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Joey Hong in Blind Field: In Defense of Lovesickness

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Colin Burnett in The Conversation: What Amazon MGM’s creative control over the James Bond film franchise means for the future of 007

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Oren Reshef in The Conversation: Identifying brands as Black-owned can pay off for businesses

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Amy Gais in TIME: Ida B. Wells Taught Us That Care and Justice Go Hand in Hand

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Chris Schaberg in The Flyfish Journal: Disentangling Leaders: A Review of Jimmy Carter: Rivers & Dreams

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Taylor Carlson discusses "Through the Grapevine" on the New Books Network podcast

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Joey Hong in VISIBLE Magazine: The Reasons Why “True Love” Need Not Remain Forever

1.19.25

Jianqing Chen in The Conversation: What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the app TikTok users are fleeing to

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Ayala Hendin in The Conversation: This course examines Israeli school division to better understand education policy – and society – in the US

1.15.25

Raven Maragh-Lloyd in The Conversation: Kamala Harris memes questioning her cultural background highlight Americans’ contradictions with race

1.15.25

The Program in Public Scholarship celebrates a successful year

1.13.25

Peter Kastor in The Conversation: When presidents would send handwritten lists of their nominees to the Senate, things were a lot different

1.10.25

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Modern Games Like Starfield Need Better Opening Lines

1.7.25

Margot Moinester and Kaitlyn Stanhope in The Conversation: Providing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants improves birth outcomes, research shows

1.6.25

Matthew Moore in Belt Magazine: On Running Out of Gas in Rural Missouri

1.2.25

Anthony J. Nixon Jr. in Pregnancy & Newborn: 6 Useful Tips for Black Dads in America’s Black Maternal Mortality Crisis

12.29.24

César León Jr. in The Conversation: NASA’s micro-mission Lunar Trailblazer will make macro-measurements of the lunar surface in 2025

12.28.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Dragon Age: The Veilguard and the Problem with Meeting Expectations

12.11.24

Jey Sushil in Invisible Culture: "I am just getting to know who my father was"

12.10.24

David Cunningham in The Conversation: I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right

12.10.24

Peter Boumgarden and Nathan Jensen in The Conversation: Stadiums don’t have to be a drain on taxpayer dollars − 4 lessons from St. Louis

11.29.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: What Gaming Moms Need For 2025

11.25.24

Themba Mbatha in The Philosophical Salon: The Cruelty of Trumpist Political Optimism

10.25.24

Elizabeth Carlen and Tyus Williams in The Conversation: Animals that are all black or all white have reputations based on superstition − biases that have real effects

10.14.24

Naomi Kim in Belt Magazine: On Picking Apples in the Lower Midwest

10.7.24

Maria Siciliano in The Millions: Revisiting ‘Citizen,’ 10 Years Later

10.1.24

Donna Vatnick in The Millions: Ariane Koch’s Unforgettable Tale of Arrested Development

10.1.24

Elizabeth Hunter in The UNESCO Courier: The museum selfie: more than a mirror

9.27.24

Giang Nguyen-Dien in The Conversation: The contradictions of ‘Minnesota nice’

9.17.24

Nathan Dize in The Conversation: ‘They’re eating pets’ – another example of US politicians smearing Haiti and Haitian immigrants

9.4.24

New NFL helmet accessory reduces concussions − but players and fans may not be ready to embrace safety over swag

8.31.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: This Fall, Make A Video Game With Someone You Love

8.30.24

Christopher Schaberg in The Conversation: If new technologies snarl your airline experience, here are old-school strategies to cope

8.29.24

Mark Valeri discusses "The Opening of the Protestant Mind" on the New Books Network podcast

8.29.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Borderlands Would Have Been Better With Less Plot, More Story

8.28.24

Mark Robert Rank in The Conversation: Policy, shmolicy: Election Day weather and football victories could decide the election

8.27.24

Jen Heemstra in Inside Higher Ed: A Leadership Position We Aren’t Prepared For

8.21.24

Peter Boumgarden and Abram Van Engen in Inside Higher Ed: Teaching Markets and Morality

8.13.24

Peter Kastor in The Conversation: Even fictional presidents don’t look like Kamala Harris

8.8.24

Seanna Leath and Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes in The Conversation: From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parents

8.7.24

Sachiko Amari in The Conversation: Ancient grains of dust from space can be found on Earth − and provide clues about the life cycle of stars

8.5.24

Jonathan Losos in The Conversation: Love for cats lures students into this course, which uses feline research to teach science

7.29.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Alan Wake 2 Nails Mom Guilt

7.26.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Parenting Impacts Video Game Genre Choices, And That’s Okay

7.23.24

Ian Bogost in The Atlantic: J. D. Vance Has a Point About Mountain Dew

7.7.24

Jonathan Judaken discusses "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" on the New Books Network podcast

7.3.24

Noah Cohan in The Conversation: Why are the Olympics so good at making us root for sports and athletes we tune out most of the time?

