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Public Humanities - Zoe Hope Bulaitis, Jeffrey R. Wilson
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Ready-Made Publics: Quicksand and the Sites/Sights of New Negro Performance
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10142?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: July 21, 2026 00:00
Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928) remains central to the New Negro literature with its unique focus on its biracial protagonist, Helga Crane, and her search for belonging. However, the novel presents a unique critical voice in understanding performance of…
The American Revolution Was Really a World War
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10221?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: July 9, 2026 00:00
Understanding the American Revolution requires moving beyond a simple “Americans vs. Britain” narrative and viewing it within a global context. The conflict was part of a larger, global war between European colonial powers, which saw alliances formed based…
How to Do Public Humanities
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10155?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: July 8, 2026 00:00
Public humanities often require an expert in one area to learn another field or skill on-the-fly or to collaborate effectively across boundaries of specialization. Fear of the unknown combines with taken-for-granted assumptions about standard forms of…
Tactical Choreographies: Queer Pedagogies on Cancer’s Dirty Margins
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10194?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: July 8, 2026 00:00
This article engages health humanities scholarship that approaches biomedical knowledge as cultural and pedagogical, and that treats patient experience, clinician reports, medical images, and other quotidian patient and/or health-provider texts as…
Taking Advantage: Tennis, Women, Sex, and Culture Before 1968
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10205?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: June 24, 2026 00:00
Serena Williams splayed on a throne for Sports Illustrated, Ashley Harkleroad bending over on Playboy, and Anna Kournikova gazing sultrily on Penthouse, Maxim, and FHM—these are just a few examples of women tennis players showing copious amounts of…
Pedagogy Under Fire: Teaching Archaeology with WhatsApp during Sudan’s Civil War
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10190?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: June 18, 2026 00:00
This paper examines the educational experience in Sudan from 2023 until the present. In 2023, with the outbreak of the civil war, the Sudanese universities completely ceased operations. Since late 2025, there has been highly limited in-person teaching when…
Beyond Farming: How the World’s Largest Poverty-Alleviation Program is Reshaping Rural Livelihoods in Assam, India
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10199?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: June 17, 2026 00:00
Livelihood diversification is widely viewed as a key pathway for enhancing rural resilience in contexts marked by environmental stress and agrarian uncertainty. This paper examines whether India’s National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), the world’s…
Introduction to Health Humanities
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10182?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: June 15, 2026 00:00
It is a pleasure to introduce this roundtable‚ based on papers from the International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science held at the University of Birmingham in 2024 under the auspices of “Health Humanities,” a variant term for Medical…
Paternalistic Carelessness and the Making of the “Sacrificial Mother”: Disability, Gender, and Care in Kerala’s Endosulfan Episode
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10186?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: June 9, 2026 00:00
This paper draws on feminist disability scholarship on care to examine the figure of a sacrificial mother located within the moral unit of family, which is identified as central to the public discourse of disability around the Kasargod-endosulfan episode.…
Asymmetric Co-Curation: Making Natural History Museums in India and China
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10200?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: June 8, 2026 00:00
Museums often speak with a single, confident voice, but this authority was built by many hands. In this article, I show how natural history museums in India and China relied on wide networks of collectors, hunters, taxidermists, and local intermediaries to…
Correcting the Record on Gaza: Genocide, Headlines, and the “Rules-Based Order”
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10177?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss
Published: June 4, 2026 00:00
This essay examines media bias, U.S. foreign policy, and the selective application of international law in the context of the Gaza Genocide. The author argues that Western governments and mainstream media outlets have consistently misrepresented Israel’s…