Kim Phillips-Fein Vargo | |
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Born | August 1975 (age 49–50) |
Academic background | |
Education | BA, history, 1997, University of Chicago PhD, American history 2005, Columbia University |
Thesis | Top-down revolution: businessmen, intellectuals and politicians against the New Deal (2005) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | New York University Columbia University |
Notable works | Fear City:New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics |
Website | kimphillipsfein |
Kimberly Phillips-Fein (born August 1975) is an American historian. and the Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University. [1]
She was formerly a professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the History Department of the College of Arts and Science at New York University (NYU).
Her book Fear City:New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics was named a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Phillips-Fein was born in New York City in August 1975 and was raised in downtown Brooklyn. [2] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1997 before enrolling at Columbia University for her PhD. [3]
After she received her PhD,Phillips-Fein joined the faculty at New York University (NYU) and became a 2008–09 NYU Center for the Humanities Fellow. [4] With the assistance of this fellowship,she published her first book,Invisible Hands:The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. The book is an account of how high-powered individuals fought against the legacy of the New Deal from World War to the election of Ronald Reagan as President. [5] Following this publication,she received a Cullman Center for Scholars,Artists and Writers fellowship at the New York Public Library for the 2014–15 academic year to write her second book. [6]
Phillips-Fein published her second book,Fear City:New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics,in 2017. The book "explores the causes,effects,and the legacy of New York City’s fiscal crisis of 1975". [7] Fear City was named a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History [8] and she received a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. [9]