…are long overdue developments – and indications that the long arc of history bends toward justice.  But, of course, not everyone thinks these are signs of progress. Indeed, many Americans believe…

…Witwatersrand, Anthropology) Eldorado Park as Demonic Grounds: A Social History from 1960s–Present Nonhlanhla Gumede (University of Pretoria, Social Work) Narratives of Male Perpetrators on Factors Contributing to Gender-Based Violence: A…

…history of contested elections turning bloody and politicians mobilizing voters along ethnic lines, the stakes could not be higher, says Francis Abugbilla, an international studies lecturer at the University of…

…suggests to me that we’re currently in a very dark place. On the other hand, if you zoom out a little bit, there have certainly been periods in American history…

…in postcolonial states. Despite extensive scholarly work on the history of the prison in Africa, empirical evidence on incarceration has been largely ignored, with scholarship instead relying on Eurocentric theories….

…In its earliest form, prosopography focused on the lives of elites in the ancient world, but the subsequent impact of social history on the field shifted the focus of prosopography…

…recruitment are just as nuanced as those promoting it. Clans with a history of relative privilege or those who have not experienced the same level of historical grievance may not…

…conflict. Additional sensitivity analyses, including accounting for environmental stressors and conflict history, are used to assess the robustness of the results. For ensuring the results are robust to potential endogeneity…

This project challenged the notion that the cause of Urabá, Colombia’s violent history and unruly contemporary condition is the “absence of the state.” The absence of the state is a…

…the now-forgotten meanings of torture that defined this formative juncture, demonstrating the potential of history to reinvigorate a policy debate centered for too long on the question, “Does torture work?”…