Selected Media Appearances
Charles Passy, “Bagels are Big for Yom Kippur Break-the-Fast Spreads, but the Year-Round Bagel Market Is Booming Too,” MarketWatch 15 September 2021
Kimberly Adams, “Did Post-Katrina Infrastructure Limit Ida’s Damage?” Marketplace, American Public Media, 30 August 2021
Interview on The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Perry, 26 August 2021
Holly Rosenkrantz, “The Future of Unions: Will They Revive Under the Biden Presidency?” CQ Researcher 29 January 2021
Interviews on COVIDcalls podcast with Scott Knowles, 10 September 2020, 10 April 2020
Scott Waldman, “Historians: Trump’s Response to Hurricane Laura Is Telling,” E&E News 27 August 2020
Emily Badger, “The Upshot: Density is Normally Good for Us. That Will Be True After Coronavirus, Too,” New York Times 24 March 2020
Julia Carrie Wong, “Coronavirus Divides Tech Workers into ‘Worthy’ and ‘Unworthy’ Sick,” The Guardian 12 March 2020
Marcia Brown, “Trump’s Asylum Cruelty on Trial,” American Prospect, January/February 2020
David A. Graham, “When Hurricane Dorian Hits, Look to Your Neighbors,” Atlantic, 30 August 2019
Elise von Scheel, “Special Report: Is The U.S. Safe for Asylum Seekers?” The House, CBC Radio 1, 1 June 2019 [online text version]
Dionne Anderson, “Lessons from Katrina: This Organization Tries to Get Hurricane Florence Survivors Home Quicker,” Yes! Magazine, 27 September 2018
Jacob Gershman and Charles Passy, “Cinnamon-Raisin Bagels Face a Schmear Campaign in New York,” Wall Street Journal, 13 September 2018, A1
Andrea Shea, “As Library Moves to Rowley, Some Residents tell PEM to Keep the Historic Papers of Salem in Salem,” WBUR ARTery, 13 July 2018
Jacob Boon, “How We Choose To Remember the Halifax Explosion,” Halifax Coast, 30 November 2017
Daniel Horowitz Garcia, “Otras Voces Más Voces,” Change Over Time podcast, 27 October 2017
Daniel Horowitz Garcia, “Soy Boricua: Atlanta, Hurricane Maria, and Myths that Help Make Sense of it All,” Change Over Time podcast, 13 October 2017 (rebroadcast on KVOD-FM, Colorado Public Radio)
David M. Perry, “‘There Are No Natural Disasters’: A Conversation with Jacob Remes,” Pacific Standard, 4 October 2017
Matt Kwong, “‘This doesn’t feel like a first-class response’: Puerto Ricans slam Trump’s claim of ‘amazing’ aid after Maria,” CBC.ca, 27 September 2017
Ömür Şahin Keyif, “New York Üniversitesi’nden Jacob Remes: Afet önce yoksulları vuruyor,” BirGün 3 September 2017
Guus Valk, “Arm Houston weet dat het zichzelf moet redden,” NRC Handelsblad 1 September 2017
Neil DeMause, “Disaster Coverage Still Has Blind Spot for Low-Income Victims,” Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, 1 September 2017
Aaron Morrison, “Stranded by Hurricane Harvey, These Houstonians Hope Relief Efforts Are Equal Across Race and Class,” Mic, 31 August 2017
Sheehan Moore, “Interview with Professor Jacob Remes,” CUNY Graduate Center Advocate, 24 July 2017
Dean Dettloff, “Clouds Loom, but Trudeau Still Enjoying ‘Sunny Ways’ in Canada,” America, 9 December 2016
Jesse Walker, “Disaster Progressivism” (brief review of Disaster Citizenship), Reason, October 2016, 52
Rose Hackman, “LIU Lockout: US Professors and Students Seen as Disposable Commodities,” The Guardian, 15 September 2016
Interview on The Filter Radio with Nomiki Konst, SiriusXMProgress, 29 August 2016
Interview on History Slam, the podcast of ActiveHistory.ca, 27 April 2016
Julia Carrie Wong, “San Francisco Mulls State of Emergency Over Homelessness. But Will It Help?” The Guardian, 10 March 2016
Alexis Coe, “How Can We Improve Our Policy on Natural Disasters?” Pacific Standard, 2 March 2016
Interview on Working History, the podcast of the Southern Labor Studies Association, 6 October 2015
Cole Stangler, “International Workers Day 2015: Why Doesn’t The US Celebrate May Day?” International Business Times, 1 May 2015
John Stossel special, “No Plan, No Problem,” Fox News, 8 February 2015
Julia Carrie Wong, “Writing, Prestige, and Other Things That Don’t Pay the Rent,” Nation online, 7 April 2014
Interviews on RT television, 19 September 2013, 19 April 2013, 31 October 2012, 21 September 2012
Interview on KPLU-FM, Seattle, Wash., 6 May 2013
Emily Mills, “Marriage Equality’s Lawyer,” The Progressive, February 2013: 26-28
Josh Eidelson, “Historian Jacob Remes: ‘In Disasters, You Need Local Government, Community,’” Salon, 2 November 2012
Anna North, “Katrina’s Aftermath Offers Lessons for Sandy,” BuzzFeed, 2 November 2012
Interviews on the Rick Smith Show, WIOO-FM/AM Carlisle/Harrisburg and WEEO-FM/AM Chambersburg/Shippensburg, Penn., 30 October 2012, 27 September 2012, 5 June 2012, 30 April 2012
Sarah Jaffe, “Red Squares Everywhere: Will Quebec’s Maple Spring Come South?” In These Times, August 2012: 20-22.
Miranda Leitsinger, “‘Maple Spring’ Protests: Cuts, Crackdown on Student Rallies Roil Quebec,” MSNBC.com, 13 June 2012
Interviews on the Radio Dispatch, Breakthru Radio, 4 June 2012, 19 March 2012
Nate Lavey and Rachel Tomlinson, “Red Square Revolt: Quebec Students on Strike,” video on The Indypendent, 23 May 2012
Sarah Jaffe, “Labor Unions’ Fight for the 99% Goes Way Beyond Raising Campaign Dollars,” AlterNet, 22 April 2012
Kristen Rawls, “5 Big Media Stereotypes About the South (And the Real Story Behind Them)” AlterNet, 2 April 2012
Sarah Jaffe, “Fired for a Short Skirt? The Realities of Anti-Worker Laws in Wisconsin and Ohio,” AlterNet, 27 March 2012
Sarah Jaffe, “As Occupy Wall Street Has Changed Protest Dynamics, Vibrant Groups Like United Students Against Sweatshops Are Back in the Forefront,” AlterNet, 15 January 2012
David Douglas, “Protesters Can Retrieve Signs; Signs Will Be Evaluated for Historical Content,” WISC-TV, Madison, Wisc., 8 March 2011
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