Raymond has been working with the History Lab since 2017. Before starting at Columbia, he was the Statistical Programmer for the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. His research interests include monetary policy, trade policy, and statistics, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, International Organization, and the British Journal of Political Science, among other journals.
Nicholas A. Chimicles (Columbia College ’25, History & Computer Science) develops AI-driven tools that make archival records more accessible and useful to scholars. His work at the History Lab focuses on building large-scale ingestion pipelines and conversational search systems over millions of declassified government documents.
Matthew Connelly is the History Lab's principal investigator and a professor of international and global history at Columbia.
He received his B.A. from Columbia and his Ph.D. from Yale. His publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era, which won five prizes, and Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, an Economist and Financial Times book of the year, and most recently The Declassification Engine. He has provided commentary on international affairs for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Le Monde, and has hosted radio documentaries for BBC Radio.
Katie joined the History Lab as its Program Coordinator in 2025. Before starting at Columbia, she earned her bachelor degrees in Journalism and Business from the University of Missouri and her PhD in Communication from Stanford University.