Books Indexed

Selected List by Category

Anthropology and Sociology

Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research, by Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma, by Wen-Chin Chang.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College, by Elizabeth M. Lee. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.

An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture, by Anna M. Parkinson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015.

From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy, by Mariana Craciun. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.

The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India, by Francis Cody. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography, edited by Stanley L. Witkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

Our Lady of the Rock: Vision and Pilgrimage in the Mojave Desert, by Lisa M. Bitel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Researching Gender-Based Violence: Embodied and Intersectional Approaches. Edited by April D.J. Petillo and Heather R. Hlavka. New York University Press, 2022.

Rights Enabled: The Disability Revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations, by Katharina Heyer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015.

The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil, by Erika Robb Larkins. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.

Sounds of the Citizens: Dancehall and Community in Jamaica, by Anne M. Galvin. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

Swedish Design: An Ethnography, by Keith M. Murphy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era, edited by Trevor Hoppe and Shantel Buggs. Rutgers University Press, 2023.

The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention, by Sameena Mulla. New York: New York University Press, 2014.

Environmental Studies

Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert, by Sunaura Taylor. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024.

Ecological Borderlands: Body, Nature, and Spirit in Chicana Feminism, by Christina Holmes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific, edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Zhou Xiaojing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond, by Oneka LaBennett. New York: NYU Press, 2024.

The Technocratic Antarctic: an Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance, by Jessica O’Reilly. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017.

History

After the Red Army Faction: Gender, Culture, and Militancy by Charity Scribner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.

American Epic: Reading the US Constitution, by Garrett Epps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Barbadian Migration to Liberia: Blackness and the Making of an African Republic, 1865-1912, by Caree A. Banton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Becoming Bourgeois: Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670–1880, by Christopher Johnson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration, by Robert C. McGreevey. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.

Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots, by Brenda E. Stevenson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana, by Carina E. Ray. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2015.

Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman, by Amal Sachedina. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.

A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945, by Kenton Clymer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

For Fear of an Elective King: George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789, by Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Forgotten Men and Fallen Women: The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives, by Holly Allen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Governing the Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China, by Linh D. Vu. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.

Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present, by Richard S. Newman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Red War on the Family: Sex, Gender, and Americanism in the First Red Scare, by Erica J. Ryan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015.

Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia, by Trish Starks. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.

Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era, by Laura E. Free. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India, by Arnab Dey. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit, by Kerry Wallach. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024.

Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana, by Abena Asare. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.

Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars, by Katherine Parkin. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Literary Studies/Cultural Studies/Film Studies/Art History

Broken Harmony: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music, by Joseph M. Ortiz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.

The Degenerate Muse: American Nature, Modernist Poetry, and the Problem of Cultural Hygiene, by Robin G. Schulze. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age, by Jonathon Keats. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965, by Yu Zhang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020

Guerrilla Aesthetics: Art, Memory, and the West German Urban Guerrilla, by Kimberly Mair. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.

Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable, by Iftikhar Dadi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022.

Lesbianism in Swedish Literature: An Ambiguous Affair, by Jenny Björklund. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

J.S. Wooley: Adirondack Photographer, edited by Richard Timberlake and Philip Terrie. Syracuse University Press, 2018.

Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your Head, by Eliot Borenstein. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.

The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News, by Stephen Wittek. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015.

Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Literary Imagination, by Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019.

Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature, by Megan Obourn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty, by Molly Wallace. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.

Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image, by Douglas Rosenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Unbuttoning America: A Biography of “Peyton Place,” by Ardis Cameron. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

LGBT Studies/Sexuality Studies

The Afterglow of Women’s Pornography in Post-Digital China, by Katrien Jacobs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis, by Georgiann Davis. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity, by Mary Robertson. New York: New York University Press, 2018.

Knowing Women: Same-sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana, by Serena Owusua Dankwa. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Lesbianism in Swedish Literature: An Ambiguous Affair, by Jenny Björklund. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust, by W. Jake Newsome. Cornell University Press, 2022.

Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories, by Jamie C. Capuzza and Leland G. Spencer. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015.

Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era, edited by Trevor Hoppe and Shantel Buggs. Rutgers University Press, 2023.

Virtual Activism: an Ethnography of Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore, By Robert Phillips. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.

