Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
W.W. Norton & Company, September 2024
Brooke Harrington, Department of Sociology
Harrington reveals how the offshore finance system works, as well as how it degrades democracy, the economy, and the public goods on which we all depend.
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Common Boundaries: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Property
Agenda Pubishing, April 2024
Michael Cox, Department of Environmental Studies
Cox examines environmental property rights across cultures and communities.
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Water on Fire: A Memoir of War
Other Press, April 2024
Tarek El-Ariss, Middle Eastern Studies Program
El-Ariss revisits his childhood in war-torn Lebanon and his family's global history, coming to terms with trauma and desire.
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Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities
Duke University Press, April 2024
Matt Hooley, Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies
Hooley traces a modern tradition of Ojibwe invention in Minneapolis and St. Paul from the mid-19th century to the present through the lens of anticolonialism.
Arts and Sciences Q&A
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Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary
Rutgers University Press, March 2024
Rachel Feldman, Department of Religion
Through ethnographic research across continents, Feldman details how Third Temple visions have gained considerable momentum and political support in Israel and abroad.
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Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual
MIT Press, February 2024
Kimberly Juanita Brown, Department of English and Creative Writing
Brown details how documentary photography and the cultural legacy of empire have come together to produce the understanding that blackness and suffering—and death—are inextricable.
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The Digital and Its Discontents
University of Minnesota Press, February 2024
Aden Evens, Department of English and Creative Writing
Interweaving technical and philosophical concepts, Evens analyzes universal technological principles to show that they encourage certain ways of thinking while making others more challenging or impossible.
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The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran
Stanford University Press, February 2024
Golnar Nikpour, Department of History
Nikpour traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern nation-state with over a quarter million prisoners today.
Sounds As They Are: The Unwritten Music in Classical Recordings
Oxford University Press, January 2024
Richard Beaudoin, Department of Music
Beaudoin pioneers a field of inquiry called inclusive track analysis, which recognizes often-overlooked sounds made by the bodies of performers and their recording equipment as music.
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One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field
Princeton University Press, January 2024
Carolyn Dever (editor), Department of English and Creative Writing
Dever presents the first book-length selection from the unpublished diary of the late-Victorian writer "Michael Field"—the pen name of two female coauthors and romantic partners.
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Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century
Yale University Press, January 2024
Katie Hornstein, Department of Art History
Illuminating the lives of individual lions against the backdrop of colonial expansion, Hornstein constructs a theoretical framework for acknowledging a history in which both humans and animals had a stake.
Arts and Sciences Q&A
Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner
Eerdmans Publishing, November 2023
Ralph H. Craig III, Department of Religion
Craig traces Tina Turner's journey from the Black Baptist church to Buddhism and situates her at the vanguard of large-scale movements in religion and pop culture.
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Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank
McGill-Queen's University Press, November 2023
Rachel Feldman (co-editor), Department of Religion
This new edited volume explores what Israeli settlers mean when they say they are indigenous; how settler indigeneity is felt, performed, and mediated; and what the implications of indigeneity claims are on the international stage.
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The Necessity of Exile: Essays From a Distance
Ayin Press, November 2023
Shaul Magid, Jewish Studies Program
The celebrated scholar and rabbi reclaims exile as a positive stance for constructive Jewish engagement with Israel|Palestine, antisemitism, and diaspora.
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Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
Hachette Book Group, November 2023
Darrin McMahon, Department of History
McMahon traces equality's global origins and spread from the dawn of humanity through the Enlightenment to today.
Washington Post Review
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False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers
NYU Press, November 2023
Casey Stockstill, Department of Sociology
Drawing on a two-year observational study, Stockstill details the racial and class divides between Head Start and private pre-K classrooms for children and their families.
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Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America
Oxford University Press, October 2023
Leslie Butler, Department of History
Combining intellectual, political and cultural history, Butler examines how wide-ranging discussions about self-government and the so-called woman question developed in published opinion from the 1830s through the 1890s.
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Social Voices: The Cultural Politics of Singers Around the Globe
University of Illinois Press, September 2023
Levi Gibbs (editor), Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages
Designed as a textbook for advanced undergraduate students, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars of anthropology, sociology, literature, music, ethnomusicology, and performance studies to engage with issues of race, gender, ethnicity, and class.
