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Top Faculty Books Spring 2022

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Segregated Time  

By P.J. Brendese  
Political Science 

Explores how racial inequality functions as an imposition on human time.

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Capitalist Economics 

By Samuel A. Chambers 
Political Science 

Explains the economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of capitalist societies. 

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Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America 

By Aaron Hyman
History of Art

Examines the reception in Latin America of prints designed by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. 

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Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore  

By Lawrence Jackson 
English and History  

A stirring consideration of homeownership, fatherhood, race, faith, and the history of an American city.

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The Consumer Revolution, 1650-1800  

By Michael Kwass  
History  

A fresh interpretation of the politics of consumption in the age of abolitionism and the Atlantic Revolutions. 

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Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry  

By Brad Leithauser 
The Writing Seminars  

Explores the building blocks of poetry and how they’ve been used over centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems

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Blue Boy

By Jean McGarry  
The Writing Seminars 

The story of an art historian with gargantuan ambition and hubris.

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Zoom Rooms  

By Mary Jo Salter   
The Writing Seminars
 

A poetry collection that considers the strangeness of our recent existence with the enduring constants in our lives.

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By Lisa Siraganian  
Comparative Thought and Literature 

Shows how corporate personhood was used to explore questions of agency and intention.

By Mark Christian Thompson 
English
 

Examines the changing investments of key mid-century Black writers and thinkers, including their growing interest in German philosophy and critical theory.