http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucidepartmentofhistory_oapdeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Open Access Policy Deposits Thu, 14 May 2026 21:03:29 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3d96m5j1 The article first contextualizes the European Balcony Project (EBP), a manifesto written by authors Ulrike Guérot, Robert Menasse, and theatre director Milo Rau who subsequently put it up for discussion in various public fora. On 10 November 2018, artists and citizens performed the manifesto and proclaimed the European Republic from (theatre) balconies and public places in 25 European countries. They encouraged a dialogue that sought to promote a more diverse public sphere. In my reading, the EBP emerges as a contemporary version of Oskar Negt’s and Alexander Kluge’s public counter sphere, as a real and imaginary community in which political participation is enacted through the medium of talk in an arena of discursive interaction and democratic practice. By reading the texts in the context of a political avantgarde project, I show how the interventions aim to set a counterpoint to the resurgence of nationalism and promote a vision of a democratic continent based in shared values.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3d96m5j1 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Biendarra, Anke S https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z395495 From the late eighteenth century through most of the nineteenth, Buenos Aires and Montevideo were hosts to a joint theatrical circuit characterized by the regular comings and goings of impresarios, artisans, musicians, and actors between the two cities. The military conflicts that shaped this period actually encouraged these connections, as they stimulated both exile and repatriation between one locale and the other. Africans, and particularly their Rioplatense descendants, were an integral part of popular entertainment circuits in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Some of the first Argentinean historians of theater and music, among them Vicente Gesualdo and Teodoro Klein, were aware of this connection and included in their initial scholarship links that connect the history of free and enslaved Afro-descendants to the early theater of Río de la Plata. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z395495 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qb5f311 Abolicionismo y tráfico de esclavos en Montevideo tras la fundación republicana, 1829-1853 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qb5f311 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9jj0t4h6 Tensiones raciales en el juego de la representación. Actores afro en Montevideo tras la fundación republicana (1830-1840) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9jj0t4h6 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f07z0d7 Examining the history of Africans and their descendants from colonial times to the end of the nineteenth century in Uruguay requires transnational lenses to chart the coerced and free migrations that shaped the building of the Black communities of this country. This chapter provides a timeline of the ways in which Africans and their descendants arrived and departed from colonial and nineteenth century Uruguay. Beyond the traffic of captives, this chapter examines how larger political events and individual decisions led Africans and their descendants in the move across the Río de la Plata, and more broadly, the South Atlantic littoral connecting this region with Brazil. This chapter also decenters the history of Africans and their descendants from Montevideo, given the significance of Colonia del Sacramento for the first permanent Black populations in the territory of what became Uruguay. Following this same goal, this chapter examines the eastern and northeastern countryside,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f07z0d7 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rs3x6bn The ‘African Colonists’ of Montevideo. New Light on the Illegal Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro and the Río de la Plata (1830-1842) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rs3x6bn Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8h66425w Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8h66425w Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, Alex Eltis, David Wheat, David https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xj9q0wn The U.S. slave ship Ascension in the Río de la Plata: slave routes and circuits of silver in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic and beyond https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xj9q0wn Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5621s1qc The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented expansion of knowledge about the transatlantic slave trade, both through research on specific sections of this traffic and through the consolidation of datasets into a single online resource: Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (hereafter Voyages Database ). This collective project has elucidated in great detail the slave trading routes across the Atlantic and the broad African origins of captives, at least from their ports of embarkation. However, this multi-source database tells us little about the slave trading routes within the Americas, as slaves were shipped through various ports of disembarkation, sometimes by crossing imperial borders in the New World. This gap complicates our understanding of the slave trade to Spanish America, which depended on foreign slavers to acquire captives through a rigid system of contracts ( ... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5621s1qc Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f06s936 The Slave Trade to the Río de la Plata. Trans-imperial Networks and Atlantic Warfare, 1777-1812 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f06s936 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41j2z7p9 Uruguay, Historia y Afrodescendientes: apuntes tras una larga invisibilidad https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41j2z7p9 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pt5f9zh When writing on the lives of Africans and their descendants, the scholarship of colonial and revolutionary Río de la Plata has focused mainly on manumission and freedom, slave labor in the city and the countryside, gender, culture, and military participation. Few works examine the African experiences in the slave trade routes leading to Buenos Aires and Montevideo. This chapter examines how the transatlantic trade to the Río de la Plata, and its continuation toward Lima, shaped the captives’ experiences. This chapter also offers a brief examination of rebellions in slave vessels, given that the historiography of slavery in the Río de la Plata rarely surveys these instances. Different patterns of the traffic should not obscure that violence determined the everyday life of the enslaved. Violence expressed by death, disease, and starvation shaped the experiences of those who endured the itineraries from inland regions to the African littoral, and from there to the Río de la Plata... