Center for the Study of Guns & Society at Wesleyan Newsletter – March/April 2023 Dear All, As the Center for the Study of Guns & Society (CSGS) marks its one-year anniversary…
Joseph Slaughter, associate director of the Center for the Study of Guns & Society, was recently interviewed by Current—an online journal of commentary and opinion on contemporary culture, politics, and…
Since the Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the expertise of those who study history and laws related to firearms in…
Wesleyan students visiting Colt Park. In its Winter 2022–23 newsletter, the National Park Service highlighted a budding partnership between the Center for the Study of Guns & Society at Wesleyan…
The following article by Joseph Slaughter, associate director, Center for the Study of Guns & Society, was recently published by The Conversation U.S. Joseph P. Slaughter, Wesleyan University Uncommon Courses…
Center for the Study of Guns & Society at Wesleyan Newsletter – January 2023 Dear friends, Happy 2023! As the new year kicks off, we are writing to express gratitude…
A U.S. Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi has cited a book co-edited by Jennifer Tucker, founding director of the Center for the Study of Guns & Society, in…
On October 14–15, 2022, the Center for the Study of Guns & Society hosted its inaugural fall conference, “Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society.” With sessions on…
In 2022, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to support the Carceral Connecticut Project (CCP) at Wesleyan University, an interdisciplinary project to investigate the state’s…
Moderator: Sean McCann (Wesleyan University) Panelists: Demetrius L. Eudell (Wesleyan University): “Carceral Connecticut Project: The History of Race, Violence, and Capitalism in the Connecticut River Valley” Joshua Aiken (Yale University):…









