Caroline Séquin, "Desiring Whiteness: A Racia...

The book, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (Cornell UP, 2017) is Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello’s efforts to account for the origins and strategies of the women's suffrage movement in the New York State. The book dwelled on evolution of the women’s suffrag ...  Afficher plus

Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Isabelle Held challenges the usual narratives of how war technologies enter domestic use by following plastics on their journey into women’s bodies. Dr. Held ...  Afficher plus

L’invité : M’hamed Oualdi, professeur à Sciences Po Paris, historien du Maghreb et de l’empire ottomanLe livre : L’esclavage dans les mondes musulmans, Paris, Amsterdam, 2024. La discussion : Introduction (00:00) Une histoire pas simple à écrire (4:00) Définitions et statuts des ...  Afficher plus

Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation. This sea change presents a unique opportunity to dissect both the environmental impacts of moder ...  Afficher plus

Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the role of law enforcement in struggles over economic development, and the intellectual and practical factors of research design. Men, ...  Afficher plus

From rainmaking queens to dogged isolationists, the lives and reigns of Africa’s female rulers have long been shrouded in mystery, misunderstanding and misogyny. Over the centuries and throughout the continent, these individuals navigated the rigid traditions of their own culture ...  Afficher plus