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Read More >“I think many of us have been coasting on the uncritically positive reputation that peer review has among both scientists and the public – as if peer review is an almost magical process. Showing how the sausage is made will hopefully put some pressure on peer review to come closer to living up to its reputation.”
Read More >This Sunday, September 19th at 3:00pm EDT, join the National Women’s History Museum as we honor Justice Ginsburg’s life and legacy with Amanda L. Tyler, Dr. Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes.
Read More >This week, President Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday. The date commemorates the anniversary of Union army general Gordon Granger’s arrival in Texas to proclaim the end …
Read More >Not Yo’ Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful …
Read More >By Joshua Frens-String, author Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile Few sounds are more closely associated with social disquiet in contemporary Chile than the rhythmic, …
Read More >By Corinna Zeltsman, author of Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Behind histories of press freedom and liberal state formation in nineteenth-century Mexico lies an unexplored dimension – the …
Read More >By J. T. Way, author of Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala As a scholar whose research applies directly as testimony in asylum cases, I am well-versed in …
Read More >We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive book of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it.
Read More >As part of our #AAG2021 virtual conference series, we reached out to author Julie Guthman to discuss her award-winning book, Wilted, and our Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics series. Julie Guthman is …
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