Books in the Humanities

Author’s Website – Lamis E. Abdelaaty
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This book explores various responses states adopt toward different refugee groups: refugees might be granted protection or turned away; they might be permitted to live where they wish and earn an income, pursue education, and access medical treatment; or, they might be confined to camps and forced to rely on aid while being denied basic services.

Author’s Website – Edwin Federico Ackerman
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Through stories of peasant uprisings in 20th century Latin America, Ackerman illuminates the historical conditions necessary for the emergence of the mass political parties, offering insights into the persistence of parties over time by linking the economic dispossession that creates political blocs, and the political dispossession that produces professional politicians to undertake articulation and create constituencies.

Author's Website -- Abiola Afolayan
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Framed around United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, and other measures on Women, Peace and Security, this manifesto draws on personal global experiences while exploring the influence of Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, Condoleezza Rice, and others.

Author’s Website – Barbara Applebaum
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This book gleans insight from philosophical scholarship that can help respond to the challenges that white complicity creates for pedagogy.

Author’s Website – Mona Awad
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Awad tells the story of a woman at her breaking point in a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain

Author’s Website – Susan Branson
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This volume shows how informal scientific education provided by almanacs, public lectures, and demonstrations generated an enthusiasm for the application of science and technology to civic, commercial, and domestic improvements. Branson also explains how the celebration of discoveries, inventions, and technologies articulated Americans’ earliest ambitions and prejudices throughout the First American Century.

Author’s Website – Brian Brege
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The Grand Duchy of Tuscany pursued global ambitions through abortive attempts at overseas colonization and direct commercial expansion, while in parallel it participated in Europe’s new age of empire without establishing an empire of its own.

Author’s Website – John D. Caputo
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In his substantial new introduction to this acclaimed volume on Derrida, Caputo discusses the original context of the book and traces the development of deconstruction since Derrida’s death in 2004, from the rise of new materialisms to return to religion.

Author’s Website – Lawrence Chua
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This book outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both.

Author’s Website – Christopher DeCorse
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DeCorse examines a complex African settlement on the coast of present-day Ghana from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries using archaeological record, European narratives, and indigenous oral histories. As the first European trading post in sub-Saharan Africa--influenced by Portuguese, Dutch, and British expansion—the region maintained remarkable cultural continuity in the midst of technological change.

Author’s Website – Elisa Macedo Dekaney
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Dekaney’s exploration takes an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing several aspects of Brazilian music, race, and food as a window into understanding Brazilian culture, with music at its core.

Author’s Website – Albrecht Diem
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The book investigates the early monastic experiment to create a perfect community by means of discipline, control, spatial boundaries while also fostering motivation and inciting mutual love.

Author’s Website – David M. Driesen
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Driesen considers how Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans wonder whether our system of checks and balances was robust enough to withstand an onslaught from a despotic chief executive. This volume analyzes the chief executive's role in the democratic decline of Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, arguing that an insufficiently constrained presidency is one of the most important systemic threats to democracy.

Editor’s Website – Kathryn Everly
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Co-editors present a collection of essays by leading scholars on contemporary Spanish poetry.

Author’s Website – James Fathers
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The climate crisis, over population, artificial intelligence, the future of education, cities, transportation, and energy all require that humanity let go of past thinking and inadequate design principles. Co-authors of this book argue for a complete transformation of design thinking for our collective future.

Editor's Website – Beth A. Ferri
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This book gleans insight from philosophical scholarship that can help respond to the challenges that white complicity creates for pedagogy.

Author’s Website – Christopher Forster
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From cinema and radio broadcasting to the growth of new communication technologies, this volume is the first critical guide to key issues and debates on the changing media contexts of modernist writing.

Editor’s Website – Jon Glass
Editor’s Website – Lu Xiao
Editor’s Website – Regina Luttrell
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This edited volume features established researchers who draw on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives to examine social media’s impact on American politics.

Author’s Website – Christopher Green
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This book offers a contemporary look at Somali from the standpoint of its major varieties and provides a comprehensive account of the language that is grounded in linguistic theory and the latest scholarship.

Author’s Website – Ryan D. Griffiths
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Combining original data analysis, fieldwork, interviews with secessionist leaders, and case studies on Catalonia, the Murrawarri Republic, West Papua, Bougainville, New Caledonia, and Northern Cyprus, Griffiths shows how the rules and informal practices of sovereign recognition create a strategic playing field between existing states and aspiring nations.

Author’s Website – Dimitar D. Gueorguiev
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This book explains, through the lens of China, how open governance and modern information technology come together to sustain a tightly controlled but socially responsive system of authoritarianism.

Author’s Website – Kate Hanzalik
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As the arts become an increasingly popular pedagogical tool in writing studies, this text offers scholars and educators in the field ways to leverage the arts for their own scholarship, through the practice of arts-based research.

Author’s Website – Brooks Haxton
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This award-winning poet turns a searching gaze toward the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal, looking back and forward in time, down at the soil, up at the stars, and deeply into personal relationships.

Editor’s Website – Jeanette Jouili
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Contributors to this book investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power.

Author’s Website – Amy Kallander
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Looking at political discourse, the women's press, fashion, and ideas about love, this volume traces how state feminism in Tunisia was reformulated by women through transnational feminist organizing, in the press, with movements across the Middle East and around the globe, in ways that proposed alternatives to hegemonic state narratives.

Editor’s Website – Kenneth G. Kelly
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This volume draws together richly textured and deeply empirical accounts of rice and how its cultivation in the Carolina low country stitch together a globe that maps colonial economies, displacement, and the creative solutions of enslaved people conscripted to cultivate its grain.

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This book focuses on the initial struggle Christianity experienced with Judaism, intensifying a hatred thereof, and settling on a religious dogma of eternal guilt meant to perpetuate antisemitism for eternity, and draws connections to the Arab-Israeli conflict and other tensions, centuries later.

