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 2024

  • Ruha Benjamin, African American Studies, “Imagination: A Manifesto”
  • Eddie S. Glaude Jr., African American Studies, "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For"

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”
  • 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”


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 Astronomer’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”