Research Articles

December 2024

- Carla Pestana published an article titled “The Origins of Witchcraft Crisis 50 Years Later” in the American Historical Review (Vol. 129, Issue 4) by Oxford Academic.

November 2024

- Ned Alpers published “Agency and Acquired Plant Knowledge among Enslaved Laborers: The Acclimatization of Vanilla and Cloves in the Indian Ocean World” in the journal Monsoon (Volume 2, Issue 2) by Duke University Press.
- Ned Alpers published, “A Skeptical Approach to Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism,” in the volume De Madagascar aux modes de l’océan Indien: Anthropologies et histoires/From Madagascar to the Worlds of the Indian Ocean: Anthropologies and Histories, published by Hémisphères Éditions in 2024. It appears on pages 61–71.

August 2024

- Sarah Stein published “Swimming through History” in the Jewish Review of Books (Summer 2024).
- Katherine Marino published “Rosa Rayside and Domestic Workers in the Fight against War and Fascism” in the Pacific Historical Review 93, no. 3 (Summer 2024): 332-360.

June 2024

- Benjamin Madley published “‘Aloha with Tears’: Native Hawaiians in the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860,” in The Journal of American History 111:1 (June 2024), 39-70.
- Debora Silverman published “Empire as Architecture: Monumental Cities the Congo Built in Belgium” on the digital platform e-flux Architecture.

February 2024

- Minayo Nasiali published “A Working Alias: African Seafarers and Fungible Identities across European Empires in the Twentieth Century” in the current issue of The International Journal of Maritime History.

January 2024

- H. Glenn Penny wrote a short essay with Museum Anthropologist Philipp Schorch which was recently published in the journal Zeitschrift für Ethnology. It’s all open access and in English. Following is a citation of the essay.
  - H. Glenn Penny and Philipp Schorch “Back to the Future of Humboldtian Museums,” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 148, no. 2 (2023), 323-26.
- Robin Derby published an article in New West Indian Guide (Amsterdam) called “Stealing the Citadel: Icons of Nationhood and Memories of Theft in Haitian Narratives of Kout Kouto.”

December 2023

- Katherine M. Marino co-authored an article with Jeremy Blasi, Aaron Greenberg, and Zoe Tucker, “Learning from LA: How Hospitality Workers Built Power and Changed Politics” which was published in New Labor Forum 33, no. 1 (2023).
- Sarah Abrevaya Stein published “Eating on the Ground: Picnicking at the End of Empire” in The American Historical Review, History Unclassified, Volume 128, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 1795–1813.

November 2023

- Carla Pestana published “Atlantic Mobilities and the Defiance of the Early Quakers” in the Journal of Early Modern History 28 (2024): 187-2008.
- Peter James Hudson’s article “History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Racialism”was recently published in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism as part of the forum “Walter Rodney and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Fifty Years Later.”