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Seeking the right to food: Food Activism in South Africa

How does one ask his government to give him food? Since antiquity, different social groups and classes have used different strategies to express their discontent against rulers who are unable or unwilling...

Bright Nkrumah | 29 Jul 2021

Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

When people learn that I’ve been working on a book on nineteenth-century Scottish women writers, they frequently ask ‘were there any’? This is an understandable question. In fact, it’s the question...

Juliet Shields | 27 Jul 2021

Understanding DNA Ancestry

How DNA Ancestry companies reach their findings from a person’s cells remains a mystery to almost everyone who purchases the service. Sheldon Krimsky author of Understanding DNA Ancestry aims to de-mystify the science behind the claims.

Sheldon Krimsky | 27 Jul 2021

Pandemic in Thought and Action

On February 29th 2020, I submitted my manuscript “Beings of Thought and Action” to CUP for review. While I did register news of cases of COVID-19 in Europe, little did I know what that would mean...

Andy Mueller | 22 Jul 2021

Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

The book-Planetary Healthexplores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health Humanity has made major, albeit inequitable, progress in health and development...

Andy Haines, Howard Frumkin | 22 Jul 2021

The Republican War on Cities

Voting laws recently passed or awaiting passage in Republican-controlled state legislatures along with the outrageous vote “audit” ongoing in Arizona have been widely covered in the press through...

Kevin R. McNamara | 21 Jul 2021

Brainy Girls, in Shakespeare’s Time and Ours

When Netflix released its limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” last year, who would have predicted that a show about a girl chess prodigy would reach the # 1 spot in 63 countries? The international...

Caroline Bicks | 19 Jul 2021

The Robot Century

Robots have been part of human culture for a hundred years. How can we ensure that they support — rather than supplant — humans over the next hundred? The word ‘robot’ entered the modern lexicon...

Simon Chesterman | 16 Jul 2021

Situating the Natural Sciences in Early Modern Morocco

During the socially and politically turbulent seventeenth century, Moroccan scholars studied the natural and mathematical sciences throughout a network of rural and urban institutions of learning that...

Justin K. Stearns | 15 Jul 2021

Slavery Then and Now: Interrogating the Past to Understand the Present

As America reckons more fully with the legacy of slavery, and the world confronts the horrors of ongoing systems of oppression of peoples such as the Uyghurs in China and the Rohingya in Myanmar, what...

Sara Forsdyke | 13 Jul 2021

The Coal that Would Save the Trees

Teodoro Cano, No title, 2003.

Germán Vergara | 13 Jul 2021

Landscape in Middle English Romance

In a time when heat domes, wildfires, and floods regularly author human and nonhuman tragedy, the nature and magnitude of human-driven climate change understandably dominates media headlines, bestseller...

Andrew M. Richmond | 12 Jul 2021