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 2026
- Sophie Gee, English, “The Barbarous Feast: Eating and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century World”
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr., African American Studies, “America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries”
- David W. Miller, Faith and Work Initiative, “The 5 Questions for Ethical Decisions: How to Succeed Without Selling Your Soul”
- Simon Morrison, Music, Slavic Languages, & Literatures, “A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow”
Published in 2025
- Edward Baring, History and Human Values, “Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education”
- Allison Carruth, American Studies, Environmental Studies, “Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech”
- Robert P. George, Politics, “Truth Matters: A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division”
- Reena N. Goldthree, African Amercian Studies, “Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean”
- Fara Dabhoiwala, History, “What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea”
- Beth Lew-Williams, History, “John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law”
- Stephen Macedo, Politics and Frances Lee, Politics and Public Affairs, “In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us”
- Meredith Martin, English, “Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody”
- Sanyu A. Mojola, Sociology, “Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol”
- Martha A. Sandweiss, Emeritus, History, “The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West”
- Judith Weisenfeld, Religion, “Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake”
- Julian Zelizer, History and Public Affairs, “In Defense of Partisanship”
- Owen Zidar, Economics and Public Affairs, “The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There”
Published in 2024
- Arvind Narayanan, Computer Science, “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference”
- David Bellos, French and Italian, “Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs”
- Ruha Benjamin, African American Studies, “Imagination: A Manifesto”
- Anne Cheng, English, “Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority”
- Caroline Cheung, Classics, “Dolia: The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine”
- Thomas Conlan, East Asian Studies and History, “Kings in All but Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569”
- Hal Foster, Art and Archaeology, “Exit Interview: Benjamin Buchloh in conversation with Hal Foster”
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr., African American Studies, “We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For”
- Jonathan Gribetz, Near Eastern Studies, “Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy”
- Eliza Griswold, Journalism, “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church”
- Allen C. Guelzo, Politics, “Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment”
- Hendrik Hartog, History, “Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boy’s Brotherhood Republic”
- Harold James, European Studies, History and International Affairs, “The IMF and the European Debt Crisis: Climate Crossroads: Fiscal Policies in a Warming World”
- Simon Morrison, Music, “Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer”
- Laurence Ralph, Human Rights, Anthropology and Public Affairs, “Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him”
- Jennifer Rexford, Engineering, “The Real Internet Architecture: Past, Present, and Future Evolution”
- Iryna Vushko, History, “Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939”
- Hye Young You, Politics and Public Affairs, “Hearings on the Hill: The Politics of Informing Congress”
- Julian E. Zelizer, History and Public Affairs, “Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue”
Published in 2023
- Gary Bass, World Politics of Peace and War, “Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia”
- Markus K. Brunnermeier, Economics, “A Crash Course on Crises: Macroeconomic Concepts for Run-Ups, Collapses, and Recoveries”
- Charles M. Cameron, Politics and Public Affairs, and Jonathan Kastellec, Politcs, “Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020”
- Elizabeth A. Davis, Anthropology, “Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing”
- Angus Deaton, Economics and International Affairs, “Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality”
- Matthew Desmond, Sociology, “Poverty, by America”
- Kathryn Edin, Sociology and Public Affairs, “The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America”
- Aleksandar Hemon, Creative Writing, “The World and All That It Holds: A Novel”
- Harold James, History, “Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization”
- Matthew L. Jones, History, “How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms”
- Kevin Kruse, History and Julian Zelizer, Public and International Affairs, “Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past”
- Melissa Lane, Politics, “Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political”
- Nancy Weiss Malkiel, History, “Changing the Game: William G. Bowen and the Challenges of American Higher Education”
- Ryo Morimoto, Anthropology, “Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone”
- Coleen T. Murphy, Molecular Biology, “How We Age: The Science of Longevity”
- Philip Pettit, Center for Human Values, “The State”
- Ekaterina Pravilova, History, “The Ruble: A Political History”
- Peter Singer, Bioethics, “The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World”
Published in 2022
- R. Douglas Arnold, Politics and Public Affairs, “Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age”
- 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”
- Peter Wirzbicki, History, Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery (America in the Nineteenth Century)