Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past by Maria R. Montalvo Maria R. Montalvo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History. In Enslaved Archives, Maria R. Montalvo investigates the legal records, including contracts and court records, that American antebellum enslavers produced and preserved to illuminate enslavers’ capitalistic motivations for shaping the histories of […]
Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past by Yanna Yannakakis Yanna Yannakakis is Associate Professor in the Department of History. In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marriage, self-governance, land, and labor in colonial Mexico. She outlines […]
Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico by Rocío Zambrana Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. This book is a Spanish-language edition of Colonial Debts, which was also supported by the Digital Publishing in the Humanities progam. En Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico, Rocío Zambrana ofrece una robusta conversación con pensadorxs, creadorxs […]
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad by Dianne Marie Stewart Dianne Marie Stewart is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and African American Studies. Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of […]
Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires by Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of […]
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema by Mónica García Blizzard Mónica García Blizzard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting […]
Spatial Revolution by Christina E. Crawford Christina E. Crawford is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in the Art History Department. Spatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, […]
Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean by Scott Kugle Scott Kugle is Professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics […]
An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States by Lauren F. Klein Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of English and Quantitative Methods in the Departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods. There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher […]
War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible by Jacob L. Wright Jacob L. Wright is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Candler School of Theology, and associate faculty member at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. The Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts that have profoundly shaped the […]
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