Jewish Salonica
September 14, 2016
Touted as the “Jerusalem of the Balkans,” the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the
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The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto
April 15, 2016
‘One of the nation’s best known churches, Fourth Presbyterian is a thriving mainline church housed in an elegant Gothic building in Chicago’s wealthy Gold Coast neighborhood. Less than a mile
Selling the Serengeti
April 5, 2016
Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism
Global Futures in East Asia
February 18, 2016
The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to be living in post-miracle times? For the youth of China, Taiwan,
The Strange Child
January 4, 2016
The Strange Child examines how the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s gave rise to “the child problem,” a powerful discourse of social anxiety that refocused concerns about precarious economic
A History of Science in World Cultures
December 21, 2015
To understand modern science, it is essential to recognize that many of the most fundamental scientific principles are drawn from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. Taking a global yet comprehensive
Spaces of Possibility
December 14, 2015
Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders
The First World War in the Middle East
November 16, 2015
The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia
The Gulf States in International Political Economy
November 16, 2015
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen examines the changing position of the Gulf Cooperation Council states within a global order which itself is in a state of flux. Against the backdrop of deep
Culture in Conflict
November 16, 2015
In response to the irregular warfare challenges facing the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005, General James Mattis—then commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command—established a new Marine Corps