Essay Race and American sculpture December 12, 2024 As monuments representing painful histories are dislodged from their pedestals, it is impossible to obfuscate the relationship between sculpture, race, and power in the United States. Read More
Interview Jennifer Ngaire Heuer on The Soldier鈥檚 Reward December 10, 2024 Jennifer Ngaire Heuer discusses why she became interested in love and war in the era of the French Revolution, and shares insights into how people experienced warfare that lasted more than two decades. Read More
Essay PUP Life: 37 years and nine lives at the Press December 02, 2024 I am often asked how long I have worked at av福利社. When I respond, 鈥�37 years,鈥� the reaction is sometimes one of surprise. But in many ways, I have not really worked at the 鈥渟ame place鈥� for all this time as PUP has gone through many evolutions since I first joined in January of 1987. Read More
Interview Camilla Nord on The Balanced Brain December 02, 2024 Camilla Nord discusses what motivated her to write 鈥淭he Balanced Brain鈥� and why our concept of mental health needs to include both the brain and the wider body. Read More
Interview Brianna Nofil on The Migrant鈥檚 Jail November 25, 2024 Brianna Nofil examines how a century of political, ideological, and economic exchange between the U.S. immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system gave rise to the world鈥檚 largest system of migrant incarceration. Read More
Essay How the far right moved from the margins November 25, 2024 Despite the fact the global imaginary seems to be saturated with the image of far-right supporters, we have little knowledge on what makes the far-right offer so attractive to a growing number of people. Read More
Essay Collage beyond modernism November 24, 2024 What happens when we try and trace a history of collage back across time and space? Read More
Essay Peter Singer on Consider the Turkey November 19, 2024 In this Q&A, Peter Singer discusses a few things consumers may want to know about factory farmed turkey heading into the holiday season. Read More
Essay How to solve a refugee crisis November 13, 2024 There are always some good people who try to help out when disaster strikes. Tents, blankets, medicine and food enable refugees to survive at a minimal level. But none of this solves the underlying question of what to do with them if they can鈥檛 or won鈥檛 return to their homelands. Read More
Essay Protecting or punishing women through an 鈥榚mpire of purity鈥�? November 13, 2024 Debates over women鈥檚 right to bodily autonomy and how the government might best protect women marked the 2024 US presidential race. Read More
Essay StepUP: University Press Week 2024 November 11, 2024 As I write with anticipation for this year鈥檚 University Press Week, and the support and superpowers of this community it celebrates, we鈥檝e just closed our seventh grant cycle for Supporting Diverse Voices book proposal grants. Read More
Essay The politics of piety November 07, 2024 Christianity is often viewed as an alternative to Roman religion. But in many ways, Christianity was an expression of Roman religion. Read More
Interview Eric Storm on the rise and evolution of nationalism October 28, 2024 Is nationalism more alive than ever? Eric Storm, author of 鈥淣ationalism,鈥� discusses the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present. Read More
Essay Monuments on fire October 23, 2024 In October 2023, one monument met its end for the sake of another. A bronze equestrian statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee that had stood in Charlottesville, Virginia since 1924 was sent to the furnace to be melted down, piece by piece, and formed into uniform rectangular ingots. The developing afterlife of the Lee statue is part of another history鈥攐ne that transcends the American context and dates back centuries earlier. Read More
Essay Eugenic fantasies October 17, 2024 The topic of intellectual disability seems frequently to function as a conversation stopper, and establishing the full humanity of individuals with complex developmental impairments has been an ongoing struggle in every nation in the world, including the U.S. Read More
