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Communist and Post-Communist Studies Announces 2026 Global Collaborative Research Award
Authors Pietrzyk-Reeves and Pickering offer conceptual and empirical insights that will be useful for researchers working on civil society, civic participation, and democracy promotion.

Faith, Politics, and the Power of Images in Mexico
The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mexico from the Cristero War to the present.

Former Prisons and the Power of Place
Author Michael Welch discusses the Bastille Effect, or the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally.












