Our new On the #Syllabus is "a pilgrimage across contemporary and classic CSSH essays that examine the roles that aesthetics, circulation, markets, colonial encounters, infrastructures, violence, and place-making play in shaping the material life of #religion." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/06...

Don't miss our latest Under the Rubric feature, "Performative Sovereignty: a conversation with Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor about pyropolitics, animal sacrifice, and cosmic alignments across Indian and Ottoman polities." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/05...

Congratulations to Alyssa Paredes, whose "Topographies of Fungibility:Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands" has just been awarded the the Belasco Prize for Scholarly Excellence by the Association for the Study of Food & Society! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04...

New to FirstView: Tom Özden-Schilling's "Spiraling out in the Circular Economy: Movement and Belonging at a Malaysian Rare Earth Elements Refinery." #Mining #Malaysia doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Nicholas McGee's "Two Journeys into #Diaspora: Qing and British Imperial Investigations in the Dutch East Indies and Australia" is out on FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Vanessa Freije's ""The Word of the State against Ours”: The Right to Know and State Terror in 1970s #Mexico" "contends that the struggle over information and recognition became the central battlefield for negotiating state violence and opening in Mexico." #FirstView doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Alice Yao's "From Disorder to Distinction: #Lactose Intolerance and the #Racialization of Digestion in Postwar Medicine (1950–1980)" argues that despite a post-racial scientific agenda, "research on lactose digestion came to produce a normative discourse around whiteness." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Now on FirstView, @why-winter.bsky.social's "Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial Museum" shows how two Spanish museum exhibitions "convert recovered colonial treasure into national patrimony and thereby stage imperial nostalgia." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Don't miss our latest scholarship! Mina Khanlarzadeh's "Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions" is out on FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Fascinating critique by @chaciav.bsky.social on the resilience paradigm as neoliberal response to climate change, through a study on Japanese and Korean women diving in extreme environments

Our latest issue is here! The April edition features essays by Reem Abou-El-Fadl, @jbilik.bsky.social, Charlotte Ciavarella, Anwesha Ghosh, Daniel Hershenzon, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor, @tommasoaga.bsky.social, Sam Wilby, and Gabriel Young. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04...

As promised, we are excited to share @jeelyachar.bsky.social's response to the six CSSH authors who engaged with "the semicivilized" in last month's In Dialogue! Don't miss "More #Ottoman Heuristics – A Seventh Take on the Semicivilized." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04...

New to FirstView, Alessandro Rippa's "When is a #Frontier? Nostalgia and Aspirations at #China’s Borderlands with #Burma and #Laos." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Our latest is Kabir Tambar's "A History of Clamor: Historical Time and the Late #Ottoman Surreal," examining "a scene of late Ottoman parliamentary politics characterized by verbal disruption, raucous applause, and strident indignation: in short, clamor." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

New scholarship on FirstView! Don't miss Nora Elizabeth Barakat's "Building an #Ottoman National Economy." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

We missed a chance to brag about our authors while bragging about our authors! How Transparency Works, a volume hailed in our recent newsletter, was edited not by one but by two CSSH alums: Filipe Calvão and Elizabeth Ferry. Double the kudos! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01...

Let CSSH plan your class! Our new On the #Syllabus is collection of articles exploring #language as the medium through which power, identity, and authority are established and contested across political, geographic, and historical contexts. Enjoy! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03...

What a gorgeous set of essays responding to a prompt by Andrew Shryock about concept work from On the Semicivilized. dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic.... I learned so much and am so inspired by these scholars and the worlds they shared in the worst of times. Beyond honored.

Our new In Dialogue explores the relationship between CSSH, the #Ottoman Empire, and comparativism by soliciting reflections on @jeelyachar.bsky.social concept of "the semicivilized" by six CSSH authors. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03...

Out now on Firstview, "The 1582 Registro de Mulatos and the Politics of Labor and Race in Early Colonial Cusco, #Peru" by R. Alan Covey and Emilio Ramírez.

Our latest Under the Rubric asks Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska to discuss the insights gained from reading each other's essays on #gender and conservative #Catholic social movements. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03...

"If wonder keeps us attentive to the conceptual and ethical worlds our interlocutors articulated, context keeps us accountable to history," writes Arthur S. Zárate in our latest, "Between Discipline and Wonder: On Writing the Unseen into Islamic History." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/02...

CSSH mourns the loss of Vicente Rafael, esteemed scholar and generous contributor to our journal. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/02...

New to FirstView, don't miss @jbilik.bsky.social's "Citizenship Under the Plan: Managing Migrant Worker Inclusion in Late-Soviet #Moscow." #Migration #SovietUnion doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Congratulations to Filipe Calvão upon the publication of his new co-edited volume, How Transparency Works: Ethnographies of a Global Value. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01...

