Luis Alvarez León’s research spans economics, geography, media studies, politics, and technology. An associate professor in the Department...
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May 13, 2025
After wrapping up work on her 2024 book Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual, which examines how documentary photography...
February 19, 2025
Jonathan Smolin offers the first scholarly examination of the wildly popular writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous.
January 21, 2025
In their new book, George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek make the case for melancholia as a vital form of social critique and political renewal.
January 07, 2025
As a fix for climate change, carbon offsets (also known as carbon credits) have been both widely embraced and critiqued. By paying more for...
December 11, 2024
Professor Miya Qiong Xie was recently awarded the Modern Language Association of America's First Book Prize for her new book.
September 25, 2024
Growing up in Lake Forest, Illinois, the suburban Chicago town that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Professor of Sociology...
September 20, 2023
To address the climate crisis, we need to rethink our place in the cosmos, astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser argues in his new book.
September 07, 2023
Professor Roopika Risam co-edited a new volume that brings anti-racist community engagement practices to a broad audience.
June 08, 2023
In her new book, geographer Mona Domosh documents how Black government employees helped promote Black ownership of land and homes in the early decades of the 20th century.