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Kim Phillips-Fein published a review of Luke Nichter’s The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 for The London Review of Books.
Kim Phillips-Fein published a review of Luke Nichter’s The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 for The London Review of Books, exploring the unusual circumstances surrounding the 1968 election, including Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to drop out of the race and Richard Nixon’s behind-the-scenes political manuevering.
Angelo Caglioti published an article in Past and Present on the origins of Italian settler colonialism in the perspective of the environmental history of European imperialism.
Angelo Caglioti published an article in Past and Present on the origins of Italian settler colonialism in the perspective of the environmental history of European imperialism. It argues that the Italian project to turn the highlands of the Horn of Africa into a settler colony was an “imperial mirage”: the perception that the momentarily depopulated landscape of Ethiopia, produced by “natural” disasters that were in fact the social products of colonial warfare, would be available to Italian settlers in the future. This mirage was based on a domino effect of environmental catastrophes connecting climate history, animal disease, and the politics of European imperialism. Thus, the article explains the battle of Adwa (1896) as the result of willful ignorance and wishful self-deception that fueled Italian colonization projects.
Susan Pedersen published an article in Granta on Gerald Balfour’s relationship with Winifred Coombe Tennant, a politician, suffragist, and medium whose “automatic writings” predicted that she would birth a child of great historical importance.
Susan Pedersen published an article in Granta on Gerald Balfour’s relationship with Winifred Coombe Tennant, a politician, suffragist, and medium whose “automatic writings” predicted that she would birth a child of great historical importance. Read more here.
Michael Stanislawski has recieved a Festschrift (an edited volume honoring a noted academic) in honor of his contributions to the field of European Jewish History.
Michael Stanislawski has recieved a Festschrift (an edited volume honoring a noted academic) in honor of his contributions to the field of European Jewish History. The Festschrift, entitled “A Jew in the Street”: New Perspectives on European Jewish History in Honor of Michael Stanislawski, was edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovich, and contains an essay by Elisheva Carlebach and sixteen other Columbia PhD’s who studied with Stanislawski. See more here.
Kim Phillips-Fein authored a review of John Ganz’s publication When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which explores the history of right-wing politics throughout the 1990s in America.
Kim Phillips-Fein authored a review of John Ganz’s publication When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which explores the history of right-wing politics throughout the 1990s in America. Read the review here.
Pamela Smith was awarded the 2024 International Prize for Research in Cultural History by the Hans and Helga Eckensberger Foundation in collaboration with the Herzog August Library.
Pamela Smith was awarded the 2024 International Prize for Research in Cultural History by the Hans and Helga Eckensberger Foundation in collaboration with the Herzog August Library. The award honors distinguished researchers who work in the field of cultural history with a focus on the history of knowledge. As part of the award, Professor Smith organized a summer session with Tina Asmussen, Asst. Professor for early modern mining history at the Ruhr University Bochum, entitled “MINESCAPES: Socio-Natural Landscapes of Extraction and Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period”, which took place from May 31 to June 10, 2024 at the Herzog August Library. Read more about the award here.
Kim Phillips-Fein published an article in The Nation’s June issue on Project 2025 exploring the evolution of the Heritage Foundation’s manual since 1980
Kim Phillips-Fein published an article in The Nation’s June issue on Project 2025 exploring the evolution of the Heritage Foundation’s operating manual since 1980. Read it here.
Kim Phillips-Fein published an article in The New York Review of Books on the recent encampments at CUNY in the context of the university’s extensive history of protests and civil disobedience.
Kim Phillips-Fein published an article in The New York Review of Books on the recent encampments at CUNY in the context of the university’s extensive history of protests and civil disobedience.
Mae Ngai’s new book, Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice (coedited with Chee Wang Ng), was reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the PBS-News Hour. Ngai also discussed the book in several interviews and podcasts, including They Call Us Bruce.
Mae Ngai’s new book, Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice (coedited with Chee Wang Ng), was reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the PBS-News Hour. Ngai also discussed the book in several interviews and podcasts, including They Call Us Bruce.
Rhiannon Stephens was named as a recipient of the 2024 Faculty Mentoring Award, which recognizes senior faculty who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring through their work with tenure-track and mid-career faculty in developing their careers.
Rhiannon Stephens was named as a recipient of the 2024 Faculty Mentoring Award, which recognizes senior faculty who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring through their work with tenure-track and mid-career faculty in developing their careers. Read more here.
