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Janny HC Leung, “Language, Law, and the Limits of Digital Autonomy”
As more of our lives shift online, the question o…
Christopher Moore, “Sôphrosunê and Self-Knowledge: An Ancient Greek Virtue and the Modern Condition”
Scholars have traditionally translated the ancien…
Rachel Watson, “Evidence and Racial Discourse in Segregation-Era Literature”
When we read most novels, we assume that characte…
Ryan Emanuel, “Water in the Lumbee World: Indigenous Rights and the Transformation of Home”
Though debates about water usage and environmenta…
Molly Worthen, “From St. Paul to Populist Politics: The Evolution of Charismatic Leadership”
Charisma is a concept we typically use to refer t…
Katherine Mellen Charron, “Women, Rural Communities, and the Struggle for Black Freedom”
When mapping the struggle for Black freedom and r…
Jennifer D. Williams, “Black Women Writers and the Legacy of Segregated Urban Spaces”
Between the 1930s and the 1970s, racialized legis…
Dennis Trout, “Embedded Epigrams: Poetic Inscriptions of Ancient Rome”
After the ancient Roman Empire embraced Christian…
Angela Stuesse, “Making the Story of American Immigration Come Alive”
For the millions of undocumented immigrants livin…
Marsha Gordon, “Narrating Modern Women’s Experiences: The Complex Legacy of Ursula Parrott”
In the 1930s, the writer Ursula Parrott used her …