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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Natasha Lightfoot spoke at UNESCO’s Global Forum Against Racism and Discrimination in Barcelona, addressing the intersections between histories of colonialism and climate precarity in the Caribbean and throughout the developing world, and how that disproportionately disadvantages women and girls of African descent.
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.
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 books that have impacted his thinking.
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.
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.