Music and Sound Studies

The Art of Grafted Song: Citation and Allusion in the Age of Machaut, by Yolanda Plumley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Computational Thinking in Sound: Teaching the Art and Science of Music and Technology, by Gena R. Greher and Jesse M. Heines. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young, by Jeremy Grimshaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

A Feminist Perspective on Opera Interpretation, by Courtney W. Howland. Munster, Germany: Lit Verlag, 2014.

Klezmer: Music and Community in 20th Century Jewish Philadelphia, by Hankus Netsky. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015.

Natural Fingering: A Topographical Approach to Pianism, by Jon Verbalis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone, by Philip Ewell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.

The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, edited by Gary E. McPherson and Graham F. Welch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Sounds of the Citizens: Dancehall and Community in Jamaica, by Anne M. Galvin.  Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

Philosophy

Epistemic Authority: a Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief, by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Everything in its Right Place: Spinoza and Life by the Light of Nature, by Joseph Almog. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self, by Mark Freeman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Referential Mechanics: Direct Reference and the Foundations of Semantics, by Joseph Almog. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker, by Devra Lehmann. South Hampton, New Hampshire: Namelos, 2014.

Political Science and Foreign Policy

Antigone, Interrupted, by Bonnie Honig. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Bad Acts: The Racketeering Case against the Tobacco Industry, by Sharon Y. Eubanks and Stanton A. Glantz. Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association, 2013.

Constitutional Dynamics in Federal Systems: Sub-national Perspectives, edited by Michael Burgess and G. Alan Tarr. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.

Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy, by John M. Schuessler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Field Research in Political Science: Practices and Principles, by Diana Kapisezwski, Lauren M. MacLean, and Benjamin L. Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

The First Global Prosecutor: Promise and Constraints, edited by Martha Minow, C. Cora True-Frost, and Alex Whiting. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015.

Foreign Policy Analysis Beyond North America, edited by Klaus Brummer and Valerie M. Hudson. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2015.

“Lost” Causes: Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security, by Charli Carpenter. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work, by Dan Honig. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse, by Paul Staniland. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Race/Ethnic Studies and Gender/Women’s Studies

After the Red Army Faction: Gender, Culture, and Militancy, by Charity Scribner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.

Bad Girls at Samarcand: Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory, by Karin Zipf. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016.

Barbadian Migration to Liberia: Blackness and the Making of an African Republic, 1865-1912, by Caree A. Banton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis, by Jodi Rios. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020.

The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots, by Brenda E. Stevenson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance, edited by Manya C. Whitaker and Eric Anthony Grollman. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana, by Carina E. Ray. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2015.

Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946, by Tessa Winkelmann. Cornell University Press, 2022.

Ecological Borderlands: Body, Nature, and Spirit in Chicana Feminism, by Christina Holmes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.

A Feminist Perspective on Opera Interpretation, by Courtney W. Howland. Munster, Germany: Lit Verlag, 2014.

Forgotten Men and Fallen Women: The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives, by Holly Allen. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria, by Sara Rahnama. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.

German-Jewish Studies: Next Generation, edited by Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada. New York: Berghahn, 2023.

Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond, by Oneka LaBennett. New York: NYU Press, 2024.

Historicizing Post-Discourses: Postfeminist and Postracial Discourse in United States Culture, by Tanya Ann Kennedy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017.

Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America, By Elisabeth Jay Friedman. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017.

Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible after Incarceration, by Janet Garcia-Hallett. University of California Press, 2022.

Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism, by Sarah Imhoff. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.

passing for perfect: college impostors and other model minorities, by erin Khuê Ninh. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2021.

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellion: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education, edited by Bianca C. Williams, Dian D. Squire, and Frank A. Tuitt. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021.

Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature, by Megan Obourn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Red War on the Family: Sex, Gender, and Americanism in the First Red Scare, by Erica J. Ryan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015.

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad, by Miriam Thaggert. University of Illinois Press, 2022.

Sex and World Peace, by Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era, by Laura E. Free. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Violence Never Heals: The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women, by Allison Bloom. NYU Press, 2023.

White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture, by Priscilla Dionne Layne. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.

Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars, by Katherine Parkin. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Urban Studies

A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City, by Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California’s East Bay, by Kafui Attoh. University of Georgia Press, 2018.