{"id":729,"date":"2023-06-13T21:47:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute-temp\/?page_id=729"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:25:01","slug":"recent-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/new-books\/recent-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Earlier Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n\n \n Sarah Banet-Weiser & Kathryn Claire Higgins<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Polity Books, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Maria Knebel, and Their Legacy \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Methuen, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Basic Books, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of North Carolina Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Alisha Dukelow<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Modernist Affect Grid\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Anteism, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Christina Dunbar-Hester<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Chicago Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Indiana University Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Resisters: How Ordinary Jews fought Persecution in Hitler\u2019s Germany\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Yale University Press, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Natives against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Minnesota University Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Rutgers University Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Defining Waka Musically: Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Palgrave, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Jill Hicks-Keeton<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Fortress Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Joyful Orphan \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Nevada Press, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Duke University Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Ronald Mendoza-De Jesus<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Fordham Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Thomas Seifrid<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Staging the Absolute: Ritual in Russia\u2019s Modern Era\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Toronto Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Normporn: TV and the Spectacle of Normalcy\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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NYU Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Oxford University Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Jackie Wang<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Semiotext(e), 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Diane Winston<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan\u2019s Evangelical Vision\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Chicago Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Hajar Yazdiha<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n The Struggle for the People\u2019s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Princeton University Press, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\n 2022 Books\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n\n \n Evelyn Alsultany<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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NYU Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Reighan Gillam<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Visualizing Black Lives Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Illinois Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Jessica M. Marglin<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Princeton University Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Natalia Molina<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of California Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Edgardo P\u00e9rez Morales<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Unraveling Abolition: Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Cambridge University Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Sean Nye<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Modeselektor’s Happy Birthday!\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Bloomsbury: 33 1\/3 Europe Series, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Jennifer Petersen<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Duke University Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n John Carlos Rowe<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Routledge, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Nayan Shah<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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California University Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Jacob Soll<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Free Market: The History of an Idea \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Basic Books, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Alison Dundes Renteln & Wanda Teays (eds.)<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n The Ethical University: Transforming Higher Education\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Point Reyes Books, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Cristina Mejia Visperas<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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New York University Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\n 2021 Books\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n\n \n Andrea Ballestero & Brit Ross Winthereik (eds.)<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Duke University Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Chris Benner & Manuel Pastor<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Wiley Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Stephen J. Collier & Andrew Lakoff<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Princeton University Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Cavan Concannon<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Profaning Paul\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Chicago\u00a0Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n William Deverell<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Angel City Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Christelle Fischer-Bovet & Sitta von Reden (eds.)<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires Integration, Communication, and Resistance \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Cambridge University Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Heather James<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Cambridge University Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Sonya Lee<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Temples in the Cliffside: Buddhist Art in Sichuan\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Washington Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Paul Lichterman<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Princeton University Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n James McHugh<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Oxford University Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Michael A. Messner<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Unconventional Combat: Intersectional Action in the Veterans’ Peace Movement\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Oxford University Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Melissa L. Miller<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Mind, Motivation, and Meaningful Learning: Strategies for Teaching Adult Learners\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n\n \n Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n \n \n Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Stanford University Press, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Liverpool University Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n The Macon Sex School: Songs of Tenderness and Resistance\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Seneca: Agamemnon\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Queer Communion: Ron Athey\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Intellect Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Manchester University Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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LSU Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n The Visceral Logics of Decolonization\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Jews and the Mediterranean\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Indiana University Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Fordham University Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Savage Mind to Savage Machine, Racial Science and Twentieth Century Design\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Yale University Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of California Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n The Truth of Myth: World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Use\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Oxford University Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n The Angel in the Marketplace: Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Oxford University Press, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Dragonomics: How Latin America Is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China’s International Development Strategy\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Bauhaus Futures\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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MIT Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Outside Looking In\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Ecco, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Chicago Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Social Media Entertainment\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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NYU Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n \u2018Broadsword Calling Danny Boy\u2019 Watching ‘Where Eagles Dare\u2019\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Penguin Random House, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Daring to Be Bad\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Minnesota Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Berghahn Books, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Casden Annual, Vol. 17 (Purdue University Press 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Duke University Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Columbia University Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Cambridge University Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Yale University Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Rutgers University Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Kaya Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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University of Michigan Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Oxford University Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool University Press, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works and Why it Matters\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Oxford University Press, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n What Blest Genius? The Jubilee that Made Shakespeare\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Florence After The Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737\u20131790\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Routledge, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Posthuman Folklore\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Why Karen Carpenter Matters\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 To The Present\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n Japan’s Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front 1937-1945\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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\n \n \n American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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