Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...

On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these inti...

Does it make sense to refer to bird song – a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate – as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire r...

The 1990s were a glorious time for the Chicago Bulls, an age of historic championships and all-time basketball greats like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. It seemed only fitting that city, county, and state officials would assist the team owners i...

We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human. For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars and computers can hear us. In situations like ritual or play, objects acquire a range of human charact...

The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and "Care and Cure" is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferenc...

"Sovereignty and the Sacred" challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the...

Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved – and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work – are too often obscured or swept away...

Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling  gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" arose from the midwestern capital's mo...

Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's "The Venture of Islam" was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the develop...