Books, Publications and Papers
- Mendoza, M. and Voyles, T. “Not Just Green, Not Just White. Race, Justice, and the Environmental History.” Dr. Traci Voyles co-edited the volume and contributed the chapter, “Pushed into the Margins: New Approaches to Environmental History in Settler California.”
- Booker, Matthew M. and Ericson, Kjell D. “Seed Oyster Inspection, Matsushima Bay, Circa 1958,” Environmental History 30:1 (January 2025)
- McConnell, Alexander. “‘Tragic Presentiments’: Maksim Gor’kii and the Invention of Soviet Humanism,” Slavic Review vol. 83, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 300-317
- Freitas, F. and Blanc, J. The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History, co-edited by our own Dr. Fred Freitas. Freitas co-authored the introduction and also contributed chapter 7, “Charting the Planalto Central: The Quest for a New Capital and the Opening of the Brazilian Interior in the 1890s.”
- A new book, released just days before Jimmy Carter’s death, includes an essay by Dr. Nancy Mitchell titled “Cri de coeur: Jimmy Carter’s Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.” Itcan be found in West, Mark I., and Frye Gaillard. The Literary Legacy of Jimmy Carter: Essays on the President’s Books. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.
- Dr. Nancy Mitchell published a short reflection on Carter’s foreign policy legacy, “Three Myths About the Jimmy Carter Presidency for the SAIS Review of International Affairs.
Events & Lectures
- Dr. Megan Cherry presented the lecture, “Alcohol in Eighteenth-Century British America,” at the Charlotte Museum of History recently for their annual ‘Twelfth Night’ event.
- At the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual meeting in Philadelphia, Dr. Jordan Rogers presented his paper “Excavating a Unique Organic Context at Pompeii: The Reed Workshop of Pompeii I.14,” which was co-authored with Dr. Allison Emmerson (Tulane) and Dr. Mark Robinson (Oxford).
Rogers also co-authored (but did not present) a paper titled, “Towards an Urban Economy of the Sub-elite: Three Seasons of Excavation at Pompeii I.14.” This paper was co-authored by Dr. Allison Emmerson (Tulane), Dr. Mary-Evelyn Farrior (Boston MFA), and Gabriel Higgs.
Both were from Dr. Rogers’ fieldwork as part of the Pompeii I.14 Project.
Interviews
Dr. David Ambaras and his collaborator Kate McDonald were interviewed for Faculti.net about their joint project Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-mapping Modern East Asian History and the potential for doing multivocal spatial history. The video and transcript are at https://faculti.net/bodies-and-structures/
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