Host David Myers speaks with Dalia Dassa Kaye, expert on geopolitics and Middle East policy, about U.S.–Iran relations as America’s longest hostility. Dr. Kaye argues that entrenched U.S. policy narratives, not Iran alone, have narrowed options and sustained escalation. #history #ucla #policy #iran

If you'll be at the Sociology of Development Conference or in the Princeton area this weekend, please come and check out my first ever author-meets-critics panel. It's on Saturday at 4pm! #SocDev #authormeetscritics

*PSA Mackenzie #BookPrize Shortlist 2025-26* Congratulations to Prof. Pang Laikwan for 'One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty', published by Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social ➡️ Find out more buff.ly/X13TKjK #Books #Politics #PoliticalStudies #China

In Denver? Suisheng Zhao will host me for a book talk on The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping, on February 11 crimsonconnect.du.edu/KOR/rsvp_boo...

"In 2025, the average length of stay in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody quadrupled to 117 days; Guatemalan children now make up roughly 35 percent of all detained minors." @laurenheidbrink.bsky.social wrote about deportation from the US and Guatemalan children on the SUP blog

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📚 EVENT - Dr Ed Pulford @manchester.ac.uk will be discussing his new book Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea. 📆 5-6pm, Thursday 19 Feb, KCL Bush House. Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-... @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Launching “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” at my local bookstore a week from today! All details here, as well as rsvp to register (free, of course): www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/sasha-... Third Place Books (Ravenna) in Seattle, Feb 12, 7 pm. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Join us on Feb 18 for a conversation with ISSI alums Jennifer Chun & Judy Han! Learn more & register: bit.ly/AgainstAbandonment Sponsors: ISSI, Center for Korean Studies Cosponsors:@ucbgeography.bsky.social, Sociology, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Center for Ethnographic Research

"In 2025, the average length of stay in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody quadrupled to 117 days; Guatemalan children now make up roughly 35 percent of all detained minors." @laurenheidbrink.bsky.social wrote about deportation from the US and Guatemalan children on the SUP blog

A comparative analysis by APARC's Gi-Wook Shin, author of the @stanfordpress.bsky.social book The Four Talent Giants, shows how different national human resource strategies shape economic success, drawing implications for global talent competition in the AI era. buff.ly/WSLA5sr

Advocacy, Inc. argues that as advocacy organizations are pressured to act like businesses, they risk ignoring the root causes of forced labor, allowing corporations to claim "hero" status while practices of labor exploitation continue unchecked in the global economy. https://ow.ly/zZTg50Y7PJk

Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams tells the story of the Czechoslovak communist party. Molly Pucci considers the party in a Central European context, shaped by the common experiences of postwar displacement, imperial collapse, and the uncertain power of revolution https://ow.ly/Cajx50Y7TOJ

Mexico's War on Drugs has unleashed an endless cycle of violence in the country. Atrocity Without Punishment by Juan Espíndola advances compelling reasons to impose lenient sentences on offenders involved in drug trafficking, including many who commit serious offenses https://ow.ly/zaVF50Y7U3p

"Historically informed, ethnographically robust, and gracefully written, Paul Kohlbry's Plots and Deeds is a must read for understanding the contradictions and potential futures of land justice in Palestine and beyond" —Beshara Doumani, Brown University Out now! https://ow.ly/YvoY50Y7USa

This Thursday (2/5), 4 PM — Join Elana Resnick for a discussion of her new book Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe. Part of UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center series. @ihcucsb.bsky.social #ReadUP

Jackson Herndon interviews Michael Lazarus about his book "Absolute Ethical Life." They discuss Marx's Aristotelian-Hegelian ethics, Arendt's and MacIntyre's concepts of the ethical, and the enduring significance of "species-being" to Marx. @michaellazarus.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

📆 Weds. 2/4 @ 7PM: We are excited to welcome Bianca J. Baldridge and Gabrielle Oliveira in store for a discussion of their new books, "Laboring in the Shadows" and "Now We Are Here". Learn more here: buff.ly/zcVoTNq

This Thursday (2/5), 4 PM — Join Elana Resnick for a discussion of her new book Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe. Part of UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center series. @ihcucsb.bsky.social #ReadUP

"Historically informed, ethnographically robust, and gracefully written, Paul Kohlbry's Plots and Deeds is a must read for understanding the contradictions and potential futures of land justice in Palestine and beyond" —Beshara Doumani, Brown University Out now! https://ow.ly/YvoY50Y7USa

A powerful forum on Rhys Machold’s book Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel is now available. Mark Griffiths writes that the book “addresses crucial questions on the workings of right-wing populism, authoritarianism, and weapons capitalism.”

Join us on February 26 at for Herb Lin's talk on “When AI Safety Isn’t Enough: Managing Risk at the AI/Nuclear Weapons Nexus.”​ Herb Lin is a leading scholar on cyber, AI, and national security with experience from @stanfordpress.bsky.social, the National Research Council, and more.