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pt5f9zh Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36c5d487 Abstract Between 1808 and 1862, officers primarily from the British navy liberated approximately 175,000 enslaved Africans from transatlantic slavers. Information on more than half of this group has survived in bound ledger books. Based on the assessment of extant data for more than 92,000 Liberated Africans whose information was copied in at times duplicate and triplicate form in both London- and Freetown-based registers, this essay explores the pitfalls and possibilities associated with using the Registers for Liberated Africans as sources for historical analysis of the slave trade. The article explains the relationship of multiple copies of the registers to each other, demonstrates the link between the African names they contain and ethnolinguistic identities, argues for crowd-sourcing – drawing on the knowledge of the diasporic public and not just scholars – and, finally, shows the importance of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36c5d487 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Anderson, Richard Borucki, Alex da Silva, Daniel Domingues Eltis, David Lachance, Paul Misevich, Philip Ojo, Olatunji https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2jp211nh Abstract The experience of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic crossing redefined the meanings of the nomenclature emerging from the slave trade. Under violent conditions, captives developed networks with shipmates on board slave vessels. These ties survived for decades if shipmates stayed together in the same region, as they did in Montevideo. Shipmate ties represented a living connection for Africans not only with their experience in the Atlantic crossing but also with their homelands. Shipmates provided support to their fellows when they needed trusted associates, as the marriage files of Montevideo clearly demonstrate. Enslaved Africans commonly asked fellow shipmates to testify about their past when marrying into the Catholic Church. Marriage files contain data on the routes Africans took across the Atlantic and the Americas. They indicate the origins of the groom, bride, and witnesses, their shared itineraries, and how these itineraries changed over time.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2jp211nh Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24v229kj Abstract: Scholars intent on considering the American Revolution's relationship to and influence on systems of slavery must be sure to look outside of the United States. In mid-September 1783, the schooner Eagle , captained by David Miller, landed 104 enslaved Africans in Charleston. This is the first known U.S.-flagged transatlantic slave voyage arriving in the United States after independence. Before bringing these captives from Africa, Miller had conducted a previous voyage on the Eagle , which landed fifty other captives in Havana in May 1783. The latter group of enslaved men, women, and children, whom Miller brought from the Danish colony of Saint Thomas in the eastern Caribbean, were some of the nearly 14,500 captives we have found who were shipped to Havana, mainly from other Caribbean ports, by merchants based in Cuba, the Danish West Indies, and the United States from 1781 to 1785. Examining the actions of U.S. slave traders in Cuba during the American Revolution also... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24v229kj Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, Alex Postigo, José Luis Belmonte https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20k7r3xs Esclavitud y trabajo. Un estudio sobre los afrodescendientes en la frontera uruguaya, 1835-1855 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20k7r3xs Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, A Chagas, K Stalla, N https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1g1665h8 Rethinking the African Diaspora in the Americas urges scholars to look beyond where Africans came from and where they first disembarked in order to integrate the transimperial dimension. Social networks connecting black communities throughout the Americas constituted an additional feature of the black experience that shaped the political, social, economic, and cultural features of African diasporic communities and the larger societies in which these groups found themselves. Evidence regarding the slaves and freedmen that traveled across the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in South America best illustrates the significance of transimperial networks for local black communities. This article reveals that these transimperial social ties proved essential for black communities in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. This contributes to discussions of “entangled empires” by showing how free and enslaved Africans and their descendants were immersed in transimperial social networks, which to a... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1g1665h8 Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Borucki, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3w43k4hp A response to EA-4/23 INF:2025 “The Assessment and Accreditation of Opinions and Interpretations using ISO/IEC 17025:2017” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3w43k4hp Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart Biedermann, Alex Tart, Matt Meuwly, Didier Berger, Charles EH Guiness, June Houck, Max M Gibb, Caroline Dawid, A Philip Kotsoglou, Kyriakos N Kaye, David H Rose, Phil Taroni, Franco Kokshoorn, Bas Saks, Michael J Buckleton, John S Curran, James M Taylor, Duncan Zhang, Cuiling Vuille, Joëlle Champod, Christophe Simonsen, Bo Thisted Mattei, Aldo Lucena-Molina, José Juan Zabell, Sandy Chin, Jason M Gallidabino, Matteo Wevers, Gerhard Moreton, Reuben Eldridge, Heidi Martire, Kristy A Aitken, Colin GG Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 González-Rodríguez, Joaquín Smithuis, Michel Edvardsen, Trine Wilson-Wilde, Linzi Zadora, Grzegorz Gittelson, Simone Jackson, Graham Sjerps, Marjan Brard, Frédéric Hicks, Tacha Kennedy, Jarrah Latten, Bartholomeus GH Weber, Philip Willis, Sheila Ramos, Daniel Koehler, Jonathan J Ribeiro, Rafael Oliveira Crispino, Frank Basu, Nabanita Meakin, Georgina E Kirkbride, K Paul Tully, Gillian Jessen, Michael Court, Denise Syndercombe https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9h3306jg Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911–2011 by Rachel S. Core (review) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9h3306jg Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Baum, Emily https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dd255mz This article investigates why statistical reasoning has had little impact on the practice of friction ridge (or 'fingerprint') examination, despite both interest and some modest scientific progress toward this goal. Previous research has attributed this lack of results to practitioner resistance and legal apathy. This article seeks to complement those explanations through interviews with experts with a variety of perspectives on contemporary fingerprint practice about practical and mundane obstacles to the belated statistical revolution in fingerprinting. Based on these interviews, we argue that a 'forensic device' is required to incorporate statistical reasoning into fingerprint practice. This device would consist of a robust statistical model fronted by accessible, usable software. These components, in turn, require other components, such as large research data sets, markets, early adopters, government clients, education, and training. We conclude that the statistical revolution... