COVID and Gender in the Middle East
A comprehensive study of the gendered economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa.
The Olympics that Never Happened
Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth
A look back at how powerful politicians, business leaders, and a diverse cast of activists used a thwarted Olympics to shape the state of Colorado and the city of Denver.
Sharpening the Legal Mind
How to Think Like a Lawyer
Before Lawrence v. Texas
The Making of a Queer Social Movement
The grassroots queer activism and legal challenges that led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gay and lesbian equality.
Unseen Art
Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica
The Rural State
Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra
Palestinian Rituals of Identity
The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948
An innovative approach to modern Palestinian history as viewed through a study of the Prophet Moses festival from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
The Untranslatable Image
A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain, 1500–1600
A Rainbow of Gangs
Street Cultures in the Mega-City
The Right Kind of Suffering
Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America
An examination of Arab asylum seekers who feel compelled to package their tales of disenfranchisement and suffering to satisfy a deeply reluctant immigration system.
The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam
Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau
A history of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and social imbalances that resulted from it.
Unraveling Time
Thirty Years of Ethnography in Cuenca, Ecuador
A compelling chronicle of economic, political, and social development in Cuenca.
Before Writing, Vol. I
From Counting to Cuneiform
Cinema's Original Sin
D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture
How century-long arguments about The Birth of a Nation have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art.
Fatherhood in the Borderlands
A Daughter's Slow Approach
A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.