Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...

Beiner argues for the complexities and ambiguities of communal recollection by focusing on the contested memories of one of the shortest and certainly the bloodiest of politically driven Irish insurrections...

A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...

Moodie examines the history of the Kalighat temple of Kolkata...

Kingston interrogates the idea of citizenship itself, what it means, how it works, how it is applied and understood, and where there are clear gaps in that application...

Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden...

Abraham Singer essentially marries together two disciplinary schools of thought and approaches to understand and consider the corporate firm...

In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...

The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting investment in people and infrastructure...

What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?

Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...

In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...

Kaul upturns many prevalent views about the cultural history of Kashmir...

Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do?

Magnusdottir explores depictions of America in post-war Soviet propaganda. While the 1945 “meeting on the Elbe” marked a high point in United States/Soviet friendship, official relations deteriorated quickly thereafter...

Epistemologists working traditional modes have sought to discover the necessary and sufficient conditions under which one has knowledge...

Schmidt puts himself and the reader into conversation with Machiavelli, exploring Machiavelli’s thinking and how Machiavelli explains his theories...

Transnational feminist theory and practice is faced with a dilemma: how should we contest and resist gender-based oppression, while at the same time respecting cultural difference?

Through Baker, Cheng invites us to reconsider the mutual imbrication of object/subject, surface/depth, and exploitation/fascination...

Nathan McGovern draws on ancient texts to problematize the distinction between Brahman and non-Brahman in this era, shedding light on the presence of various Buddhist, Jain and Vedic groups who equally identified as Brahmans.

As Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city itself radically transformed from an ambitious central Italian settlement into the capital of the Mediterranean world...

What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the witness?

Elizabeth Schechter argues that while split brain subjects have two minds and two subjective perspectives, and are two intentional agents...