AHR Interview with Paul Kramer on His Article on U.S. Immigration Policy

04/24/18 • 28 min

In this episode AHR associate editor Konstantin Dierks speaks with historian Paul Kramer whose article “The Geopolitics of Mobility: Immigration Policy and American Global Power in the Long Twentieth Century” appears in the April 2018 issue of the American Historical Review. Kramer is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and researches the transnational, imperial, and global aspects of modern U.S. history. He is the author of the 2006 book The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines. The article is available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/123.2.393

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AHR Interview with Max Bergholz on His Reappraisal of Benedict Anderson’s "Imagined Communities"

In this episode of AHR Interview, journal editor Alex Lichtenstein speaks with Max Bergholz, the author of a reappraisal article on Benedict Anderson’s 1983 book Imagined Communities that appears in the April 2018 issue of the AHR. Bergholz is Associate Professor of History and holds the James M. Stanford Professorship in Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University. His 2016 book Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community received numerous prizes, including the 2017 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association. Reappraisals are a new category of AHR article that revisit, going back twenty-five years or more, important historical works that have had notable influence on historians and historiography. The first of these was written by Cambridge medieval historian John Arnold and revisits the 1987 book Formation of a Persecuting Society by R. I. Moore. It appeared in the February 2018 issue of the journal.

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Taymiya Zaman on Her Article for the New Section “History Unclassified”

In this episode of AHR Interview, consulting editor Kate Brown speaks with historian Taymiya Zaman about her essay “Cities, Time, and the Backward Glance,” which appears in the June 2018 issue. Zaman’s piece is the first contribution to a new section of the journal called “History Unclassified,” which will explore things that would not normally be found in our articles category—stories from the archives, unexpected connections between fields, discussions of new methods, or trials of new forms of writing and presentation. For more on “History Unclassified,” including how to submit, see https://academic.oup.com/ahr/pages/history_unclassified. Taymiya Zaman is a historian of Mughal India and South Asia. She is Associate Professor of History at the University of San Francisco as well as a writer of both narrative non-fiction and fiction.