There are now fifteen ‘Sunday Histories‘ posted on Progressive Geographies – short essays about something related, directly or indirectly, to my research. I’ve been posting these weekly through 2025. I could have predicted the three on Foucault would get the most interest, but I hope the others are worth reading too. 

So far there are short essays on Arendt, Benveniste, Eco, Foucault, Henning, Jakobson, Kantorowicz, Krell, Koyré, Nabokov, Raucq, Sebeok, Sjoestedt, territory…

On Sunday there will be a short piece on Foucault’s visits to Buffalo in 1970 and 1972 [now here], in advance of a longer piece for Foucault Studies on that topic. I’ll follow that with the text of a recent talk on Benveniste [now here]. Some ideas for the future include pieces on Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeans, Roman Jakobson and politics, Pierre Bourdieu and Erwin Panofsky, Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, more on Alexandre Koyré’s teaching, the murder of Ioan Culianu, and Greek words for a king and their relation to territory.

The full list with links is here.