Sofya Aptekar published “Indebted Heroes: Debt Extraction and Military Labor in the United States” in South Atlantic Quarterly and co-authored “For Collective Liberation: Anticapitalism in the Migrant Justice Movement” for the Spring 2025 edition of Spectre. Her review of Erica Allen-Kim’s “Building Little Saigon” was published in International Migration Review. Her op-ed, “Don’t Single Out Military Deportations, Dismantle the Deportation Machine,” came out in In These Times on August 14. In April, Professor Aptekar presented on her co-authored book, Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities, at the Education Against Enclosure series at The New School. In May, she was an invited panelist on “Deportation Defense, Movement Building, and Transformative Pedagogies” at the NCORE conference in New York.
Kafui Attoh published two co-authored articles: “The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the State?” in Dialogues in Human Geography, and “Fixing” Mobility Platform Research. In Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. He also published a book review of Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History in Cultural Geographies. Professor Attoh presented on “Disrupting DC: Big Tech and the Crisis of Urban Governance” at the Second Annual Jane LaTour Memorial Lecture held at LaGuardia Community College on April 23. He also served as a panelist on “Mobility: Transit and Transformation” at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics conference on April 24-25 at The People’s Forum.
Yolande Cadore led a discussion of “Black Liberation Theology as Resistance to Religious Rhetoric and Social Control” at the Transatlantic Roundtable Conference: Religion and Race at the University of South Africa in Pretoria.
Ellen Dichner was quoted in “Restaurant Union Movement Dealt Another Blow,” Documented, June 5, 2025.
Cody Kalina presented at the Teaching and Learning Conference on “Reflective Writing: Writing and Reflecting about Social Justice Issues in Pre-College Programs.” He is a recipient of the CUNY K-16 Teaching Fellowship and presented at the CUNY K-16 Teaching Conference on “Critical Reading and Developing Meaningful Annotations.”
Stephanie Luce’s co-authored article, “Labor’s Strategy Must Lean Into Synergies,” was published in Convergence on July 25. She spoke on “No Time for Caution: How Labor Should Meet this Moment,” at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor on April 30. Professor Luce was featured on the Craft of Campaigns podcast by Training for Change, and on Conversations from the Frontlines: Real Talk, Real Change with Shane Murphy Goldsmith. She did a Labor Notes workshop presentation titled “Who Has the Power? A Mapping Tool to Build our Movement,” on July 16.
Rebecca Lurie moderated a panel on Worker-Led Media Co-ops with Writers Guild of America East.
Shanelle Matthews published a new book, Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Social Movements with New Press. You can read about the book in this article.
Ruth Milkman‘s annual State of the Unions report was covered in Documented and The Chief, among other publications.
James Rodriguez contributed a chapter, “Housing Inequality in New York City – The Twentieth Century Through to Today,” to the edited volume Dual Cities: Social Housing in London + New York published in July by the Royal Institute of British Architects. His article, “Carceral Connections: The Role of Policing in The Management of Public Housing in New York City” was shortlisted for Sage Urban Studies’ “Best Article 2024.” (Rodriguez He joins fellow Urban Studies professor Kafui Attoh, who was shortlisted on the journal’s “Best Article 2017” for his article “Public Transportation and The Idiocy of Urban Life”
Andrew Sparberg delivered a lecture on “Nelson Rockefeller and the LIRR’s Transition from Private Sector to the MTA” at Jericho Public Library on Long Island on April 27. On July 10, he delivered a lecture on “Manhattan Elevated Lines: Gone But Not Forgotten” at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. On July 27, the Sunday Metropolitan section of The New York Times published his reader comment about Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for free bus service. On July 29, Newsday published his guest essay about recent proposals for Penn Station.