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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

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

Taylor & Francis

Corporate, corporal, collective: Reflections on bodies, genres, and the ongoing troubling of the categories of religion and the secular

By Pamela E. Klassen

Religion

Back to the land and waters: futures for the study of religions

By Pamela E. Klassen

Black Camera

For the Culture, For the Future: Keeping Black Time in Jay-Z’s 4:44

By Lauren McLeod Cramer

Bloomsbury Publishing

Contraception and the Coming of Secularism: Reconsidering Reproductive Freedom as Religious Freedom

By Pamela E. Klassen

Taylor & Francis

Making “Man in the Arctic”: academic and military entanglements, 1944–49

By Matthew Farish

The University of Chicago Press

The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land

By Pamela E. Klassen

Bloomsbury Publishing

Race, Resistance and Violence in Cartoons

By Nicholas Sammond

Feminist Media Histories

Meeting in the Archive: Commix and Collecting as Community

By Nicholas Sammond

The University of Chicago Press

Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State

By Pamela E. Klassen

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Icons of Catastrophe: Diagramming Blackness in Kahlil Joseph’s Until the Quiet Comes

By Lauren McLeod Cramer

Black Camera

The Black (Universal) Archive and the Architecture of Black Cinema

By Lauren McLeod Cramer

Routledge

University Technology Transfer: The globalization of academic innovation

By Shiri Breznitz

Stanford University Press

The Fountain of Knowledge: The Role of Universities in Economic Development

By Shiri Breznitz

Springer

Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion: Potentials and Challenges of Diversity

By Jeffrey G. Reitz

Oxford University Press

Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada’s Unfinished Democracy

By Sylvia Bashevkin

UBC Press

Opening Doors Wider: Women’s Political Engagement in Canada

By Sylvia Bashevkin

UBC Press

The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science

By Linda White, Robert C. Vipond & Richard Simeon

University of Toronto Press

Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States

By David Rayside

Oxford University Press

Women, Politics, and Public Policy: The Political Struggles of Canadian Women

By Linda White