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.
 


Season to Taste

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.

Varieties of Nationalism

Varieties of Nationalism

Political science's Harris Mylonas argues that nationalism is an empirically variegated ideology and explores five dimensions along which nationalism varies.

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Fictions of Gender

Orian Zakai, Israeli/Hebrew literature and culture professor, explores modern debates on both Zionism and feminism, and how they are prefigured in the legacies of early Zionist women.

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Enchanted Revolution

Religion Professor Xiaofei Kang shows how the Communist Party used religion as a model for its own aims and explores propaganda's influence in global politics.

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Jews, Judaism, and Success: How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement

Religion Professor Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern Western world?

The Making of Shia Ayatollahs, Sayed Hannan Akhlaq

The Making of Shia Ayatollahs

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.

Loner Forensics by Thea Brown

Loner Forensics

English's Thea Brown draws on parallel universes, video games and ghost towns to immerse the reader in grief, utopia, disaster—and, ultimately, love.

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Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

Italian's Lynn Westwater revisits the Italian Renaissance to rethink established spaces like convents, and literary genres like religious plays and epic poetry.

Sustainability and Sustainable Development: An Introduction by LISA BENTON-SHORT

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 by Gordon K. Mantler

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.