Kalyani Ramnath was awarded the Asian Law and Society Distinguished Book Award 2024 for her book Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia. Read more about the award here.

On January 20th, Mae Ngai will be a panelist on “The Trump Inauguration and America’s Future,” a webinar discussion on American history, politics, and democracy in light of the upcoming inauguration hosted by the University of Minnesota. See more information and register for the webinar here. 

David Rosner was interviewed by Columbia News on his latest publication with Gerald Markowitz, Building the Worlds that Kill Us, which explores how the changing rates and kinds of illnesses we see in society reflect social, political, and economic structures and inequalities of race, class, and gender, which ultimately create disparate health experiences. Read the full interview here.

Kim Phillips-Fein published an article in The Nation on David Montgomery, one of the first prominent US labor historians, and how his unique perspective on labor history emerged from the experiences of his personal and professional life prior to becoming a professor. Read the full article here.

Lien-Hang Nguyen served as general editor for The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, a flagship series from Cambridge University Press published in advance of the 50th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Read more about the series here.