Kim Phillips-Fein has won the 2025 LaGuardia Book Prize for her book Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. Professor Phillips-Fein will present a talk on this book at LaGuardia Community College on April 24th at 1:00 PM (RSVP here). See more about the award here.

Kim Phillips-Fein was interviewed by Charter to discuss the parallels between the Trump Administration’s recent actions against federal workers and those of the Reagan Administration. Read the full interview in TIME here.

Natasha Lightfoot will be presenting the Department of History at Sacred Heart University’s 2025 Endowed Lecture on 3/18 at 2:00 PM, where she will be presenting on a chapter of her new book in progress about an enslaved woman in the Caribbean who tries to free herself by sea and the politics of self emancipation. See more about the lecture here.

James Stafford reviewed Isaac Nakhimovsky’s The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation for the London Review of Books. Read the full review here.

Victor Petrov‘s (PhD 2017) first book, Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain, is the recipient of four awards: the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize, the 2024 Computer History Museum Prize, and the 2024 John D. Bell Book Award.

James Tejani (PhD 2009) was awarded the 2025 Bancroft Award for his book, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America. See more here.