Rebecca Jean Emigh

Here's a new ARS article about orality, literacy, and digitality from a comparative historical perspective. It shows how social media in the present is an outgrowth of historical forms of orality and literacy: doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Read about the crisis of democracy in the United States, political development, and comparative politics: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... See all the great new articles in Social Science History 48(2)! @r_lieberman @socscihist

Read about the decline in the power of Swiss patrician families: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the paper in Social Science History 48(2)! @socscihist @benz_pierre @Drope_Araujo

This interesting article considers how the othering of the Vascones—the cultural precursors of the Basques—was manifest historically in Spain! Read this and the other great papers in Social Science History 48(2)! DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
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The Dutch East India switched to smaller and more seaworthy vessels and gained the advantage over the Portuguese: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the other great articles in Social Science History 48(2)! @claudiarei2312 @socscihist

Read more about the growing community of scholars combining historical comparative sociology and ethnography: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the great articles in Social Science History 48(2)! @yrlsoc, @JoshPacewicz, @nickhwilson & Matthew Mahler, @socscihist

Finnish authorities failed to provide reliable guidance about avoiding disease, and it was hard to boil water in shared kitchens! Read about this and the other great articles in Social Science History (48[2]): DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... @SakariSaaritsa @socscihist

Swope shows how “disease” was used as a racist discourse to clear alleys of Black residents in Washington DC’s mixed neighborhoods in the early 1900s: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the great papers in Social Science History 48(2)!
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Great article about how the US government controlled animal and human diseases historically: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... This article gives important historical precedents for controlling diseases! Read all the other great articles in Social Science History 48(2)!
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Learn how colonial past shape our present through reproduction, institutionalization, and historical trajectories in @jgo34 new article in Social Science History: doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
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Did British imperial trade help Canada? @VincentGeloso
@PaulSharpEcHist and Maja Uhre Pedersen argue no! Read this, and all the great new papers in Social Science History! doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

Great book symposium organized by Zeke Baker in Social Science History doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... on colonialism. Read this and the other great articles in the latest issue of the journal!

Just a few more days left! Please send us your abstracts! Please repost! @socscihist

Are you a comparative/historical sociologist in Southern California? We are having a paper reading day on 6/21 to build camaraderie! Let me know if you would like to participate! April 1 is the deadline just to indicate interest!

Please send your abstracts by April 2 as below! We want to see your work in SSH!

In this terrific paper, Pablo Ortiz Barquero, Manuel Tomás González-Fernández, and Antonia María Ruiz Jiménez show that party institutionalization leads to electoral sustainabilty: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read all the other articles too in the issue!

Come to the CANUCLA meeting tomorrow 3/22 at 3 and help stop climate change: actionnetwork.org/events/canuc...

Please sign the petition asking the UCs to decarbonize sooner: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fo...

Call for papers for the 50th anniversary issue of Social Science History: ssha.org/journal/
Please send an abstract to socialsciencehistory@ssha.org by April 2! Send us your abstract!

Final call for critical studies papers for the SSHA Oct./Nov. conference. Deadline: Friday, 3/22/2024! Upload your panels and papers at: ssha2024.ssha.org
Critical Studies is last because are new!
We also need chairs and discussants, so please let me know if you can be one!

Read this great paper explaining how we got leisure time: doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
Read this and all the new papers in Social Science History! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Great new paper in Social Science History on labor activism in China, showing how movements take advantage of "gaps" in authoritarian government to organize. doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the new great articles in the latest issue of SSH!

Read this great paper about how landlords defaulted more often than homeowners: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Check out the other great papers in SSH in the new issue! cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Great new paper in Social Science History on labor activism in China, showing how movements take advantage of "gaps" in authoritarian government to organize. doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the new great articles in the latest issue of SSH!

Yes, that would be great!

We just started a critical studies network at SSHA:
ssha.org/networks/cri...

We welcome critical data studies!

UCLA is called out here as a huge polluter:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Join us for the CANUCLA meeting on 3/8 at 3 to organize (ucla.zoom.us/j/99662012363)!

So You're a Professor? Here's What You Can Do to Oppose Genocide - Steve Salaita Feeling helpless does not mean being useless. It is possible to support Palestinians from afar.

If you're an academic in the West, here are a few suggestions for opposing Zionist genocide:

And why bother to have people learn anything at all? It should just be entertainment and diversion.