America’s State Governments: A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies
Co-authored by Jennifer Bachner and Benjamin Ginsberg
Advanced Academic Programs and Political Science
Illustrates the disconnect between state government institutions and their constituents.
How To Do Things With Tears
By Paul Delnero
Near Eastern Studies
An overview of cultic laments performed in Mesopotamia in the early 2nd millennium BCE.
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
By Jessica Marie Johnson
History
Explores intimacy and kinship ties and how Black women used them to construct freedom in the Atlantic world.
The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity
By Theodore Lewis
Near Eastern Studies
Explores how God was portrayed in literature, archaeology, and iconography, and questions of historical origin.
Newborn Imitation: The Stakes of a Controversy
By Ruth Leys
Comparative Thought and Literature
An assessment of the mechanisms underlying imitation, the role of mirror neurons, and the nature of the self and infant mental states.
Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention
By Joris Mercelis
History of Science and Technology
Explores the relationships between science and industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, illustrated by the career of the “father of plastics.”
The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences
By Lawrence Principe
History of Science and Technology
Reevaluates changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730.
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
By Erin Rowe
History
Examines Blackness, holiness, and cultural authority through the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity.
Armed Guests: Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing
By Sebastian Schmidt
Political Science
Shows how the development of sovereign basing practices transformed the nature of security politics.
Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting
By Molly Warnock
History of Art
Presents an historical account of Simon Hantaï’s work and impact on young French artists.
