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FirstGen Program: Looking Back on Three Years of Learning, Support, and Growth

Mar 26 2025
Three years into our FirstGen Program—and 104 new projects signed—we reflect on the program’s growth and achievements.
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Environmental Justice in San Francisco

Mar 20 2025
Lindsey Dillon, author of "Toxic City," writes about environmental activism in the Bay Area
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Q&A with Sayd Randle, author of "Replumbing the City"

Mar 20 2025
Author Sayd Randle discusses their new book "Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles"
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House-building in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mar 19 2025
Author Claire Mercer talks about her new book and how the suburb and the middle classes construct each other.
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Japan’s Empire through the Lens of Settler Colonialism in Latin America

Mar 16 2025
Author Sidney Xu Lu on challenging and complicating the story of Japanese migration to Brazil.
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How Taiwanese Vegetables Became the Envy of the World

Mar 15 2025
Author James Lin on the rural history that defined a generation of Taiwanese.
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Emerging Scholars of Late Antiquity: A New Feature of "Studies in Late Antiquity"

Mar 14 2025
SLA aims to diversify the field of late ancient studies with a new mentorship program for high school and undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds.
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Can Wearable Tech Bring Order to Our Lives?

Mar 13 2025
Author James N. Gilmore on the limits, possibilities, and realities of wearable tech, like Fitbits, Apple Watches, and Oura Rings.
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Bringing Visibility to Vietnamese American Writers

Mar 12 2025
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, co-editor of "The Cleaving," on the invisibility of Vietnamese American writers and poets and bringing light to their work.
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Q&A with Andrew Campana, author of "Expanding Verse"

Mar 11 2025
Author Andrew Campana discusses his book "Expanding Verses: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media"
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