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Read Professor Kim Phillips-Fein's latest in @JewishCurrents on the historical lessons we can learn from Fiorello La Guardia's tenure as mayor.
New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has plenty of enemies in major centers of city power, from real estate to the police. But the history of mayor Fiorello La Guardia may offer lessons on creating a transformative city regime. Read Kim Phillips-Fein's essay:
Professor Lori Flores' recent article for The Guardian explores how recent ICE raids will negatively impact America's food labor system, exploring the profound harm caused to both immigrant workers and the food supply: theguardian.com/environment/20…
Our former Deputy Director and current Executive Committee member Ahmet Tunç Şen’s first book is out! Congratulations!
***Publications*** Congratulations to Ahmet Tunç Sen, who just published his first book “Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600”. Find more information and a link to a discount copy see academia.edu/community/Lb26…!
Julia Burke, a doctoral candidate in the History Department, has been named a 2025 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow. newcombefoundation.org/fellowships/
Professor of History Lien-Hang T. Nguyen was interviewed for a piece in @gzeromedia on her family's experience fleeing Saigon on April 29, 1975. @CUHistoryDept
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, a @CUHistoryDept professor, was just five months old when her family set out to flee Saigon on April 29, 1975. “When the sun rose the next day, we realized Saigon had fallen.” @Matthew Kendrick explores the fall and its legacy. gzeromedia.com/news/analysis/…
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, a @CUHistoryDept professor, was just five months old when her family set out to flee Saigon on April 29, 1975. “When the sun rose the next day, we realized Saigon had fallen.” @Matthew Kendrick explores the fall and its legacy. gzeromedia.com/news/analysis/…
Today's the day! We look forward to seeing you all in Long Island City at 1 PM, and at 6 PM at @QPLNYC Jackson Heights!
In one week we will be awarding the 2025 Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize to Kim Phillips-Fein for her seminal work "Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and The Rise of Austerity Politics." Join us for a discussion with @stephen_petrus that afternoon at 1 PM; register at the link in…
This Thursday at 1pm @LaGuardiaWagner @LaGuardiaCC will award the Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize to Columbia University historian Kim Phillips-Fein for her work "Fear City" on the fiscal crisis of 1975. I'm excited to be in conversation with her. Please register at the link below.
In one week we will be awarding the 2025 Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize to Kim Phillips-Fein for her seminal work "Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and The Rise of Austerity Politics." Join us for a discussion with @stephen_petrus that afternoon at 1 PM; register at the link in…
🎬 Film Screening & Discussion – May 2 Join us for Antoine the Fortunate: One Man at the Crossroads of Empires with director Prof. Nefin Dinç & historian Prof. Edhem Eldem. 📍 Schermerhorn 612, Columbia 🕛 12:00–1:45 PM 🔗 Register: bit.ly/SSCNefinDinc
Don't miss Professor Kim Phillips-Fein on April 24th at @LaGuardiaCC, where she will present on her book "Fear City: New York's Financial Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics," for which she was awarded the 2025 Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize.
Save the date! On April 24th at 1 PM in room E242, we will be awarding the 2025 Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize to Kim Phillips-Fein for her seminal work "Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and The Rise of Austerity Politics." Sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/the-2025-fio…
Professor Kim Phillips-Fein has been awarded the 2025 LaGuardia Book Prize for her book "Fear City: New York's Financial Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics." See more about the award here: laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu/pages/Fiorello…
Professor Kim Phillips-Fein was interviewed by Charter to discuss the parallels between the Trump Administration's actions against federal workers and those of the Reagan Administration. Read the full interview in @TIME here: time.com/charter/726854…
Applications for Archives as Data are open until the end of March! 📅 Decisions will be announced shortly after. Don’t miss this opportunity—submit your application today! lab.history.columbia.edu/content/worksh… #ArchivesAsData #DigitalHistory #OpenData
Applications are now open for Archives as Data. A FREE @NEHgov workshop @Columbia June 2-13, 2025. It's a crash course for historians and archivists in analyzing digital & digitized texts with an intro to AI for advanced beginners: lab.history.columbia.edu/content/worksh… #twitterstorians
Read Professor Kim Phillips-Fein in @newrepublic on the legacy of the Reagan Administration and its similarities and differences to the Trump Administration.
The Dark Legacy of Reaganism trib.al/1CxiieH
Why create a Research and Teaching Companion? To answer that, we flashback to 2014, when Professor Pamela Smith founded the Making and Knowing Project to study a 16th-century French artisanal manuscript via interdisciplinary teaching, research, and digital analysis.
📢 Mark your calendars! On March 7, #SakipSabanciCenter at Columbia University is hosting an exciting symposium on Ottoman science and technology, featuring a stellar lineup gathered by our Center's postdoctoral fellow @merictanik. 🔗 For registration: bit.ly/3EExp00
Only one week left for applications for the 2025-2026 #SakipSabanciCenter for Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship!
📢 Applications for the #SakıpSabancıCenter Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025–26 are now open! 📌 Eligibility: Scholars in Turkish Studies (Humanities & Social Sciences), PhD after May 2022 📅 Deadline: Feb 10, 2025 Details: bit.ly/3C2Eyqd Apply: apply.interfolio.com/161080
Course development grants are due today at 11:59PM ET. Among surveyed recipients, 100% would recommend the funding opportunity to other members of the @Columbia community. Learn more: tinyurl.com/css-course-dev
Listen to Professor Mae Ngai on the most recent episode of Background Briefing (@ianmastersmedia), where she discusses the unfolding agenda of the Trump Administration.
With Trump issuing an executive order to send migrants rounded up by ICE to Gitmo, we speak w/ Mae Ngai about her article at @LSEnews, “Trump’s executive order to curtail birthright citizenship is part of the long history of ‘alien citizenship’ in the US.” on.soundcloud.com/XxHacAmFDND4Ho…
Four years after publishing our digital critical edition, Secrets of Craft and Nature, we are thrilled to share its Research and Teaching Companion! These resources and tools help bring history to life in any classroom. teaching640.makingandknowing.org