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Comparative Studies in Society & History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.

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🍂Our autumn issue is here!🍂 Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Figures of Violence; Documentary Politics; Decolonization and Its Discontents; and Ottoman Difference. #Anthropology #History #AcademicTwitter #OpenAccess sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/10/0…

CSSHJournal's tweet image. 🍂Our autumn issue is here!🍂 Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Figures of Violence; Documentary Politics; Decolonization and Its Discontents; and Ottoman Difference. #Anthropology #History #AcademicTwitter #OpenAccess 

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"Brokering Right-to-Life: #Poland and the Transnational Entanglements of #Catholic Pro-Life Activism, from Santiago to Washington to Gdańsk, 1970s–1990s" by Piotr H. Kosicki and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska is now out on FirstView! #Chile doi.org/10.1017/S00104…


And for a Halaloween treat, read Arthur Zarate's study of the Spiritualism in mid 20th century Egypt. Jinn, zar possession, and sorcery vs. modernism and rationalist modes of spiritualist science. A fascinating essay! doi.org/10.1017/S00104…


'Tis the season.... for "Corpses, spirits, and the occult: a selection of CSSH’s spookiest scholarship"! #Halloween #AcademicTwitter sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2024/10/3…

CSSHJournal's tweet image. 'Tis the season.... for "Corpses, spirits, and the occult: a selection of CSSH’s spookiest scholarship"! #Halloween #AcademicTwitter 

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Arthur Shiwa Zárate's "Cosmopolitan Spirits: #Islam & the Experimental Cosmologies of Egypt’s Spiritualist Movement, 1947–1960" foregrounds the Islamic tradition’s entanglements w/ scientific discourses & navigates beyond claims of epistemological rupture. doi.org/10.1017/S00104…


Congratulations to Arndt Emmerich, whose CSSH essay "Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany" has won @GermanHistSoc's 2025 Rethinking German History Prize! Find the award-winning article here: doi.org/10.1017/S00104…


"Oran is an archive of displacement, containing the imprint of overlooked, erased, or forgotten pasts stored in everyday things." Don't miss Stephanie V. Love's "The Archive of #Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, #Algeria." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

CSSHJournal's tweet image. "Oran is an archive of displacement, containing the imprint of overlooked, erased, or forgotten pasts stored in everyday things." Don't miss Stephanie V. Love's "The Archive of #Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, #Algeria."

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Don't miss our latest! Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez and Sofía Rodríguez-López's "One Cross, Two Continents: How #Catholic Women’s Resistance in #Mexico Inspired Their Spanish Counterparts (1926–1936)." #Spain #History #AcademicTwitter doi.org/10.1017/S00104…


New scholarship at CSSH! Gabriel Young's "Remaking a Sovereign Landlord: Property and Dispossession Along the #Basra #Oil Frontier." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

CSSHJournal's tweet image. New scholarship at CSSH! Gabriel Young's "Remaking a Sovereign Landlord: Property and Dispossession Along the #Basra #Oil Frontier." 

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Interesting new paper in @CSSHJournal about how geological surveys have repeatedly portrayed Afghanistan as a "land of untold mineral wealth" and untapped potential over the last two centuries: cambridge.org/core/journals/…


CSSH highlights new books by Arthur Shiwa Zárate and Fahad Ahmad Bishara! sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/10/0…

CSSHJournal's tweet image. CSSH highlights new books by Arthur Shiwa Zárate and Fahad Ahmad Bishara!

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In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, @serkanyolacan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their CSSH articles together. #twitterstorians sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09/1…

CSSHJournal's tweet image. In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, @serkanyolacan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their CSSH articles together. #twitterstorians 

sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09/1…

It is bittersweet to announce the retirement of David Akin, CSSH's extraordinary Managing Editor over the past 25 years. Read his reflections on his tenure with the journal, in conversation with former editor Andrew Shryock, below. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09/1…

CSSHJournal's tweet image. It is bittersweet to announce the retirement of David Akin, CSSH's extraordinary Managing Editor over the past 25 years. Read his reflections on his tenure with the journal, in conversation with former editor Andrew Shryock, below. 

sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09/1…

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We are delighted to announce that the 2025 winner of @CSSHJournal Jack Goody award is @natterjee! Check out all of the award winning articles 👉 cup.org/46l88n5 #Twitterstorians

cambUP_History's tweet image. We are delighted to announce that the 2025 winner of @CSSHJournal Jack Goody award is @natterjee!

Check out all of the award winning articles 👉 cup.org/46l88n5

#Twitterstorians

New at CSSH: Foroogh Farhang's "Death of the Gharīb: A Window towards a Regional Understanding of #Displacement in the #MiddleEast." "The gharīb can be an analytic tool that allows us to delve deeper into the complexities of belonging, futurity, & rights." doi.org/10.1017/S00104…


Congratulations again to our 2025 Goody Award-winner @natterjee! CSSH enjoyed the opportunity to chat with Dr. Chatterjee about "Tractors, Truckers, and Class Energetics." Don't miss it! #AcademicTwitter sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/08/2…

CSSHJournal's tweet image. Congratulations again to our 2025 Goody Award-winner @natterjee! CSSH enjoyed the opportunity to chat with Dr. Chatterjee about "Tractors, Truckers, and Class Energetics." Don't miss it! #AcademicTwitter 

sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/08/2…

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