In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...

It is bittersweet to announce the retirement of David Akin, CSSH's extraordinary Managing Editor over the past 25 years. Read his reflections on his tenure with the journal, in conversation with former editor Andrew Shryock, below. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...

The latest from CSSH: "The “Millet” Paradigm: On Difference in the Late #Ottoman Empire" by Henry Clements. #History #AcademicSky doi.org/10.1017/S001...

New at CSSH: Foroogh Farhang's "Death of the Gharīb: A Window towards a Regional Understanding of #Displacement in the #MiddleEast." "The gharīb can be an analytic tool that allows us to delve deeper into the complexities of belonging, futurity, & rights." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Congratulations again to our 2025 Goody Award-winner Elizabeth Chatterjee! CSSH enjoyed the opportunity to chat with Dr. Chatterjee about "Tractors, Truckers, and Class Energetics." Don't miss it! #AcademicSky sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/08...

Now out on FirstView, Aviv Derri's "The #Ottoman Sarraf, Public Debt, and Usury Laws: Rethinking #Capitalism and Empire beyond Anomalies." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

In our latest Behind the Scenes, Marco Garrido describes the act of organization that led to the revelations in his essay, "A Thousand Years of #Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the #Philippines since 1946." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/08...

Exciting new double issue on animals!

The latest at CSSH: Peng Hai's ""The Kimono and the Turban” Revisited: Charting #Turkestan in Imperial #Japan’s Muslim Policy." #maps #History doi.org/10.1017/S001...

CSSH is excited to announce that Elizabeth Chatterjee is the winner of the 2025 Jack Goody Award! Our judges deemed her essay, Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States, "comparative social science at its best." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/08...

CSSH highlights new books by former journal authors Joseph Masco, Judith Scheele, and @margaretjwiener.bsky.social! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/08...

Our latest Under the Rubric, "Submergent Histories," features Mandana Limbert, Jan Jansen, and Jeffrey Kahn discussing how the study of #mobility at #sea can isolate historical processes that, wherever they are found, remain at depth and hard to discern. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/07...

New work by @chihab.bsky.social, "Notes on the Difficulty of Studying State #Archives in #Egypt," is out on FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Frederick Cooper's "Decolonizing #Decolonization" is out on FirstView: "This article poses the question of what work the concept of decolonization can and cannot do." #Russia #Africa #Empire #History doi.org/10.1017/S001...

In our latest Behind the Scenes, "Runways and Relations," Carla Jones analyzes a series of images to show how the public #catwalk operates as a platform for political communication in #Indonesia. Don't miss it! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/07...

New to FirstView, "Theorizing #Moral Liminality: Historical Biography, Political Co-optation, and the Decolonization of Public Space" from Andreja Siliunas and Cresa Pugh! #Sociology doi.org/10.1017/S001...

New scholarship on FirstView! David Frankfurter's "Ritual and the Enemy Body: A New Approach to Modern Atrocity." #Violence #History #Anthropology doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Check out our June newsletter, with our latest articles and web features: mailchi.mp/3e3a94739861...

Our new issue is out and fully #OpenAccess! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Marital Strategies; Institutional Power; Imperial Geographies; and Long Histories. #Anthropology #History #Sociology sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/06...

My new article 'The Politics of Colonial Lists' just published in Comparative Studies in Society and History @csshjournal.bsky.social And it is open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In our latest Behind the Scenes, Alyssa Paredes compares highland bananas to other luxury fruits and describes how the banana disrupted assumptions about Japanese palates and sensitivities to taste. Bon appétit! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/06...

We are delighted to share a syllabus of scholarship on food and feasting! Gather at the CSSH table, with "Comestibles, Cuisines, and Convivia." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/06...

In our new Under the Rubic feature, "After Life," Jon Bialecki and Jeanne Kormina discuss Mormon transhumanism, the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, and the multiple temporalities of death. Don't sleep on it! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/06...

New on FirstView: Serkan Yolaçan's "A Seven-Headed Public: #Empire and #Satire in Revolutionary #Caucasus." #History #Anthropology doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin's "After Exploratory #Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global #Afghanistan" is out on FirstView! #Mining #Anthropology #History doi.org/10.1017/S001...

