From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
John Connelly discusses how to write East Europe's history.
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.
Fellow Spotlight: Naghmeh Sohrabi
Naghmeh Sohrabi illuminates the small-scale experiences that together—and after the fact—came to define Iranian “revolutionary experience.”
Fellow Spotlight: Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Robert F. Reid-Pharr is mapping the contradictions that underwrote the celebrity of writer and activist James Baldwin.
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.
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.
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.
Fellow Spotlight: Nathalie Peutz
Nathalie Peutz is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted wide-ranging, ethnographic research in Yemen, Djibouti, and Somaliland.
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.
Tony Cokes: Words and Spaces
Tony Cokes discusses the text-animated artworks he’s been creating over the past decade.