Paul A. Shackel, author of The Ruined Anthracite: Historical Trauma in Coal-Mining Communities, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Over a […]
Q&A with Paul A. Shackel, author of THE RUINED ANTHRACITE
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Q&A with Lauren Miller Griffith, author of GRACEFUL RESISTANCE
Lauren Miller Griffith, author of Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write […]
Q&A with Linda J. Seligmann, author of QUINOA
Linda J. Seligmann, author of Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands answers questions on her scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from her new book. Q: […]
Free E-book Giveaway: STORYTELLING IN SIBERIA
October’s free e-book is here! Check out Storytelling in Siberia: The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World by Robin P. Harris before the month is over! Olonkho, the epic narrative […]
Q&A with Kelli D. Zaytoun, author of SHAPESHIFTING SUBJECTS
Kelli D. Zaytoun, author of Shapeshifting Subjects: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Naguala and Border Arte, answers questions on why she decided to write this book and what media she consumes for fun. […]
American Anthropological Association Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the 2020 University of Illinois Press American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit! While we wish this could be an in-person event, we’re still excited to show you new research […]
Remembering Ira E. Harrison
The following is an excerpt from Alisha R. Winn’s chapter “Ira E. Harrison: Activist, Scholar, and Visionary Pioneer” in The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology edited by […]
Signal Traffic awarded by SCMS
Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, has won the Best Edited Collection Award for 2015-2016, awarded by the Society for Cinema and […]
Sing in the sunshine
By the grace of the gods and the bulging forearms of Kyle Schwarber, the Cubs have advanced to the National League Championship Series, there to face the New York Mets. […]
Cheryl LaRoche: Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad
Cheryl Janifer LaRoche‘s book, Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad, examines the “geography of resistance” and tells the powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation […]
Brazil’s sex tourism perceptions and culture
Erica Lorraine Williams visited the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University to discuss her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. In her talk, Williams examines the impact of […]
Q&A with Maya Market Women author S. Ashley Kistler
S. Ashley Kistler is an assistant professor of anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Rollins College. In her new book Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, […]