CSGS’s popular annual fall conference is on hiatus in 2026 as Jennifer Tucker takes a well-deserved sabbatical. The conference will return in October 2027, and CSGS will provide additional details…
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CSGS is completing a two year, in-depth study of 18th and 19th century firearms laws and culture and will unveil the project website, firearmslaws.com, with a webinar on Monday, October 5 at 12pm EDT….
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The Fort Ticonderoga Museum seeks proposals for the Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum. In print since 1927, the Bulletin is the museum’s venerable publication and will embark upon a…
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Since announcing the Troy and de Wit Grant Fund for the Study of Guns & Society in early 2026, four Wesleyan students have been named as Troy de Wit Research…
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Building a curriculum that encourages students to use diverse research methods to understand the relationship of firearms to American life: That’s been a central tenet of the Center for the…
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Catherine Fletcher recently published her new book, The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, from Princeton University Press. Fletcher explores the emergence of firearms in Renaissance Italy…
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Brennan Gardner Rivas and Joseph Stoltz, who both served as postdoctoral researchers, have accepted new positions that build on their work with CSGS. Rivas, who was a senior postdoctoral researcher…
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Evan Turiano, visiting assistant professor of public policy and law at Trinity College (Hartford), has been named as the new associate director of the Center for the Study of Guns…
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CSGS is pleased to announce that Kelsey Hanson Woodruff will join the center in July as a postdoctoral faculty researcher for a pilot project titled “Moving Past God and Guns:…
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April 29, 2026 Wesleyan University Press is pleased to announce the launch of Sight Lines, a new book series devoted to vital scholarship on the significance of firearms in society,…