''Public Culture'' is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September—by

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. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at

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. A four-time CELJ award winner, ''Public Culture'' has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for more than twenty-five years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and both well-established and younger scholars, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of ''Public Culture''. The journal was established in 1988 by anthropologists Carol Breckenridge and

Arjun Appadurai Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization. He is the f ...

. Professor of

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and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University Eric Klinenberg served as Public Culture's

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from 2010 to 2015, during which time he initiated the online book review offshoot ''Public Books''.Monaghan, Peter.
Cultural-Studies Journal Gets Revamped for a 'Different Intellectual Moment'
" ''

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'' (Washington, D.C.) May 13, 2012. From 2015 to 2019, ''Public Culture'' was edited by

Shamus Khan Shamus Rahman Khan (born October 8, 1978) is an American sociologist. He is a professor of sociology and American Studies at Princeton University. Formerly he served as chair of the sociology department at Columbia University. He writes on elites ...

, Professor of Sociology at

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. Since 2020, the journal is edited by

and Erica Robles-Anderson, Professors of Media, Culture, and Communication at

. ''Public Culture'' received awards for Best New Journal in 1992 and Best Special Issue in 2000 from The Council of Editors of Learned Journals. In 2013, the same body named ''Public Culture'' co-winner of the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement, recognizing the journal's revitalization and transformation with a "marked emphasis on accessibility and broader relevance." The journal has also been reviewed in the ''Times Literary Supplement''.Danchev, Alex. "Social studies." '' Times Literary Supplement'' (London, England) November 3, 2006: 23-24.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
'. Retrieved March 14, 2013.

''Public Books''

Founded in 2012 by editors-in-chief Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom, ''

Public Books ''Public Books'' is an American book review website that publishes accessible reviews written by academics and public intellectuals. Overview Founding editors Caitlin Zaloom, and Sharon Marcus launched ''Public Books'' in mid-2012 to "give sch ...

'' supports an international community of emerging and established intellectuals and artists committed to vigorous debate about works and ideas that deserve timely, intensive discussion. The online journal is independently edited but affiliated with ''Public Culture''. ''Public Books'' welcomes proposals for review essays about books (fiction or nonfiction), films, exhibitions, or plays, as well as profiles of intellectuals or literary scenes, visual essays, and multimedia work.

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