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I’ve done loads of great interviews this year but this one with Eva Payne is one of my favourites: open.spotify.com/episode/2CXMp7…

My book is out today! It's a history of mass incarceration and deportation told through the stories of migrants in American jails. I am really proud of it and would love to talk about it with students, colleagues, lawyers, activists, anyone! amazon.com/Migrants-Jail-…

UPCOMING GUEST ALERT 🚨 Erin Hutchinson is an ASEEES and Levin Article Prize winning author, and professor of Soviet history at CU Boulder 🦬. She authored “Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period"

This book is so brilliant and has really shaped my thinking. Very excited to get a hard copy!!

Great review of The Right to Oblivion by John Kaag in the Atlantic! It's still very strange & wonderful suddenly to have writers whose books I've read & admired now reading & writing about mine

I had a great conversation with Javier Mejia!

In Empire of Purity, @evabpayne traces how the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empire. Tying the war on sexual vice to American imperial ambitions, this important book arrives November 12. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02Wdvhh0

Come see me tonight novel. with Cookie Woolner !

Empire of Purity is here! Thanks Princeton University Press

Come see me and Tess Lefmann Tuesday evening! Square Books Princeton University Press

Doing that past is present thing

The control of women’s bodies, under the guise of protection, has been a crucial part of how US power has operated and expanded on the global stage. Americans’ war on prostitution in the early twentieth century helped to cement this pattern. hubs.ly/Q02YRGm50

✨ Very excited that my book proofs have arrived! “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice” will be out in May from Duke University Press ✨ It’s starting to feel real!

Thanks to Rebecca Mead for her fantastic review of Empire of Purity in the The New Yorker! newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

very excited about this !!

Had a great conversation with Miranda Melcher for the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) !

In the early 20th century an emergent U.S. empire defined itself as rooted in sexual purity. Historian Eva Payne describes how a heavy price for this notion of American exceptionalism was paid by women in the United States and abroad. kpfa.org/episode/agains…

E214 - The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution w/ Eva Payne Eva Payne is on the show to talk about her book "Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution"!