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The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is an interdisciplinary research center and intellectual community at the University of Virginia committed to understanding contemporary cultural change and its wide-ranging individual and social consequences.

Research Fellow Matthew Crawford has a book out this month from Penguin, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work.

New to the Media Archive: Fellows Wilson Brissett, Scott Nesbit, Chris Nichols, and Andrew Witmer are moving on to positions with the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Richmond, the Penn Humanities Forum, and the United States Air Force Academy. Listen to interviews with these fellows (by clicking on their names) in which they talk about their projects, time at the Institute, and future plans.

Current Issue:

Youth Culture

This issue explores how teenagers use the internet, the new political engagement of young voters, the withering of adulthood, the creation and history of “adolescence,” how anxiety and performance are medicalized for today’s students, and the emergence of a world youth culture. Order individual essays, single issues, and yearly subscriptions here.

Current Issue:

Crisis

Read cultural commentary on the financial crisis including “A Bailout of a Different Sort” and “Forgetting the Obvious.” Read the entire issue here, or use our order form to request a free subscription.

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