2024 Journal Article List

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As a companion to our list of books published by non-tenure-track historians in 2024, here is a list of journal articles (and a few book chapters) published by the same sorts of scholars. Unlike the book list, however, this is not a list you should use to go purchase access to these articles. If you click on a link below, encounter a charge for access, and pay it, none of that money will go to the author. Scholars are not paid for journal articles, nor do they earn royalties. Some of the pieces are freely accessible. Those ones are marked OA for open access. You can also contact the author directly; they may have a copy of their piece they are allowed to share.


Ellen Arnold, “Can you ship a penguin C.O.D.?” in Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships, eds. Finn Arne Jørgensen and Dolly Jørgensen (University of Pittsburgh Press), 115-132.

Sebastiaan Berntsen, “The Sichem Committee: A Case Study of Dutch Private Sponsorship of Near Eastern Archaeology” in Oriental Societies and Societal Self-Assertion: Associations, Funds and Societies for the Archaeological Exploration of the Ancient Near East, eds. Thomas L. Gertzen and Olaf Matthes (Zaphon), 87-103. OA

R. Claire Bunschoten, “Eau de cookie dough: Gourmand fragrances, negotiating nostalgia, and inedible food cultures,” Food and Foodways 32, no. 4 (2024): 329-348.

This article investigates the role of nostalgia in the meanings and uses of food-inspired (gourmand) fragrances at the point of their emergence in the 1990s and their adaptation by young women and girls in the first decade of the 2000s in the United States. It uses, as an evidentiary basis, news and magazine articles to map the popular reception of these fragrances following their emergence in the 1990s, and closely reads two retrospective works from the 2020s that center the gourmand fragrance Warm Vanilla Sugar by Bath and Body Works to navigate body-based anxieties and desires of young women in narratives of puberty set in the 2000s. Such analysis reveals complicated interplay among food, gender, and consumer culture as well as changing forms of and relationships to food-based nostalgia. This investigation of gourmand fragrances points to the field of food studies’ further need to consider smell and other inedible objects of food culture.

Tim Chamberlain, “Far away frontiers and spiritual sanctuaries: Occidental escapism in the high Himalaya,” in Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, eds. Paul Gilchrist, Peter Hansen and Jonathan Westaway (University of Manchester Press), 94-105. OA

Aaron G. Fountain Jr, “Building a Student Movement in Naptown: The Corn Cob Curtain Controversy, Free Speech, and 1960s and 1970s High School Activism in Indianapolis,” Indiana Magazine of History 114, No. 3 (September 2018): 202-23. OA

In 1971, a group of students at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis began to distribute an underground newspaper, titled the Corn Cob Curtain, to high school students across the city. The paper’s challenges to school authorities and its counter-cultural tone put it at the center of legal challenges, as school administrators tried to shut down the publication while students and free-speech advocates fought to keep the publication alive. In 1974, the case against the Corn Cob Curtain reached the U.S. Supreme Court, putting the conservative city of Indianapolis in the national spotlight over a radical student newspaper.

Kristin Franseen, “An autobiographical interest for which there is no real warranty: Gossip and Biography in Rosa Newmarch’s Public Music Theory and Musicology,” Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory 28 (2024): 163-179.

Peter Fraunholtz, “Russian Grain Procurement in a Revolutionary State,” Agricultural History 98, no. 1 (February 2024): 71-102.

The Russian provisional government and Bolshevik regime, in their respective efforts to address and resolve the food-supply crisis of 1917–19, sought to modernize state-village relations and mobilize peasant-citizens to contribute to the task according to their ability. Grain registration, an accounting of peasant grain stocks to find “surpluses,” was a continuation of a reformist trend within the state bureaucracy to replace customary means of allotting state obligations with an effort to base them on an assessment of household productive capacity. Evidence from Penza Province suggests that grain registration, both data gathering and interpretation, played a complex role in the evolution of grain procurement policy. The implementation of registration was impacted by local conditions and was embraced when and where it served local interests. Registration contributed to significant tensions within the state apparatus; it exacerbated the growth of the localism that undermined the authority of the hierarchical procurement apparatus. Grain registration revealed the adaptability of peasants and local officials in the face of top-down reform and prompted efforts to enhance state effectiveness. Ultimately, the persistent challenges posed by grain registration forced the regime to abandon registration and to reorganize the provincial apparatus to enhance oversight of local officials.

