After Life: Jon Bialecki and Jeanne Kormina discuss Mormon transhumanism, the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, and the multiple temporalities of death June 12, 2025 A CSSH conversation between Jon Bialecki and Jeanne Kormina about sacrifice, resurrection, life after death, and death after life.
Anticipatory Expertise: Mary Neuburger, Adam Hanzel, and Omri Elisha discuss prophets, astrologers, and “hybrid architectures of truth” April 11, 2025 Neuburger, Hanzel, and Elisha find new potential for their arguments in an expanded space of comparison.
In and out of Persian, with Sumit Guha, Nile Green, Michael Fisher, Farina Mir, and Christine Philliou May 1, 2024 Four CSSH authors read and respond to Sumit Guha’s “Empires, Languages, and Scripts in the Perso-Indian World.”
A Juridical Likeness: Matei Candea discusses free speech, lateral comparison, and lessons learned while editing February 22, 2025 In conversation with CSSH editors past (Andrew Shryock) and present (Jatin Dua), Matei Candea makes a strong case for experimentation, for comparison’s scalar potential, and for the need to build larger, collectivist frames that will connect arguments across time and space.
From “Mad Slaves” to the Mind Politic: A Conversation with Nana Osei Quarshie, Winner of the 2024 Goody Award. September 30, 2024 CSSH interviews 2024 Goody Award winner Nana Osei Quarshie.
New Secular Formations. A Conversation with Isaac Friesen, Aymeric Xu, Usmon Boron, and Gregory Starrett May 28, 2024 We asked four CSSH authors what has changed in the study of secularism over the last decade or so, and what remains the same.
Comestibles, Cuisines, and Convivia June 13, 2025 A collection CSSH essays on the anthropology and history of food commodities and culinary cultures.
Legal Cultures March 18, 2025 A syllabus of CSSH scholarship on law and legal institutions.
Love letters from CSSH February 14, 2025 A Valentine’s Day sampler: CSSH scholarship on love, romance, dating, and marriage.
Decay as Care: Companioning Things through Death March 5, 2025 Marisa Karyl Franz shares how she became attuned to decay, rot, and ruin, subjects of her recent CSSH essay.
Thinking about Flogging January 8, 2025 Steven Pierce shares how reconsidering previously-analyzed subjects led to more profound insights.
Firearms, Magic, and Memory February 7, 2024 Sean McEnroe recalls his childhood experiences with firearms, and explains how these memories, both troubling and nostalgic, inform his research on magical practices and military technology on colonial frontiers.
A CSSH conversation between Jon Bialecki and Jeanne Kormina about sacrifice, resurrection, life after death, and death after life.
Neuburger, Hanzel, and Elisha find new potential for their arguments in an expanded space of comparison.
Four CSSH authors read and respond to Sumit Guha’s “Empires, Languages, and Scripts in the Perso-Indian World.”
In conversation with CSSH editors past (Andrew Shryock) and present (Jatin Dua), Matei Candea makes a strong case for experimentation, for comparison’s scalar potential, and for the need to build larger, collectivist frames that will connect arguments across time and space.
CSSH interviews 2024 Goody Award winner Nana Osei Quarshie.
We asked four CSSH authors what has changed in the study of secularism over the last decade or so, and what remains the same.
A collection CSSH essays on the anthropology and history of food commodities and culinary cultures.
A syllabus of CSSH scholarship on law and legal institutions.
A Valentine’s Day sampler: CSSH scholarship on love, romance, dating, and marriage.
Marisa Karyl Franz shares how she became attuned to decay, rot, and ruin, subjects of her recent CSSH essay.
Steven Pierce shares how reconsidering previously-analyzed subjects led to more profound insights.
Sean McEnroe recalls his childhood experiences with firearms, and explains how these memories, both troubling and nostalgic, inform his research on magical practices and military technology on colonial frontiers.