Neha Vora on her book, Teach for Arabia
Interview by Patrick Lewis https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27908 Patrick Lewis: When I first came across the title of your book, two things came to mind: Betty Anderson’s (2011) histor…
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Rachel Plotnick on her book, Power Button
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/power-button Kevin Laddapong: In Power Button, you bring readers back to the early days of buttons and encourage readers to think…
Kregg Hetherington discusses Government of Beans
Interview by Indivar Jonnalagadda https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-government-of-beans Indivar Jonnalagadda: What inspired the book’s central idea of ‘agribiopolitics’, which enco…
Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako on Fabricating Transnational Capitalism
Interview by Janet Connor https://www.dukeupress.edu/fabricating-transnational-capitalism Janet Conner: Why is fashion so good for thinking about capitalism? Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagi…
Philip Seargeant on his new book The Emoji Revolution
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/emoji-revolution-how-technology-shaping-future-communication Kevin Laddapo…
Amy Garey takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation ends with a quote from a 2019 comedy festival, “KVN is, KVN lives, KVN will continue to live!” It sums up one of…
Mattias van Ommen takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation contains a theoretical discussion on fantasy, situated in arguably the least ethnographic of chapters. The dissertation itself is about Japanese players of the…
Lauren Crossland-Marr takes the page 99 test
Re-reading page 99 of my dissertation, I’m snapped back to the mosque in Milan, Italy that I came to know so well. Where public school children convened to…
Ali Feser takes the page 99 test
On page 99, I get to the Kodak. The fixed focus, single aperture lens camera was patented 1888, and it sold for the not insignificant price of twenty-five…
Kristin Hickman takes the page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, Révolution Dārija? Imagining Vernacular Futures in Morocco, the reader finds themself in a Casablanca dubbing studio alongside a sound engineer and a…
Discussing Phone and Spear
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/phone-spear An edited excerpt from an ongoing conversation between Jennifer Deger and Zeynep Devrim Gürsel Zeynep Devrim Gürsel: How has twenty five years of …
Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation, Reification, Resistance, and Transformation? The Impact of Migration and Demographics on Linguistic, Racial, and Ethnic Identity and Equity in Educational Systems: An Appl…
Matt Tomlinson on his book, God is Samoan
God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific Interview by Jon Bialecki Jon Bialecki: I want to start this interview by saying that God Is…
Gabriella Lukacs on her book, Invisibility by Design
Interview by I-Lin Liu https://www.dukeupress.edu/invisibility-by-design I-Lin Liu: Could you share with us what prompted you to take on this research on Japanese women’s participation in d…
Pamela Klassen on her book, The Story of Radio Mind
Interview by Georgia Ennis https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo28179073.html Georgia Ennis: At the center of your account are the travels and work of missionary Frederick Du Vernet,…
Christina Davis on her book, The Struggle for a Multilingual Future
Interview by Gaya Morris https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-struggle-for-a-multilingual-future-9780190947477 Gaya Morris: Can you tell us a bit about what led you to this project? How did yo…
Sarah Besky on her book, Tasting Qualities
Interview by Shulan Sun https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303256/tasting-qualities What do you see as the main focus and argument of this book? My main aim in the book is to develop a…
Tom Boylston on his book, The Stranger at the Feast
Interview by Jon Bialecki https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520296497/the-stranger-at-the-feast Jon Bialecki: The Stranger at the Feast stands out for numerous reasons. First, it reads like one of tho…
Richard Irvine on his book, Deep Time
Interview by Jon Bialecki https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/an-anthropology-of-deep-time/D5B5D1825BF9D440246A17118E17080E Jon Bialecki: There is a lot to this book. It contains reflections on the …
Ruben Enrique Campos III takes the page 99 test
Destiny again. It had to be El Legendario Bombay. It had to be page 99. Upon entering, I immediately saw why the place was called legendary. It oozed…
Amy Binning takes the Page 99 test
Just clinging to the end of page 99 in my dissertation is a tentative question: “but should it really be that the presence of a model, even a…
Steve Black on his book, Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health
Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/speech-and-song-at-the-margins-of-global-health/9780813597713 Yeon-Ju Bae: How did you become interested in the South African gospel ch…
Hanwool Choe takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is about instant messages among Korean family(-in-law) members. I particularly focus on how families make strategic use of everyday photo-/video-sharing to construct and perform their …
Lindsey Pullam takes the page 99 test
The 99th page of my dissertation goes into substantial detail about why military cemeteries exist for Israeli Druze IDF soldiers (when no such cemeteries exist for Druze civilians).…