Philosophy's David DeGrazia explores the American experience with gun violence and gun policy, ethical arguments, and reform possibilities.
Faculty Books
From the history of race and caste in Latin America to the role of music in religion around the world, Columbian College faculty publish numerous thought-provoking and timely titles every year. Their work has topped bestseller lists, inspired debate and dialogue and received positive reviews from high-profile outlets like the Los Angeles Review of Books and The New York Times.
Corcoran's Dana Tai Soon Burgess charts the diverse histories of dance through ten key moments that have shaped the different forms and genres we see today.
Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs
University Writing's Caroline Smith explores food memoirs to understand the ways women are renegotiating their relationships with the kitchen and food.
Political science's Harris Mylonas argues that nationalism is an empirically variegated ideology and explores five dimensions along which nationalism varies.
Professorial Lecturer Sayed Hassan Akhlaq from the Religion Department offers both insider and outsider views of how a scholar becomes an Ayatollah in Shia Islam.
English's Thea Brown draws on parallel universes, video games and ghost towns to immerse the reader in grief, utopia, disaster—and, ultimately, love.
Sustainability and Sustainable Development
Geography's Lisa Benton-Short introduces students to sustainability structured around the 17 UN SDGs.
The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America
Drawing on a rich array of archives and oral history interviews, Gordon K. Mantler offers a bold reexamination of the Harold Washington movement and moment.
History's Joel Blecher co-edited the first English translation of the preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic medieval world.
Globalism, Tribalism, and the Quest for Pluralism: Media's Changing Impact
SMPA's Lee W. Huebner explores and explains the inherent tension throughout history between humankind’s global and tribal impulses.