Now on FirstView, Deniz Kozlov's "A View from the Italian Side: Transit Migrants from the Soviet Union in Italy during the 1970s and 1980s." #OpenAccess #SovietUnion #Italy doi.org/10.1017/S00104175261…

Our newest On the Playlist track is out! In this interview, Mina Khanlarzadeh answers our questions about epistemic #translation, the fokoli, and the relationship between translation and modernization, cultural alienation, and decolonization. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/202…

In "Home, Travel, Prayer," we catch up with Mandana Limbert about her 2026 Jack Goody Award-winning essay, "#Homeland is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/202…

New scholarship on FirstView! Don't miss Anirban Karak's "Coerced Labor, #Caste, and Aspirations for Liberty in Early Nineteenth-Century #Bengal: Revisiting the Antislavery Debate from South Asia." #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/S00104175261…

Enjoy our new On the #Syllabus, Beyond Borders: #Diaspora and the Politics of Belonging. "The essays in this syllabus ask the readers to both traverse and transcend boundary lines as they follow migrants’ journeys towards home, wherever that may be." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/202…

In "Racing #Work/Working #Race," @sholleykline, Alan Covey, & Emilio Ramírez respond to one another's essays on the imposition of racial categories in 20th-c. Guatemala and 16th-c. Peru. The overlaps and divergences produce fascinating new possibilities. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/202…

Can we trust the gut? In our latest Behind the Scenes, Alice Yao reveals what she learned by exploring "the noise in the data" on lactose intolerance--findings ignored in biracial approaches to the study of metabolism. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/202…

Matt Tomlinson's review essay, "Heal Thyself," is available on FirstView! The essay explores four titles on the topics of #mindfulness, #ayahuasca use, #Spiritualism, and #shamanism. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/S00104175261…

We are excited to add a new book by @mshutzer, winner of the 2022 Jack Goody Award, to our summer reading list! Find details about it, and other recent books by CSSH authors, here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/202…

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2026 Jack Goody Award is Mandana Limbert, for her essay, "Homeland Is Where the Soul Resides: Travel Prayer, Passports, and Nation in the Western Indian Ocean” (67-2, 2025). Congratulations! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/202…