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Research

Affiliated faculty and researchers: please contact us at csus@utoronto.ca to have your latest publications added to this page.

Our research philosophy

The Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS) serves as a leading hub for scholarship and teaching on American politics, society, history, and culture. Bringing together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities, we highlight and promote research about the United States and its role in the world.

Recent Publications

University of Chicago Press Journals

Critical Response IV: This Photo Does Not Exist: Generativity and the AI Gaze

By Avery Slater

The Journal of Politics

The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions

By Jared J. Finnegan, Phillip Y. Lipscy, Jonas Meckling, and Florence Metz

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Crossroads of Music and Literature: New Essays on the Muse of Song

By Kelly Baron and Andrew DuBois

Religious Studies Review

Centipedes, AI, and Multiple Emilys: A Conversation about Pedagogy and the Study of Religion

By Ken Derry and Emily Gravett

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions

Film Studies

By Ken Derry, Gabriel Estrada, and Jon Ivan Gill

The National Teaching & Learning Forum

Learning through Failure across the Disciplines

By Fiona Rawle, Nicole Laliberté, Mairi Cowan, Ken Derry, Dan Guadagnolo

The Conversation

Is the End Looming for Canada’s border Pre-Clearance Program with the United States?

By Emily Gilbert

Institute of Race Relations

Seeding the Divide: John Tanton, the Sierra Club and the Struggle Over US Environmentalism

By Emine Fidan Elcioglu

University of Calgary Press

The Next War: Indications Intelligence in the Early Cold War

By Timothy Andrews Sayle

The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville

Inscrutable Malice: Moby Dick and the Resistance to Capital

By Paul Downes

The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville

Typee and Trees

By Melissa Gniadek

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Variation All the Way Down: Charting the Subnational Trajectories of School Choice Policy across and within Multicultural Democracies

By Salar Asadolahi, James Farney, Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, Linda A. White

Progress in Economic Geography

A Role for Economic Geographers in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Framework: Global Pipelines and the Mobility Challenge

By Jan Jacob Vogelaar and Shiri Breznitz  

Population Research and Policy Review

Children’s Pathways of Exposure to Child Protective Services Over the Life Course and by Race/Ethnicity

By Amanda Sheely, Frank Edwards & Kelley Fong 

Critical Studies in Media Communication

“This is real beauty”: Pushing the Boundaries of Aesthetic Citizenship Online

By Jordan Foster and David Pettinicchio

Communication Research

Promoting Mis/Disinformation Literacy Among Adults: A Scoping Review of Interventions and Recommendations

By Megan Boler, Hoda Gharib, Yoon-Ji Kweon, Amanda Trigiani, and Barbara Perry

PNAS Nexus

Big Cities Fuel Inequality Within and Ccross Generations

By Dylan S Connor, Siqiao Xie, Jiwon Jang, Amy E Frazier, Peter Kedron, Garima Jain, Yilei Yu, Tom Kemeny

SSHRC KSG Report

Beyond Disinformation: Identarian Narratives meet Authoritarian Practices, Lawfare and Marketcraft

By Burchell, K., Ross, J., Tolz, V., Yu, S., Amundson, J., Ding L., Forgacs, H., Kindarji, V., Korotaev, R., Markelov, M., Rodriguez, S., Scarff, S. & Zabalueva, A., with Hutchings S. and Conduit, D