Peter Fraunholtz, “From Ambivalence to Accuracy: The Provisional Government’s Grain Registration in an Intermediary Province, Penza 1917,” The Russian Review 83, no. 2 (April 2024): 193-208.

Among the the existing studies of the 1917 food-supply crisis none has examined in detail the role and impact of grain registration. This article fills that gap by investigating the implementation of grain registration in Penza province, thus adding to and complicating the increasingly decentered picture of food-supply policy and its impact in 1917. This study asserts that a major turning point during 1917 was the poor Volga harvest, which contributed to the threat of a prolonged subsistence crisis in an intermediary province already enduring the collapse of critical resupply channels. In this context, initially ambivalent volost officials and peasants came to embrace grain registration in the post-harvest period as a way to document a legitimate claim to receive grain. This article adds to our understanding of the variability of peasant agency exhibited during 1917. The main post-harvest struggle was over competing interpretations of the registration process between volost and district officials. The latter were pressed by provincial and central superiors to increasingly utilize armed force, not to compel compliance with registration, but to hasten the delivery of grain to urban consumers. This study illustrates how the Provisional government’s turn to state violence to establish its procurement authority was a function of how its policies, combined with deteriorating local conditions, produced competing entitlements to grain. Rather than a continuum of crisis in which Provisional government food-supply policies repeatedly exacerbated crisis by failing to overlap with local demands and provoked resistance among grain producers and consumers, a combination of state and non-state factors produced an economic environment in which the interests of both volost officials and peasants were served by key features of the state grain monopoly, especially grain registration.

Bennett Gilbert, “Stalemate at Port Arthur: William James on War, Vulnerability, and Pluralist Personalism,” William James Studies 19, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 27-58. OA

Using a close reading of a single clause and its context in a section in A Pluralist Universe, we see the moral dangers James saw in traditional ontology, in particular its relation to war and peace. This analysis opens up James’s combining the personalist philosophy of his friend Borden Bowne (and others) with the pluralism he developed late in his career. This leads, further, to reflection of James’s performative philosophizing. Finding in James a theory of “pluralistic personalism” gives us a fresh look at the far-reaching power of his basic concepts of moral philosophy.

Monica H. Green, “Plague (Yersinia pestis),” in Encyclopedia of the History of Science, general ed. Christopher J. Phillips (Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Publishing Service) OA

Monica H. Green, “The Pandemic Arc: Expanded Narratives in the History of Global Health,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 79, no. 4 (October 2024): 345–362.

Using the examples of plague, smallpox, and HIV/AIDS, the present essay argues for the benefits of incorporating the evolutionary histories of pathogens, beyond visible epidemic spikes within human populations, into our understanding of what pandemics actually are as epidemiological phenomena. The pandemic arc — which takes the pathogen as the defining “actor” in a pandemic, from emergence to local proliferation to globalization — offers a framework capable of bringing together disparate aspects not only of the manifestations of disease but also of human involvement in the pandemic process. Pathogens may differ, but there are common patterns in disease emergence and proliferation that distinguish those diseases that become pandemic, dispersed through human communities regionally or globally. The same methods of genomic analysis that allow tracking the evolutionary development of a modern pathogen such as SARS-CoV-2 also allow us to trace pandemics into the past. Reconstruction of these pandemic arcs brings new elements of these stories into view, recovering the experiences of regions and populations hitherto overlooked by Eurocentric narratives. This expanded global history of infectious diseases, in turn, lays a groundwork for reconceiving what ambitions a truly global health might aim for.

