The following books were written by faculty and emeritus faculty. They are organized by year and listed alphabetically by the faculty member’s last name.
Published in 2023
- Aleksandar Hemon, Creative Writing, "The World and All That It Holds: A Novel"
- Kevin Kruse, History and Julian Zelizer, Public and International Affairs, "Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past"
Published in 2022
- Rhae Lynn Barnes, History, After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America"
- Mark R. Beissinger, Politics, “The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion”
- Ruha Benjamin, African American Studies, "Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want"
- Alan S. Blinder, Economics, “A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021”
- Leah Boustan, Economics, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success"
- Aaron L. Friedberg, Politics and International Affairs, "Getting China Wrong"
- J. Richard Gott, Astrophysical Sciences, and Robert J. Vanderbei, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, “Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour”
- Gene A. Jarrett, English, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird"
- Simon Morrison, Music, "Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks"
- Imani Perry, African American Studies, "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation"
- Yiyun Li, Creative Writing, “The Book of Goose: A Novel”
- Nick Nesbitt, French and Italian, "The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean"
- Max Weiss, History and Near Eastern Studies, "Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria"
- Autumn Womack, African American Studies and English, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930"
- Julian Zelizer, History and Public Affairs, "The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment"
Published in 2021
- Mark Aguiar, Economics and International Finance, "The Economics of Sovereign Debt and Default"
- Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, "Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World"
- Markus Brunnermeier, Economics, "The Resilient Society"
- Anne Cheng, English, “Ornamentalism”
- Linda Colley, History, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World"
- Angela N. H. Creager, History, “Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment”
- Michael D. Gordin, History, “On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience”
- Allen C. Guelzo, Politics, "Robert E. Lee: A Life"
- Harold James, History, “The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization”
- Emmanuel Kreike, History, “Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature”
- Yiyun Li, Creative Writing, “Tolstoy Together”
- Beth Lew-Williams, History, The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
- Paul Muldoon, Creative Writing, “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present”
- Jan-Werner Muller, Politics, "Democracy Rules"
- Keith Wailoo, History, “Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette”
Published in 2020
- Yelena Baraz, Classics, “Reading Roman Pride (Emotions of the Past)”
- David A. Bell, History, “Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution”
- Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Economics, “Deaths of Despair”
- J.C. de Swaan, Economics, “Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry”
- Jacob S. Dlamini, History, “The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police”
- Hal Foster, Art and Archaeology, “What Comes after Farce”
- Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., African American Studies, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own”
- Michael D. Gordin, History, “The Age of Hiroshima” and “Einstein in Bohemia”
- Anthony T. Grafton, History, “Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe”
- G. John Ikenberry, Politics and International Affairs, "A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order"
- Harold James, History, “Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979-2003”
- Claudia Johnson, English Literature, “30 Great Myths about Jane Austen”
- Frances E. Lee, Politics and Public Affairs, "The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era "
- Joyce Carol Oates, Creative Writing, “Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense”
- Lyman Page, Physics, “The Little Book of Cosmology”
- James Peebles, Science and Physics, “Cosmology’s Century: An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe”
- Laurence Ralph, Anthropology, “The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence”
- Marina Rustow, Near Eastern Studies, “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue”
- D. Vance Smith, English, “Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England”
- LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Politics, “Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics”
- Robert Wuthnow, Sociology, “What Happens When We Practice Religion? Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life”
- Julian Zelizer, History and Public Affairs, “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party”
Published in 2019
- Ruha Benjamin, African American Studies, “Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life”
- Carles Boix, Politics and Public Affairs, “Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics”
- Marina Brownlee, Spanish and Portuguese, “Cervantes’ Persiles and the Travails of Romance”
- Anne Cheng, English and American Studies, “Ornamentalism”
- Katie Chenoweth, French and Italian, “The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language”
- Chih-p’ing Chou, East Asian Studies, “Eyes on China: An Intermediate-Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese”
- Jo Dunkley, Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, “Our Universe: An Astronomerp’s Guide”
- Yaacob Dweck, History, “Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas”
- Harry Frankfurt, Philosophy, “The Reasons of Love”
- Paul Frymer, Politics, “Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion”
