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Bhan Documents Growing Critical Kashmir Studies Scholarship in New Book
This handbook, co-edited by Mona Bhan, associate professor of anthropology and Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, politicizes discourses of nationalism, patriotism, democracy, and liberalism, and it questions how these dominant globalist imaginaries and discourses serve institutionalized power, create hegemony, and normalize domination.
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Hammond Examines the Relationship Between Artistic Practice and Religious Devotion in New Study
"Conjunctions of Islam: rethinking the geographies of art and piety through the notebooks of Ahmet Süheyl Ünver," authored by Assistant Professor Timur Hammond, was published in Cultural Geographies.
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Brockway Discusses the Need for a Framework to Describe the Far-Right in NBC News Piece
"January 6, Trump and the rise of America's dangerous 'shadow gospel'," co-authored by Mark Brockway, a faculty fellow in political science, was published by NBC News.
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Thompson Reviews New Book on History of Black Catholic Nuns in Global Sisters Report
Associate Professor Margaret Susan Thompson reviewed a new book by Shannen Dee Williams titled "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" in Global Sisters Report.
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Thompson Quoted in Times Union Article on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines
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Thompson quoted in Global Sisters Report article on US sisters, racism
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Thompson discusses US-Vatican relationship in The Hill
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Thompson quoted in The Hill article on banning communion for Biden
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Thompson discusses 19th century distrust of nuns in Global Sisters Report
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Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500
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