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"California History" Announces the 2024 Winner of the Richard J. Orsi Prize

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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Q&A with Isak Ladegaard, author of “Open Secrecy”

Author Isak Ladegaard on how large, shadowy groups undermine state control and present new capacities for collective action.
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Q&A with Venezia Michalsen, author of "Intersectional Feminist Criminology"

Author Venezia Michalsen discusses her motivations for writing the book and the impact she hopes it will have on other Criminology students and scholars.
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Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration

by Matthew D.C. Larsen (Author), Mark Letteney (Author)
Aug 2025
Open Access
Open Access

Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation

by Abigail Leslie Andrews (Author)
Jul 2024
Open Access
Open Access
Open Access