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Celebrate CLA! Faculty and staff recognized for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and service in 2026
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The College of Liberal Arts acknowledges the accomplishments and efforts of our outstanding faculty and staff for 2026.
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Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820-2000
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Read More: Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820-2000Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests. Thaddeus Sunseri uses the lens of forest…
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Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike
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Read More: Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon PikeIt was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and…
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“Public Opinion and Modernity in Venezuela’s Anti-Corruption Trials, 1945-1948” in the Journal of Latin American Studies vol. 51
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Read More: “Public Opinion and Modernity in Venezuela’s Anti-Corruption Trials, 1945-1948” in the Journal of Latin American Studies vol. 51This article explores the reasons why the most important anti-corruption campaign in twentieth-century Venezuela failed to win sustained support. Employing a constructivist approach to historical actors’ understandings of corruption, it analyses the debates that erupted when the Acción Democrática (Democratic Action, AD) party prosecuted 167 former officials for illicit enrichment.…
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The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period
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Read More: The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader PeriodThe Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period examines the important role of Ibn ʿAsākir, including his Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad, in the promotion of a renewed jihad ideology in twelfth-century Damascus as part of sultan Nūr al-Dīn’s agenda to revivify Sunnism and fight, under…
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“From Yao to Now: Daoism and the Imperialization of the China/Southeast Asia Borderlands” in Asian Ethnicity vol. 18
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Read More: “From Yao to Now: Daoism and the Imperialization of the China/Southeast Asia Borderlands” in Asian Ethnicity vol. 18This article investigates the adoption of Daoist ritual among the Yao peoples in South China and mainland Southeast Asia. The Song Dynasty imperial court patronized new Daoist ritual traditions that harnessed martial deities such as the Thunder Gods. Although these traditions were mostly southern in origin, it is not until…
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“Medical and Scientific Understandings of Emotion” in A Cultural History of Emotions in the Medieval Age (350-1350)
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Read More: “Medical and Scientific Understandings of Emotion” in A Cultural History of Emotions in the Medieval Age (350-1350)Between 350 CE and 1300 CE, the many changes taking place, especially the Carolingian Renaissance and the emergence of universities, had a significant impact on medical and scientific (or natural philosophical) views of emotion. One of the most important trends over these centuries was an attempt to articulate the causes…
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Colorado Powder Keg: Ski Resorts and the Environmental Movement
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Read More: Colorado Powder Keg: Ski Resorts and the Environmental MovementDownhill skiing is a vital economic engine for many communities in the Rocky Mountain states, attracting 20 million skier days per season. Colorado is by far the most popular destination, with more than two dozen major ski resorts creating a thriving industry that adds billions to the state’s coffers. But,…
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“Building an Ecclesiastical Real Estate Empire in Late Imperial China” in The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 104
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Read More: “Building an Ecclesiastical Real Estate Empire in Late Imperial China” in The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 104This article examines the French Catholic missionaries’ property acquisitions in late imperial China. It traces the historical trajectory leading up to the construction of the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Guangzhou and the purchase of real estate in the neighborhood surrounding it. It argues that while colonialism contributed greatly to the…
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“The Toiling froy and the Speculating yidene: Discourses of Female Productivization in the Soviet Shtetl,” Jewish History vol. 33
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Read More: “The Toiling froy and the Speculating yidene: Discourses of Female Productivization in the Soviet Shtetl,” Jewish History vol. 33Despite the fact that Jewish women statistically outnumbered men in the former market towns of the Soviet Union, the discourse of the “new Jew” in the 1920s and 1930s focused overwhelmingly on the Jewish male and was debated primarily by men. This article explores what the restructuring of the economic…
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The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin
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Read More: The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great BasinThe Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple use concept, a management philosophy that…