Jolyon Ford, the author of Regulating Business for Peace, reflects on policy blind-spots around the private sector’s role in post-conflict recovery.
Sarah Roth, the author of Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture, tackles the largely unexplored question of how gender relations played into the depiction of African American men and white women in nineteenth century culture.
When the New York Times called David F. Lancy's The Anthropology of Childhood "the only baby book you'll ever need", it jump-started a conversation about examining children and childhood from a global perspective. Here, Lancy examines the way children learn in the Peruvian Amazon to shed new light on today's educational challenges.
Heather Elko McKibben, the author of State Strategies in International Bargaining, breaks down the fine art and complex politics of international negotiations by revealing how we play the game of negotiations in our everyday lives.
Read Part 1 of Dr. Batchelor’s post on André Malraux here. Dostoevskii’s Kirillov and Malraux’s Tchen are in numerous ways identical in their psychological make-up. First, their throbbing,...
Anne Fernald takes readers behind the scenes of the literary detective work involved in mapping Virginia Woolf's allusions in Mrs Dalloway. Writing footnotes to a 20th century classic involves a long literary history.
Few critics would dispute the contention that the central, dominating force in André Malraux’s novelistic vision is the towering figure of Fyodor Dostoevskii. Numerous references would support this...
Michael A. Forrester, the author of Early Social Interaction, explains the process of researching childhood language development by studying his daughter.
Celia Marshik, the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture, explains the uncertain and innovating modernist period of the early 20th century through the lens of the beloved period drama Downton Abbey.
In this interview, Vincent Sherry, the author of Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence, tackles the question “What is decadence?” in literary history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHc3h915qg Read More ?
David Chan Smith, the author of Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws, traces the way one lawyer and judge shaped modern law, and how Coke's legacy plays a part in the crises of modern democracy.
How does deception work? How do we trick others, and how are we ourselves deceived? Peter Hancock, the author of Hoax Spring Eternal, breaks down the art of deception and "magical" entertainment.