Monday, March 9, 2026

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Modern International Thought and Southeastern Europe: An Interview with Georgios Giannakopoulos

by Dimitrios Mitsopoulos In The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870–1930 (Manchester University Press, 2025), Georgios Giannakopoulos uncovers a network of British scholars, journalists, and travelers who positioned themselves as mediators between imperial centers and the volatile borderlands... Continue Reading →

Monday, March 2, 2026

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On the Aggregate in Intellectual History

by Disha Karnad Jani As the historian Deborah Valenze began the dissertation project that became her acclaimed 1985 book Prophetic Sons and Daughters, she began to assemble records of an entirely ignored phenomenon. She was searching for working-class women preachers... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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Constructing Expertise in the Ottoman Empire: An Interview with A. Tunç Şen

by Furkan Elmas Professor A. Tunç Şen is a historian of the early-modern Ottoman Empire at Columbia University whose work occupies the intersection between intellectual history, history of science, and manuscript culture. In his book Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and... Continue Reading →

Friday, February 20, 2026

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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

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Parting Gifts of Empire: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Esmat Elhalaby

by Disha Karnad Jani For this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Esmat Elhalaby about his first book, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization (University of California Press, 2025), which offers a pathbreaking perspective on... Continue Reading →

Monday, February 16, 2026

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The Berkeley School: Critical Theory, Political Economy, and the Future of Intellectual History

by Jonathon Catlin Attending Martin Jay's retirement conference at Berkeley in the fateful fall of 2016 (a month before Donald Trump's first election) as a brand-new graduate student, I began to perceive palpable tensions between two factions of some of... Continue Reading →

Friday, February 13, 2026

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JHI 87.1 now available!

Check out the new issue of the journal—volume 87, issue 1—on Project MUSE. Table of Contents The B'rith of Tragedy: Jewish Roots of a Stolen Genre in Early Modern EuropeMicha Lazarus  John Locke's Early Tolerationism: A Critique of the Conversion... Continue Reading →

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