Embracing Uncertainty, From Economic Policy To Space Colonization
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Professor Kate Masur discusses her new book on NPR’s Morning Edition: ‘Until Justice Be Done’ Examines Northern Free States’ So-Called Black Laws
In March of 2021, History Professor Kate Masur published her new book, Until Justice Be Done. The work examines the restrictive codes called Black laws or Black codes that constrained the lives of Black people in northern free states, where...
Professor Claire Sufrin’s book, The New Jewish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980-2015, named as finalist for National Jewish Book Award
Professor Claire Sufrin, of Weinberg's Department of Religious Studies, has been named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. Her book, "The New Jewish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980-2015," roadmaps the changing...
Professor Mark Hauser’s new book examines the link between plantation slavery and environmental devastation
Professor Mark Hauser, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and an affiliate faculty member of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, has a new book, "Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism," that examines the link...
Professor David Shyovitz wins 2021 John Nicholas Brown Prize for the best first book in medieval studies
The 2021 John Nicholas Brown Prize for best first book in medieval studies was unanimously awarded by the selection committee to Professor David I. Shyovitz for A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz. Shyovitz is a Professor...
Global Lunchbox Podcast featuring Associate Professor Amanda Logan on her book “The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana”
This episode of the Global Lunchbox podcast features a conversation with anthropologist Amanda Logan about her new book, The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana. The Global Lunchbox Podcast · Amanda Logan on her book The Scarcity Slot:...
Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, Professor Trethewey, receives Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for “Memorial Drive”
Natasha Trethewey, Weinberg Board of Trustees Professor of English and renowned poet, received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her nonfiction work Memorial Drive. Trethewey has previously been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities, 2020...
Professor Kate Masur’s book, “Until Justice Be Done,” examines the first civil rights movement in the early days of the republic
History Professor Kate Masur's new book, Until Justice Be Done, is a groundbreaking examination of the movement for equal rights in the decades preceding the Civil War. From The Wall Street Journal: Disheartening as it is to read such accounts, we should...
Psychology Professor Dan McAdams discusses his book “The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning” on Global Lunchbox Podcast
In this episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast, Professor Dan McAdams discusses his book, The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning (2020). McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Professor of Human Development and Social...
Professor Amy Stanley’s book “Stranger in the Shogun’s City” wins National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award
History Professor Amy Stanley's, new book, Stranger in the Shogun's City (Scribner, 2020) won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Stanely is also the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and a finalist for The Pulitzer...
Professor Geraldo Cadava discusses the Hispanic Republican, from the time of Nixon to Trump on Global Lunchbox Podcast
In this episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast, Professor Geraldo Cadava explains his close connection to his grandfather, a Hispanic Republican, and his experience and research in politics within the American Hispanic community. He discusses how his own views differ...