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In Defense of Free Speech in Universities

A Study of Three Jurisdictions

By Amy T.Y. Lai
Subjects: Education, Higher Education, Political Science, Political Communication

Free expression is essential to the pursuit of truth

How Informal Institutions Matter

Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres

with a foreword by B. Guy Peters

By Zeki Sarigil
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Governance

Informal institutions are core to political life

Transforming Vòdún

Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music

By Sarah Politz
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, African Studies
Series: Musics in Motion

How musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions

Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)

Volume One: Survey and Excavation Results

Edited by Michael L. Galaty & Lorenc Bejko
Subjects: Archaeology, History, European History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Balkans
Series: Memoirs

Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)

Volume Two: Artifacts and Artifact Analysis

Edited by Michael L. Galaty & Lorenc Bejko
Subjects: Archaeology, History, European History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Balkans
Series: Memoirs

Reimagining the Educated Citizen

Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World, 1685-1896

By Petra Munro Hendry
Subjects: History, African American History, Caribbean Studies

A radical egalitarian vision of the transatlantic, creole roots of American public education

Walking the Gendered Tightrope

Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders

By Melissa Haussman & Karen M Kedrowski
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Examines how women in higher office must balance feminine stereotypes with exercising their power

International Organizations and Research Methods

An Introduction

Edited by Fanny Badache, Leah R Kimber, and Lucile Maertens
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology

Methodologies for the study of International organizations

Life, Earth, Colony

Friedrich Ratzel's Necropolitical Geography

By Ian Klinke
Subjects: German Studies, History, Intellectual History, Political Science, Political Theory

A critical exploration of Friedrich Ratzel and the relationship between colonial and fascist necropolitics

Administering Justice

Placing the Chief Justice in American State Politics

By Richard Vining & Teena Wilhelm
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Judicial Politics

The role and power of state chief justices in and out of the courtroom

The Fourth Amendment

Original Understandings and Modern Policing

By Michael J. Z. Mannheimer
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

Untangling how the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments have influenced U.S. policing

Making Endless War

The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law

Edited by Brian Cuddy & Victor Kattan
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How two conflicts have shaped the relationship between law and war since 1945

Between Sahara and Sea

Africa in the Roman Empire

By David J. Mattingly
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, African Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

David Mattingly’s long-awaited book on North Africa and the Romans

The Time of Laughter

Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan

By David Humphrey
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Theater and Performance
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How laughter shapes contemporary Japanese media

Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Law, Intellectual Property, African American Studies

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By Pavitra Sundar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

The Medieval Constitution of Liberty

Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West

By Alexander William Salter & Andrew T Young
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Governance

Locating the roots of western liberal democracy in the late medieval period rather than the Age of Enlightenment

Writing Imperial History

Tacitus from Agricola to Annales

By Bram ten Berge
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Analyzes how Tacitus contributed to our current understanding of history and reveals the themes that permeated his writing

Women in German Expressionism

Gender, Sexuality, Activism

Edited by Anke Finger & Julie Shoults
Subjects: German Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Literary scholarship questions and challenges the limited and fossilized gender narrative of German Expressionism

Congo Style

From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

By Ruth Sacks
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the impact of colonial Belgium’s influence on the Congo’s visual culture

Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way

Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance

By Monique Mojica & Brenda Farnell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Native American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

Lobbying the Autocrat

The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies

Edited by Max Grömping & Jessica C. Teets
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Comparative Politics
Series: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

The surprising symbiosis between dictators and citizen lobbyists complicates our understanding of autocratic regimes

Lagos Never Spoils

Nollywood and Nigerian City Life

By Connor Ryan
Subjects: African Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the relationship between Nollywood and the city of Lagos

The Creativity Complex

Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

By Shannon Steen
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance

How notions of creativity have evolved to serve the goals of neoliberalism—and what we can do about it

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