The import and mass-market replicas of the Kashmiri shawl highlighted Victorian anxieties about empire and its role in industrial modernity.  

The perception of weight discrimination shapes both people’s experience of their own weight status and their disability outcomes.

Since the religion’s early days, Christian thinkers have treated vegetarianism sometimes as heretical, sometimes as evidence of saintly asceticism.

In Mongolia, dogs are close companions to humans and a key part of a cosmology with Buddhist and shamanic influences. But they’re also seen as unclean.

Choosing texts to assign next semester? An experienced instructor offers tips for deciding what to add to your syllabus—and what to let go.

Nearly two million minor children in the United States have an incarcerated father at any given time.

What happens when an oil-rich island paradise interrupts its production of petroleum? You may have to visit the Caribbean island of Aruba to find out.

Since the early days of African enslavement in Brazil, Black Brazilians have cultivated rituals that mix Catholic and African elements in the form of holy Samba.

This primer on Black Midwestern Studies examines the factors shaping communities of color in America’s “flyover country,” long mistaken as a place of normative whiteness.

An instructor shares her approach for teaching students how to evaluate historical materials and claims of veracity made by their originators.