...Janell Watson In this interview, feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott discusses her first encounters with critical theory, the early days of teaching women's history, her turn to the history of the present, her work on the history of feminism, her book on the Muslim veil, and her current project...

... articulated a politically valuable dialectic of critique and the objects of critique, 2) historians tend to foreshorten their account of the culture wars and make light of their nonreformist origins, and (3) a reappraisal of the culture wars would provide precious signposts for strategic approaches to current...

...Ranjan Ghosh Works Cited Alvarez Walter . 2016 . “ Laws or Comets .” Aeon , November 3 . https://aeon.co/essays/how-chance-and-probability-affect-the-path-of-big-history . Axtell James . 1987 . “ History as Imagination ” Historian 49 , no. 4 : 451 – 62...

... minutes of ad hoc politically charged debate interjected into a panel format would do anything to bring substantive historical perspective to the issue? I thought back to an Armenian Genocide lecture at NYU I had been to years ago by German historian Hilmar Kaiser. Right...

... the minnesota review While some military-industrial enthusiasts may applaud the Chief Justice’s reasoning, historians of science and technology are likely to see the case as deeply ironic. Since at least the 1940s, the US Navy through its Office of Naval Research...

... Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993). Gilroy’s book marked a shift away from what historian Marcus Rediker calls terra-centrism, the idea that land is where the “real” happens, where history takes place, and the sea is a void. According...

..., although I edited a book on the developing Middle East together with the economic historian Roger Owen, I wasn’t all that interested. We did this at the urging of a friend who was editing a series on the sociol- ogy of developing societies. Watson  You were involved in questions of coloniality...

... Secret . Ithaca : ILR Press , 2000 . —. What's Class Got to Do with It?: American Society in the Twentyfirst Century . Ithaca : Cornell UP 2004 . 2005 the minnesota review 2005 Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo New Working-Class Studies As any good historian knows, little...

... of comparativist works from which historians and literary scholars now draw has extended dramatically. Along with Aztlan, the Pacific Rim, and the Afro-Caribbean, the emergent field of trans- Atlantic Studies has become the chief beneficiaries of the dismantling of the exceptionalist paradigm. Rather than...

... rule. Anderson is a distinguished historian of the absolutist state but has also written on culture and politics across five continents —​China, India, Russia, Brazil, and the “new Old World,” the European Union. He’s also written an important text comparing the trajectories of the Russian...

... at the New York Public Library and a trip to Haiti (then under US military occupation), Babouk became a very different kind of book. Historians and anthropologists of the eighteenth-century Caribbean, David Gaspar and Michel-Rolph Trouillot have lauded the text for historical...

..., historians, and artists have proved sensitive to the changes registered in the shift, for example, from geology to “Earth system” or in the reframing of a species’ ecological role as geo- logic force. The art and theory of the Anthropocene, we will argue, registers (and has registered) what...

... of the key parts of my graduate education was being in that group and, a little later, the New York Social Text collective. The other part was the New Haven MARHO collective (MARHO was the radical historians’ organization), which met and edited some of the issues of Radical...

... and apocalypse initiated between the Weimar jurist and erstwhile Nazi Carl Schmitt (1885–1985) and Church historian and theologian Eric Peterson (1890–1960), and reading this debate through Michel Foucault’s work on biopolitics, Agamben aligns the “classical” sovereign (the one who can make die...

...Steven G. Kellman © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Works Cited Auden W. H. “ September 1, 1939 .” The Oxford Book of American Poetry . Ed. Lehman David . New York : Oxford UP , 2006 . 498 . Becker Carl . “ Every Man His Own Historian .” Presidential Address...

... if African Americans benefited from slavery, European Jews benefited from anti-Semitism, including even the Holocaust.2 Horowitz was immediately and effectively challenged. A range of prominent historians and journalists—including University of Massachusetts...

... returns to his normal self. And yet, still sometimes he shouts to his neighbor, Tonight is your night, you sour-bellied old goat! But the old goat isn’t familiar with this idiom so he starts collecting these nights in an old, red Folgers can. Soon he becomes the last historian on earth. Most...

... else to determine the future. Refined thesis statement: Maybe not because appeasement, some historians say, (endnotes) started World War II. Possible topic sentence: To acquiesce to an abortion or a war becomes expansively problematic. Possible evidence: Irrational to follow the middle sister who never...

... am not a historian by profession and it is not my usual role, but I attempt here to mobilize my sixty years in and around the liter- ary academy to address a double question: how did “close reading” figure in Anglo-American literary studies over the course of the past century, and how does...

... economists, political scientists, or historians. If we want to reverse our marginalization, we need to get our own house in order. The first step toward this goal is to ask: what are we in English departments good at? Well, it is not economics, and it is not politics, either. We know more than...