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dd255mz Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Sola, Justin L https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57c0p202 Abstract: In “Disquisition on Government,” John C. Calhoun divided citizens into “tax-payers” and “tax-consumers,” foreshadowing the connection that would be made between taxation and citizenship rights in twentieth-century education policy and law. Recent scholarship has explored that relationship, analyzing the language of legal cases to demonstrate that court cases reflect citizens’ perceptions of economic stakes and related education rights. Northern foundations that focused on southern education reform during Jim Crow understood the importance of taxpayer perception to education reform and recognized that it was not a byproduct of tax policy but something that might be shaped by it. Foundations influenced education and taxation policies in North Carolina. Although they failed to address inequality and problems of the racial state, their work provides a useful framework for considering the role of both early twentieth-century foundations in education reform and, more generally,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57c0p202 Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 MALCZEWSKI, JOAN https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2v34217w The Board of Trustees of the Negro Rural School Fund convened in the office of the president of the United States on December 14, 1911. The mission of the fund was to assist Southern black schools, supplying black supervising teachers to rural areas.1President William Howard Taft presided over the meeting, which included members from banking, industry, philanthropy, higher education, and the clergy, demonstrating the importance of associated action in policy and political development in the early twentieth century.2These elite reformers hoped to guide policymaking in education reform, and their work was just one part of a far-reaching agenda for education in the Jim Crow South, based on the premise that public schooling was important to a strong national state.3Yet, it was difficult for elite actors to implement national policy goals in state and local areas, particularly for education. Local control was an important characteristic of American schooling, and Southern education... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2v34217w Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Malczewski, Joan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pk3k1m5 Abstract: The expansion of schooling in the early 20th Century required the modernization of state governments at the subnational level and related fiscal policy reform. Organized educators in California and Washington promoted legislation in 1920 that would increase each state’s support for schooling. In spite of similar fiscal policy goals and a shared commitment to the support of public schooling in both states, the legislation passed in California and failed in Washington. This comparative analysis of fiscal policy reform in the two states demonstrates the relationship between education fiscal policy and state formation, between tax policy and social change, the role of states as subnational sites for fiscal policy experimentation in the early twentieth century, and the role of policy feedback in fiscal policy reform. A close study of factors contributing to the divergent legislative outcomes illuminates underlying relationships between fiscal policy and associative action... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pk3k1m5 Wed, 7 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Malczewski, Joan Beadie, Nancy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hb7q9m3 Interchange: Women's Suffrage, the Nineteenth Amendment, and the Right to Vote https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hb7q9m3 Mon, 7 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 DuBois, Ellen Carol Gidlow, Liette Jones, Martha S Marino, Katherine M Rupp, Leila J Tetrault, Lisa Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hd25620 Domestic Space, Intimate Surprises: The Bonds and Bondage of Enslaved, Khoisan, and Settler Women in the 1825 Koue Bokkeveld Revolt https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hd25620 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Mitchell, Laura J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1z0959kc Abstract: In early 1799 French authorities issued orders to identify and register Ottoman Muslims within the territory of the Republic, followed by orders to arrest Algerian subjects and sequester their property. The immediate context of the policing operation was France's unprovoked July 1798 invasion of Egypt, leading to the Ottoman declaration of war in September. But the aims of this botched and almost entirely fruitless operation are harder to discern. Presented as a way of ensuring the safety of French subjects who had been detained in Istanbul and Algiers, it only exacerbated tensions. It was less a proportionate diplomatic action than a Machiavellian tactic by the foreign minister, Talleyrand. In the interests of ending the Revolution in France, Talleyrand sought to aggravate the war and drive the Ottoman Empire into the arms of the anti-French coalition. The new anti-Muslim rhetoric that emerged in this process outlasted Talleyrand's ministry and contributed... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1z0959kc Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Coller, Ian https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70q8371z Davis v. Mississippi (1969) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70q8371z Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, SA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cz455rk Davis v. Mississippi, 394 U.S. 721 (1969) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cz455rk Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, SA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6n98m0rp : A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6n98m0rp Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Baum, Emily https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vf6524g The Contribution of Forensic and Expert Evidence to DNA Exoneration Cases: An Interim Report https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vf6524g Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Registry of Exonerations, National Meterko, Vanessa Chu, Sarah Cooper, Glinda Weinstock Paredes, Jessica Possley, Maurice Otterbourg, Ken https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n5332vg This article offers a preliminary analysis of psychiatric treatment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the basis of interviews and rare case records obtained from 'F Hospital' in southern China. In contrast to the prevailing view of psychiatry during this time, which highlights either rampant patient abuse or revolutionary ideology, we show that psychiatric treatment at this facility was not radically altered by the politics of the Maoist period. Instead, treatments were informed by a predominantly biomedical understanding of mental illness, one that derived from the prior training of the facility's lead physicians. Although political education was nominally incorporated into patient rehabilitation and outpatient care, it was not a constitutive element of inpatient treatment during the acute phase of illness. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n5332vg Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Baum, Emily Lin, Zhuyun https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fr7r7fz Microscopic Hair Comparison and Convicting the Innocent https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fr7r7fz Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Registry of Exonerations, National Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Weinstock Paredes, Jessica Possley, Maurice Otterbourg, Ken https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26n8x5r5 Police Misconduct in Exoneration Cases in Los Angeles County https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26n8x5r5 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Registry of Exonerations, National Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Sandoval, Juan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r30f4kn This article explores a debate that emerged within the Chinese medical community in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The debate, which centered on the respective roles played by the heart and brain in functions related to thinking, movement, and the onset of psychiatric disorders, concluded that neuropsychiatry’s overriding emphasis on the brain was shortsighted. Instead, participants resolved that the brain and heart, alongside other organs and systems, were inextricably entwined, with many thought processes being governed by the heart. Although the discussion only lasted a few years, the insights it generated offer valuable theoretical contributions to contemporary conceptualizations of the mind/body duality. By highlighting alternative ways of understanding “mental” malfunction – theories that go beyond a narrow focus on the brain itself – Chinese medicine might provide a model for rethinking the relationships among the brain, the body, and different organs, systems, and physiological... