Interested or available in serving as an Editor or Co-Editor of the Culture Section Newsletter for the 2025/2026 academic year? Please send an initial inquiry email to the Newsletter team at asaculturenews@gmail.com Culture Section Award Winners John Mohr Dissertation Improvement GrantWinner: Şeyma ÖzdemirUCSB Honorable Mention:Kristen MillerCUNY Honorable Mention:Yucheng LiuUCSB Stuart Hall Award for Advancing the Study of Racial or Ethnic InequalityPatricia A. BanksMount Holyoke College Mary … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements – Spring 2025

Announcements Publications Brittany Friedman. 2025. Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Brittany Friedman, Gabriela Kirk-Werner, and April D. Fernandes. 2024. “Reforming the Shadow Carceral State.” Theoretical Criminology 28(4): 437-458. Mueller, Jason C. 2024. “The (Im)Possibility of Anti-Systemic Politics: Uprisings, Exilic Spaces, and Alain Badiou,” Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis 3(2) 1-38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55533/2765-8414.1079. Mueller, Jason C. 2024. … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements – Winter 2025

New Books Presser, Lois. 2022. Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences. University of California Press.This book advances a methodological approach for determining what is not said within texts. Researchers and laypersons alike suspect that some text is “coded” – that it contains some “subtext.” They are keen to identify that subtext, to make out what a text is taking for granted or communicating surreptitiously, for left implicit, … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements