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...

New to FirstView, Daniel Hershenzon's "The Social Life of Wax in the Premodern #Maghrib" explores how "wax formed invisible, often unintended connections between Muslim theologians and rulers, Catholic and Muslim captives, slaves, wax makers, merchants, and redeemers." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

"Brokering Right-to-Life: #Poland & the Transnational Entanglements of #Catholic Pro-Life Activism, from Santiago to Washington to Gdańsk, 1970s–1990s" by Piotr H. Kosicki and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska "examines multi-vector pro-life exchanges between Poland, the US, & #Chile." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

'Tis the season.... for "Corpses, spirits, and the occult: a selection of CSSH’s spookiest scholarship"! #Halloween #AcademicSky sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2024/10...

Now out, Arthur Shiwa Zárate's "Cosmopolitan Spirits: #Islam and the Experimental Cosmologies of Egypt’s Spiritualist Movement, 1947–1960" "foregrounds the Islamic tradition’s entanglements with scientific discourses and navigates beyond claims about epistemological rupture." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Congratulations to Arndt Emmerich, whose CSSH essay "Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany" has won @germanhistsoc.bsky.social's 2025 Rethinking German History Prize! Find the award-winning article here: doi.org/10.1017/S001...

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Arndt Emmerich (University of Hertfordshire) on being awarded the 2025 Rethinking German History Prize for his article in @csshjournal.bsky.social Read our report and find out how to read Dr. Emmerich's winning article here: www.germanhistorysoc...

"Oran is an archive of displacement, containing the imprint of overlooked, erased, or forgotten (often violent) pasts stored in everyday things." Don't miss Stephanie V. Love's "The Archive of #Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, #Algeria." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

New by Marlene Schäfers and Maria Kastrinou: "Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt." #Kurds #Turkey #Druze #Martyrdom doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Don't miss our latest! Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez and Sofía Rodríguez-López's "One Cross, Two Continents: How #Catholic Women’s Resistance in #Mexico Inspired Their Spanish Counterparts (1926–1936)." #Spain #History #AcademicSky doi.org/10.1017/S001...

🍂Our autumn issue is here!🍂 Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Figures of Violence; Documentary Politics; Decolonization and Its Discontents; and Ottoman Difference. #Anthropology #History #AcademicSky #OpenAccess sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/10...

New scholarship at CSSH! Gabriel Young's "Remaking a Sovereign Landlord: Property and Dispossession Along the #Basra #Oil Frontier." doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Interesting new paper in @csshjournal.bsky.social about how geological surveys have repeatedly portrayed Afghanistan as a "land of untold mineral wealth" and untapped potential over the last two centuries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

CSSH highlights new books by Arthur Shiwa Zárate and @bishara.bsky.social! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/10...

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.