Congratulations to Ting-fu Chen, of UT Austin's Comp. Lit. grad program, for winning the Early-Career Essay Prize from the International Gothic Association! Look for his article in Gothic Studies in March 2024

Now on FirstView: Using inheritance as an instrument to diffuse property ownership? Thomas James Holland @Tom_J_Holland offers a comparative account of the concept of democratic inheritance reform across Tocqueville’s and Beaumont’s major works bit.ly/3ZYNYe5

From MIH Archives: What do we talk about when we talk about interdisciplinarity? Sarah Maza answers questions on Stephen Greenblatt's work, interdisciplinarity, and the differences between literary critical and historical practices. bit.ly/3T5ENa6

Y'all: @econroykrutz and I are co-chairing the Society for U.S. Intellectual History conference in 2024, which takes place November 14-16 in Boston. The theme is "Knowledge and Belief," so we hope for a lot of panels on religion/ideas. Please consider submitting! s-usih.org/2023/12/s-usih…

TECHNOLOGY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE: a 1-semester grad student fellowship at NYU, Deadline 15 Dec 23 as.nyu.edu/research-cente…

Now on FirstView: Racial feudalism? Keidrick Roy analyzes how Black abolitionists levied important critiques against systems of racial fealty, honor, and order in the US by associating antebellum racial hierarchies with European feudal social structures bit.ly/3PjlwPV

Have journal editors out there heard of reviewing reviews? I recently had a reviewer want me to review their review of an article submission. On Web of Science. Is this a thing? Standard in the sciences? Insights welcome.

New MIH Issue: Emma Gattey Emma Gattey examines how Makereti (1872-1930), the second Māori student to enroll at Oxford, deployed anthropological scholarship to critique British imperial discourses about Māori bit.ly/4aHhCZN

Now on FirstView: Daniel Kolland analyzes how Ottoman intellectuals remolded concepts of society, race, and history by using evolutionism in strategically Eurocentric ways as they tried to save the Ottoman Empire during the Hamidian period (1876–1908). bit.ly/4a4E65X

Please read and share widely: A letter from @ut_histdept Chair Dr. Martha G. Newman on "Historical Insights for Resolving Campus Tensions" - up now at: bit.ly/4dtdsXe. @notevenpast @liberalartsut @utaustin HistoryInstitute@UTAustin

Now on FirstView: Spontaneity and Control? Max Hancock reframes a key moment in the history of neoliberalism by delving into Friedrich Hayek’s and Stafford Beer’s ideas on “self-organization” applied to the design of economic institutions bit.ly/4dDRsZQ

Checkout this new MIH article by Clara Maier: "Legal Counterrevolution: Property and Judicial Power in the Weimar Republic": cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Red May kicks off this Thursday 5/9 at 11am PDT with Marx, Spinoza, Althusser featuring Nick Nesbitt, @Unemployedneg and Tracie Matysik buff.ly/3JQG9zO

Now on FirstView: How can an intellectual agenda opposed to fixed and totalizing reasoning end up operating with fixed and totalizing logics of its own? Anna Krylova analyzes Foucault, post-structuralism, and the fixed “openness of history” bit.ly/3yDdbRD

"Beauvoir, "French Feminisms," and "Translation Work"" by Sandrine Sanos and Judith G. Coffin digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol24/iss2…

Very cool--checkout Michael Sonenscher's new Modern Intellectual History article: "From the Hebrew Commonwealth to Party Politics: Rousseau's Legacy and the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought": cambridge.org/core/journals/…

From MIH Archives: Linda Walsh explores sculptural practice and theory in Europe from the Enlightenment through Romanticism as a site of complex debates around the medium’s potential for concrete representation bit.ly/3zQg9CP

From MIH Archives: Inquiring minds want to know? Mary O. Furner discusses the history of social investigation in the United States and Britain in her review essay of Oz Frankel’s States of Inquiry and Sarah Igo’s The Averaged American bit.ly/3WrTPa5

UT Austin is looking to hire a tenured associate or full professor in British Empire. Spread the word. Here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/151401

From MIH Archives: What does it mean to “take religion seriously”? Sarah Shortall reflects on religion and the writing of history in her review essay of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation and Brenna Moore’s Sacred Dread bit.ly/3SZWxms