The Politics of Russian Archaeology in Ottoman Lands
A review of Byzantine Heritage, Archaeology, and Politics between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1894-1914), by Pinar Üre. Pinar Üre’s…
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Women’s Migration and Home in Chinese and Sinophone Culture
A review of Life on the Move: Women’s Migration and Re/making home in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature and Film, by Hsin-Chin Hsieh. Before I…
Gender and Restaurant Work in Shanghai
A review of Transforming Life in China: Gendered Experiences of Restaurant Workers in Shanghai, by Yang Shen. Although many existing literature study migrant workers in…
Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor
A review of Western Music By Its Others: Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor, by Anjeline de Dios. Angeline de Dios’s…
Gay Poetics in Post-WWII U. S.
A review of Homosexuality Is A Poem: How Gay Poets Remodeled The Lyric, Community And The Ideology Of Sex To Theorize A Gay Poetic, by…
A Tibetan Ritual Master’s Objects of Power
A review of Substance and Sense: Objects of Power in the Life, Writings, and Legacy of the Tibetan Ritual Master Sog bzlog pa Blo gros…
The Work of Domestic Service in Contemporary Morocco
A review of Hired to be daughters: Domestic service among ordinary Moroccans, by Mary Elizabeth Montgomery. “Domesticity in Morocco has always been a ‘family’ thing,…
Shinto, Nature, and Sacred Space in Japanese Forests
A review of Forests of the Gods: Shinto, Nature, and Sacred Space in Contemporary Japan, by Aike P. Rots Aike Rots’ thesis expands our understanding…
Morality, Economic Inequality, and Policy Responses
A review of What We Deserve:The Moral Origins of Economic Inequality and Our Policy Responses to It, by Jacob S. Bower-Bir. Continued interactions among human…
Immigrants in Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, and Tang China
A review of My Neighbor the Barbarian: Immigrant Neighborhoods in Classical Athens, Imperial Rome, and Tang Chang’an, by Ryan Russell Abrecht. Ryan Abrecht’s dissertation is…