CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
My Squirrel Days
Comedian and actress Ellie Kemper ’02 has won acclaim for her performances in The Office and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt…
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
The fourth memoir of writer Edmund White frames his life around the books that have meant the most to him…
On Color
On Color (Yale University Press) deconstructs the impact of colors on every corner of life and culture – social, political…
1668: The Year of the Animal in France
In 1668 France, animals were the new fashionable thing to paint, sculpt, collect, and decorate with, especially if you were…
Fathering from the Margins: An Intimate Examination of Black Fatherhood
Stereotypes of black fathers tend to portray them as either absent or poor role models. A case study of fatherhood…
Millions, Billions, Zillions: Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers
Numbers are powerful — and prone to misuse and misinterpretation. Millions, Billions, Zillions (Princeton University Press) is an accessible, example-filled…
The Beautifull Cassandra
Even as a child, Jane Austen was an imaginative writer. At 12, she wrote The Beautifull Cassandra (Princeton University Press)…
As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon
John Winthrop did not intend or foresee his “City on a Hill” discourse to be an oft-referenced part of the…
Representation: Discourse, A Series on Architecture
A collaborative volume, Representation (Princeton University Press) examines how images created during the architectural process act as art and convey…
Authorship: Discourse, A Series on Architecture
Works of architecture are now rarely designed by one “master architect.” Authorship (Princeton University Press) brings together designers and scholars…
Christian Martyrs Under Islam
The Middle East’s transformation to a Muslim majority did not come peacefully or willingly. Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence…
The Performance of Medicine
The Performance of Medicine: Techniques From the Stage to Optimize the Patient Experience and Restore the Joy of Practicing Medicine…
The Republic of Games: Textual Culture between Old Books and New Media
Social media may be considered its own subgenre — tweets, posts, and the like have unique literary qualities. The Republic…
Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor
The Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was a hero, far removed from the name used as a racial…
Mothering, Education and Culture
What is the “right” way to raise and educate a child? For mothers in Israel, with diverse cultural backgrounds, the…
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
The Egyptian Revolution set out to replace long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak and ended up with military strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi…
The Language of Ruins: Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus
In the first century BCE, worshippers traveled to the Memnon Colossus to receive what they perceived as divine blessing, leaving…
Mary B: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice
In Jane Austen’s masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, middle sister Mary Bennet is given no more than a dozen lines of…
