CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions
In this work, Catherine Keyser ’01 explores American construction of food and race in early- to mid-20th century literature, and…
Science of the Soul, the Afterlife, and the Shift
In this third volume of The Synchronized Universe series, Claude Swanson *76 argues that there exists real scientific evidence for…
Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now
In this collection of personal essays, Andre Perry ’00 wields a wide variety of styles to tell the semi-fragmented, raw…
Thinking Inside the Box
Part history, part profile, and full love letter, Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who…
Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees From Nazi Europe
As Nazi Germany cracked down on Jewish, communist, and all “non-Aryan” peoples, persecuted scholars tried desperately to leave the country…
A *New* Program for Graphic Design
A do-it-yourself textbook, A *New* Program for Graphic Design (Inventory Press) reflects graphic design lessons from three Princeton design courses.
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson
In 1839, James Collins Johnson fled slavery in Maryland and found work in Princeton as a janitor for the college…
Flip-Flops and Microwaved Fish: Navigating the Dos and Don’ts of Workplace Culture
Flip-Flops and Microwaved Fish (Greenleaf) offers practical advice for people beginning lives in the professional world, humorously addressing standards of…
Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy
The U.S. government has several avenues for practicing foreign policy, such as monetary and physical aid, trade, and military force…
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era
In Illiberal Reformers (Princeton University Press), research scholar Thomas C. Leonard explores the rise of the “administrative state” during the…
Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America
Less than 20 years after the United States achieved independence, the French colony of Haiti underwent its own revolution, led…
Captivating Technology
From ankle monitors and policing algorithms, technologies rapidly expanded into everyday life including hospitals, schools, banking, social services, shopping malls…
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
After America won the Cold War, Andrew Bacevich *82 argues that we developed a hubris that undermined the seemingly bright…
Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
In a new study, Jennifer S. Hirsch ’88 and Shamus Khan double down on the gravity of sexual assault on…
We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump
After Trump’s election in 2016, a tactical guide for resisting Trump’s initiatives titled “Indivisible” went viral, inspired millions of people…
The Life You Can Save, 10th Anniversary Edition
In this updated anniversary edition of The Life You Can Save, 10th Anniversary Edition ( www.thelifeyoucansave.org), Peter Singer unflinchingly faces…
The Rise of the South in American Thought and Education: The Rockefeller Years (1902-1917) and Beyond
John M. Heffron ’74 argues that Southern cultural traditions at the turn of the 20th century enabled, rather than stymied…
New Work New Culture: Work We Want And A Culture That Strengthens Us
We’ve never experienced a world without the “job system” that has organized work since the Industrial Revolution—but, according to Frithjof…
