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Sujata Massey sits in her living room next to a stack of books
Murder, she writes
Published Summer 2023
Mystery writer Sujata Massey's sleuths solve crime from contemporary Japan to colonial India / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Book cover of 'Half-Life of a Stolen Sister'
A Brontë Redux
Published Summer 2023
New fiction by Rachel Cantor, A&S '98 (MA), reimagines the lives of the Brontë siblings / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Gregory Smaldone
Society of Fellows
New avenues for humanities expertise
Published June 14, 2023
Grad students in history, English, Assyriology, and political science awarded Krieger School fellowships combining research with hands-on experience
Sigrid Edson
Arts+Humanities
Playwright wins Sudler Prize
Published June 12, 2023
A member of the Class of 2023, Sigrid Edson received the Sudler Prize in recognition of her plays about the LGBTQ+ community
An illustration of a person surrounded by flags of the United States
Voices
Justice for all?
Published June 7, 2023
Political scientist and sociologist Vesla Weaver listens to the voices of people whose experience of democracy, citizenship, and government is completely different from that of those not living under police surveillance
Kay Jamison
Psychiatry
A history of healing
Published May 31, 2023
Kay Redfield Jamison discusses her latest book, which takes a nonlinear approach to cataloguing the history of psychotherapy
Billie Holiday, age 2
ARTS+CULTURE
New details of Billie Holiday's early life
Published April 11, 2023
With a newly acquired collection of Billie Holiday biographical materials, JHU historians are piecing together details about the jazz singer's largely unknown early life in Baltimore
A student sits at a table with a laptop computer and speaks with an instructor standing next to her
Hard histories
Students discover stories of girls who lived at former Hopkins orphanage
Published April 5, 2023
The course is part of the ongoing Hard Histories at Hopkins project, which examines the role that racism and discrimination have played at the institution
Restaurateur Dharshan Munidasa smiles while holding a bowl of crabs
The accidental (crab) chef
Published Spring 2023
Today, alum Dharshan Munidasa owns a dozen fine-dining restaurants stretching from Mumbai to Bangkok. He owes it all to the Hopkins dining hall. Well, sort of. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Two people sitting at a patio table enjoying a cup of espresso
A short (or tall) history of the espresso bar
Published Spring 2023
Espresso culture is so ubiquitous that many of us have our own machines sitting on kitchen counters. But how did we get here? / Johns Hopkins Magazine