Kimberly K. Phillips-Fein, kpf2@nyu.edu, is available to speak on the fiscal crisis of states and cities or on the history of conservatism and Its lessons.

 She is a Professor of History at New York University. A historian of twentieth-century American politics, she teaches courses in American political, business, and labor history She is author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (W.W. Norton, 2009) and Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Metropolitan Books, 2017).