Funded publications
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Ways of Seeking
(2024)
In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a “poetics of investigation,” she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats ...
Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran
(2023)
Originally delivered in 2020 as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of kinship in the archaeological and historical record of Iran’s most ancient civilizations. D. ...
Risible
(2024)
Risible explores the forgotten history of laughter, from ancient Greece to the sitcom stages of Hollywood. Delia Casadei approaches laughter not as a phenomenon that can be accounted for by studies of humor and theories ...
5G and Beyond
(2023)
This open-access book aims to highlight the coming surge of 5G network-based applications and predicts that the centralized networks and their current capacity will be incapable of meeting the demands. The book emphasizes ...
Social Processes of Online Hate
(2025)
This book explores the social forces among and between online aggressors that affect the expression and perpetration of online hate. Its chapters illustrate how patterns of interactive social behavior reinforce, magnify, ...
Judicial Territory
(2024)
Shaina Potts traces how the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority in the economies of foreign governments promotes the interests of the American empire abroad.
The Banality of Good
(2024)
Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated goals despite well-funded campaigns by the United Nations and its member state governments.
Decentralizing Knowledges
(2025)
Decentralizing Knowledges argues that epistemic decentralizing—the diverse infrastructures and nonhegemonic practices of knowledge production—should be a main objective in studying the specific infrastructures and practices ...