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r30f4kn Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Baum, Emily https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xj6b537 The West Virginia University (WVU) Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system was built between 1971 and 1975 in Morgantown, West Virginia to be a prototype transportation system of the future. Envisioned as a hybrid of public and automotive transportation, the fully automated cars deliver passengers directly to their destinations without stopping at intervening stations. The PRT concept may be familiar to STS scholars through Latour's study of Aramis, a PRT in Paris that was never completed. This article recounts a history with the opposite ending: the successful realization of a PRT in West Virginia. Our account supplements existing ones, which explain the construction of the WVUPRT primarily as the product of geography and politics. While not denying these factors, we carve out an explanatory role for another influence: a public narrative about the dangers of hitchhiking and crimes that might ensue from that practice. In weaving together that narrative with the history of the WVUPRT,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xj6b537 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Bertenthal, Alyse https://escholarship.org/uc/item/845469xw Abstract: In 1923, Los Angeles teachers protested the state’s biennial budget, a controversial document from newly elected governor Friend Richardson that significantly cut funding to government agencies. The budget was the culmination of more than a decade of fiscal policy reform that reflected a significant shift in anti-tax sentiment. The expansion of state governance in the early twentieth century required the development of fiscal policies to meet the needs of the modern state, and public debates about taxation reflected deep ideological differences about the structure and scope of government and implicated public schooling. This analysis demonstrates two features of fiscal policy reform in California. First, tax reform shaped and was shaped by the political context, demonstrating the dynamic relationship between fiscal policy and state formation. Second, debates about tax reform were ultimately about the scope of government. Anti-tax campaigns that sought a more limited... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/845469xw Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Malczewski, Joan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gf526wn Architectural Cultures and Empire: The Ghurids in Northern India (ca. 1192-1210) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gf526wn Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Patel, Alka https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bk183pd The article offers the author’s insights on the knowledge and understanding of the baby-boomer generation of youth and their attitudes toward the freedom of speech. The author mentions an efficient way to study freedom of speech through the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the civil-rights movement. It discusses the social aspects of ther freedom of‘speech. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bk183pd Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Chemerinsky, Erwin Gillman, Howard https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9183635r The three responses to “Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse” raise significant questions for studying such discourse but with significant similarities and differences. Hernán Vidal and Walter Mignolo embark on commentaries that endeavor in part to define a new position of engagement for intellectuals, while Rolena Adorno retains traditional academic distance. Yet all three responses provide colonial and postcolonial discourse with a historic trajectory. Showing that a trend has roots in the past, even if accounts of those roots differ, is a grudging way of acknowledging its legitimacy in the present. Although such a process is an interesting phenomenon of academic life, in this instance it leaves me, a historian by training, in the unusual position... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9183635r Wed, 4 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Seed, Patricia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5f34q6mw I became interested in Subaltern Studies in the late 1980s, not long after the volumes began to appear, and began lobbying our university library to purchase them in 1987. The task turned out to be an immense hassle, because even though the volumes were being produced under the Oxford University Press imprint, they were assembled and printed in Delhi. At the time, Oxford University Press (New York) had less than perfect connections with their Delhi office. Eight months was the time it would take to order a Subaltern Studies volume from Delhi, and at that speed they had to be sending the books by elephant to Bombay, and then by dhow to Aden, and possibly by trireme to Gibraltar, and by glass bottle to New York via the Florida Gulf Stream. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5f34q6mw Wed, 4 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Seed, Patricia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69q4c7sr THE SCIENCE OF IDENTITY https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69q4c7sr Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pf7k1cm How Can a Forensic Result Be a ‘Decision’? A Critical Analysis of Ongoing Reforms of Forensic Reporting Formats for Federal Examiners https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pf7k1cm Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Biedermann, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hb4x4zd A Tale of Two Cities? Locating the History of Forensic Science and Medicine in Contemporary Forensic Reform Discourse AFTERWORD https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hb4x4zd Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mk856wc Over the past decade, with increasing scientific scrutiny on forensic reporting practices, there have been several efforts to introduce statistical thinking and probabilistic reasoning into forensic practice. These efforts have been met with mixed reactions - a common one being scepticism, or downright hostility, towards this objective. For probabilistic reasoning to be adopted in forensic practice, more than statistical knowledge will be necessary. Social scientific knowledge will be critical to effectively understand the sources of concern and barriers to implementation. This study reports the findings of a survey of forensic fingerprint examiners about reporting practices across the discipline and practitioners' attitudes and characterizations of probabilistic reporting. Overall, despite its adoption by a small number of practitioners, community-wide adoption of probabilistic reporting in the friction ridge discipline faces challenges. We found that almost no respondents currently... