That Said: New and Selected Poems

That Said: New and Selected Poems, written by Professor of English Jane Shore, extends her lifelong, vivid exploration of memory—her childhood in New Jersey, her Jewish heritage, her adult years in Vermont.

The Imprint of Business Norms on American Education

The Imprint of Business Norms on American Education, written by Assistant Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology Dameon Alexander, explores the existence of certain capitalist realities in the American education system to find a balance between the distinct ideologies of education and business. This book is a theory-building exercise that centers on a descriptive multiple-case study of two senior high schools: a private, Jesuit school with a mission to educate students for university disciplines and a public charter school designed for career preparation, both located in Washington, D.C.

The Company We Keep: Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society

The Company We Keep: Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society, authored by Professorial Lecturer in Sociology Daniel Marschall, is an absorbing ethnography that sheds light on the nature of the computer technology industry marked by highly skilled jobs and rapid technological change. He chronicles the employees' experiences at IntenSivity, a technology workplace, examining how the workers characterize their occupational culture, share values and work practices, and help one another within their community.

Prove It On Me

In Prove It On Me, Assistant Professor of History Erin D. Chapman explores the gender and sexual politics of this modern racial ethos and reveals the constraining and exploitative underside of the New Negro era's vaunted liberation and opportunities. Chapman's cultural history documents the effects on black women of the intersection of primitivism, New Negro patriarchal aspirations, and the early twentieth-century consumer culture.

The First Modern Jew

The First Modern Jew, by Assistant Professor of History Daniel B. Schwartz, provides a riveting look at how Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) went from being one of Judaism's most notorious outcasts to one of its most celebrated, if still highly controversial, cultural icons, and a powerful and protean symbol of the first modern secular Jew.

Watergate: A Novel

In Watergate: A Novel, Professor of English Thomas Mallon portrays Nixon’s presidency through the lens of seven characters in and out of the White House. Mallon takes his readers on a journey through major locations, including Camp David, the Senate Caucus Room, the District of Columbia jail, and the Dupont Circle mansion of Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter. The book brings a new perspective to an often retold story of scandal and mystery.

The Ahhiyawa Texts

In his book The Ahhiyawa Texts, Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Eric Cline provides, for the first time, English translations of all twenty-six Ahhiyawa texts along with commentary and brief expositions on the historical implications of each text. Scholars often identify the controversial area of Ahhiyawa, a land referred to in these texts found in the Hittite capital of Hattusa dating to the fifteenth-thirteenth centuries B.C.E., with the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean world.

Eisenhower and the Cold War Economy

In a unique collaboration between a professor and his former student, William H. Becker, chair of the Department of History, and William “Mac” McClenahan, Jr., PhD ’93, explore the macro- and microeconomic policies of the Eisenhower administration in their new book Eisenhower and the Cold War Economy.

Human Evolution

In his new book, Human Evolution, University Professor of Human Origins and Human Evolutionary Anatomy Bernard Wood recounts the history of paleoanthropology from its inception in the 18th-century to today’s most recent findings and discoveries.

A Moderate Compromise

Considering all sides of the globalization debate in his new book, A Moderate Compromise: Economic Policy Choice in an Era of Globalization, Associate Professor of Economics Steven Suranovic analyzes how international economic policy is made and how it has become so controversial. He suggests a solution to the conflict between free trade markets and the movement toward greater government involvement that is consistent with both economic efficiency and social justice.

Cinematic Hamlet

Cinematic Hamlet, by Associate Professor of English Patrick Cook, contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by the four major filmmakers of Hamlet: Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda. Through a meticulous study of each film’s devices, he explores the ways in which these directors transform the play to the screen, capturing the viewer’s attention with powerful instinctive drives and audiovisual tools that support and complement Shakespeare’s story.

The Ephemeral History of Perfume

While many historians feel that scent is too intangible to study, Assistant Professor of English Holly Dugan argues in her book, The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England, that men and women have long used perfumes for various reasons, whether in church, gardens, or anywhere else in early modern England. This innovative research provides a unique opportunity to learn how early modern men and women utilized the sense of smell in their daily lives.

Chinese Shakespeares

In his new book, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange, Associate Professor of English Alexander Huang illuminates Shakespeare’s strong influence on Chinese culture that can be felt from literature to theater to film over the past two hundred years.