Alumni

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. >>

You don’t have to be nice to political opponents. But you do have to talk to them.To keep American democracy intact, our conversations must be just civil enough. Click HERE for full article.  >>

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 >>

SoF Alumna Emily Ogden's (PhD, University of Pennsylvania; AB, Harvard University) forthcoming article "Beyond Radical Enchantment: Mesmerizing Laborers in the Americas," will be published in Critical Inquiry.  >>