Professor Mae Ngai features in the recently-released documentary “White with Fear,” an “explosive deep dive into the decades-long quest by America’s conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines and stoking narratives of White victimization.” The documentary is available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and other streaming services.

Professor Mae Ngai discussed threats by the Trump administration to terminate visas of Chinese international students at a webinar sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies on June 5. 

Tunç Şen‘s book, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600, has been published with Stanford University Press. See more about the book here.

Karl Jacoby was interviewed for Kevin Costner’s The West, where he provides historical background on Joaquin Murrieta, Cynthia Anne Parker, and other subjects. The series will premier on May 26th, 2025.

Rashid Khalidi has been awarded the 2025 Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association for his “crucial role as a public figure and his commitment to the proverbial Damned of the Earth and the importance of shifting the geography of reason in the quest for dignity, liberation, and freedom.”