Mae Ngai was quoted in the Washington Post on Trump’s deportation plans, and was interviewed in Smithsonian Magazine on the historical context and impact of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration...
Kenneth Jackson, the Jacques Barzun Professor Emeritus of History, featured on the New York Stock Exchange’s Inside the ICE House Podcast to discuss the history and growth of New York City since 1624. Listen to the full episode...
The Renaissance Society of America awarded Pamela Smith an honorable mention for the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for her book, “From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Knowledge in the Early Modern World” (University of Chicago...
On February 1, 2024, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) hosted a gala dinner in commemoration of both the Year of the Dragon and its 75-year history as a pioneer in the study of East, Southeast, and Inner Asia. The event brought together scholars, students,...
Mae Ngai published “The Architecture of Immigration Restriction, 1924,” in LABOR (Dec. 2023) and a Comment to the roundtable on “Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era” in Journal of the Civil War Era (Dec....