Nomis Foundation Fellow University of Cambridge (U.K.) On the move: prehistoric mobility and the spread of agriculture in Eurasia Alessia Mastrodonato Alexander Bodini Research Fellow in Developmental and Adolescent Psychiatry Columbia University: Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc., New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI; U.S.A.) Identifying the neural correlates of fear generalization during…