Author’s Website – Radha Kumar
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Caste politics don't exist in a domain separate from the modern state and its law enforcement; rather, the two have shaped each other in twentieth-century India.

Author’s Website – Gregg Lambert
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Lambert offers an unprecedented inquiry into the evolution of Deleuze’s hopes for the revolutionary goals of minor literature and the related notion of the missing people in the conjuncture of contemporary critical theory.

Author’s Website – Gregg Lambert
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This book explores the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations.

Author’s Website – Gregg Lambert
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This rumination radically reorients the future direction of Continental philosophy according to a geo-political image of thought.

Author’s Website – Janet Wilmoth
Author’s Website – Andrew S. London
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This volume fosters an appreciation of how policy influences connect and condition the life course, with chapters relating to health, housing, food security, crime, employment, and care work, amongst other issues.

Author's Website - Regina Luttrell
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The authors explain who Generation-Z is, how they came to be, and the impact they will have on society.

Author’s Website – Robin Paul Malloy
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Malloy’s contemporary interpretation of Adam Smith's work on jurisprudence, reveals Smith's belief that progress emerges from cooperation and a commitment to justice.

Author’s Website – Tessa Murphy
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Murphy explores how creolized communities acted as a practical and ideological challenge to European rule in the early Americas.

Author's Website - Dana Olwan
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Olwan examines how certain forms of violence become known, recognized, and contested across multiple geopolitical contexts, looking specifically at a particular form of gender-based violence known as the ‘honor crime,’ and tracing how a range of legal, political, and literary texts inform normative and critical understandings of this term.

Author’s Website – Glenn Peers
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Byzantine objects were active, autonomous agents, and this book of essays explores how museum displays have addressed that historical context.

Author’s Website – Glenn Peers
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This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees, and it takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement--and even fascination--with the arboreal.

Author’s Website – Kendall R. Phillips
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This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility in contemporary American culture with particular attention to the fantasy of refusal, a dream of rejecting all the structures of the contemporary political and economic system.

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Prochner makes the case that design has the potential to drive economic growth, improve quality of life, and promote sustainability in the province and across the country.

Editor's Website -- Amy S. Wyngaard
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This volume of essays pays tribute to the scholarship and mentorship of Joan DeJean—her style, subjects, and approaches--drawing inspiration from her groundbreaking works on early modern French literary and cultural history.

Author’s Website – Dennis Rasmussen
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Most U.S. founders who lived into the nineteenth century came to feel deep anxiety, disappointment, and even despair about the government and the nation that they had helped to create. This book focuses principally on four of the preeminent figures of the period (1787): George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson and how each lost their faith in the American experiment at different times and for different reasons.

Author’s Website – James Haywood Rolling, Jr.
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This inspirational coming-of-age memoir follows a painfully shy child born and raised in post-civil rights era New York City, by a talented but domineering African American father who defied gravity and low expectations through the discovery of his own creative superpowers.

Author’s Website – George Saunders
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Award-winning author George Saunders presents a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves and our world today.

Author’s Website – Sylvia Sierra
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This book explores how people reference a variety of media (TV, movies, video games, memes, songs, books, etc.) in daily interactions and social functions, including the constructions of shared identities.

Author’s Website – Dana Spiotta
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This stunning novel about aging, the female body, and female complexity in contemporary America has been described as probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, and a testament to our weird times, reflecting on utopian wishes and the beauty of ruins.

Author’s Website – Renee Stevens
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This volume helps visual designers move into the fast-growing fields of 3D and extended reality (XR) design.

Author’s Website – Scott Manning Stevens
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Stevens’ exhibition catalog captures a major retrospective of the portraits of Indigenous North America, painted in the nineteenth century, by Karl Bodmer.

Author’s Website – Scott Manning Stevens
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Roy before he was Lichtenstein: his path to becoming a Pop Art titan began by cycling through a provocative range of visual culture, from fairy tales and children's and folk art to mythic forms of Americana, such as cowboys and Disney.

Student's Website – Matthew D. Stewart
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This book explores the practice of place in the American West through a study of the novels of Wallace Stegner.

Author’s Website – Junko Takeda
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Takeda investigates how trans-imperial adventurers, merchants, consuls, and informants negotiated treaties, traded commodities and arms, transferred knowledge, and introduced industrial practices from Asia to Europe.

Author’s Website – George Theoharis
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This practical book for K-12 school leadership focuses on the belief that equity focused leadership is a distinct kind of leadership requiring specific practices.

Editor's Website – George Theoharis
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This collection of personal essays examines pandemic parenting realities from the vantage point of educators who are raising their own school-aged children while trying to meet professional obligations to support an upended educational system.

Author’s Website – James Watts
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These studies show the wide variety of ways in which books, bodies, and beings intermingle in material sacred texts manipulated by human bodies, and also in literary and artistic depictions of transcendent textual bodies.

Author’s Website – James Watts
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This collaboration between two scholars from different fields of religious studies draws on three comparative data sets to develop a new theory of purity and pollution in religion, arguing that a culture’s beliefs about cosmological realms shapes its pollution ideas and its purification practices.

Author’s Website – James Watts
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Emphasizing insights from comparative studies of different religious scriptures, this textbook combines discussion of the Bible’s origins with its cultural history into a coherent understanding of its past and present function as a scripture.

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James Gordon Williams reframes the nature and purpose of jazz improvisation to illuminate the cultural work being done by five creative musicians between 2005 and 2019.

Author’s Website – Patrick Williams
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Williams gives us a collection of poems exploring technology and the natural world.

Author’s Website – Amanda Eubanks Winkler
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Authors reveal how and why the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare's lifetime changed absolutely everything.