2025 Books
Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life
Columbia University Press, 2025
Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
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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