New on FirstView, Victoria Fomina's "The Unsettled Frontier: Historical Imagination and Asynchronous Belonging on the Amur River." #Post-Socialism #Memory doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in @csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too! doi.org/10.1017/S001... cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social

Don't miss Marc A. Hertzman's "The Pacific Route: #Brazil, Japan, the Paris Peace Conference, & the Meanings of Racial Equality," exploring the Brazilian aftermath of Japan’s unsuccessful bid to include racial equality as a principle in the League of Nations charter in 1919. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

CSSH celebrates new books by its authors Julia Elyachar and Courtney Handman! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/05...

"The history of corruption/anti-corruption has been a popular struggle over what politics should look like." New on FirstView, "A Thousand Years of #Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the #Philippines since 1946" by Marco Garrido. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Thomas Trautmann can't get enough of elephants, and neither can CSSH! His latest, "Alexander and the #Elephants," is out on FirstView. #India doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Discover this 2025 article on conflicting notions of political home in Western Indian Ocean via @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org and @csshjournal.bsky.social.

Big news: We are delighted to announce that, from January 2026, Comparative Studies in Society and History will become a fully open access journal! All articles accepted for publication in the journal from March 24th, 2025, will be published #OpenAccess with a Creative Commons licence.

New from CSSH: @oudenijhuisd's "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why #Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands" investigates the discontinuation of “pure” Ghent systems systems in two paradigmatic cases. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Our latest Under the Rubric brings together Mary Neuburger, Adam Hanzel, and @omrielisha.bsky.social, authors of two essays that explore alternative ways of predicting the future: clairvoyance and astrology. Enjoy! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/04...

We are excited to highlight new books by CSSH authors Matei Candea, Paolo Heywood, Kevin P. Donovan, and Said Amir Arjomand! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/04...

Marcin Wodziński, Uriel Gellman, and Gadi Sagiv's "#Hasidic Dynasties: Geosocial Patterns of #Marriage Strategies" is out on FirstView! #Endogamy #Networks #SpatialAnalysis doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Now on FirstView: David Frankfurter's "Ritual and the Enemy Body: A New Approach to Modern #Atrocity." "Ritualization is not typical to modern atrocities but allows perpetrating groups to experience meaningfulness in the violent acts they assemble, often in crisis." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Forty years into Botswana’s AIDS epidemic, an unexpected uptick in weddings appears to be afoot. Koreen M. Reece's "“The wife is the mother of the husband”: #Marriage, Crisis, and (Re)Generation in Botswana’s #Pandemic Times," now on FirstView, examines why. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

New issue day - CSSH's latest is here! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Prose of Counterinsurgency; Theopolitical Lives; Taste, Place, and Power; Submergent Histories. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/03...

To prepare for Lauren Benton's 2025 Sylvia Thrupp Lecture this afternoon, explore CSSH's vast archive of scholarship on law and legal institutions, curated by Meenu Deswal. Then, teach it! #History #LegalHistory #Syllabus #Anthropology sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/03...

Congratulations to CSSH author Alyssa Paredes upon the publication of a new co-edited volume, Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/03...

The Sylvia Thrupp Lecture is one week away. We hope to see you there!

In our new Behind the Scenes, Marisa Karyl Franz tells us more about how she became attuned to #decay, rot, and ruin, and why she proposes we live as companions with #death and decaying things. #AcademicChatter sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/03...

Mandana Limbert's "#Homeland Is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean" is also out now on FirstView! #Oman #IndianOcean #History doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Check out Jeffrey S. Kahn's "Breakbulk Pasts and Containerized Futures: Submergent Histories on a Saltwater Frontier," now on FirstView! #Haiti #Shipping doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Out on FirstView, Jan C. Jansen's "“A Sanctuary to Crime”? Enslaved Fugitives, Antislavery, and the Law in the Caribbean, 1819-1833" explores how the British Caribbean turned into an unlikely refuge for intercolonial escapees from #slavery in the 1820s and 30s. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

In our latest In Dialogue, Matei Candea discusses free speech and comparison with CSSH. He also conjures up good ideas for future CSSH articles. Write them before he does! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/02...

Happy #AnthropologyDay!

Next up, Samuel Dolbee's "The Sick Vines of Europe: #Raisins, #Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late #Ottoman Aegean" explores the path of the microscopic phylloxera insect as it made its way from the US to the E. Mediterranean in the 19th century. doi.org/10.1017/S001...