This obituary was written by Maureen Norton-Hawk and Susan Sered, co-authors of Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility, and originally posted here. “The tough-looking blonde over there,” is how Darlene was described to us nearly fifteen years ago when we ...
This post was originally published by the Center for Media and Social Impact and is shared here with permission.For decades, our own Patricia Aufderheide—who founded this organization’s precursor, the Center for Social Media—has chronicled, studied, and impacted the global community of documentary s...
By Lawrence Kramer, author of Experiencing Sound: The Sensation of BeingOn the two-hundredth anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which premiered on May 7th, 1824, The New York Times ran an opinion piece on the work by the distinguished pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. The next day Beet...
The Society of Architectural Historians is hosting its fourth virtual conference from September 19-21, 2024. In tandem with the conference, we are pleased to make the current issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians free to read online for a limited time. Recordings of SAH's v...
UC Press is pleased to announce the summer appointment of co-Editors-in-Chief Hagen Schulz-Forberg and J.P. Singh to the editorial helm of Global Perspectives.Global Perspectives is a transdisciplinary journal publishing social science research and debates in a globalizing world. In 2021, under the ...
By William T. Taylor, author of Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human HistoryIn our world today, it’s pretty unusual to see a horse riding down the street. In most cities and towns around the world, horses have retreated to the edges of daily life – appearing more often in sporting events or novelty t...
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, California, Stephanie L. Canizales shows that while a lu...
Xóchitl Bada & Shannon GleesonLatin@/x Caucus Best Book Award 2024APSA Latin@/x CaucusXóchitl Bada is Associate Professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnati...
By Sarah Hupp Williamson, author of Criminology Explains Human TraffickingJuly 30th is the UN-recognized World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, while January 11th is the US-recognized National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Both days center on bringing attention and education to the public abou...