Monica H. Green, “’Trotula’ is not an example of the Matilda effect: On correcting scholarly myths and engaging with professional history: A response to Malecki et al. 2024″ Science Education 108, no. 6 (November 2024): 1725-1732. OA

In 1993, historian of American science Margaret Rossiter introduced the concept of the “Matilda Effect,” to describe a common historical pattern of women’s achievements in science and medicine being ignored or purloined by male associates. At the same time, she was writing, however, professional work was being done in a variety of areas of women’s history, including the medieval period from which Rossiter drew what she thought was her most salient example: the medical figure, “Trotula.” In fact, “Trotula” was not a woman but the title of a book. Extensive research by professional historians has shown that the real historic woman, Trota of Salerno, was widely credited by her contemporaries (and for the next 300 years) not only for her own work but also for the work of two male writers whose texts became attached to hers in the Trotula ensemble. These findings from professional historical research have been known for over 20 years but rarely acknowledged in Science Studies. The present study proposes that a corrected understanding of Trota’s story provides a useful example, not of the Matilda Effect, but of the ways gender functions to restrict even famous women to certain roles.

Eric Harvey, “The Blind and their Work in Mesopotamia in the Third and Second Millennia BCE,” Osiris 39 (2024): 57-74.

This article analyzes the relationship between disability and the sciences of labor administration and bookkeeping in ancient Mesopotamia. In particular, it demonstrates how the documentary sources produced by administrative regimes provide unparalleled evidence for the lived experience of blindness in Sumer and Babylonia. Myths and legends of antiquity tend to typecast blind characters as bards, seers, or beggars, but the highly detailed and meticulous documentary sources reveal a different world. Blind people in Mesopotamia were moderately overrepresented in a few sedentary occupations such as milling, irrigation, and music, but many lived and worked alongside their sighted peers in a wide variety of occupations. At times, Mesopotamian polities also used blindness as a technology of labor control, as when they blinded prisoners of war before imposing forced labor on them.

Jordan Lea Johnson, “Accessing the Trail, Interpreting the Forest: Design, Ecology, and Feminist Disability Studies,” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, preprint.

The Stephen F. Austin Experimental Forest is the site of the first ADA-compliant US Forest Service project in Texas. Offering information about the history of forest management alongside information on Pineywoods ecosystems, the interpretive trail raises questions about how access is framed across “natural” and “built” environments as well as how distinctions between nature and culture operate within US environmental imaginaries. This article draws on feminist, posthumanist, and disability studies to conduct a close reading of the interpretive trail as text. It tracks the trail’s approach to disability access as well as its presentation of forest ecology, analyzing how the ableist logic of capitalist commodification underwrites the management of multispecies actants in the woods. I read against the grain of the trail in search of feminist, crip, posthumanist configurations of interdependence and more fluid human–nature boundaries. I argue that cripping the Austin requires questioning the unevenness of disability access as well as the utilitarian ideas of nature presented on the trail while also imagining how we might access and relate to this postindustrial forest otherwise.

James Keating, “Winning the vote in a ‘world without welfare’: Aotearoa New Zealand from representative government to a universal franchise, 1840-1933,” in Suffrage, Capital, and Welfare: Conditional Citizenship in Historical Perspective, eds. Fia Cottrell-Sundevall and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir (Palgrave Macmillan), 81-106. OA

Michael Kochenash, “The Census in Luke 2: Using Josephus to Make Sense of Luke’s Irreconcilable Chronology,” Journal of Biblical Literature 143 (2024): 503-22. OA

Luke’s reference to the census administered by Quirinius presents a difficulty to historians, as it places Jesus’s birth ten years later than the synchronisms in Luke 1 and 3 indicate. Because the Lukan narratives sometimes exhibit flexibility with respect to historical chronology (e.g., Acts 5:35–37), it is possible to read the census as signaling something other than the date of Jesus’s birth. I argue that, for an audience familiar with Josephus’s treatment of Judas the Galilean in book 18 of Jewish Antiquities, the alignment of Jesus’s birth with Quirinius’s census can be understood as signaling the Lukan Jesus’s association with the destruction of Jerusalem.