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mk856wc Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Swofford, H Cole, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 King, V https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kt2g20z Splitting Hairs? Evaluating 'Split Testimony' as an Approach to the Problem of Forensic Expert Evidence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kt2g20z Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d95c078 Llamas, Snakes, and Indigenous Colonial Equivalency in the Andes https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d95c078 Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 O'Toole, Rachel Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qf2s5fv Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qf2s5fv Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 O'Toole, Rachel Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xv8d8gk Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico . By Tanalís Padilla https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xv8d8gk Wed, 5 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Aguilar, Kevan Antonio https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5n20z8n2 What Is the Relationship between Higher Education and Neoliberalism in the United States? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5n20z8n2 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Griffey, Trevor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22x3946z Debate over the relationship(s) between science, religion, magic, and pseudo-science festers in many contexts. These terms and the world-ordering practices they represent are locked in a struggle that is persistent, highly charged, non-innocent, and almost timeless. Historically, contextually specific definitions of these terms have been used to persecute individuals, justify colonization, order social relations, and monopolize funding. Intellectually the resolution of their relationship lies at the foundation of the \Vestern pursuit of knowledge. While certain historical periods and contexts have been marked by an apparent resolution of these terms and their relationships, current work in anthropology and history of science has unsettled some contemporary understandings of these terms within the academic context. Bruno Latour has suggested that science is merely a smoke screen hiding the proliferation of nature-culture hybrids so their production may continue without limit.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22x3946z Wed, 8 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Mcloughlin, Nancy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02r4v22j This study explores the historiographical significance of the influential medieval misogynist Jean Gerson’s personification of the all-male University of Paris as a female figure called the daughter of the king. Gerson’s voluntary assumption of a female identity for this seemingly powerful institution reveals the gendered nature of the university’s political and epistemological position in relation to the French royal court, suggesting that the university found itself in competition for the king’s protection and attention with the king’s most powerful female relations: Queen Isabeau, Duchess Valentina Visconti, and Princess Isabelle of France. Gerson’s famous misogynist polemics may be at least in part explained by the fact that he sought to win this competition by characterizing his competitors as the embodiments of deadly sin for the purpose of solidifying the university’s claim to speak with the voice of wisdom and prudent counsel. More significantly, the fact that he took... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02r4v22j Thu, 2 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Mcloughlin, NA https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kx5g0qt Jean Gerson enjoyed a long and successful career as a preacher whose audiences included the French court, the University of Paris, the Council of Constance, the people of Paris and Bruges, religious orders and those who sought his spiritual advice. Prominent mem­bers of French society praised his eloquence, while the complexity and historical importance of his surviving sermons, confessional man­uals and spiritual treatises have encouraged modem scholars to explore Gerson's motivations and goals as a preacher. Although modern evaluations of Gerson's identity as a preacher remain conflicted, espe­cially with respect to his violent polemic against certain visionary women, many modern scholars have identifiedJean Gerson as a par­ticularly compassionate and effective preacher whose sermons were motivated by a genuine concern for the spiritual and temporal wel­fare of simple Christians and the unity and order of the Church. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kx5g0qt Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Mcloughlin, Nancy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jf7x6qv Jean Gerson adapted the pastoral and monastic deadly sins traditions in order to create an authoritative voice for himself in his court sermons. He did this by identifying the University of Paris with the Holy Spirit or the embodiment of virtue and the university's enemies with the seven deadly sins. This strategy reflected his understanding of the university's role as the fountain of truth for Christian Europe. It also, however, invited his audience to consider the university closely for the purpose of discerning whether it served sin or virtue. The relationship between the evolution of Gerson's understandings of the deadly sins and the political and intellectual contexts in which he deployed the deadly sins tradition demonstrates how Gerson simultaneously crafted his arguments to fit the needs of particular audiences while constantly revising a seemingly coherent theological understanding of the relationship between intellectual authority and the anatomy of the soul. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jf7x6qv Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Mcloughlin, Nancy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86t3n2tf While the modern photographer and filmmaker relies upon cranes and planes--products of modern technology-- for the purpose of gaining a more comprehensive and larger-than-life perspective, monastic thinkers have relied on spiritual and rhetorical strategies to create and authenticate similarly broad and objective frames of vision. Such strategies play a crucial role in the construction of the monastic sinscapes against which monks demonstrate their virtue. Saint Antony of Egypt, for instance, attributed the veracity of the prophecies of some pagan seers to the ability of the demons who informed such seers to travel at such great speed that they could relate what had just happened to those they informed much quicker than the news would travel to everyone else. The ability to see such demons at work, in turn, verified Antony’s holiness and access to divine knowledge. John Cassian similarly demonstrated the sanctity and discernment of a certain monk by confirming that the report... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86t3n2tf Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Mcloughlin, Nancy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dx6s3tc Abstract The late medieval Parisian university chancellor Jean Gerson (1363–1429) offers a productive case study for integrating biographically centered intellectual histories with feminist critiques as a means of understanding the perpetuation and evolution of misogyny. Gerson's famous denunciations of medieval women's mysticism contributed to the early modern European witch hunts and an intensification of clerical oversight of pious women's spiritual practices. Gerson, however, also defended women's capacity for contemplation and right to well‐informed and conscientious pastoral care. This essay juxtaposes Gerson‐centered and feminist treatments of Gerson's misogynist legacy for the sake of focusing researchers' attention on the forces that conspired to encourage Gerson and other similar individuals, who have been sympathetic to women's concerns in some instances, to make aggressive and virulent contributions to misogynist ideas and policies. