CSSH

Start the year with a fresh issue of CSSH! Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: The Social Lives of #Martyrs; #Spirit Movements; #Counterrevolutionary Knowledge; and Archives of #Bereavement. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01/0… #AcademicTwitter #History #Anthropology

Let CSSH plan your class! Our new On the #Syllabus is collection of articles exploring #language as the medium through which power, identity, and authority are established and contested across political, geographic, and historical contexts. Enjoy! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03/1…

What a gorgeous set of essays in CSSH, responding to a prompt by Andrew Shryock about concept work from On the Semicivilized. dukeupress.edu/on-the-semiciv…. I learned so much and am so inspired by these scholars and the worlds they shared.

The feature includes captivating essays by @ottomanchoon, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Mustafa Tuna, Fahad Ahmad Bishara, Anoush Tamar Suni, and Nora Elizabeth Barakat. Stay tuned for @JElyachar's response!

Our new In Dialogue explores the relationship between CSSH, the #Ottoman Empire, and comparativism by soliciting reflections on @JElyachar's concept of "the semicivilized" by six CSSH authors. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03/1…

Out now on Firstview, "The 1582 Registro de Mulatos and the Politics of Labor and Race in Early Colonial Cusco, #Peru" by R. Alan Covey and Emilio Ramírez.

Our latest Under the Rubric asks Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska to discuss the insights gained from reading each other's essays on #gender and conservative #Catholic social movements. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03/0…

"If wonder keeps us attentive to the conceptual and ethical worlds our interlocutors articulated, context keeps us accountable to history," writes Arthur S. Zárate in our latest, "Between Discipline and Wonder: On Writing the Unseen into Islamic History." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/02/2…

CSSH mourns the loss of Vicente Rafael, esteemed scholar and generous contributor to our journal. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/02/2…

New to FirstView, don't miss @jeffbilik's "Citizenship Under the Plan: Managing Migrant Worker Inclusion in Late-Soviet #Moscow." #Migration #SovietUnion doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Congratulations to Filipe Calvão upon the publication of his new co-edited volume, How Transparency Works: Ethnographies of a Global Value. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01/1…

Essays for all seasons! CSSH highlights the most-downloaded essays of each of our 2025 issues. Congratulations to @guo_xuguang, Masayuki Ueno, Marco Garrido, and Frederick Cooper! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/02/1…

ICYMI: Lucie Ryzova's excellent @CSSHJournal article "Portrait of a Martyr as a Young Man: Social Lives of Photographs in Revolutionary Egypt". Open Access & Free to Read! ⤵️

Frederick Sefton Jenkins Wojnarowski's "Hirak and Hosha: Modalities of Collective Action in #Jordan in the Wake of the #ArabSpring" is now out on FirstView! #protest #tribes #Anthropology #History doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Newly out at CSSH: @sholleykline's "How the United Fruit Company Racialized Archaeological Labor in #Guatemala, 1910–1953." #OpenAccess #Archaeology doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

From the abstract: "By foregrounding Egyptians’ evolving affective solidarities with Palestine, this article challenges dominant narratives around the decline of Arab nationalism after 1967 and the rise of Islamism in its place."

Out on FirstView: @Reem_AbouElFadl's "#Palestine in the 1972 Egyptian Student Uprising: Arab Solidarities of Principle and Affect." #AcademicTwitter #History doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Rao Mohsin Ali Noor's "The Pyropolitics of Sacred Kingship: #Fireworks & the Performance of Messianic Sovereignty in the Early Modern #Mediterranean" argues for "courtly pyrotechnics as a means of communicating the “wholly other” nature of the sovereign." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

This week in 1972, Egypt's universities were shut down by student protests at Anwar Sadat's reluctance to wage liberation war with Israel. I argue Palestine solidarity was key to campus mobilisations &helped push Sadat to fight Oct 73 War bit.ly/4qlIVjU @CSSHJournal 1/7

CSSH celebrates a new book by @lelainejames! Don't miss The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935–1960. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01/1…

This issue features work by @MarcelBerni, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, @falk_oren, Maria Kastrinou, Piotr H. Kosicki, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, Stephanie V. Love, Hélène Quiniou, Sofía Rodríguez-López, @RyzovaLuci72266, @MarleneSchafers, and Arthur Shiwa Zárate! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01/0…