Mexico's War on Drugs has unleashed an endless cycle of violence in the country. Atrocity Without Punishment by Juan Espíndola advances compelling reasons to impose lenient sentences on offenders involved in drug trafficking, including many who commit serious offenses https://ow.ly/zaVF50Y7U3p

Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams tells the story of the Czechoslovak communist party. Molly Pucci considers the party in a Central European context, shaped by the common experiences of postwar displacement, imperial collapse, and the uncertain power of revolution https://ow.ly/Cajx50Y7TOJ

Advocacy, Inc. argues that as advocacy organizations are pressured to act like businesses, they risk ignoring the root causes of forced labor, allowing corporations to claim "hero" status while practices of labor exploitation continue unchecked in the global economy. https://ow.ly/zZTg50Y7PJk

A pre-ordered copy of “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” has been reported as delivered! Official pub date: a week from tomorrow but it looks like copies are shipping. @stanfordpress.bsky.social sashasenderovich.weebly.com/in-the-shado...

*PSA Mackenzie #BookPrize Shortlist 2025-26* Congratulations to Prof. Pang Laikwan for 'One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty', published by Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social ➡️ Find out more buff.ly/X13TKjK #Books #Politics #PoliticalStudies #China

New podcast I did about Xi Jinping. The chat happened before the Zhang Youxia Incident, but it’s a rare China podcast in which Pontiac Vibes and Stroh’s come up. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Big thanks to @usni.org magazine Proceedings for publishing this very generous review of The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping www.usni.org/magazines/pr...

This week is the official release date of White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice. The timing is painful but perhaps important. (more in comments) TO ORDER: www.sup.org/books/sociol... All royalties go to Black Leadership Action Coalition of Kentucky: kyblack.org

The Islands and the Stars by Subodhana Wijeyeratne traces the evolution of Japan's space program from its origins in the 1920s, through the postwar period of rapid technological innovation, to the consolidation of its various institutional elements into JAXA in 2003. https://ow.ly/6NUt50Y0qtv

White Flank by Chandra Russo is out now! "Russo's White Flank is an incisive examination of what anti-racist organizing is, isn't, and has the potential to be in the U.S" —Deva Woodly, Brown University https://ow.ly/ax8X50Y0nx2

“This is a book that lives on in the reader’s consciousness not least because it is we who are now responsible for the handing on of memory.” (Sasha Dugdale on “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union”) sashasenderovich.weebly.com/in-the-shado...

Committee Worlds by Rachel Douglas-Jones is out "Committee Worlds eminently weaves the best of anthropologies of policy in analytical conversation with Science and Technology Studies." —Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen www.sup.org/books/anthro... #ReadUP #Anthropology

UK EVENT: I'm looking forward to speaking w/authors of groundbreaking born-digital multimodal monographs Feb 11-13 @ox.ac.uk: "The Why and How of Digital Multimodal Scholarship" tinyurl.com/4wpzakft @dacedzenovska.bsky.social @jasminemulliken.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social #digitalpublishing

If you're near Princeton, I'm giving a book talk on Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping, on February 2 politics.princeton.edu/events/josep...

On this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ahmad Shokr about his book, "Harvests of Liberation," which examines the history of Egyptian decolonization through one of the nation’s most valuable commodities: cotton. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

I was on NPR Morning Edition this morning! Speaking for, well, 37 seconds, but grateful for this chance to weigh in on unacceptable ICE violence in Minneapolis and the truth that so many in this country have begun to insist on, that “normal” life cannot go on like this. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

Thanks Simon Miles for hosting me for a book talk on the Party’s Interests Come First at Duke and all the students for coming out despite the cold and snow

NEW: @anandian.bsky.social wandered across America to find out why fear and division were increasing. Read our latest article to see how he found fortification of our lives — SUVs, security cameras, even clothing — reflect a deeper cultural anxiety about strangers and belonging: tinyurl.com/24zujewh

Committee Worlds by Rachel Douglas-Jones is out "Committee Worlds eminently weaves the best of anthropologies of policy in analytical conversation with Science and Technology Studies." —Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen www.sup.org/books/anthro... #ReadUP #Anthropology

The first English-language review—by Sasha Dugdale, a wonderful translator—for my and Harriet Murav’s “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet” came out today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day. sashasenderovich.weebly.com/in-the-shado... @stanfordpress.bsky.social

The Islands and the Stars by Subodhana Wijeyeratne traces the evolution of Japan's space program from its origins in the 1920s, through the postwar period of rapid technological innovation, to the consolidation of its various institutional elements into JAXA in 2003. https://ow.ly/6NUt50Y0qtv

White Flank by Chandra Russo is out now! "Russo's White Flank is an incisive examination of what anti-racist organizing is, isn't, and has the potential to be in the U.S" —Deva Woodly, Brown University https://ow.ly/ax8X50Y0nx2

New reading: @profmarycollier.bsky.social wrote about the closing of USAID on #AsiaNow. #ReadUP @asianstudies.org

“In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” publishes in 2 weeks! Follow this page for the talks that I & my co-translator are scheduled to give on this book in the coming months, some separately, some together. sashasenderovich.weebly.com/in-the-shado...

New reading: @profmarycollier.bsky.social wrote about the closing of USAID on #AsiaNow. #ReadUP @asianstudies.org

Spoke to @nytimes.com about the Xi-Zhang family connections, but I had to be frank that we actually know little about the Xi Jinping/Zhang Youxia relationship. (brief thread) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/w...

A big thanks to Chris Mittelstaedt for writing this very thoughtful review of Party's Interests for @chinaquarterly.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...