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“Labor Freezing” and the Quiet Skills Behind the West’s Sheep Industry: A Q&A with Iker Saitua

Sep 15 2025
Who counts as a "skilled" worker for immigration purposes, and who doesn't and why?
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Saints and Stylites: A Q&A with Dina Boero

Aug 28 2025
Hagiography Society Article Prize-winner Dina Boero tells us about “stylites,” Christian saints who lived for years and even decades on top of columns.
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UC Press Launches New Journal "Music and Data": Meet the Editors

Aug 27 2025
Learn more about UC Press's new journal, "Music and Data," from the journal's editors.
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Domestic worker activism and anti-fascism: A Q&A with Katherine M. Marino

Aug 26 2025
Who speaks out against fascism—is it only the most powerful or politically connected who can do so, or is it those whose rights are most in danger?
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Martyr Photography: A Q&A with Lucy O'Sullivan

Aug 25 2025
"Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture" author Lucy O'Sullivan answers questions about her ALAA-acknowledged article on "Martyrdom in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
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The "Journal of the American Musicological Society" Introduces an Author Interview Series

Aug 11 2025
"JAMS" editor Jake Johnson conducts video interviews with the contributors to the journal's Spring 2025 issue.
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New from "Pacific Historical Review": Oil Drilling in Santa Barbara County, China’s Economy and the Cold War, the Construction of Japanese Politics and Identity

Aug 08 2025
Preview the new Summer 2025 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."
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"Studies in Late Antiquity" Announces Inaugural Best Article of the Year Award

Aug 07 2025
Congratulations to J. Riley Snyder and Mira Balberg, co-winners of SLA's Best Article Award.
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"California History" Announces the 2024 Winner of the Richard J. Orsi Prize

Aug 06 2025
Congratulations to Erica Toffoli whose article “Electric Eyes: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and the Limits of the Border Patrol’s Technocratic Vision on the U.S.-Mexico Line” has won this year's Orsi Prize, which recognizes the best research essay published in the journal "California History" each year.
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The Ideals, Imaginaries, and Symbolisms of Hospital Nursing: A Q&A with Claudia Agostoni

Aug 05 2025
We talk with Claudia Agostoni about her "Mexican Studies" article examining the training, work, and qualities of hospital nursing staff in Mexico City during the 1940s and 1950s.
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