6.27.24

Linda J. Nicholson discusses the Dobbs v. Jackson decision on The Attitude Podcast

6.27.24

Mark Robert Rank in The Conversation: How the surrealists used randomness as a catalyst for creative expression

6.19.24

Q&A: Gabrielle Kirilloff on how games shape our culture

6.12.24

Linda J. Nicholson in The Conversation: American womanhood is not what it used to be − understanding the backlash to Dobbs v. Jackson

6.8.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Lego Horizon Adventures Reflects A Turning Point For Gaming

6.4.24

Tanvi Kohli and Siddhi Vora in Transformations: Asking Questions, Sharing a Meal

6.4.24

Mark Robert Rank discusses "The Random Factor" on the New Books Network podcast

6.3.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Games Like Fallout 3 Offer The Rare Gift Of Solitude

5.30.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Elden Ring And Starfield Offer Contrasting Takes On The RPG Genre

5.30.24

Eileen G'Sell in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Algorithms and the Problem of Intellectual Passivity

5.20.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: LinkedIn Expands Into Mobile Gaming With Fun, Habitual Mini-Games

5.4.24

John Powers discusses "Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture" on the New Books Network Podcast

5.1.24

PPS announces the two inaugural recipients of the Arts & Sciences Public Scholarship Prize

4.30.24

Adia Harvey Wingfield discusses "Gray Areas" on the New Books Network podcast

4.26.24

Tabea Alexa Linhard discusses "Unexpected Routes" on the New Books Network podcast

4.22.24

Nancy E. Berg in The Conversation: Passover: The festival of freedom and the ambivalence of exile

4.18.24

Mark R. Rank in The Conversation: Why luck plays such a big role in hockey

4.16.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Stardew Valley Captures The Satisfaction Of Thinking Creatively

4.11.24

Adia Harvey Wingfield in The Conversation: The backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion in business is in full force − but myths obscure the real value of DEI

4.8.24

Ian Bogost in The Atlantic: The Web Became a Strip Mall

4.2.24

Student Life: EIC of The Conversation, France explores the impact of collaborative journalism on academia

4.1.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: Death Stranding Reflects The Complex Emotions Of Parenthood

4.1.24

Jey Sushil in Belt Magazine: Confessions of a Radioactive Man

3.28.24

Keith Hengen in The Academic Minute: Sleep Resets the Brain’s Operating System

3.26.24

John E. McCarthy in The Conversation: How AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure

3.22.24

Mark R. Rank in TIME: The Lottery of Getting Into Harvard

3.21.24

Gabrielle Kirilloff in Forbes: How A Game About Kind Words Fosters Community

3.19.24

Program in Public Scholarship announces prize for Arts & Sciences faculty

3.17.24

Mark R. Rank in USA Today: How much will luck play into who wins March Madness championship? I'd go with 12%.

3.10.24

Jonathan Judaken in Times Higher Education: The Gaza war shows why boosting understanding is humanities’ key role

3.6.24

Mark R. Rank in The Conversation: Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962

3.1.24

Alessandro Poletto in The Conversation: The tools in a medieval Japanese healer’s toolkit

2.29.24

Danielle Williams in The Conversation: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958

1.31.24

Stephanie Kirk and Christopher Schaberg in Inside Higher Ed: How to Support Innovative Work in the Humanities

1.25.24

Publishers Weekly Close-Up: Object Lessons

1.23.24

Noah Cohan in Slate: Red Tackles, Blue Flags

1.19.24

Nancy E. Berg in The Conversation: Students in this course learn the art of the apology

1.18.24

Wingfield’s ‘Gray Areas’ provides road map for dismantling workplace disparities

12.18.23

Five Public Scholarship highlights from 2023

12.13.23

Eileen G'Sell publishes four pieces of public scholarship

12.4.23

Christopher Schaberg in The Conversation: Here's what happened when I taught a fly-fishing course in the waterways of New Orleans

11.30.23

William Acree in Inside Higher Ed: Reconfiguring the Ph.D.

11.26.23

Noah Cohan in Slate: Why a Hot Idea for Making Football Safer Is Such a Hard Sell for the NFL

11.15.23

Timothy Moore in The Conversation: From ancient Greece to Broadway, music has played a critical role in theater

10.31.23

Ian Bogost in The Atlantic: A Tool to Supercharge Your Imagination

10.23.23

Jonathan Losos in Slate Future Tense: House Cats Will Rule the World

10.20.23

‘Object Lessons’ book series comes to WashU

10.18.23

Adia Harvey Wingfield's new book explores the "gray areas" of workplace racism

10.16.23

The Source: Rescuing adventure

10.12.23

Stephanie Kirk in ACLS: Rethinking Tenure Assessment: Thoughts from a Humanities Center Director

10.6.23

Abhay Vidwans in the National Science Policy Network Blog: Human Expansion to the Moon and Beyond: Ground Rules Needed

10.5.23

Joanna Dee Das in The Conversation: What live theater can learn from Branson, Missouri

10.4.23

Jianqing Chen in The Conversation: China’s WeChat is all-encompassing but low-key

10.2.23

Q&A: Christopher Schaberg on the Program in Public Scholarship

9.27.23

Ryan Ogliore in Slate Future Tense: Io Is a Volcanic Hellscape of Fire and Ice. Let's go explore it.

9.22.23

Jeffrey Gillis-Davis in The Conversation: Chandrayaan-3’s measurements of sulfur open the doors for lunar science and exploration

9.14.23

Peter Kastor in The Conversation: Hunter Biden is the latest presidential child to stain a White House reputation − but others have shined it up

9.3.23

Caitlyn Collins in The Conversation: Being the main breadwinner didn’t necessarily keep married mums in work during the pandemic

8.9.23

Christopher Schaberg in The Conversation: Air travel is in a rut

8.7.23

Ian Bogost on St. Louis Public Radio: Wash U professor digs into the fizzy history of 7UP, a St. Louis invention

8.3.23

Jonathan Losos in The Conversation: Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here’s how

7.27.23

Michael Wysession in The Conversation: 4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters

7.25.23

Christopher Schaberg in Inside Higher Ed: Lessons in Public Scholarship

7.19.23

Eileen G'Sell in Jacobin: Cultural Capital Is No Substitute for Cold, Hard Cash

6.7.23

Wingfield elected president of American Sociological Association

5.19.23

Theresa Gildner in The Conversation: Parasitic infections hit the health of low-income Black communities where states have neglected sewage systems