I talked about an essay based on part of my dissertation here!

Carolyn Steedman, 'Who reads Renan' 🔓 On Virginia Woolf as a historian and reading of Ernst Renan's Life of Jesus journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Galen Watts and Dick Houtman, 'The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism' 🔓 "Romanticism continues to serve, at the level of implicit culture, as a potent resource for social analysis." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Beverley Butler, 'On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care' 🔓 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

New: The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin reviewed by Gavin Miller "a fascinating account of the origins of contemporary creativity discourse that is sure to inspire further research in this area" histhum.com/__cultofcreati…

'Outrageous Reason... enjoins a revaluation of conceptions of pathology and dysfunction, as well as the hegemony of whiteness that upholds them.' Michael Romyn reviews Peter Barham's Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020 histhum.com/review-outrage…

Apply for History of the Human Sciences' Early Career Prize! Winning essays will be published in the journal and winners receive £250. Deadline 28 March 2025 📚📖 More details here: histhum.com/early-career-p…

History of the Human Sciences is now on Bl-esky - please follow us there! @histhum.bsky.social

History of the Human Sciences is thrilled to announce the details of its annual prize for early career scholars! This prize celebrates outstanding contributions to the field and offers a unique opportunity for early career scholars. Deadline: March 28, 2025 Learn more: ow.ly/ZGRP50UlWS5

my article in History of the Human Sciences about treating ‘the vulnerable’ in prison via personality disorder - and the (dodgy) effects of this process with althusser for good measure etc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

"The feeling that citizens are no longer bound by collective projects, and in hard times, by a collective fate, is perhaps the biggest cultural sickness of all." Katie Joice reviews Danny Dorling's Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation histhum.com/review-seven-c…