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Our latest issue is here! The April edition features essays by @Reem_AbouElFadl, @jeffbilik, Charlotte Ciavarella, @onneshaghosh, @hershenz, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor, @AgaTommaso, Sam Wilby, and Gabriel Young. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04/1…

Head to #FirstView for @ellen_nye's "Money on Trial: Performances of Value and Authority in #Ottoman Istanbul during the Age of Global Silver." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Yukiko Koga's "Post-imperial Reckoning: Transitional Injustice and the Unmaking of the Japanese Empire in East Asia," on what it means to reckon with imperial violence decades after the #JapaneseEmpire’s demise in 1945, is out on #FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Vanessa Freije's ""The Word of the State against Ours”: The Right to Know and State Terror in 1970s #Mexico" "contends that the struggle over information and recognition became the central battlefield for negotiating state violence and opening in Mexico." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Alice Yao's "From Disorder to Distinction: #Lactose Intolerance and the #Racialization of Digestion in Postwar Medicine (1950–1980)" argues that despite a post-racial agenda, research on lactose digestion produced a normative discourse around whiteness. doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Now on FirstView, Yves Winter's "Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial Museum" shows how two Spanish museum exhibitions "convert recovered colonial treasure into national patrimony and thereby stage imperial nostalgia." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Don't miss our latest scholarship! Mina Khanlarzadeh's "Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions" is out on FirstView! doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Congratulations to @celkhachab, whose book Constructing the Achievement State is now out! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04/1…

Learn more about our authors here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04/1…

Our latest issue is here! The April edition features essays by @Reem_AbouElFadl, @jeffbilik, Charlotte Ciavarella, @onneshaghosh, @hershenz, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor, @AgaTommaso, Sam Wilby, and Gabriel Young. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04/1…

If you missed part 1 in the series, find it here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03/1…

As promised, we are excited to share @JElyachar's response to the six CSSH authors who engaged with "the semicivilized" in last month's In Dialogue! Don't miss "More #Ottoman Heuristics – A Seventh Take on the Semicivilized." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04/0…

New to FirstView, Alessandro Rippa's "When is a #Frontier? Nostalgia and Aspirations at #China’s Borderlands with #Burma and #Laos." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

Our latest is Kabir Tambar's "A History of Clamor: Historical Time and the Late #Ottoman Surreal," examining "a scene of late Ottoman parliamentary politics characterized by verbal disruption, raucous applause, and strident indignation: in short, clamor." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

New scholarship on FirstView! Don't miss Nora Elizabeth Barakat's "Building an #Ottoman National Economy." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

We missed a chance to brag about our authors while bragging about our authors! How Transparency Works, a volume hailed in our recent newsletter, was edited not by one but by two CSSH alums: Filipe Calvão and Elizabeth Ferry. Double the kudos! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/01/1…

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.