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May 12 2021

From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe

John Connelly discusses how to write East Europe's history.

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May 11 2021

The Refugee Crisis: Crossing, Cutting, and Burning the Mediterranean Seametery

Hakim Abderrezak discusses coverage of recent Mediterranean Sea crossings to interrogate the terminology individuals and scholars use to examine this human tragedy.

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May 10 2021

Fellow Spotlight: Naghmeh Sohrabi

Naghmeh Sohrabi illuminates the small-scale experiences that together—and after the fact—came to define Iranian “revolutionary experience.”

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May 10 2021

Fellow Spotlight: Robert F. Reid-Pharr

Robert F. Reid-Pharr is mapping the contradictions that underwrote the celebrity of writer and activist James Baldwin.

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May 10 2021

Gate of Tears: Migration and Immobility across the Red Sea

Nathalie Peutz and Steven Serels consider the humanitarian crisis and the pandemic in Yemen, where over half the population faces acute food shortages, fears of mass displacement are growing, and armed conflict intensifies.

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May 06 2021

Idiom: Unifying and Integrating Compositional and Improvisational Language as a Composer-Performer

Anna Webber argues that jazz’s composer–performers thus occupy a unique and privileged position: they may create the ideal vessels for their own improvisation, composing shapes that most perfectly incorporate their priorities and desires as performers.

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May 05 2021

Fellow Spotlight: Nandini Pandey

Nandini Pandey says that Rome recognized the pragmatic political and economic benefits of including and advancing constituent people regardless of race.

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May 05 2021

Fellow Spotlight: Nathalie Peutz

Nathalie Peutz is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted wide-ranging, ethnographic research in Yemen, Djibouti, and Somaliland.

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May 05 2021

FULFILLMENT: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Alec MacGillis takes on one of the forces he says is driving a waxing social divergence in America: Amazon.

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May 04 2021

Tony Cokes: Words and Spaces

Tony Cokes discusses the text-animated artworks he’s been creating over the past decade.

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