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Pablo Piccato was interviewed by El Pais on Violence in Mexico
Professor Pablo Piccato was interviewed by El País about Mexico’s justice and security system, which he argues was shaped under the PRI to fail by design—favoring corruption, discretion, and political control over real justice. He explains that violence became part of the system itself, allowing criminal and state interests to merge and sustain each other. Read the full interview here.
Hannah Farber appointed to the Lectureship Program of the Organization of American Historians.
Professor Hannah Farber is 1 of 17 U.S Historians appointed to the Organization of American Historians’ distinguished lectureship program. Read the full announcement here.
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.
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. Read the full article here.
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.
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. Read the full article here.
Professor Lori Flores was interviewed about food labor and ICE raids on Irish National Radio’s Saturday morning show “The Business.
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 36:30.
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.
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 panel here.
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.
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. See more about the event here.
In July, Professor James Stafford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
In July, Professor James Stafford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. See the full press release here.
Professor Merlin Chowkwanyun features in a new PBS: American Experience Documentary, “Clearing the Air: The War on Smog,” that premieres at 9:00 PM ET on Tuesday, August 26th.
Professor Merlin Chowkwanyun features in a new PBS: American Experience Documentary, “Clearing the Air: The War on Smog,” that premieres at 9:00 PM ET on Tuesday, August 26th. See more about the documentary here.
Professor Ruth Barraclough’s newest publication, Island Ablaze and Other Stories, will be published on October 15th, 2025. This co-edited anthology collects stories about South and North Korea’s interactions with the United States.
Professor Ruth Barraclough‘s newest publication, Island Ablaze and Other Stories, will be published on October 15th, 2025. This co-edited anthology collects stories about South and North Korea’s interactions with the United States, and Professor Barraclough translates “Dawn,” a tale of friends who reunite in colonial Japan as young mothers following the attack on Pearl Harbor. See more about the anthology here.
