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In Bodies of Evidence (forthcoming 2026), Jaimie Morse (UC Santa Cruz) explores medical justice, global health, and sexual violence through practices and protocols surrounding the r**e kit. This book was supported in part by UCHRI’s Faculty Manuscript Workshop in 2024. To learn more about our Faculty Manuscript Workshop Grant, please visit the link in our bio.

1. Image text: Title page reading “UCHRI Faculty Manuscript Workshop Grant 2024, Jaimie Morse (UC Santa Cruz), Manuscript Workshop Book Highlight.” Cover of Morse’s book, Bodies of Evidence.
2. Image text: “From the publisher: Bodies of Evidence examines the r**e kit as an assemblage of practices and protocols at the nexus of law and medicine. Jaimie Morse traces how this assemblage was championed as a rights project in medicine, moving from the margins to the center of health care responses to sexual violence through new clinical standards of care, first in the United States and then in global humanitarian medicine.”
3. Image text: “From the publisher: The book chronicles a novel process of legal mobilization in medicine and interrogates the existential meanings and stakes of r**e kits, their associated practices, and their underlying assumptions and expectations for survivors of sexual violence.

In Boys Abducted (2025), Abdulhamit Arvas (University of Pennsylvania) tends to the history of abducted boys in English and Ottoman literary and visual culture to examine the relationships between ho******icism, race, and empire in the early modern period. This book was supported in part by a UCHRI Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop grant in 2019-20. To learn more about our faculty manuscript workshop grants, please visit the link in our bio.

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1. Title page reading “UCHRI Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop Grant 2019-20, Abdulhamit Arvas (University of Pennsylvania), Manuscript Workshop Book Highlight.” Cover of Arvas’ book, Boys Abducted.
2. Image text: “The beautiful abducted boy, I argue, is a site for exploring the complex ho******ic subtexts of racial and religious difference and imperial violence in both the emergent empire of England and the far more vast and powerful Ottoman Empire.”
3. Image text: “The abducted boy offers a history of sexuality and race, where the racial and the q***r converge and conflict through the figure of the boy as he circulates in aesthetic, erotic, commercial, and imperial economies.”