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dx6s3tc Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 McLoughlin, Nancy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f12b4hw Establishing culpability Forensic technologies and justice https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f12b4hw Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7j73k63k MyMoralPanic: Adolescents, social networking, and child sex crime panic https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7j73k63k Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Smith, SA Cole, SA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7fv2g8zr Changed Science Statutes: Can Courts Accommodate Accelerating Forensic Scientific and Technological Change? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7fv2g8zr Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mx5h7zg This article provides an overview of the use of genetic science and technologies for criminal investigation and forensics. After discussing the history of the use of biological markers for criminal identification and forensics, we outline the emergence of DNA analysis as the 'gold standard' in forensic identification. We then discuss a range of more recent practices and issues in the field of forensic genetics. We conclude with a brief discussion of novel technologies that have not yet found entrance into most courtrooms and routine crime scene work. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mx5h7zg Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Prainsack, Barbara https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06x2g6n4 De-Neutralizing Identification: S. & Marper v. United Kingdom, Biometric Databases, Uniqueness, Privacy, and Human Rights https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06x2g6n4 Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, SA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2zf0j5zr Forensic Science and Miscarriages of Justice https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2zf0j5zr Fri, 6 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nm1640d Forensic feature-comparison examiners compare-or "match"-evidence samples (e.g., fingerprints) to provide judgments about the source of the evidence. Research demonstrates that examiners in select disciplines possess expertise in this task by outperforming novices-yet the psychological mechanisms underpinning this expertise are unclear. This article investigates one implicated mechanism: statistical learning, the ability to learn how often things occur in the environment. This ability is likely important in forensic decision-making as samples sharing rarer statistical information are more likely to come from the same source than those sharing more common information. We investigated 46 fingerprint examiners' and 52 novices' statistical learning of fingerprint categories and application of this knowledge in a source-likelihood judgment task. Participants completed four measures of their statistical learning (frequency discrimination judgments, bounded and unbounded frequency estimates,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nm1640d Tue, 3 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Growns, Bethany Mattijssen, Erwin JAT Salerno, Jessica M Schweitzer, NJ Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Martire, Kristy A https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fw714zk Autopsy of a crime lab: Exposing the flaws in forensics. By Brandon L. Garrett. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 264 pp. $29.95 hardcover https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fw714zk Tue, 3 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3f26g4b0 South Coast Repertory’s world premiere of Vietgone by playwright Qui Nguyen is a highly anticipated event for us, as we’ve had the unique experience of watching this play’s metamorphosis since its inception. Qui, who hails from Brooklyn, NY, originally had tossed around the idea of writing a script about Vietnamese gangsters in Little Saigon. However, during his residency in the summer of 2013, SCR staff invited the three of us to meet with Qui and share the work we were doing in the local Vietnamese community. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3f26g4b0 Tue, 7 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Vo Dang, Thanh Thuy Vo, Linda Le, Tram https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63r8t6t7 Translations of Tycho Brahe, De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis (Uraniborg: Christophorus Weida, 1588), chapter 6 (selections) carried out in collaborative translation sessions that took place beginning in the spring of 2010 at the University of Cambridge as part of the AHRC-funded project, “Diagrams, Images, and the Transformation of Astronomy, 1450-1650.” Participants in the sessions included Nick Jardine, Sachiko Kusukawa, Christopher Lewis, Isabelle Pantin, and Renée Raphael. Please cite as: Brahe, Tycho De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis (Uraniborg: Christophorus Weida, 1588), chapter 6 (selections). Translated by Nick Jardine, Sachiko Kusukawa, Christopher Lewis, Isabelle Pantin, and Renée Raphael. eScholarship: University of California, 2013. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63r8t6t7 Thu, 13 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Raphael, Renee Jardine, Nick Kusukawa, Sachiko Lewis, Christopher Pantin, Isabelle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mp3t6tb Translations of Tycho Brahe, De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis (Uraniborg: Christophorus Weida, 1588), chapter 6 (selections) carried out in collaborative translation sessions that took place beginning in the spring of 2010 at the University of Cambridge as part of the AHRC-funded project, “Diagrams, Images, and the Transformation of Astronomy, 1450-1650.” Participants in the sessions included Nick Jardine, Sachiko Kusukawa, Christopher Lewis, Isabelle Pantin, and Renée Raphael. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mp3t6tb Thu, 6 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Raphael, Renee Jardine, Nick Kusukawa, Sachiko Lewis, Christopher Pantin, Isabelle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5383g6kb In Pursuit of “Useful” Knowledge: Documenting Technical Innovation in Sixteenth-Century Potosí https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5383g6kb Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Raphael, Renée https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d40h23s Probabilistic reporting in criminal cases in the United States: A baseline study https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d40h23s Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Barno, Matt https://escholarship.org/uc/item/831136x2 This conversation, commemorating twenty-five years of the Journal of Women’s History, was convened as a joint project of the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) and MARHO: the Radical Historian’s Organization. Preparation for the panel discussion began with an email exchange among some of the participants. Iris Berger and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu were unable to participate in the panel discussion at the American Historical Association (AHA) conference in 2012, but their email comments are included here, as are other contributions from the preliminary conversation. The AHA panel in Chicago brought together major senior and junior scholars whose work encompasses both radical and women’s history to address the intersections of the two fields. All of the participants were asked to consider questions including: How did the origins of the fields connect? How have their trajectories converged or diverged across time? What have been the crucial developments in radical history, in... