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Rebecca Jean Emigh
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Professor of Sociology at UCLA; studying long term social change with comparative and historical methods.
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Here's a new ARS article about orality, literacy, and digitality from a comparative historical perspective. It shows how social media in the present is an outgrowth of historical forms of orality and literacy: doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Whither Digitality? The Relationship Between Orality, Literacy, and Digitality, Past and Present: From Spoken Traditions to Digital Media | Annual Reviews
Orality, literacy, and digitality are forms of knowledge and communication based on speech, reading and writing, and electronic technologies using binary formats, respectively. This article reviews fo...
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August 15, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Read about the crisis of democracy in the United States, political development, and comparative politics: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... See all the great new articles in Social Science History 48(2)! @r_lieberman @socscihist
Compared to what?: Setting American political development in comparative context | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Compared to what?: Setting American political development in comparative context - Volume 48 Issue 2
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June 10, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Read about the decline in the power of Swiss patrician families: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the paper in Social Science History 48(2)! @socscihist @benz_pierre @Drope_Araujo
The Swiss Patrician Families between Decline and Persistence: Power Positions and Kinship Ties (1890–1957) | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
The Swiss Patrician Families between Decline and Persistence: Power Positions and Kinship Ties (1890–1957) - Volume 48 Issue 2
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June 10, 2024 at 12:45 AM
This interesting article considers how the othering of the Vascones—the cultural precursors of the Basques—was manifest historically in Spain! Read this and the other great papers in Social Science History 48(2)! DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
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Power and alterity: Depictions of the Vascones from antiquity to the middle ages | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Power and alterity: Depictions of the Vascones from antiquity to the middle ages - Volume 48 Issue 2
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June 10, 2024 at 12:32 AM
The Dutch East India switched to smaller and more seaworthy vessels and gained the advantage over the Portuguese: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the other great articles in Social Science History 48(2)! @claudiarei2312 @socscihist
Turning points in leadership: Ship size in the Portuguese and Dutch merchant empires | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Turning points in leadership: Ship size in the Portuguese and Dutch merchant empires - Volume 48 Issue 2
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June 10, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Read more about the growing community of scholars combining historical comparative sociology and ethnography: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the great articles in Social Science History 48(2)! @yrlsoc, @JoshPacewicz, @nickhwilson & Matthew Mahler, @socscihist
Theorizing Subdisciplinary Exchange: Historical Sociology, Ethnography, and the Case of SSHA | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Theorizing Subdisciplinary Exchange: Historical Sociology, Ethnography, and the Case of SSHA - Volume 48 Issue 2
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June 10, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Finnish authorities failed to provide reliable guidance about avoiding disease, and it was hard to boil water in shared kitchens! Read about this and the other great articles in Social Science History (48[2]): DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... @SakariSaaritsa @socscihist
Can’t Boil, Won’t Boil: Material Inequality, Information, and Disease Avoidance during a Typhoid Epidemic in Tampere, Finland, in 1916 | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Can’t Boil, Won’t Boil: Material Inequality, Information, and Disease Avoidance during a Typhoid Epidemic in Tampere, Finland, in 1916 - Volume 48 Issue 2
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June 9, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Swope shows how “disease” was used as a racist discourse to clear alleys of Black residents in Washington DC’s mixed neighborhoods in the early 1900s: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the great papers in Social Science History 48(2)!
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The Spatial Configuration of Segregation, Elite Fears of Disease, and Housing Reform in Washington, D.C.’s Inhabited Alleys | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
The Spatial Configuration of Segregation, Elite Fears of Disease, and Housing Reform in Washington, D.C.’s Inhabited Alleys - Volume 48 Issue 2
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June 9, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Great article about how the US government controlled animal and human diseases historically: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... This article gives important historical precedents for controlling diseases! Read all the other great articles in Social Science History 48(2)!
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U.S. Animal Disease Policies and Human Health Debates | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
U.S. Animal Disease Policies and Human Health Debates - Volume 48 Issue 2
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June 9, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Learn how colonial past shape our present through reproduction, institutionalization, and historical trajectories in @jgo34 new article in Social Science History: doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
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April 13, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Did British imperial trade help Canada? @VincentGeloso
@PaulSharpEcHist and Maja Uhre Pedersen argue no! Read this, and all the great new papers in Social Science History! doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
April 11, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Great book symposium organized by Zeke Baker in Social Science History doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... on colonialism. Read this and the other great articles in the latest issue of the journal!
April 6, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Just a few more days left! Please send us your abstracts! Please repost! @socscihist
 Rebecca Jean Emigh @rjemigh.bsky.social · Mar 21
Call for papers for the 50th anniversary issue of Social Science History: ssha.org/journal/
Please send an abstract to socialsciencehistory@ssha.org by April 2! Send us your abstract!
March 30, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Are you a comparative/historical sociologist in Southern California? We are having a paper reading day on 6/21 to build camaraderie! Let me know if you would like to participate! April 1 is the deadline just to indicate interest!
March 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Please send your abstracts by April 2 as below! We want to see your work in SSH!
 Rebecca Jean Emigh @rjemigh.bsky.social · Mar 21
Call for papers for the 50th anniversary issue of Social Science History: ssha.org/journal/
Please send an abstract to socialsciencehistory@ssha.org by April 2! Send us your abstract!
March 27, 2024 at 5:14 PM
In this terrific paper, Pablo Ortiz Barquero, Manuel Tomás González-Fernández, and Antonia María Ruiz Jiménez show that party institutionalization leads to electoral sustainabilty: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read all the other articles too in the issue!
March 27, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Come to the CANUCLA meeting tomorrow 3/22 at 3 and help stop climate change: actionnetwork.org/events/canuc...
March 22, 2024 at 4:12 AM
Please sign the petition asking the UCs to decarbonize sooner: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fo...
March 22, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Call for papers for the 50th anniversary issue of Social Science History: ssha.org/journal/
Please send an abstract to socialsciencehistory@ssha.org by April 2! Send us your abstract!
March 21, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Final call for critical studies papers for the SSHA Oct./Nov. conference. Deadline: Friday, 3/22/2024! Upload your panels and papers at: ssha2024.ssha.org
Critical Studies is last because are new!
We also need chairs and discussants, so please let me know if you can be one!
March 21, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Read this great paper explaining how we got leisure time: doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
Read this and all the new papers in Social Science History! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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March 21, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Great new paper in Social Science History on labor activism in China, showing how movements take advantage of "gaps" in authoritarian government to organize. doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the new great articles in the latest issue of SSH!
March 21, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Read this great paper about how landlords defaulted more often than homeowners: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Check out the other great papers in SSH in the new issue! cambridge.org/core/journal...
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March 21, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Great new paper in Social Science History on labor activism in China, showing how movements take advantage of "gaps" in authoritarian government to organize. doi.org/10.1017/ssh.... Read this and all the new great articles in the latest issue of SSH!
March 14, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Yes, that would be great!
karengregory.bsky.social Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Mar 6
Oh, cool. We should have a chat across networks!
March 7, 2024 at 12:57 AM