In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, …
Read More >By Táhirih Motazedian, author of Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film My path to music theory and film music was a circuitous one: in college I originally started out as a music performance …
Read More >By Amy Coddington, author of How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race As hip hop turns 50, many mainstream outlets have highlighted how it has utterly transformed U.S. popular …
Read More >By SpearIt, author of Muslim Prisoner Litigation: An Unsung American Tradition “Prison jihad” is a real thing happening in American prisons across the country. While this idea might conjure up all sorts …
Read More >FirstGen scholar and author Jacek Blaskiewicz talks about his academic journey and new book “Fanfare for a City”
Read More >By Thomas W. Pearson, author of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different In 1944, Margaret Mead helped banish a disabled child to a dismal …
Read More >By Phaedra C. Pezzullo, author of Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care This month, international leaders and representatives are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, to finalize a Global Plastics Treaty, which …
Read More >Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay …
Read More >by Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan, co-authors of White Power and American Neoliberal Culture We didn’t set out to write a catalogue of horror—instead we stumbled upon these sadistic texts of …
Read More >Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history? It is true …
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