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On the Syllabus

  • Comestibles, Cuisines, and Convivia
    A collection CSSH essays on the anthropology and history of food commodities and culinary cultures.
  • Legal Cultures
    A syllabus of CSSH scholarship on law and legal institutions.
  • Love letters from CSSH
    A Valentine’s Day sampler: CSSH scholarship on love, romance, dating, and marriage.

Behind the Scenes

  • Decay as Care: Companioning Things through Death
    Marisa Karyl Franz shares how she became attuned to decay, rot, and ruin, subjects of her recent CSSH essay.
  • Thinking about Flogging
    Steven Pierce shares how reconsidering previously-analyzed subjects led to more profound insights.
  • Firearms, Magic, and Memory
    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.