Faculty Bookshelf

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)