Grace Davie, a historian of modern Africa, recently published an article entitled, “From Poverty Lines to Equal Pay for Equal Work: Commensuration Struggles in Apartheid South Africa.” It appeared in the volume edited by Massimo Asta and Pedro Ramos Pinto, The Value of Work Since the 18th Century: Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory (Bloomsbury Academic Press).

Julia Sneeringer, who works on popular culture in twentieth-century Germany, published an article entitled, “Glitter and Post-Punk Doom: Babylon Berlin through the Lens of 1980s’ West Berlin.” It appeared in the volume Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture, edited by Hester Baer and Jill Suzanne Smith (also Bloomsbury). Fun fact: Sneeringer consulted her Queens History colleague Peter Conolly-Smith, who grew up in West Berlin and (mis)spent his youth in some of the nightclubs referenced in the article….