Kendra Preston Leonard, “Shakespeare, the Early Modern, and Period Song in the American Silent Cinema,” in History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image and Media, ed. James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, Alexander Robinson, and Adam Whittaker (Routledge)

Kendra Preston Leonard, “Imagining Women’s Archives of Silent Film Music,” Feminist Media Histories 10, no. 2/3 (Spring/Summer 2024), 61-86. OA

Although women comprised the majority of American cinema accompanists during the silent film period (c. 1895–1927), few of their music libraries or compositions have survived, whereas collections created by male cinema musicians dominate the silent film music archives. Women musicians suggested, shaped, and helped define the musical tastes of the time; educated listeners; and showed how music could serve as a creative, narrative, and interpretative force in the cinema. I offer an accounting of extant collections by women accompanists and read their contents and contexts from a feminist perspective. Using hints and fragments found in letters, period trade journals, and catalogs, I then speculate on an imaginary archive, one that collects music composed or played by female silent film musicians whose work has been lost to us, but whose influence in the development of film music is unmistakable.

Mark Liebenrood, “Museum Closure in the UK: Themes, Issues, and Trends,” Museum & Society 22 (2024) OA

Museum closure has received little attention within museum studies. In this article I set out some of the main themes and issues that pertain to museum closure, with examples drawn mainly from the UK. Closure is difficult to define precisely, and in some cases it is also hard to date with accuracy, but I present a way of defining closure that focusses on museum sites. I also outline a typology of closures, distinguished using differing levels of impact and loss of access. Recent data makes it possible to analyse the trends of opening and closing in the sector during a period of over sixty years, and shows that, partly due to increasing closures, the sector has shown signs of stasis, if not shrinkage.

Victoria Plutshack & Ashton Merck, “Women Work Particularly Well in Community Organizations: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women’s Club, 1939-1940.” Agricultural History 98, no. 2 (2024): 147-186.

From 1939 to 1941, the US Rural Electrification Administration conducted a nationwide educational campaign to share the benefits of electricity with rural Americans, known as the Electric Farm Equipment Show. A key part of the show was a series of appliance schools, which were run by female home economists and designed for a female audience. This article examines an appliance school organized for one REA women’s club and the efforts of officials like REA chief home electrification specialist Clara O. Nale to navigate the disconnect between the official REA project, which assumed a gendered division of labor, and the real needs of the farm women they served. Through the Comanche County REA Women’s Club, the article explores how REA administrators imagined that women would participate in its cooperative-led electrification efforts, women’s engagement with and resistance to the REA’s programming, and how technology adoption was ultimately mediated through women’s priorities.

Sarah Pickman, “The benefit of chocolate and cold tea: equipping early British Everest expeditions,” in Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, eds. Paul Gilchrist, Peter Hansen and Jonathan Westaway (University of Manchester Press), 79-93.

Marc Reyes, “Independent India: Hawkish Neighbors and Few Friends,” in Handbook of Indian History, ed. Lavanya Vemsani (Springer Nature), 413-440.

Morgan L. Ridgway, “Compulsory Etiquette: Emotionality and the Constraints of Urban Indigenous Life,” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 52, no. 3 (2024): 85-100.

