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Research

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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

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 Cross Generations

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

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy

Pragmatism, Truth, and Politics

By Cheryl Misak and Robert B. Talisse

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

Journal of Economic History

The Model T

By Shari Eli, Joshua K. Hausman, and Paul W. Rhode 

The Review of Economic Studies

The Long-Run Labour Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

By Brian K Kovak and Peter M Morrow

The Leviathan

The "Mystical Cosmetic": White Light and the Ideology of Energy in Moby-Dick

By Paul Downes

Television & New Media (TVNM)

“When That Memory Fills Me With Horror and Dread, I Do the Cringe”: Retrospective Temporality in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and PEN15

By Corinn Columpar

Journal of American Ethnic History

Rethinking the History of Multiculturalism: New Perspectives on American Pluralist Ideologies

By Russell Kazal

Antipode

Racial Frontiers: Hemispheric Logics of Haitians’ Displacement and Asylum in the Americas

By Martha Balaguera, Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Luis van Isschot

Social Problems, Volume 72, Issue 3

Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America

By Emine Fidan Elcioglu

The American Historical Review

“Improper and Almost Rebellious Conduct”: Enslaved People’s Legal Politics and Abolition in the British Empire

By Max Mishler

Duke University Press

Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

By Nicholas Sammond

DeGruyter

Afterword: Double Vision, Double Cross: American Exceptionalism, Borders, and the Study of Religion

By Pamela E. Klassen

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

On Being Late: Cruising Mauna Kea and Unsettling Technoscientific Conquest in Hawai'i

By David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile

NYU Press

Comix

By Nicholas Sammond

Palgrave Macmillan

Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements

By Mark Solovey

The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography

Cold War Planet

By Matthew Farish

JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

The Unruly Archives of Black Music Videos

By Lauren McLeod Cramer

Numen: International Review for the History of Religions

North America, Turtle Island, and the Study of Religion

By Pamela E. Klassen

Stanford University Press

Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World

By Tahseen Shams

University of Missouri Press

Sons of Mad: Harvey Kurtzman and the Rise of Underground Comix (an Alternate-Universe Analysis)

By Nicholas Sammond

McGill-Queen's University Press

Below the Bombs

By Matthew Farish

Duke University Press

Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence

By Nicholas Sammond