Essays for all seasons! CSSH highlights the most-downloaded essays of each of our 2025 issues. Congratulations to @arunabhghosh.bsky.social, Masayuki Ueno, Marco Garrido, and Frederick Cooper! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/02...

Frederick Sefton Jenkins Wojnarowski's "Hirak and Hosha: Modalities of Collective Action in #Jordan in the Wake of the #ArabSpring" is now out on FirstView! #protest #tribes #Anthropology #History doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Newly out at CSSH: @sholleykline.bsky.social's "How the United Fruit Company Racialized Archaeological Labor in #Guatemala, 1910–1953." #OpenAccess #Archaeology doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Now out on FirstView, Reem Abou-El-Fadl's "Palestine in the 1972 Egyptian Student Uprising: Arab Solidarities of Principle and Affect." #AcademicSky #History doi.org/10.1017/S001...

I cannot recall the last time I was so excited to read an article. A thousand congratulations to Reem Abou-El-Fadl on this important, open-access publication. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our latest, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor's "The Pyropolitics of Sacred Kingship: #Fireworks & the Performance of Messianic Sovereignty in the Early Modern #Mediterranean," argues for "courtly pyrotechnics as a means of communicating the “wholly other” nature of the sovereign." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

CSSH celebrates a new book by Leslie James! Don't miss The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935–1960. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01...

This issue features work by Marcel Berni, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, @orenfalk.bsky.social, Maria Kastrinou, Piotr H. Kosicki, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, Stephanie V. Love, Hélène Quiniou, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Lucie Ryzova, Marlene Schäfers, and Arthur Shiwa Zárate! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01...

Start the year with a fresh issue of CSSH! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: The Social Lives of #Martyrs; #Spirit Movements; #Counterrevolutionary Knowledge; and Archives of #Bereavement. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01... #AcademicSky #History #Anthropology

This month, we are celebrating new books by @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social, Kevin P. Donovan, and Nana Osei-Opare! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...

Our recent issues are replete with essays on death, martyrdom, and immortality. "#Martyrs and Memorials," our latest On the Syllabus by editorial intern Moniek van Rheenen, situates this scholarship within CSSH's rich archive on the subject. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...

We've got more new scholarship on our website! Today, it's a can't-miss conversation between Fred Cooper and Krishan Kumar about #decolonization and what might come next: “The location of sovereignty is still in question.” #AcademicSky #History #AcademicChatter sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...

Our latest Behind the Scenes is here! Don't miss @renaudmorieux.bsky.social's "The Present is a Foreign Country," a reflection on categorization and #deportation in the past and present, and colonial documents as "dynamic and always in-the-making." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...

Our newest Under (and Across!) the Rubric brings together letters by Foroogh Farhang, Marlene Schäfers, Maria Kastrinou, Lucie Ryzova, and Stephanie Love on graves, spirits, martyrs, mourning, reincarnation, curses - the intersections of life and death. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...

"I never intended on writing history," writes Chihab El Khachab in our latest Behind the Scenes feature. Find out why his research on the Egyptian Ministry of Culture required going to the archives, and why those archives required an "ethnographer's flair." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...

Lucie Ryzova's "Portrait of a #Martyr as a Young Man: Social Lives of #Photographs in Revolutionary #Egypt" is open access and out on FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S001...

What did Islamic justice look like for Venetian merchants trading in premodern Ottoman Empire? My article in @csshjournal.bsky.social explores how inter-imperial entanglements & global trade shaped the production & application of Sharia in the 17th c. Ottoman Emp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Don't miss @tommasoaga.bsky.social's "Ottoman Justice and Political Economy of Empires: #Venetian Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Courts," out on FirstView and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Marcel Berni's "Circulating Violence: Guerre contre-révolutionnaire as the Intellectual Foundation of Modern #Torture" is out on FirstView! #counterinsurgency doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Out now, Hélène Quiniou's "#Paris 1958–2015: Terrorism, Reparation, and the Work of #Decolonization." "Reparations for terrorism emerge not only as a form of humanitarian intervention but also as a tool of counterinsurgency warfare in its own right." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

We'll be waiting!

“publish in cssh” has been on my bucket list since beni kedar’s class in the e1990s — achievement unlocked! (and the process was so quick & smooth that i’m tempted to try for another…)

Charlotte Ciavarella's "Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen" is out on FirstView! #Development #Capitalism doi.org/10.1017/S001...

On FirstView from CSSH, don't miss @orenfalk.bsky.social's "The Widowers’ Two Plights: Toward a Cultural History of Bereaved Husbands." #Norse #twitterstorians doi.org/10.1017/S001...

This month, CSSH celebrates Arndt Emmerich's award-winning essay and highlights a new book by Christina Schwenkel! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/11...