Professor Kim Phillips-Fein’s latest article in The Nation, “How the Capitalism of the 1980s Created Donald Trump’s Theory of the State,” examines the historical precedent behind Trump’s political rise, as well as the economic conditions of the 1990s that lacked the constraints of corporate capitalism from an earlier era.

by cuhistory | Oct 17, 2025 | News |

Professor Kim Phillips-Fein‘s latest article in The Nation, “How the Capitalism of the 1980s Created Donald Trump’s Theory of the State,” examines the historical precedent behind Trump’s political rise, as well as the economic conditions...

Professor Mae Ngai published an article in The New York Review of Books, “The End of Asylum,” which explores how the second Trump administration has eliminated the distinction between political and economic migrants and questions if this distinction was ever a sensible one.

by cuhistory | Oct 14, 2025 | News |

Professor Mae Ngai published an article in The New York Review of Books, “The End of Asylum,” which explores how the second Trump administration has eliminated the distinction between political and economic migrants and questions if this distinction was...

Professor Lori Flores was interviewed about food labor and ICE raids on Irish National Radio’s Saturday morning show “The Business.

by cuhistory | Oct 13, 2025 | News |

Professor Lori Flores was interviewed about food labor and ICE raids on Irish National Radio’s Saturday morning show “The Business.” Watch the full interview here, with Professor Flores’s segment beginning at...

On 9/16, Professor Rebecca Kobrin spoke on a panel for the Metropolitan Opera at Temple Emanuel about the new Kavalier and Clay opera with composer Mason Bates (Columbia ’03), producer Bartlett Scher, and librettist Gene Scheer.

by cuhistory | Oct 6, 2025 | News |

On 9/16, Professor Rebecca Kobrin spoke on a panel for the Metropolitan Opera at Temple Emanuel about the new Kavalier and Clay opera with composer Mason Bates (Columbia ’03), producer Bartlett Scher, and librettist Gene Scheer. See a recording of this...

On 10/2, Professor Natasha Lightfoot presented at Princeton’s African American Studies Department’s Global Blackness Seminar Series, workshopping a chapter of her in-progress book project Fugitive Cosmopolitans: Mobility and Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century Black Atlantic.

by cuhistory | Oct 3, 2025 | News |

On 10/2, Professor Natasha Lightfoot presented at Princeton’s African American Studies Department’s Global Blackness Seminar Series, workshopping a chapter of her in-progress book project Fugitive Cosmopolitans: Mobility and Freedom Struggles in the...