Love and Degradation

Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art

William J. Simmons

“Simmons’s Love and Degradation is a must-read for those of us engaged in examining art, literature, and pop culture through the lens of queer and feminist theory. His writing is engagingly and deeply personal.”—Joey Soloway, artist, activist, TV/film producer

Collective Courage

A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

First published in 2014, Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s Collective Courage quickly became an important tool for understanding the history of cooperative economic enterprises in the African American community. This now-classic work recounts how African Americans benefited greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.

Cervantine Blackness

Nicholas R. Jones

“Cervantine Blackness dazzles: a fearless second book that invokes Black studies to explode its disciplinary paradigms. This book interrogates the complex archival and transhistorical roles that Blackness, Black people, and Black scholars navigate, refusing the easy legibility of the frameworks of agency versus oppression. Nicholas R. Jones’s searing indictment of early modern Iberian studies bursts forth from the confines of his previous scholarly skin much like the serpentine imagery that propels his reevaluation of the Cervantine.”—Xine Yao, author of Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

Religion on the Margins

Embodied Moravian Pieties on the Edges of Atlantic World Empire

Benjamin M. Pietrenka

“This is a monumental study that has cohesively woven together the complexities of eighteenth-century Moravian evangelization to the missionized communities of enslaved Africans and Indigenous groups. . . . The work exposes the racial biases and prejudices that starkly contradict the valued spiritual equality of Moravianism and instead reveal a proto-racist mission.”—Winelle Kirton-Roberts, author of Created in Their Image: Evangelical Protestantism in Antigua and Barbados, 1834–1914

Congratulations to Adam Jasienski, whose book Praying to Portraits has been awarded the 2024 Roland H. Bainton Prize in Art and Music History from The Sixteenth Century Society!

Congratulations to Paul Lynch, whose book Persuasions of God is the winner of the 2024 Book Award from the Religious Communication Association!

Congratulations to Jennifer Borland, whose book Visualizing Household Health is the winner of the 2024 Best First Book of Feminist Scholarship of the Middle Ages award from the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship!

Congratulations to Ran Segev, whose book Sacred Habitat received an honorable mention for the 2024 Roland H. Bainton Prize in Theology from The Sixteenth Century Society!

We are excited to announce a partnership between Journal of General Education and the Association for General and Liberal Studies (AGLS). Beginning 2025, AGLS individual and institutional members will receive special benefits to the journal online and additional discounts.

We are very happy to welcome Elise Unterseher, our new Journals Production Coordinator! Elise relocated from Minnesota at the end of October and has hit the ground running ever since. Welcome, Elise!

The most recent title to join our portfolio of journals, Nursing History Review, is publishing their first issue in January! We will also be posting two of the most recent print only volumes online.

We are pleased to announce that five of our journals will publish one article each open access in 2025, thanks to funds received from the 2023 University Libraries Giving Tuesday campaign. Thank you to all who donated for opening access to scholarly publications!

Boschwitz on Wellhausen

The Life, Work, and Letters of a Jewish Scholar in Nazi Germany

Paul Michael Kurtz and Friedemann Boschwitz

“A major contribution to intellectual history for the fields of biblical studies, history of religions, and German Jewish studies. Paul Michael Kurtz brings a fascinating wealth of archival material together that sheds light on a crucial period of modern German research. This volume helps break Julius Wellhausen out of the boxes that he has generally been placed in and provides a much more integrated reading of his work and thought.”—Bernard M. Levinson, coeditor of Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich

Royal Image and Political Thinking in the Letters of Assurbanipal

Sanae Ito

The correspondence of Assurbanipal constitutes an essential resource for knowledge of his reign. It consists of 345 letters: 100 letters from Assurbanipal (the so-called royal letters) and 245 letters addressed to him. Assurbanipal’s royal letters deal with political, military, and diplomatic matters from the king’s point of view and in his own words. The aim of this volume is to determine the image that Assurbanipal attempted to convey in his letters and to investigate the ways in which he utilized this image to advance Assyrian policies.

Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches

Yazan Al-Saadi

“An exciting, informative collection of graphic journalism.”—Foreword Reviews

Shrink

Story of a Fat Girl

Rachel M. Thomas

“Nuanced and vulnerable, this succeeds as both a body-politics primer and a personal story of the rocky path to self-acceptance.”—Publishers Weekly