Recent Publications
2024
Staging the Absolute
Ritual in Russia's Modern Era (University of Toronto Press, 2024)
Thomas Seifrid, 2018–2020 Director
2023
Dreams in Double Time
On Race, Freedom, and Bebop (Duke University Press, 2023)
Jonathan Leal, 2020–2022 Postdoctoral Fellow
Normporn
Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023)
Karen Tongson, 2023–2025 Faculty Fellow
The Overlooked Americans
The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country (Basic Books, 2023)
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, 2018-2019, 2020-202 Faculty Fellow
2022
Refusal to Eat
A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes (University of California Press, 2022)
Nayan Shah, 2018–2020 Faculty Fellow
How Machines Came to Speak
Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech (Duke University Press, 2022)
Jennifer Peterson, 2021–2023 Faculty Fellow
After Life
A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America (Haymarket Books, 2022)
Rhae Lynn Barnes, 2016–2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, with Keri Leigh Merritt and Yohuru Williams
2021
Ringleaders of Redemption
How Medieval Dance Became Sacred (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Kathryn Dickason, 2018–2020 Postdoctoral Fellow
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence
Oxford University Press, 2021
Christopher Fleming, 2018–2020 Postdoctoral Fellow
An Unholy Brew
Alcohol in Indian History and Religions (Oxford University Press, 2021)
James McHugh, 2016–2018 Faculty Fellow
Contemporary Painting (World of Art)
Thames and Hudson, 2021
Suzanne P. Hudson, 2018–2020 Faculty Fellow
2020
The Deportation Machine
America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Princeton Univ. Press, 2020)
Adam Goodman, 2014–2016 Postdoctoral Fellow
Jet Age Aesthetic
The Glamour of Media in Motion (Yale University Press, 2020) Vanessa Schwartz, 2016–2018 Faculty Fellow
South to Freedom
Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War (Basic Books, 2020)
Alice Baumgartner, 2019–2021 Postdoctoral Fellow
Take Me Apart
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2020
Sara Sligar, 2018–2020 Postdoctoral Fellow
Postcolonial Realms of Memory
Sites and Symbols in Modern France (Liverpool University Press, 2020)
Lydie Moudileno, 2018–2020 Faculty Fellow, with Etienne Achille and Charles Forsdick