Interviews, News, and Featured Scholarship

(Note: This appeared as an article in the Middle East Studies Association’s IMES newsletter. I'm reproducing it here with a few edits.)...

Academic writing doesn't have to be awful. It usually is, of course, but there is nothing inevitable about that. Most of us who make it...

Historians like to think that our craft is a solitary process. We lurk about in musty archives and poorly lit libraries for years,...

Does Western domination HAVE to cast a shadow over non-Western history? This week, I want to look at an idea that came to me as I read...