The infrastructures of urban Indigenous life are marked by a type of dissonance that constantly confronts settler narratives of who and how Indigenous peoples are. The myriad violences that mark colonial power order urban Indigenous life within an unbearable nexus of assimilation, terror, and dispossession. Such violence places considerable demands on Indigenous peoples’ social and material worlds, such that the pressures to visualize, embody, and narrate Indigeneity in the service of a multicultural state are unending. In this article, I outline the politics of emotionality as both threatening to the settler state and a fissure that reveals a desiring for another world. I examine the fixation on the bickering in community meetings at the only urban Indian center in Philadelphia during the 1970s and 1980s to take stock of the ways negative affect is a signal of Indigenous refusals of settler values and marks the city as a zone of affective struggle. The contracts into which Indigenous peoples enter as forms of material survival get leveraged by the state, which demands Indigenous people relinquish sovereignty over their bodies. In the process, the state continues its primary mission to destabilize Indigenous community development and deny the possibilities of futurity. Yet, as Indigenous people push against settler-colonial regulations, the outbursts generated from bickering are affects at the point of refusal of the settler state to determine the totality of Indigenous life. Thus, negative affect, while tense, can generate community by offering an opportunity to reconfigure the terms of social life according to multitribal dialogue as a move toward reclaiming the future.

Natalie Shibley, “Policing Venereal Disease at Fort Huachuca, 1941-1945,” Journal of Military History 88, no. 2 (April 2024): 367-397.

This article discusses the racialization of venereal disease during World War II at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the installation with the largest number of African American troops, arguing that medical and law enforcement surveillance overlapped in venereal disease prevention efforts in ways unique to the post’s location and racial demographics. It analyzes how military and civilian agencies attempted to limit venereal disease and how Black officers and enlisted men and women responded to and influenced these policies. The U.S. Army used statistics to construct venereal disease as a racially specific problem and developed venereal disease education efforts at the post. Gendered effects of venereal disease control policy included a proposal to quarantine civilian women within the post hospital. As the army tried to maintain racial, gender, and geographic boundaries, the biomedical and carceral technologies used to police venereal disease grew more similar.

Clare Stainthorp, “Periodical Form and Chatterton’s Commune, the Atheistic Communistic Scorcher (1884–1895) ‘the most Unique Production of the—Nineteenth Century’” Media History 30, no. 2 (2024): 148-170. OA

Chatterton’s Commune, the Atheistic Communistic Scorcher (1884–1895) was a journal that troubled the boundaries of nineteenth-century print culture. Ostensibly a periodical, with all the associated markers of form and content (from masthead to ‘To Correspondents’ column), it might alternatively be considered an expanded broadside, a pamphlet series, or even a proto-zine. This article’s close consideration of this publication elaborates upon what the periodical form enabled for Daniel Chatterton—its impoverished editor, sole author, typesetter, printer, and distributor—as a tool of political agitation during the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the publication’s materialities of print and production, its resistance to ephemerality (of both print and working-class lives), and Chatterton’s aspirations towards radical communality, it argues that by pushing at the limits of freedom of thought Chatterton’s Commune brings into focus the perceived power of periodicals at the end of the nineteenth century.

Carolien van Zoest, “The Ancient Near East and Egypt in the Netherlands. Overview of Dutch Societies and Initiatives in the 19th and 20th Century,” in Oriental Societies and Societal Self-Assertion: Associations, Funds and Societies for the Archaeological Exploration of the Ancient Near East, eds. Thomas L. Gertzen and Olaf Matthes (Zaphon), 269-303. OA

Xinyi Wen, “When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment,” 85, no. 2 (January 2024):321-355. OA

As disenchantment began to be recognized as a recurring, never-ending process in recent scholarship, “When Jupiter Meets Saturn” argues that Aby Warburg and Karl Sudhoff’s debate on Reformation astrological medicine provided a new theory of the emergence of modern science and rationality. Drawing on their encounter and divergence in interwar Germany, especially their curatorial collaboration for the 1911 Internationale Hygiene-Ausstellung, the article shows that Warburg and Sudhoff generated completely opposite historical evaluations of astrological medicine using the very same materials. Approaching history as healers, they developed different ways of seeing from medical epistemologies and brought out entangled temporalities from images.

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