2025 Books
Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life
Columbia University Press, 2025
Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
Little, Brown and Company, 2025
Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025
The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024
Rutgers University Press, 2025
The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025
2024 Books
Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home
Rutgers University Press, 2024
Otherworld: Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland
Oxford University Press, 2024
Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation
Duke University Press, 2024
Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Fragments of a Transatlantic Discourse
Vanderbilt University Press, 2024
Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America’s Postwar Urbanism
Cornell University Press, 2024
American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth
Rutgers University Press, 2024
Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
NYU Press, 2024
Planning for the Wrong Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge
Polity Books, 2024
Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960
Ohio University Press (Series: New African Histories), 2024
Agents without Empire: Mobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France
Fordham University Press, 2024
The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self
Milkweed Books, 2024
2023 Books
Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt
Polity Books, 2023
Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Maria Knebel, and Their Legacy
Methuen, 2023
The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country
Basic Books, 2023
Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America
University of North Carolina Press, 2023
Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
University of Chicago Press, 2023
The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023
Resisters: How Ordinary Jews fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany
Yale University Press, 2023
Natives against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France
Minnesota University Press, 2023
Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama
Rutgers University Press, 2023
Defining Waka Musically: Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan
Palgrave, 2023
Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves
Fortress Press, 2023
Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously
Fordham Press, 2023
Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023
Staging the Absolute: Ritual in Russia’s Modern Era
University of Toronto Press, 2023
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision
University of Chicago Press, 2023
The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement
Princeton University Press, 2023
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