Recent Publications
Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. “Decolonial Queer Futures in No Hard Feelings [Faraz Shariat, Futur Drei 2020].” EuropeNow. Special Feature on European Culture and the Moving Image. Eds. Ipek Çelik Rappas, Michael Gott and Randall Halle. Sec. Research. No. 43, September 2021. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2021/09/13/decolonial-queer-futures-in-no-hard-feelings-faraz-shariat-futur-drei-2020/
Carrie Smith, Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. “Intimate Collaborations and Feminist Gatherings: A Manifesto for a Coalitional Academy.” Feminist German Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, University of Nebraska Press, June 2020, pp. 128–43. https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2020.0010 .
Beverly Weber. “Intersectionality and Refugee Justice: Feminist Approaches to Insecurity and Precarity.” The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies. Eds S. A. Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara Motta, and Barry K. Gills. Routledge, 2020: pp. 444-459.
Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. “Gifts of Welcome: Precarity, Intimacy, and the Gift in Die Farbe des Ozeans (Peren, 2011) and Welcome (Lioret, 2009).” Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, edited by Temenuga Trifonova, vol. 18, 2020: pp. 69-83. https://doi.org/10.1386/nl_00014_1
Beverly Weber. “Islamophobia East-West and the Politics of Hospitality in Contemporary Germany.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2020: pp. 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2019.1651700 (Online publication 2019)
“Refugees and Islam: Representing Race, Rights, Cohabitation.” Journalism, Gender and Power. Eds. Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner and Stuart Allan. Routledge, 2019.
“Introduction: Precarity/Heimatlosigkeit.” Seminar, A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, 2018: pp. 411 – 417. With Gabi Kathöfer. [read more]
“Heimat, Sustainability, Community: A Conversation with Karina Griffith and Peggy Piesche.” Seminar, A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, 2018: pp. 418 – 427. With Gabi Kathöfer. [read more]
“Precarious Intimacies: Politics and Solidarities in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn.” Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Yearbook, vol. xvii, 2018. pp. 115-113. [read more]
“Das Buch verbindet erstmals für den deutschen Kontext aktivistische und wissenschaftliche Perspektiven…
"Das Buch verbindet erstmals für den deutschen Kontext aktivistische und wissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Rassismus in Polizei und Justiz. Es bezieht Position gegen eine verkürzte Debatte über „Racial Profiling“. Die einzelnen Beiträge geben einen Einblick in...
“Women of color earn only 67 cents on the dollar compared with white men in the higher-education work…
"Women of color earn only 67 cents on the dollar compared with white men in the higher-education work force.""Women of color are underrepresented in academe, compared with their representation in the U.S. population at large — especially in more...
“And the major with the fewest underemployed graduates, according to the report, was “Foreign Languages…
"And the major with the fewest underemployed graduates, according to the report, was “Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics.”In other words, for every cliché of a barista or bartender with a liberal arts degree, there were ten with a degree in...
How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice
How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal AdviceA PhD student approached me after a writing workshop to recount his tale of woe. “I write these messy, incoherent first drafts,” he lamented. “They’re absolutely awful! Then I have to work on them …This was...
“In the process, I’ve learned that, while everyone has a unique career path, Ph.D.s who find success…
"In the process, I’ve learned that, while everyone has a unique career path, Ph.D.s who find success outside of academe share several common traits: They take the initiative and are open to saying yes (and I’m not just referring to luck). They are willing to...
“To read white racist vitriol can be traumatic. To hear white racist vitriol intensifies the impact…
"To read white racist vitriol can be traumatic. To hear white racist vitriol intensifies the impact. One listens to the inflection of the voice, its volume, its nervousness and hatred, its terror. I registered the wounds...
Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires | Aeon Ideas
Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires | Aeon IdeasA company culture built on metrics of success promotes short-termism, loses staff, and contributes to economic stagnationThis was posted on Google+
3 Things to Keep Me From Rolling My Eyes at Your White Privilege
3 Things to Keep Me From Rolling My Eyes at Your White PrivilegeGabriella Cazares-Kelly, a community organizer from the Tohono O’odham Nation, presents three best practices for White allies trying to meaningfully engage with people from underrepresented groups at...
PHOTOS: Since Standing Rock, 56 Bills Have Been Introduced in 30 States to Restrict Protests
PHOTOS: Since Standing Rock, 56 Bills Have Been Introduced in 30 States to Restrict ProtestsIn the year since the last activists were evicted, the crackdown on journalists and activists has only intensified.This was posted on Google+
Use your white privilege to fight racism – The Boston Globe
Use your white privilege to fight racism - The Boston GlobeThis was posted on Google+