Greg Mann was featured in the Frankfurter Allgemeine‘s recent article on postcolonial research in Africa, where he spoke on the government crises across West Africa and their connection to material security concerns in the region, as well as the failure of neoliberal democracies to meet citizen’s expectations for political stability. Read the full article here (in German), and read Professor Mann’s article on the rise of military governance in Africa here.

Mae Ngai published an article in The Atlantic, “A New Bracero Program is Not the Solution,” which explores the connections between Trump’s current immigration policy and the mass deportation efforts of the Eisenhower Administration. Read the full article here.

Manan Ahmed was interviewed by Columbia News on his latest publication, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore, in which he discusses the origins of the book, his experience writing it, and other texts that have impacted his thinking. Read the full interview here.

David Rosner was interviewed by Illinois Public Media on Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as the new head of Health and Human Services. Listen to the full interview here.

David Rosner‘s newest book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death and Inequality in American History, was named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Best Books of 2024. Co-authored with Gerald Markowitz, the book explores how the changing rates and kinds of illnesses reflect social, political, and economic structures and inequalities of race, class, and gender. These deep inequities determine the disparate health experiences of rich and poor, Black and white, men and women, immigrant and native-born, boss and worker, Indigenous and settler.