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Chinese Porcelain in Renaissance Italy

How did a large collection of Chinese porcelain end up in a court in Northern Italy in the late fifteenth century? That was the question that started my book project off. It brought me to various places...

Leah R. Clark | 3 Aug 2023

Q&A with Psychopathology Author

Kenneth Carter, PhD, talks about student involvement in the writing process of his book, Psychopathology Dr. Ken Carter, author of Psychopathology, sat down with Cambridge University Press marketing...

Kenneth Carter | 2 Aug 2023

Treating People Fairly: A Possible Way to Prevent Unwarranted Distrust, Polarization, and Conspiracy Thinking

Discontent in Society In my recent book, ‘The Fair Process Effect,’ I aim to provide a framework for understanding and possibly managing various conditions of discontent in our societies. The book...

Kees van den Bos | 2 Aug 2023

African Youth Say There’s More to Citizenship

In summer 2023, Senegalese youth helped to lead massive protests against President Macky Sall’s government, protests that ultimately extracted a promise that Sall would not run for a third term. Stories...

Amy S. Patterson, Tracy Kuperus, Megan Hershey | 26 Jul 2023

Arabs Want Democracy—But Not With Corruption

Despite the costly efforts of Arab activists and citizens over the past decade of the Arab Uprisings, today no Arab state can claim to be fully democratic. Two countries, Egypt and Tunisia, traveled farthest...

Robert Kubinec | 17 Jul 2023

China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature

China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature (Cambridge 2023) unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond by...

Duncan M. Yoon | 17 Jul 2023

Michelangelo and the Indignities (and Opportunities) of Aging

Michelangelo began complaining about his age in the 1520s, when he would have been in his late 40s and early 50s. For example, in October, 1525, the artist declared, “I’ll always go on working for...

Emily A. Fenichel | 17 Jul 2023

Privatization and Its Discontents

Infrastructure and privatization are enduring topics in modern political discourse. Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American History places these contemporary hot topics in...

Matthew Titolo | 14 Jul 2023

Latin American Literature in Transition 1980–2018

Latin American Literature in Transition (1980-2018) looks at literary and cultural phenomena on the hinge of our millennium. It speaks from the receding hyperpolarization of the dictatorships in much...

Debra A. Castillo, Mónica Szurmuk | 7 Jul 2023

The Grey Zones of Empire

A generic narrative of decolonization has informed how we think about the history of empire. According to this narrative, a colonized people gradually becomes conscious of its predicament. Through this...

Leonard V. Smith | 6 Jul 2023

Carter, PhD, to Present at APA ’23

Kenneth Carter, Ph.D., author of Psychopathology will be presenting as the Harry Kirke Wolfe Lecturer at the American Psychological Association (APA) annual conference in August 2023. Carter’s presentation,...

Kenneth Carter | 5 Jul 2023

The Authoritarian International: Learning, Adaptability, and Persistence

In 2012 during the height of the Arab Spring Head of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, flew to Algiers to meet with his Algerian counterpart, Rachid Lallali, to discuss ‘the developments...

Stephen G. F. Hall | 5 Jul 2023