Volume XVI, Fall 2023 Interview by Joe Laufer Introduction On August 26th, 2022, I sat down (virtually) with Professor Joe Manning, William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics and History & Senior Research Scholar in Law, to discuss the ongoing effort to interpret Ancient Egyptian papyri as historical...
Volume XVI, Fall 2023 By Catherine Veronis, The University of Chicago ’23 Advised by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Edited by River Sell, Andrew Maglio, Iz Klemmer, Lucy Ton That, Macy Lerner, Matthew Jennings, and Natalie Miller PDFCatherine Veronis.pdf2 MBdownload-circle...
Volume XVI, Fall 2023 By Sophie Huttner, Yale University ’23 Advised by Brendan Shanahan Edited by Hannah Szabó, Yasmine Halmane, Nikhe Braimah, Samantha Moon, Maggie Grether, and Gisela Chung-Halpern INTRODUCTION From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1924 National Quota act, American Jews had been some of the nation’...
By Allison Lau Edited by Cynthia Lin '23 and Tiana Luo Introduction By the mid 1960s, Oakland’s predominantly Black urban ghettos, like others across the nation, represented to many Black radicals the “concrete inner city jungles of Babylon”, as a metaphor to describe how the American state openly...
Hobbes and Foucault: the Mercantile State and the Ontology of Early Capitalis Pacta sunt servanda Volume V By Nicholas Rice YC '23 Edited by Judah Millen '24 Introduction This essay will seek to explain the ontology of early capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the lens...
Rights, Progress, Genocide: The Politics of Black Reproduction in Twentieth-Century America By Eliza Kravitz YC '24 Edited by Katie Painter '23, Jamie Nicholas '25, and Ted Shepherd '25 Introduction Until African American Emancipation from slavery, Black reproduction in America comprised a key economic commodity. Since the...
