alumni news

SoF Alum Hidetaka Hirota appeared on New Books Network to discuss his book Expelling the Poor.   >>

Former SOF fellow Rebecca Woods and her sons on the cover of the Toronto Star with the premier of Ontario, discussing pre-school funding.  >>

Hidetaka Hirota, a Society of Fellows fellow from 2013 - 2016, was recently featured on C-SPAN, and in TIME Magazine and American Quarterly.  Hirota's C-SPAN interview on 19th-century Irish immigration was recently featured on the program American History TV where he discusses his recent book Expelling The Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy. >>

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency, I spent several weeks attempting to sort out which obligations and responsibilities would need to take precedence in my personal and professional lives moving forward. I had come of age in a community that had been singled out for particular opprobrium and vilification by the Trump campaign: the 11 million undocumented. It was in the pages of PAW 11 years ago that I presented, for the first time in my own voice, my journey to Princeton as a Dominican-American without papers. I now return to these pages even more determined in light of recent events to affirm that these 11 million belong in the United States... >>

New publication by SOF Alumni Hidetaka Hirota:  Expelling the Poor Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy >>