alumni news

Society of Fellows alum Brian Goldstone's review of the French novelist Édouard Louis’s latest book appears in the March issue of The New Republic. Click here to read the article: https://newrepublic.com/article/153025/edouard-louis-book-review-french-elite-contempt-poor   >>

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... >>