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/831136x2 Tue, 4 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Berger, Iris Brier, Stephen DuBois, Ellen Carol Quataert, Jean H Serlin, David Williams, Rhonda Y Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun Boris, Eileen Weigand, Kate https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13j957tx This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13j957tx Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Sivakumar, Pranav https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9337h15c This article examines how North Korean migrants become subjects of their own narratives in South Korean society, with a focus on gender and class divisions as represented on television programs such as Now on My Way to Meet You (Ije mannarŏ gamnida, 2011–present), Moranbong Club (Moranbong k’ŭlŏp, 2015–present), and Unification of Love: Southern Men, Northern Women (Nam-nam-buk-nyŏ, 2014–2017). These shows aim to depict perfectly assimilated migrants who embody the South Korean government’s image of an ideal citizen and thereby introduce an impression of “North Korean-ness” in the absence of input from the North Korea, a closed country. North Korean migrants “become” North Koreans within the programs’ formats, with mixed results. On the one hand, a “double-paned window” perspective, which relies on the North Korean panelists’ testimonies, complicates the programs’ intended narrative of exemplary migrants. On the other hand, North Korean panelists actively fortify the binary gender... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9337h15c Tue, 9 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Cho, Eun Ah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56w133vx Pamila Gupta. The Relic State: St. Francis Xavier and the Politics of Ritual in Portuguese India. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2014. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780719090615. £70.00. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56w133vx Tue, 9 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Mitchell, Laura J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hm3z1k6 It has long been understood that individual and collective identification are inexorably intertwined. This convergence is not limited to genetics. This paper discusses the convergence of individual and collective identification in a comparative analysis of three other forensic areas: fingerprint analysis, microscopic hair comparison, and microbiome forensics. In all three case studies, we see purportedly individualizing technologies reverting, in a sense, to collective identification. Presumably, this has much to do with the perceived utility of collective identification. When knowing precisely who is the donor of a trace is not possible, or not useful, then knowing that the donor is ‘white,’ or ‘black,’ or ‘Middle Eastern’ begins to seem somehow useful. In each case, we also see that these collective identifications are ultimately founded on crude and broad, seemingly ‘commonsensical’ or ‘social,’ racial categories. These categories, meanwhile, are based on a less-than-fully-transparent... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hm3z1k6 Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32d4d47m Speaking of Evidence: An Empirical Study of the Reporting of Forensic Conclusions in US Criminal Trials https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32d4d47m Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1bm785tr Editorial https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1bm785tr Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Bosworth, Mary Cole, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fg9w5h1 Science, Technology, Society, and Law https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fg9w5h1 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Bertenthal, Alyse https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jv773tb The Spirit of Zoroastrianism. Translated and edited by Prods Oktor Skjaervø. The Sacred Literature Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 270. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jv773tb Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Daryaee, Touraj https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45j0044c A retail sampling approach to assess impact of geographic concentrations on probative value of comparative bullet lead analysis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45j0044c Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Tobin, William A Boggess, Lyndsay N Stern, Hal S https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zf12081 Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zf12081 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gg854w0 Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance by Janet Weston (review) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gg854w0 Sat, 8 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hw5p7vc Appendix to 'Fingerprints and Miscarriages of Justice: ‘Other’ Types of Error and a Post-Conviction Right to Database Searching,' 81 Albany Law Review 101 (2017/2018) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hw5p7vc Fri, 8 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Scheck, Barry https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28k037jx Should Judges Worry About the 'CSI Effect'? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28k037jx Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Dioso-Villa, Rachel https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33x6f8h8 Several forensic sciences, especially of the pattern-matching kind, are increasingly seen to lack the scientific foundation needed to justify continuing admission as trial evidence. Indeed, several have been abolished in the recent past. A likely next candidate for elimination is bitemark identification. A number of DNA exonerations have occurred in recent years for individuals convicted based on erroneous bitemark identifications. Intense scientific and legal scrutiny has resulted. An important National Academies review found little scientific support for the field. The Texas Forensic Science Commission recently recommended a moratorium on the admission of bitemark expert testimony. The California Supreme Court has a case before it that could start a national dismantling of forensic odontology. This article describes the (legal) basis for the rise of bitemark identification and the (scientific) basis for its impending fall. The article explains the general logic of forensic identification,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33x6f8h8 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Saks, Michael J Albright, Thomas Bohan, Thomas L Bierer, Barbara E Bowers, C Michael Bush, Mary A Bush, Peter J Casadevall, Arturo Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Denton, M Bonner Diamond, Shari Seidman Dioso-Villa, Rachel Epstein, Jules Faigman, David Faigman, Lisa Fienberg, Stephen E Garrett, Brandon L Giannelli, Paul C Greely, Henry T Imwinkelried, Edward Jamieson, Allan Kafadar, Karen Kassirer, Jerome P Koehler, Jonathan Jay’ Korn, David Mnookin, Jennifer Morrison, Alan B Murphy, Erin Peerwani, Nizam Peterson, Joseph L Risinger, D Michael Sensabaugh, George F Spiegelman, Clifford Stern, Hal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-2820 Thompson, William C https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-7280 Wayman, James L Zabell, Sandy Zumwalt, Ross E https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79n1z42v This essay assesses clinical photographs of leprosy patients created by the Hawai‘i Board of Health in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, or what may be the most extensive visual cataloging of indigenous, Asian, and immigrant bodies in America’s Pacific empire. Building on theoretical and methodological approaches to archives as a process rather than a source, I follow the trail of these clinical images through time and space, from their emergence within a photographic practice of medical management and segregation in Hawai‘i to their prolific circulation in transnational political and medical arenas. Offering spectacular evidence of the racialized and sexualized pathology of colonial peoples, these photographs were tightly regulated but increasingly viewed as clinical erotica after the United States incorporated Hawai‘i as a territory in 1900. The essay further suggests the “affective excess” that can disrupt the photograph’s medical surveillance, as social intimacies... