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Preview the new Spring 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."

Winner of two Golden Globes, "The Secret Agent" has been nominated for four Academy Awards. The film's critical success underscores the special moment Brazilian cinema is currently enjoying.

Preview the new Winter 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."

MS/EM's early career article award, which has been renamed in honor of its most recent emeritus editor, is now accepting self-nominations.

Masha Salazkina, author of "Romancing Yesenia" and "World Socialist Cinema" discusses how the 70's Mexican melodrama "Yesenia" became the highest grossing movie in the history of Soviet film exhibition—and what we can learn by studying popular culture on a global scale.

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos incoming editor is interested in continuing the journal's foundational mission, while finding new ways to increase MSEM’s visibility throughout Mexico and to intensify interdisciplinary dialogue within the pages of MSEM.

We’re thrilled to announce our new California Studies in Global Musicology series, led by series editors Joy H. Calico and Daniel K. L. Chua! In this interview, Calico and Chua introduce the series, describe the types of projects they’re looking for, and provide advice for scholars hoping to submit to the series.

For over 4000 years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world’s greatest empires. Allen Fromherz explains why.

As the new co-editors for Global Perspectives, Schulz-Forberg and Singh “are honored to lead the journal into the next phase, and humbled to take the charge forward from Helmut Anheier… Rather than change the course for the journal, we will seek to deepen the impact the journal continues to make in academic publishing.”