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Till Hilmar

New Article by CCS Faculty Fellow Till Hilmar

January 13, 2021
CCS Faculty Fellow Till Hilmar’s article, “Culture in network breaks: Tie dissolution as a vehicle of justice” has been published in the latest issue of Poetics....
Jeffrey Alexander

Jeffrey Alexander on the current unrest in the United States

January 13, 2021
See Jeffrey Alexander’s comments on the current unrest in the United States in the Hartford Current, The origin of the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol extends back...
The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization

Review symposium on Ron Eyerman and Giuseppe Sciortino's The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization

January 13, 2021
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, (Volume 44, Issue 3, 2021) has published a symposium of review articles on CCS Senior Fellow Ron Eyerman and CCS Faculty Fellow...
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