- Tod Hamilton, Sociology, “Immigration and the Remaking of Black America”
- Agustin Fuentes, Anthropology, “Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being”
- Tera W. Hunter, History, “Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century”
- William Chester Jordan, History, “The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX"
- Atul Kohli, Politics and International Affairs, “Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery”
- Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, History, “Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974”
- Yiyun Li, Creative Writing, “Where Reasons End: A Novel”
- Michael Oppenheimer, Geosciences and International Affairs, “Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy”
- Imani Perry, African American Studies, “Breathe: A Letter to my Sons”
- Markus Prior, Politics and Public Affairs, “Hooked: How Politics Captures People’s Interest”
- Laurence Ralph, Anthropology, “Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence”
- Ken Steiglitz, Computer Science, “The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital”
- Paul Steinhardt, Physics, “The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter”
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African American Studies, “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership”
- Frederick Wherry, Sociology, “Credit Where It’s Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship”
- Keith Whittington, Politics, "Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present
- Stacy Wolf, Theater, “Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America”
Published in 2018
- Alan Blinder, Economics and Public Affairs, “Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics & Politics Collide”
- David Cannadine, History, “The Country House Past, Present, Future: Great Houses of The British Isles”
- Stanley Corngold, German and Comparative Literature, “Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic”
- Marc Fleurbaey, Economics, Humanistic Studies and Public Affairs, “A Manifesto for Social Progress: Ideas for a Better Society”
- Eddie Glaude, Religion, “An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion”
- Michael Graziano, Psychology, “The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature”
- Robert Gunning, Mathematics, “An Introduction to Analysis”
- Andrew James Hamilton, Art and Archaeology, “Scale of the Incas”
- Hendrik Hartog, History, “The Trouble with Minna”
- Kosuke Imai, Politics, “Quantitative Social Science”
- Claudia L. Johnson, English Literature, “The Beautifull Cassandra: A Novel in Twelve Chapters”
- Brian W. Kernighan, Computer Science, “Millions, Billions, Zillions: Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers”
- Erika Lorraine Milam, History, “Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America”
- Elaine Pagels, Religion, “Why Religion? A Personal Story”
- Imani Perry, African American Studies, “May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem”
- Philip Pettit, University Center for Human Values, “The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality”
- Daniel T. Rodgers, History, “As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon”
- Jacob N. Shapiro, Politics and International Affairs, “Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict”
- Patrick Sharkey, Sociology and Public Affairs, “Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence”
- Tracy K. Smith, Creative Writing, “Wade in the Water: Poems”
- Sean Wilentz, American History, “No Property In Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding”
- Robert Wuthnow, Sociology, “The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America”
- Keren Yarhi-Milo, Politics and International Affairs, “Who Fights for Reputation: The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict”
- Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Near Eastern Studies “Islam in Pakistan: A History”
- Julian Zelizer, History and Public Affairs, “The Presidency of Barack Obama”
Published in 2017
- Christopher Achen, Politics, “The Taiwan Voter” and “Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government”
- David Bellos, Comparative Literature, “The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables”
- Peter Brooks, Comparative Literature, “Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year”
- Dalton Conley, Sociology, “The Genome Factor: What Social Genomics Tell Us about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future”
- Rafaela Dancygier, Politics, “Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics”
- Maria DiBattista and Deborah Nord, English, “At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, From Austen to the Present”
- Karen Emmerich, Comparative Literature, “Literary Translation and the Making of Originals”
- Paul Frymer, Politics, “Building an American Empire: the Era of Territorial and Political Expansion”
- Daniel Heller-Roazen, Comparative Literature, “No One’s Ways”
- Tera Hunter, History, “Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century”
- Brian Kernighan, Computer Science, “Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know About Computers, the Internet, Privacy and Security”
- Stephen Kotkin, History and International Affairs, “Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941”
- Fiona Maazel, Creative Writing, “A Little More Human”
- Yair Mintzker, History, “The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew”
- Grigore Pop-Eleches, Politics and International Affairs, “Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes”
- Susan Stewart, English, “Cinder: New and Selected Poems"
- Alexander Todorov, Psychology, “Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions”
- Eleni Vakalo (translated by Karen Emmerich), Comparitive Literature, “Before Lyricism”
- Michael Wood, Comparative Literature, “On Empson"
- Julian Zelizer, History and Public Affairs, “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society”
- Viviana Zelizer, Sociology, “Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works”