We are proud to announce that two of our junior faculty members, Cynthia D. Porter and Juan-Jaques Aupiais, have contributed book reviews to the latest issue of the German Studies Review.

Cynthia reviewed Damani J. Partridge's Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin. Cynthia regards the publication as presenting a "historical framework supported by theoretical investigations of Black experiences with suffering and triumph that have opened Blackness up as utilizable for universal claim in strides for liberation."

J.J. reviewed the edited volume Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections, edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Chunjie Zhang. J.J. writes that the contributions to the volume "shed light on the roles played and situations negotiated by women in colonial contexts of various kinds."