Our Department has been especially busy in recent times, publishing work that reflects our wide gamut of interests. Check out what we have been up to lately!

May 2026

• Arceño, Mark Anthony. "On Being Influenced: Consuming, Producing, and Performing Recipes on Social Media." The Recipes Project special issue, "Modern Personal Recipe Collections."
• Dew, Spencer. "A Clash of Laws: Introduction to the Symposium." Religious Studies Review symposium, "Christian Visions of Law and/beyond the State."
• Dew, Spencer. "Media and Religious Minorities." Religious Minorities Online. 
• Ibrahim, Shurouq. Parray, Tauseef Ahmad. Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century. Arab Studies Quarterly book review.
• Obeid, Noor. "The Mediterranean Seen from Lebanon." Al Markaz Review issue on the Mediterranean. (The prints discussed in Noor's article may be viewed in person on our Comparative Studies Gallery Wall.)

April 2026

• Abdelqader, Thorayah, with Andrew Mitchel. "Flavors of adaptation: Columbus, Ohio, as a stage of interaction for Mediterranean and Mexican restauranteurs." Food, Culture & Society.
• Truong, Van My. "Riding in Cars with Prince." Chapter in Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince. (Duke)
• Watson, Julia. “What Is a Pandemic Good For? Blurred Days and Live Memories.” Memoir-essay in Writing COVID-19 Lives. (Routledge)

March 2026

• Banks, Adam. "From the ‘R’ Word to the ‘S’ Word: Mike Epps’s Comedic Commentary on Subjectivity." Journal of African American Studies.

February 2026

• Banks, Adam, with Ahura Sultan. “Minor Revolution: From Marxist Hermeneutics to Wayward Theology.” Political Theology.

December 2025

• Arceño, Mark Anthony, with Nicholas C. Kawa, Michelle Menkoff, Prabhjot Singh, and Christine D. Sprunger. "A spectrum of climate change adaptation: reactive and proactive responses to extreme weather in annual and perennial cropping systems in Ohio." Environmental Research: Food Systems special issue, "Sustainable Food Systems in a Changing Climate."

November 2025

October 2025

• Akbarian, Shaida, with P. Khalil Saucier, and Tryon P. Woods. "On the drag of the ship(ped)." Social & Cultural Geography.