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Families on the Edge
MIT Press, August 2023
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song '01, Department of Anthropology
In this ethnographic portrait of families in rural and small-town New England, Carpenter-Song draws on a decade of research to chart the struggles of a cohort of families she met in a Vermont family shelter in 2009 as they contend with housing insecurity, mental illness, and substance use.
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The Dawn of a Mindful Universe
HarperCollins Publishers, August 2023
Marcelo Gleiser, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Award-winning astronomer and physicist Gleiser issues an urgent call for the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.
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Anti-Racist Community Engagement
Stylus Publishing, August 2023
Roopika Risam (co-editor), Department of Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature Program
The authors showcase anti-racist community-engaged traditions that BIPOC academics and community members have created through more than a century of collaboration across university and community.
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Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope
University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2023
Barbara Will (editor), Department of English and Creative Writing
This volume of essays by leading scholars of Black studies, religious studies, and social justice history examines Cornel West's classic 1993 book Race Matters and the future of racial understanding and healing in American society today.
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The Birth of Computer Vision
University of Minnesota Press, April 2023
James E. Dobson, Department of English and Creative Writing
What happens when we train computers to see the world, when we know they will be influenced by the biases and assumptions of the people who created them? Dobson takes readers back to the Cold War-era scientists who taught computers how to see.
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The Shared World
Northwestern University Press, April 2023
Vievee Francis, Department of English and Creative Writing
In her latest poetry collection, Francis imagines the ideas, ideals, and spaces of the Black woman. The book delves into inherited memories and restrictions between families, lovers, and strangers and the perception and inconvenient truth of Black woman as mother—with or without child.
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Eli and the Octopus
Harvard University Press, April 2023
Matt Garcia, Department of History
In June of 1970, rabbi-turned-businessman Eli Black took the helm of a multinational agricultural company with hopes to improve the world. Garcia chronicles his tragic quest to merge business with social responsibility.
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Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South
University of Georgia Press, March 2023
Mona Domosh, Department of Geography
Domosh documents how Black government employees practiced rural improvement in ways that sustained southern Black farmers' lives and livelihoods in the early decades of the 20th century, resisting the white supremacy that characterized the Jim Crow South.
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Playing Oppression
MIT Press, March 2023
Mary Flanagan, Department of Film and Media Studies
Flanagan and co-author Mikael Jakobsson apply the incisive frameworks of postcolonial theory to a broad historical survey of board games to show how these seemingly benign entertainments reinforce the logic of imperialism—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it.
Seneca, The Literary Philosopher
Cambridge University Press, March 2023
Margaret Graver, Department of Classics
After detailing Seneca's positions on scholarship, value, and human psychology, Graver explores the Roman Stoic's use of genre, humor, and style as vehicles for philosophical writing.
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The Undertow
W.W. Norton & Company, March 2023
Jeff Sharlet, Department of English and Creative Writing
In this critically acclaimed guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Sharlet explores how, over the last decade, social division has morphed into distrust, distrust into paranoia, and hatred into fantasies—sometimes realities—of violence.
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#You Know You're Black in France When...
MIT Press, February 2023
Trica Keaton, Departments of African and African American Studies
In everyday life, France is anything but raceblind. In this interdisciplinary study, Keaton illuminates how b/Black (racialized/politicized) French people distinctly expose and refuse what she calls "raceblind republicanism."
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Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self (second edition)
Princeton University Press, January 2023
Susan Brison, Department of Philosophy
In this critically acclaimed personal narrative, Brison tells the story of her recovery from a violent assault and offers an illuminating philosophical exploration of trauma. This paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.
Arts and Sciences Q&A
Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy
Cambridge University Press, January 2023
Margaret Graver (co-editor), Department of Classics
New studies by leading scholars in Roman philosophy investigate Cicero's views on the motives of political agents and the morality of political arguments as well as his use of emotion, self-correction, and even fiction in intellectual inquiry.
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Institutions Under Siege
Cambridge University Press, December 2022
John Campbell, Department of Sociology
Campbell examines Trump's attack on the "deep state" through the lens of institutional change theory and demonstrates how he capitalized on distinct leadership tactics to inspire, make deals with, and threaten people to get what he wanted.
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Dante's Gluttons
Amsterdam University Press, November 2022
Danielle Callegari, Department of French and Italian
For medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the consumption of food is not a frivolity, but a crux of life, and gluttony is the abdication of civic and spiritual responsibility and a danger to both the individual body and soul, as well as the greater collective. Callegari explores how Dante expresses the social, political, and cultural values of his time through food.
