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...

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...

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