Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys h...
Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of rabbinic literature.
Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classificatio...
In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their s...
By Shelly Clevenger and Jordana N. Navarro, authors of Gendering Criminology: Crime and Justice Today
In Gendering Criminology, we take readers on an exploration of how gender informs major criminological perspectives and structures life experiences in terms of criminal engagement and ...
This interview was originally published on Public Seminar and is reproduced here with permission.
Marc Stein
Marc Stein is Professor of History at San Francisco State University, where he teaches U.S. law, politics, sexuality, gender, race, and social movements. He’s also an old frie...
By Qitao Guo, author of Huizhou: Local Identity and Mercantile Lineage Culture in Ming China
Wang Daokun (1525-1593) was a literary luminary of empire-wide standing in the Ming dynasty; he represents an outstanding instance of Confucian scholar-official engagement in local matters in h...
A new release in our Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Series, Weighing the Future is an ethnographic exploration of how epigenetic thinking is changing the way pregnant women are seen as maternal environments, as revealed through two major clinical stud...
Series editor Rickie Solinger joined us for an interview on how the Reproductive Justice Series came about, the impact and continued relevance of the series, and the defining motivations in her own work.
Rickie Solinger is a historian, curator and author or editor of many books abo...
By Giancarlo Casale, editor and translator of Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Before the dawn of our narcissistic modern age, detailed accounts of intimate life—and particularly of the intimate lives of women—are excruciatingly ra...
By Reginald Jackson, author of A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji
When I first began working on A Proximate Remove, my goal was to write the book about sexuality, spatial representation, and sensation I wish had existed when I first encountered premoder...