CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Race and Secularism in America
Race and Secularism in America is an anthology that draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline…
Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719
Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. Through coming to…
Obsolescence: An Architectural History
People cope with modernity, capitalism, and the speed of change by persuading themselves that the new necessarily outperforms the old…
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Professor of African American Studies Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers an analysis of the historical and contemporary effects of racism and the…
Shadows of Revolution
Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present gathers essays written over the last 25 years by history professor…
Beyond Greek
Modern ideas about translation, literature, history, and myth were largely shaped by the Romans, asserts professor of Latin Denis Feeney…
Chaos Imagined
Chaos Imagined examines the disorder that exists in our world. Martin Meisel ’60 explores the history of the conception and…
The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe
The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe provides insight into the influential but secretive institutional-review boards that…
The Orion Plan
A probe that lands in New York City marks the beginning of an incoming alien invasion in the science-fiction thriller…
African American Doctors of World War I
African American Doctors of World War I : The Lives of 104 Volunteers is about the doctors who served in…
Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
Christen A. Smith ’99 integrates years of fieldwork into an exploration of the state violence and repression behind the supposed…
Of Sand or Soil
Nadav Samin *13 explores the importance of genealogy and tribal belonging in understanding the modern Saudi state. Through the frame…
Craniosacral Chi Kung
Craniosacral Chi Kung: Integrating Body and Emotion in the Cosmic Flowcombines movement, breath work, and meditative techniques from the Taoist…
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber
Miss Mary Reporting is a picture book that tells the story of one of the first female sports journalists in…
Russian Hajj
After Russia became a crossroads of the hajj in the late 19th century, tsarist officials built the nation’s hajj infrastructure…
Cities and Crisis
Cities and Crisis explores why cities have been missing from analyses of the 2008 global economic crisis, offers lessons about…
Illiberal Reformers
Illiberal Reformers examines how the intellectual champions of the regulatory welfare state proposed using it not to help those they…
Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion
Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls is a study of the views of one of the…


















