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Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial inequality.”

Some helpful tips for prospective graduate students.

Is Grad School for Me? is a calling card and a corrective to the lack of clear guidance for historically excluded students navigating the onerous undertaking of graduate school—starting with asking if grad school is even a good fit. This essential resource offers step-by-step instructions on how to

Christopher Newfield’s 2023 MLA Presidential address, "Criticism After This Crisis: Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study," was published in Representations 164 (Fall 2023). As the 2024 MLA conference commences, we thought it an opportune time to revisit Newfield's 2023 address,

Michaela Soyer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and a first-generation scholar. Her current work focuses on delinquency, incarceration, recidivism and social theory. She has also conducted research about resistance in oppressive regimes. Her books include A Dream Denied: Inca

It’s graduation season again, and whether the graduate in your life is leaving college or onto their professional degree, they’ll have many new responsibilities and challenges to navigate. We’ve rounded up some of UC Press's bestsellers to help them transition into the future.

University of California Press is seeking a new editor for its journal, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research.

Amanda McMillan Lequieu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this post, Professor McMillan Lequieu explains how she used case studies to anchor a keystone course in her department.I designed my Sociology of the Environment course around th

Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the inte

"I was looking to increase the rigor of the course with the hopes of the penultimate assessment serving as a bridge between students’ academic careers and their future career endeavors."