diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 41d03ec..39eb01b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Changelog
 Here you can see the full list of changes between each SQLAlchemy-Utils release.
 
 
+0.27.7 (2014-11-03)
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Added support for Column objects in get_mapper
+
+
 0.27.6 (2014-10-29)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/sqlalchemy_utils/functions/orm.py b/sqlalchemy_utils/functions/orm.py
index 6a6eaa0..5f73236 100644
--- a/sqlalchemy_utils/functions/orm.py
+++ b/sqlalchemy_utils/functions/orm.py
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ def get_mapper(mixed):
     """
     if isinstance(mixed, sa.orm.query._MapperEntity):
         mixed = mixed.expr
+    elif isinstance(mixed, sa.Column):
+        mixed = mixed.table
 
     if isinstance(mixed, sa.orm.Mapper):
         return mixed
@@ -227,8 +229,6 @@ def get_tables(mixed):
         tables = sum((m.tables for m in polymorphic_mappers), [])
     else:
         tables = mapper.tables
-
-
     return tables
 
 
diff --git a/tests/functions/test_get_mapper.py b/tests/functions/test_get_mapper.py
index bdcb8d6..9e075a4 100644
--- a/tests/functions/test_get_mapper.py
+++ b/tests/functions/test_get_mapper.py
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ class TestGetMapper(object):
             sa.inspect(self.Building)
         )
 
+    def test_column(self):
+        assert (
+            get_mapper(self.Building.__table__.c.id) ==
+            sa.inspect(self.Building)
+        )
+
+    def test_column_of_an_alias(self):
+        assert (
+            get_mapper(sa.orm.aliased(self.Building.__table__).c.id) ==
+            sa.inspect(self.Building)
+        )
+
 
 class TestGetMapperWithQueryEntities(TestCase):
     def create_models(self):