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… decades of research into “Iran: A Modern History,” his new book charting five centuries of Iranian history and its encounters with the neighboring lands and the Western world. Amanat guides readers through multiple dynasties, … state and has maintained power for nearly 40 years. The book has drawn positive reviews in the Economist, the Wall …

… decades of research into “Iran: A Modern History,” his new book charting five centuries of Iranian history and its encounters with the neighboring lands and the Western world. Amanat guides readers through multiple dynasties, … state and has maintained power for nearly 40 years. The book has drawn positive reviews in the Economist, the Wall …

… students to have an intellectual connection apart from news updates and family struggles. This is not about the … Hansen’s   “The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World — and Globalization Began,”   Alan Mikhail’s   “God’s … Octavia Butler’s “Parable” novels, Okakura Kakuzō’s “The Book of Tea,” Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice,” and Susan …

… awarded the MacMillan Center’s Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for best book for The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford University …

… his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News, was nominated for the 58th Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2022, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry … for South Asian Literature in Translation 2023 and VOW Book Awards 2024. His short stories, poems, and essays have …

… the study of China in the United States and across the world. Galvanized at first by the idea of China in the 17th … and Master,” Spence’s Yale dissertation and first book, written with the assistance of special access to … its civilization, but also of our place as humans in the world. Spence’s best-known work, “The Search for Modern …

… of Wisconsin Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize New Haven, Conn.   — James Sweet, Professor of … been selected as the winner of the 2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book,   Domingos   Álvares, African … Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press). The Douglass …

… decades of research into “Iran: A Modern History,” his new book charting five centuries of Iranian history and its encounters with the neighboring lands and the Western world. Abbas Amanat Amanat guides readers through multiple … state and has maintained power for nearly 40 years. The book has drawn positive reviews in the Economist, the Wall …

… current research focuses on (a) patrimonial politics in world history; (b) the sociology of agency relations and … the representation of scholars and scholarship.  Adams’ book  The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant … (Cornell University Press, 2005) won the Gaddis Smith Book Prize.  Click here to see a related interview. With …

… she has written and edited Gender in a Transnational World: Introduction to Women’s Studies (Mc-Graw Hill 2001, … (Duke University Press, 2014). She has forthcoming a book on the relation between security, gender, race and … transnational media, corruption and sexual violence, and a book project on masculinity and power in the memoirs of elite …

… Four graduating students from the class of 2013 received awards for research on South Asia. The inaugural South Asian … the categorization of Hindus as a “People of the Book”. With a remarkable scope that moves from primary source …