New York University

Kimberly Phillips-Fein is an American historian. She teaches courses in American political, business, and labor history and in the history of economic thought. Her primary areas of research deal with the role of business in the development of the modern conservative movement in the second half of the 20th century and the role of economic ideas in the rise of conservatism. Her first book, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, was published in 2009 by W. W. Norton. She has contributed to essay collections published by University of Pennsylvania Press and Routledge and to journals such as Reviews in American History and International Labor and Working-Class History. She is also a contributing editor to Labor: Studies in Working-Class History in the Americas. Professor Phillips-Fein has written widely for publications including the Nation, London Review of Books, New Labor Forum, Baffler, and In These Times, to which she has contributed articles and reviews.