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The winning article successfully brings the richness of late antique scholarship on religious communities into early medieval middle eastern conversations.

The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mexico from the Cristero War to the present.

Author Khaled Beydoun on how football phenom Lamine Yamal’s decision to raise the Palestinian flag during Barcelona’s title parade signaled a bold embrace of political identity and solidarity.

We've removed the paywall from a selection of articles from JRPC in conjunction with IR UK and US.

Meet the new associate editor of the "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture."

What exactly is the Mishnah? Author Ishay Rosen-Zvi scratches the surface of one of the most daring Jewish intellectual projects of antiquity.

From studies of fossilized pollen, which shed light on peoples’ use of the land, to the recovery of ancient human genomes, which help us reimagine group identities, social cohesion, and migration, the paleosciences now contribute regularly to the study of Late Antiquity.

Author Ellen Muehlberger on her path to writing THINGS UNSEEN.

An excerpt from A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE with commentary from author Christine Sheparson.

Watch this year's "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" Annual Lecture featuring Pablo Mijangos y González, a preeminent historian of the Catholic Church and the law in Latin America.