Here is recent student and faculty work from Fall and Winter 2025.
Kaelin Mae Miller, an Urban Studies M.A. candidate, published The Limits of Success: Philadelphia’s Eviction Diversion Program in the Winter 2026 issue of New Labor Forum, 35(1), 84-92.
Sofya Aptekar’s coauthored article with Shannon Gleeson, Framing the Immigrant in Labor Unions and the Military in the United States, came out in Volume 52, Issue 1 of Critical Sociology. She gave an invited lecture, “Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat” in Wake Forest University Sociology Department’s Technologies of the State series on November 3. She presented her research on deported veterans on a Veterans Day panel at Baruch College on November 13. Professor Aptekar spoke on university debt in a plenary session of the Boston University Law Review Symposium: The University and Democracy on November 14.
Kafui Attoh published a book review of Reclaiming The Road: Mobility Justice Beyond Complete Streets, by David Prytherch: Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Press, 2025 in Journal of Urban Affairs, 1–3.
Ellen Dichner was quoted in A Very Hostile Climate for Workers: U.S. Labor Movement Struggles Under Trump in The Guardian on November 14 and in “Restored NLRB has Manifold Labor Law Options for Next Year” in The Capitol Forum, Labor Weekly on December 11.
Alethia Jones was quoted in Labor Organizers to Host Forum on Fighting MAGA in New York Amsterdam News on November 27. She delivered keynotes at two events: “Fighting MAGA means Fighting Racism,” as part of the Left Labor Project at 1199SEIU headquarters in New York City on December 3, and “A History of Our Future: How Labor Can Build the Future We Need,” at OPEIU Local 153, Chief Shop Steward and Union Activist Education Conference Agenda in New York City on November 15.
Cody Kalina participated in The New York Historical Society’s Graduate Institute for Constitutional History. The seminar was titled, “Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution” and led by historians Maggie Blackhawk and Ned Blackhawk.
James Rodriguez was interviewed by Center for Urban Pedagogy for a collaborative research project investigating how race, immigration, and other forms of identity influence housing security and belonging in Bronx communities. He also provided a blurb for No Ordinary Landmark: How New York City Saved Grand Central Terminal and Preserved Urban Spaces by Louis Hull Hoffer, forthcoming March 2026.
Andy Sparberg was quoted in The Horrific LIRR Thanksgiving Crash, 75 Years Ago, That Spurred A Turnaround in the Railroad’s Passenger Safety in Newsday on November 16 and Holiday Lights Train Making Its Debut on the LIRR This Month in Newsday on November 28.