Racing Work/Working Race – Sam Holly-Kline, Alan Covey, and Emilio Ramírez consider new approaches to the racialization of labor September 7, 2026 Sam Holly-Kline, Alan Covey, and Emilio Ramírez discuss common points of interest, and departures, in their essays on racialization and work.
Performative Sovereignty: a conversation with Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor about pyropolitics, animal sacrifice, and cosmic alignments across Indian and Ottoman polities May 27, 2026 Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor discuss the connections across their work on spectacle and displays of sovereignty in India and Ottoman Istanbul.
The Church Militant and Illiberal: Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss transnational Catholic movements March 9, 2026 Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss the alignments and distinctions in their essays on Catholic social movements.
Home, Travel, Prayer – A conversation with Mandana Limbert about “Homeland is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean,” recipient of the 2026 Goody Award. October 2, 2026 CSSH interviews 2026 Jack Goody Award winner Mandana Limbert.
More Ottoman Heuristics – A Seventh Take on the Semicivilized April 3, 2026 Julia Elyachar responds to six CSSH authors’ engagements with “the semicivilized.”
Ottoman Heuristics: Six takes on “the semicivilized” March 16, 2026 Koh Choon Hwee, Nora Barakat, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Mustafa Tuna, Fahad Bishara, and Anoush Suni consider Julia Elyachar’s concept of “the semicivilized.”
Beyond Borders: Diaspora and the Politics of Belonging September 15, 2026 A collection of CSSH’s articles on diaspora, identity, place, and belonging.
Matter of Faith: Religion and Materiality June 5, 2026 A collection of CSSH essays on sacred images, devotional objects, and holy places.
Doing Things With Words March 18, 2026 A collection of CSSH essays on language, power, identity, and authority.
Can We Trust the Gut? August 28, 2026 Alice Yao explores the “uncomfortable middle” in the study of lactose intolerance, race, and biomedicine.
Technologies of Devotion and Religious Cooperation in the Mediterranean, 18th-20th Century June 23, 2026 Daniel Hershenzon explores an 18th century case of religious accommodation at the sanctuary of Santa Rosalia, Sicily.
Voices for Palestine in Egyptian Protest History June 23, 2026 Reem Abou-El-Fadl describes the conditions that made oral history necessary, and revelatory, in her research with student activists in Egypt.
Sam Holly-Kline, Alan Covey, and Emilio Ramírez discuss common points of interest, and departures, in their essays on racialization and work.
Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor discuss the connections across their work on spectacle and displays of sovereignty in India and Ottoman Istanbul.
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss the alignments and distinctions in their essays on Catholic social movements.
CSSH interviews 2026 Jack Goody Award winner Mandana Limbert.
Julia Elyachar responds to six CSSH authors’ engagements with “the semicivilized.”
Koh Choon Hwee, Nora Barakat, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Mustafa Tuna, Fahad Bishara, and Anoush Suni consider Julia Elyachar’s concept of “the semicivilized.”
A collection of CSSH’s articles on diaspora, identity, place, and belonging.
A collection of CSSH essays on sacred images, devotional objects, and holy places.
A collection of CSSH essays on language, power, identity, and authority.
Alice Yao explores the “uncomfortable middle” in the study of lactose intolerance, race, and biomedicine.
Daniel Hershenzon explores an 18th century case of religious accommodation at the sanctuary of Santa Rosalia, Sicily.
Reem Abou-El-Fadl describes the conditions that made oral history necessary, and revelatory, in her research with student activists in Egypt.