The author looks at the relationship between two famous early sociological community studies, "Middletown" and "Marienthal." The latter became Paul Lazarsfeld's "ticket out of Europe just as the continent was descending into fascism." Drifting Along: Unemployment and Interwar Social Research, from Marienthal to Muncie Dec 28, 2020 Joseph Malherek
Makes a case for not prejudging people smugglers in history or the testimony they left behind in state police records, using the example of Eastern and Central Europe in the interwar period. Background Knowledge: Interrogating Perceptions of Smugglers with Joseph Roth Oct 30, 2019 Allison Schmidt
The author argues that history must be reconceptualized to include migrants not as extras in a society's history but as constitutive of that society. Her example comes from contemporary Swiss history. Telling History from a Migration Perspective is Not an Add-On Mar 15, 2019 Francesca Falk
Based on fieldwork for her recent book, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for changing the way receiving societies view them by asserting their own perspectives. Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political Jun 20, 2025 Amelie Harbisch