Dr. Sabrina Axster was awarded the Oxford University Press Early Career Research First Book Prize for her book project Controlling Migrants: Vagrancy, Indentured Labor, and the Policing of Mobility in Germany. The Prize guarantees a fully open access publishing contract with OUP, in addition to publication in hardback. Congratulations, Dr. Axster!

The grant, given annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, gives out $800,000 over five years for outstanding researchers to advance their work. For more information, check out the complete story at the Johns Hopkins Hub. Congratulations, Professor Han!

In the article titled “Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang”, Sabrina Axster and Ida Danewid provide a critique of the concept of imperial boomerang by countermapping the history of the carceral security state and its technologies of violence. Drawing on the racial capitalism and world-systems literatures, they argue that this countermapping effort leads to a new spatial imagination that views the core and periphery as intertwined with racial-colonial geographies.

The interview covers Professor Jabko’s insights about the importance of the Federal Reserve’s independence, when its independence was last under attack, and what is exceptional now about current threats to the Federal Reserve’s independence. Check out the interview at the Hub!

International Studies major, Stephanie N., interviews Professor Jennifer Culbert for Hopkins Insider. The interview covers Professor Culbert’s trajectory at Johns Hopkins University as a teacher and researcher, as well as the features of the Political Science department.

The 51st News article covers how the women’s soccer team’s games have become a site for protesting Trump’s deployment of federal troops in D.C. Professor Parkinson comments on the protests and on the relationship between soccer and politics. Her work on the politics of the lead-up to the World Cup in Qatar is quoted.

The Lippincott Award honors exceptional work by living political theorists that are still considered significant after a time span of at least fifteen years since the original publication. This award is for Bennett’s Vibrant Matter, published in 2010 by Duke University Press.