1. Learning from the Black Radical Tradition: Theory and Method in Historical Sociology • Ricarda Hammer, UC Berkeley; José Itzigsohn, Brown University.

2. A Program for Critical Studies of Finance: Revisiting Arrighi’s Theory of Financialization • Conrad Jacober, Johns Hopkins University.

3. Ethics of Archives: Improving Historical Social Science Through the Consideration of Research on Violence • Aliza Luft, University of California, Los Angeles.

4. Beyond Cleopatra’s Nose: An Invitation to Dialectical Analysis • Simeon J. Newman, Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie, Universität Heidelberg.