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The Enchanted Boot
Wayne State University Press, November 2022
Nancy Canepa, Department of French and Italian
This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it.
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The Best American Essays
HarperCollins Publishers, November 2022
Alexander Chee (editor), Department of English and Creative Writing
Under Chee's leadership, the iconic essay collection features the most diverse lineup of authors and publications in the history of the series.
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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
Penguin Random House, October 2022
Mathew Delmont, Department of History
This acclaimed book about Black Americans' heroism during the war and experience of racism won a 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a national juried prize for literature that confronts racism.
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Still No Word from You
Catapult, October 2022
Peter Orner, Department of English and Creative Writing
This award-winning nonfiction collection weaves personal memories with reflections on why we read and write. Orner's take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss, love, despair, and hope.
Arts and Sciences Q&A
New York Times Review
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Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., September 2022
Susan Ackerman, Department of Religion
Drawing on three decades researching underexamined aspects of the Hebrew Bible pertaining to women, Ackerman describes the worship of goddesses in ancient Israel, the roles women played as priests and prophets, the cultic significance of queen mothers, and the Hebrew Bible's accounts of women's religious lives.
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Passion Plays
University of North Carolina Press, September 2022
Randall Balmer, Department of Religion
From baseball to basketball and football to ice hockey, Balmer explores the origins and histories of big-time sports from the late 19th century to the present, with anecdotes and insights into their ties to religious life.
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A Dream Defaulted
Harvard Education Press, August 2022
Jason Houle, Department of Sociology
Co-authors Houle and Fenaba Addo explore how the student loan crisis disproportionately affects Black borrowers and why rising student debt is both a cause and consequence of social inequality in the United States.
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Embodied Economies
Rutgers University Press, May 2022
Israel Reyes, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
In the neoliberal economy of the United States, the discourse of white nationalism compels upwardly mobile Latinx Caribbean immigrants to trade in their ties to ethnic and linguistic communities to assimilate to the dominant culture. Reyes terms this phenomenon "transcultural capital" and explores this process in the contemporary fiction and theater of the Latinx Caribbean diaspora.
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Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel
Yale University Press, April 2022
Susan Ackerman, Department of Religion
In this comprehensive account of ancient Israelite women's religious lives and experiences, Ackerman examines their household shrines, regional sanctuaries, national temples, rituals, and their special roles in religious settings.
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Chains of Love and Beauty
Princeton University Press, April 2022
Carolyn Dever, Department of English and Creative Writing
Dever makes the case that a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as "Michael Field"—and who were prolific writers as well as partners for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literature.
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Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media
University of Illinois Press, April 2022
Reighan Gillam, Department of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies
Gillam examines the alternative and activist Black media and the people creating it in today's Brazil. She looks at a cross-section of media to show the ways Afro-Brazilians artists contribute to the fight to change how Brazilian media depicts Black people.
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Voices From Beyond
University of Virginia Press, April 2022
Scott Sanders, Department of French and Italian
In the early 18th century, how voice related to body became a major subject of scientific and cultural interest. This interdisciplinary and transnational study examines the diversity of thought about vocal materialtiy and its roles in philosophical and literary works from that period.
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Media of the Masses
Stanford University Press, April 2022
Andrew Simon, Department of History
Audiocassette technology gave ordinary individuals an opening to challenge state-controlled Egyptian media. At the intersection of social history, cultural anthropology, and media and sound studies, the book ultimately shows how the most ordinary things may yield the most surprising insights.
Los Angeles Review of Books Review
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Economy and Modern Christian Thought
Brill, March 2022
Devin Singh, Department of Religion
Singh presents key features of the engagement of Christian theology, ethics, and related disciplines with the market and economic concerns. The book contends that economy and Christian thought have long been interconnected and recounts why this matters for engaging the economy ethically and theologically.
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Holy Digital Grail
Stanford University Press, March 2022
Michelle Warren, Comparative Literature Program
Medieval books have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. This is the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in 12-century England now diffused across the 21st-century internet.
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Nationalisms in International Politics
Princeton University Press, February 2022
Kathleen Powers, Department of Government
With nationalism on the rise around the world, many worry that nationalistic attitudes could lead to a surge in deadly conflict. Powers examines how different forms of nationalism shape foreign policy attitudes and raises important questions about whether transnational identities increase support for cooperation or undermine it.