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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.
Tunç Şen’s book, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600, has been published with Stanford University Press. See more about the book here.
Tunç Şen‘s book, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600, has been published with Stanford University Press. See more about the book here.
Julia Burke, a doctoral candidate in the History Department, has been named one of this year’s Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows.
Karl Jacoby was interviewed for Kevin Costner’s The West, where he provides historical background on Joaquin Murrieta, Cynthia Anne Parker, and other subjects. The series will premier on May 26th, 2025.
Karl Jacoby was interviewed for Kevin Costner’s The West, where he provides historical background on Joaquin Murrieta, Cynthia Anne Parker, and other subjects. The series will premier on May 26th, 2025.
Rashid Khalidi has been awarded the 2025 Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Rashid Khalidi has been awarded the 2025 Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association for his “crucial role as a public figure and his commitment to the proverbial Damned of the Earth and the importance of shifting the geography of reason in the quest for dignity, liberation, and freedom.”
Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s newest book, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II, was reviewed by Brendan Simms in The Wall Street Journal.
Paul Thomas Chamberlin‘s newest book, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II, was reviewed by Brendan Simms in The Wall Street Journal. Read the full review here.
Mae Ngai was quoted in The Huffington Post on the cruelty shown by the Trump Administration in its attacks on immigrant communities.
Mae Ngai was quoted in The Huffington Post on the cruelty shown by the Trump Administration in its attacks on immigrant communities. Read the full article here.
The International Labor History Association honors Professor Lori Flores for her work, Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 (University of North Carolina Press) with its Book-of-the-Year Award for the best book of working-class history for 2024.
The International Labor History Association honors Professor Lori Flores for her work, Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 (University of North Carolina Press) with its Book-of-the-Year Award for the best book of working-class history for 2024. In this work, Flores has written a creatively conceptualized, rigorously researched, and broadly accessible study, tracing the growing national attraction to Latinx foodways and a notable, if fluctuating, demand for exploited immigrant labor in the United States since 1941. Read more about the award here.
James Stafford published an article in the London Review of Books on Trump’s recent tariff announcements and the issues they pose for the international market, as well as the broader history of tariffs in the modern economic world.
James Stafford published an article in the London Review of Books on Trump’s recent tariff announcements and the issues they pose for the international market, as well as the broader history of tariffs in the modern economic world. Read the full article here.
