Let me begin with an overview of Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP), which originated from conversations with the Mellon Foundation…
A new vision for scholarly publishing: Access, agency, impact
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
An invitation to imagine Islam anew
It begins with coffee cups. The cover of Shahzad Bashir’s A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures features Lara…
Shahzad Bashir’s invitation to plurality
When I first taught Shahzad Bashir’s interactive book, A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures, my students found it…
A (digital) reformulation of Islamic pasts
Among the reactions to my book A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures, one that stands out especially concerns…
Writing without nets
“Every morning you climb several flights of stairs, enter your study, open the French doors, and slide your desk and…