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This interview was originally published by the UCI School of Social Sciences, and is reposted here with permission.In their newly released edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait (University of California Press), UCI Distinguished Professor of sociology Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes

By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650If Medieval Studies, as some say, has a “whiteness problem,” Mediterranean Studies does not. Recentering the narrative of the pre-Modern West on the region of the sea and the lands that surround it better refle

By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650We’re excited to share our forthcoming medieval and early modern world textbook, The Sea in the Middle, and the accompanying sourcebook, Texts from the Middle! Both books are expected to publish in Fall 202

By Cindy L. Griffin, author of Beyond Gender Binaries: An Intersectional Orientation to Communication and IdentityIntersectionality is one of the most transformative orientations we can assume as teachers, scholars, researchers, and activists. Like my colleagues across the disciplines, and the s