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Development and Indigenous Ecopolitics in Post-Genocide Guatemala
(SAGE Publications, 2023)How do Indigenous and peasant political paradigms interact? This essay examines the relationship between Indigenous-ontopolitical critiques of development and peasant-oriented demands for alternative development in the ... -
Politicizing Water: Rescaling Resistance to Extractive Development in Guatemala
(Elsevier, 2023-02-22)Many Indigenous and peasant movements denounce the expansion of extractive development as a threat to their lives, livelihoods, and territories that reinforces legacies of colonization and armed conflict. Grassroots ... -
Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines
(Duke University Press, 2022-05)In Monetary Authorities, Allan E. S. Lumba explores how the United States used monetary policy and banking systems to justify racial and class hierarchies, enforce capitalist exploitation, and counter movements for ... -
Resisting the Trauma Story: Ethical Concerns in the Oral History Archive
(Living Refugee Archive, University of East London, 2020)This short article presents an oral history project undertaken with refugees resettled in Southwest Virginia. From this project has emerged an understanding of refugees as curators of a personal archive of stories. A ... -
Virginia Tech, Land-Grant University, 1872–1997: History of a School, a State, a Nation
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2021-12)The first edition of this book was published in 1997, at the time of Virginia Tech’s 125th anniversary. Wallenstein, a professor of history at Virginia Tech, situates the story of Virginia Tech firmly in the context of ... -
Historical Gaps and Non-existent Sources: The Case of the Chaudrie Court in French India
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-10-01)This article develops a typology of historical and archival gaps - physical, historiographical, and epistemological - to consider how non-existent sources are central to understanding colonial law and governance. It does ... -
Commemoration, Controversy, and Campus Buildings: A Case Study—Virginia Tech, 1997-2020
(2021-01-14)Part historical reconstruction and part memoir by a participant observer, this article reveals the path that led, between 1997 and 2020, to three changes in names of campus residence halls at Virginia Tech. Major spurs to ... -
A Hard Job to Quit: Camaraderie, Crabbing, and Change on the Chesapeake Bay
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Labor, Landscape, and Four Virginia Watermen
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How did we get here: what are droplets and aerosols and how far do they go? A historical perspective on the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases
(Royal Society, 2021-10-12)The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major gaps in our understanding of the transmission of viruses through the air. These gaps slowed recognition of airborne transmission of the disease, contributed to muddled public health ... -
Read-Agree-Predict: A Crowdsourced Approach to Discovering Relevant Primary Sources for Historians
(Human Computation Institute, 2019)Historians spend significant time looking for relevant, high-quality primary sources in digitized archives and through web searches. One reason this task is time-consuming is that historians’ research interests are often ... -
The Deutschland Series: Cold War Nostalgia for Transnational Audiences
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-06-01)How do you explain the Cold War to a generation who did not live through it? For Jörg and Anna Winger, co-creators and showrunners of the Deutschland series, you bring it to life on television. Part pop culture reference, ... -
Cold War Theaters: Cosmonaut Titov at the Berlin Wall
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Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
(2020-12)The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a "sociotechnical" perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are ... -
Invisible Inequalities: Persistent Health Threats in the Urban Built Environment
(Brepols, 2020-12)A city’s materiality creates health and illness. We both write about air - its movement and its temperature - as it affects human bodies. We offer two topics as case studies, heat and ventilation, and how they exacerbate ... -
From postcard to book cover: illustrating connections between medical history and digital humanities
(2019-10)This article illustrates the value and impact of collaboration among scholars, archivists, and librarians working across universities and government institutions, and how changes in medium-from a born-physical photograph ... -
Night Matters—Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” Is Needed
(MDPI, 2020-01-10)The night has historically been neglected in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. To some extent, this is not surprising, given the diurnal bias of human researchers and the difficulty of performing work at ... -
La Grippe or Russian Influenza: Mortality Statistics During the 1890 Epidemic in Indiana
(Wiley, 2019-02-12)Background The Russian influenza, which began in late 1889, has long been recognized as a major global epidemic yet available statistical evidence for morbidity and mortality has not been fully examined using historical ... -
The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive
(National Endowment for the Humanities, 2018-07-31)With funding provided by an NEH Foundation HCRR grant, PW-253776, our team finished the first phase of The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive. The goal of this project is to create a free, public website to ...
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