Columbia University
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.
2025 Book Releases
Martha Howell, Making Merchants, The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany. October, 2025: Cambridge University Press.
Mark Mazower, On Antisemitism: A word in History. September, 2025: Penguin Press.
A. Tunç Şen, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450 – 1600. 2025: Stanford University Press.
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II. 2025: Basic Books.
2024 Book Releases
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History. 2024: Columbia University Press
Manan Ahmed, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore. 2024: The New Press
Frank Guridy, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play. 2024: Basic Books
Mae Ngai, Chee Wang Ng, and Corky Lee (eds.), Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice. 2024: Clarkson Potter
Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC, 4th Edition. 2024: Wiley-Blackwell.
2023 Book Releases
Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon (eds.), Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally. 2023: Berghahn Books
2022 Book Releases
Hilary Hallett. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood. 2022: Liveright.
