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Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently organized and chaired a panel, on which he also presented, at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) annual meeting in Portland, Ore.

Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner is the co-editor of a new book and presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.

The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance, by Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley, was recently named to the shortlist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize.

The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion, co-edited by Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate, was recently published. The 450-page volume features essays by scholars from around the world.

Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France, by Associate Professor of History Celeste Day Moore, was recently awarded the 2023 Woody Guthrie First Book Award by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

Associate Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar recently published Listening with a Feminist Ear (University of Michigan Press, 2023). The book, which focuses on mainstream Bombay cinema, identifies singing, listening, and speaking as key sites in which gendered notions of identity and difference take form.

The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley has been awarded honorable mention for the Morris D. Forkosch Prize. The award, established by the Journal of the History of Ideas, recognizes the best book in intellectual history each year.

“What happens when natural things — pollen in a gust of wind, a carnivorous pitcher plant, an armadillo’s thick skin — enter human history?” Thus begins the introduction to Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds, a new book conceived and co-edited by Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley.

Visiting Professor of History Ty Seidule was the guest on a recent episode of “Civil War Talk Radio with Gerald Prokopowicz.”

The Political Economy of Global Responses to COVID-19, co-edited by Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations Alan Cafruny, was recently published by Palgrave MacMillan.