Kim Phillips-Fein’s article for Jewish Currents, “Lessons From La Guardia,” explores the historical lessons one can draw from the success of mayor Fiorello La Guardia against a political establishment opposed to his platform, made especially relevant by the recent victory of Zohran Mamdani in NYC’s mayoral primary. Read the full article here.
Kim Phillips-Fein‘s article for Jewish Currents, “Lessons From La Guardia,” explores the historical lessons one can draw from the success of mayor Fiorello La Guardia against a political establishment opposed to his platform, made especially relevant by the recent victory of Zohran Mamdani in NYC’s mayoral primary. Read the full article here.

Lori Flores published an article in The Guardian, “How US Immigration Raids Hurt Summer Pleasures, From Berries to Barbecues” discussing how recent ICE raids will negatively impact America’s food labor system, exploring the profound harm caused both to immigrant workers and the food supply system they contribute to.
Lori Flores published an article in The Guardian, “How US Immigration Raids Hurt Summer Pleasures, From Berries to Barbecues” discussing how recent ICE raids will negatively impact America’s food labor system, exploring the profound harm caused both to immigrant workers and the food supply system they contribute to. Read the full article here.
Professor Mae Ngai features in the recently-released documentary “White with Fear.”
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.
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.

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.





















