Michael Stanislawski has recieved a Festschrift (an edited volume honoring a noted academic) in honor of his contributions to the field of European Jewish History. The Festschrift, entitled “A Jew in the Street”: New Perspectives on European Jewish History in Honor of Michael Stanislawski, was edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovich, and contains an essay by Elisheva Carlebach and sixteen other Columbia PhD’s who studied with Stanislawski. See more here.

Kim Phillips-Fein authored a review of John Ganz’s publication When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which explores the history of right-wing politics throughout the 1990s in America. Read the review here.

Pamela Smith was awarded the 2024 International Prize for Research in Cultural History by the Hans and Helga Eckensberger Foundation in collaboration with the Herzog August Library. The award honors distinguished researchers who work in the field of cultural history with a focus on the history of knowledge. As part of the award, Professor Smith organized a summer session with Tina Asmussen, Asst. Professor for early modern mining history at the Ruhr University Bochum, entitled “MINESCAPES: Socio-Natural Landscapes of Extraction and Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period”, which took place from May 31 to June 10, 2024 at the Herzog August Library. Read more about the award here.

Kim Phillips-Fein published an article in The Nation’s June issue on Project 2025 exploring the evolution of the Heritage Foundation’s operating manual since 1980. Read it here.