Recent Publications
Research is central to the intellectual life of the Department of History and Politics. Recent Publications presents selected recent work by faculty, including books, peer-reviewed articles, and public scholarship, underscoring the research environment in which students learn and collaborate.
Amy Kittelstrom, “Amy Kittelstrom on Nicholas Boggs’s Baldwin: A Love Story”
Professor Amy Kittelstrom’s review of Nicholas Boggs’s ambitious biography Baldwin: A Love Story appears on the Society for U.S. Intellectual History blog. In the review, she situates this new major work on James Baldwin within ongoing scholarly and popular interest in Baldwin’s life and writing.
Samuel Cohen publishes book chapter in major new volume: A Companion to Rome (c. 400–c. 1050)
In his chapter “Social Conflict in Late Antique Rome” in A Companion to Rome (c. 400–c. 1050), edited by Caroline Goodson and Julia Hillner, Samuel Cohen examines patterns of social conflict in Rome from the fourth through the seventh centuries. His chapter focuses on food insecurity, urban entertainment, and divisions within the Roman church, particularly during contested episcopal elections, and traces how long-standing civic frameworks centered on the urban prefect were gradually supplanted by a Christian social order structured around the authority of the bishop.
More information about the volume:
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