Recent Interviews
Hidetaka Hirota, “Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy” (Oxford UP, 2018) 
Hidetaka Hirota
​Expelling the Poor
Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
Oxford University Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 23, 2019 Diana DePasquale

Hidetaka Hirota is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Advanced Study at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to his current position, he was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University and taught at the City University of New York-City College.... Read More
Andrew Lambert, “Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World” (Yale UP, 2018)
Andrew Lambert
Seapower States
Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
Yale University Press, 2018

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 23, 2019 Charles Coutinho

Andrew Lambert, Professor of Naval History at King’s College, London, author of eighteen books, and winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal—turns his attention in a book that historian Felipe Fernandez Armesto describes as full of ‘ambition’, ‘verve’ and at times ‘brilliance’ – to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain. In... Read More
Marcia Morgan, “Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race” (Edwin Mellen Press, 2018)
Marcia Morgan
Black Women Prison Employees
The Intersectionality of Gender and Race
Edwin Mellen Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 23, 2019 Kyle McMillen

With prison reform a topic of international conversation and debate, Marica Morgan’s Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race  offers an in-depth and unique analysis of a population largely lost in these debates and discussions: black women. By centering their experiences, Morgan offers and intersectional and psychodynamic... Read More
Jamal Elias, “Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies” (U California Press, 2018)
Jamal Elias
Alef is for Allah
Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in EducationNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 23, 2019 SherAli Tareen

In his groundbreaking new book, Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies (University of California Press, 2018), Jamal Elias takes his readers on a riveting intellectual tour thematically centered on the interaction of childhood, visual culture, and affect in contemporary Muslim majority societies, and in Muslim... Read More
Elizabeth A. Fraser, “Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839” (Penn State UP, 2017)
Elizabeth A. Fraser
Mediterranean Encounters
Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839
Penn State University Press, 2017

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 23, 2019 Ricarda Brosch

Elizabeth A. Fraser‘s Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839 (Penn State University Press, 2017) takes its readers on a journey through six illustrated travel albums covering territories held by the Ottomans in the Mediterranean basin and produced between 1774-1839. By decentring the importance of Europe, Elisabeth Fraser... Read More

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