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79n1z42v Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Imada, Adria L https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1d99v4th Reviews the book ‘A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937, William G. Ross. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1d99v4th Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Baldocchi, Dennis https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3496-4919 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nc247rw Science without Precedent: The Impact of the National Research Council Report on the Admissibility and Use of Forensic Science Evidence in the United States https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nc247rw Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 Edmond, Gary https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wp8665h Scandal, Fraud, and the Reform of Forensic Science: The Case of Fingerprint Analysis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wp8665h Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pf053vs Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life ed. by Dawn Nafus (review) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pf053vs Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Cole, Simon A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6219 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3308b1vv “Young people need their own theater, akin to their own spirit,” wrote the actor Nikolai Kriuchkov in a memoir of his life in the theater in the 1920s and 1930s. While he acknowledged that the Soviet Union had developed a network of professional Komsomol theaters aimed at youth, Kriuchkov charged that in general these theaters simply duplicated the repertoire of conventional stages. But TRAM, an acronym for the Theater of Working-Class Youth ( Teatr Rabochei Molodezhi ), where Kriuchov got his start, was different. “It had its own topical themes, its own character, and young people went willingly.” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3308b1vv Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Mally, Lynn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8d28b46w Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8d28b46w Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, Jessica https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8bm3t8br Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8bm3t8br Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, Jessica Glymph, Thavolia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/88s9f9js On Agency, Freedom, and the Boundaries of Slavery Studies https://escholarship.org/uc/item/88s9f9js Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, Jessica https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zv0701p More History Than Myth: African American Women's History Since the Publication of Ar'n't I a Woman? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zv0701p Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, Jessica https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63t6654w This article investigates the relationship between manumission laws and enslaved women's bodies in Maryland, USA. The point of departure is the 1809 Act to Ascertain and Declare the Condition of Such Issue as may hereafter be born of Negro or Mulatto Female Slaves, which minimized age requirements for freeing enslaved children. If the status of living or future children was not established at the time the manumission document for the mother was presented in court, then any such children were to remain in bondage. As this article argues, the 1809 law represented what lawmakers, slaveholders, and bondpeople already knewthat freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman's womb. By investigating apprenticeship records, legal statutes, manumission documents, and African American petitions for freedom, this article argues that the deployment of black women's bodies within the law challenged, extended, and defined definitions of freedom in the decades leading up to the Civil War.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63t6654w Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, Jessica https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6147t2m0 Charity Folks is a ghost of slavery who refuses to be silenced. Folks finds herself in the company of Margaret Garner’s beloved daughter, the young girl known only as “Cecelia, a slave,” Sara Baartman, Sally Hemmings, Sojourner Truth, Queen Nannie and countless unnamed others who haunt historical memory precisely because they carry the weight of the Diaspora’s traumatic past. Collectively and individually, their lives testify to the multifaceted legacies of enslavement, attempts by captives to dismantle it, as well as attempts to suppress its most violent and horrific truths. Their recovered pasts underscore the competing interests involved in remembering, constructing, and commemorating the lives of enslaved women specifically and black women more generally. Charity Folks is not as well known as the bondwomen mentioned. Yet, she is just as present.Charity Folks is examined as both a micro-history whereby details of her life are used to make larger arguments about Revolutionary... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6147t2m0 Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35p208bh "The Relics of Slavery" Interracial Sex and Manumission in the American South https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35p208bh Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, Jessica https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nf7v29b Jessica Millward discussed her book, "Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland," where she places enslaved women in Maryland at the center of the long struggle for African American freedom. Speaker Biography: Jessica Millward is an assistant professor in the history department in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Her work focuses on African American history, early America, the African diaspora, slavery and gender. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nf7v29b Tue, 2 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9c0128sw Mumia: Vulnerability and Hope https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9c0128sw Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jd5p38f How do you uncover the life of a slave who left no paper trail? What can her everyday life tell us about slavery, how it was practiced, and how some slaves made the transition from slavery to freedom? Today, we explore the life of Charity Folks, an enslaved woman from Maryland who gained her freedom in the late-18th century. Our guide through Charity’s life is Jessica Millward, an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine and author of Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jd5p38f Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, J Liz Covart https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pk723nc The School of Humanities at UC Irvine presents, "The Ghosts of Slavery,” a Q&A with Georges Van Den Abbeele, dean of the School of Humanities and Jessica Millward, associate professor of history. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pk723nc Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Millward, J