IHGC – Book Celebration | Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures

The IHGC is pleased to support UVA faculty’s various book projects through our annual Book Celebration. During the celebration, the UVA community is invited to attend, meet the authors, and receive free copies of the newly-released books! The list of featured authors and books is below. It will be updated throughout the month of March 2025. Registration information coming soon!

Jane Alison (Department of English)
- Villa E
Jessica Andruss (Department of Religious Studies)
- Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem
Natalie B. Aviles (Department of Sociology)
- An Ungovernable Foe: Science and Policy Innovation in the U.S. National Cancer Institute
Lawrie Balfour (Department of Politics)
- Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom
Ben Bennett (Department of German)
- Shaping a Modern Ethics:  The Humanist Legacy from  Nietzsche to Feminism”
Colin Bird (Department of Politics)
- Human Dignity and Political Criticism
Aniko Bodroghkozy (Department of Media Studies)
- Making #Charlottesville: Media from Civil Rights to Unite the Right
Maya Boutaghou (Department of French)
- White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language
Anna Brickhouse (Department of English)
- Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe
Francesca Calamita (Department of Spanish)
- Visibili e Influenti/Le donne Italiane ci sono
Matthew Chin (Department of Women, German & Sexuality)
- Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
Sumita Chakraborty (Department of English)
- Arrow
Robin Means Coleman (Department of African American and African Studies)
- Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present, 2nd ed.
Anthony Corbeill (Department of Classics)
- Cicero, “De haruspicum responsis”: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
Christa Dierksheide (Department of History)
- Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, The Randolphs and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America
Paul Dobryden (Department of German)
- The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder
Jean Casimir, translated by Laurent Dubois (translation) (Department of History)
- The Haitians: A Decolonial History
Justene Hill Edwards (Department of History)
- Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
Annelies Kusters, Erin Moriarty, Amandile le Maire, Sanchayeeta Lyer, and Steven Emery (Department of Anthropology)
- Deaf Mobility Studies. Exploring International Networks, Touruism, and Migration
Tessa Farmer (Department of Anthropology)
- Well Connected. Everyday Water Practices in Cairo
Elizabeth Fowler (Department of English)
- Poetry and the Built Environment: A Theory of the Flesh of Art
Bonnie Gordon (Department of Jewish Studies)
- Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds
Grace Elizabeth Hale (Department of History)
- In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning
Robin Means Coleman & Mark Harris (Department of African American and African Studies)
- The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
Gustav Heldt (Department of East Asian Languages)
- Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Diary as History and Fiction
Nizar F. Hermes (Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures)
- Of Lost Cities: The Maghribī Poetic Imagination
James Hunter (Department of Sociology)
- Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis
Caroline Janney (Department of History)
- Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
Walter Jost (Department of English)
- All in All (More or Less): Rhetorical Considerations in Literature, Thought, and Experience
Andrew W. Kahrl (Department of African American and African Studies)
- The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
Cheryl Krueger (Department of French)
- Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France
Inger N. I. Kuin (Department of Classics)
- Lucian's Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East
David Leblang (Department of Politics)
- The Ties That Bind: Immigration and the Global Political Economy
Jon Edward Lendon (translation) (Department of History)
- Rhetorik Macht Rom. Die Kraft der Redekunst im Imperium Romanum
Lorna Martens (Department of German)
- As Told By Herself: Women’s Childhood Autobiography, 1845-1969
Katharine Maus (Department of English)
- The Oxford English Literary History Volume 4. 1603–1660: Literary Cultures of the Early Seventeenth Century
Erik Linstrum (Department of History)
- Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empi
John Lyons (Emeritus) (Department of French)
- Women and Irony in Molière's Comedies of Marriage
Micheline Aharonian Marcom (Department of English)
- Small Pieces
K. Sara Myers (Department of Classics)
- Ancient Roman Literary Gardens: Gender, Genre, and Geopolitics
Neeti Nair (Department of History)
- Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia
John Nemec (Department of Religious Studies)
- Brahmins and Kings: Royal Counsel in the Sanskrit Narrative Literatures
Oludamini Ogunnaike (Department of Religious Studies)
- The Book of Clouds
John Owen (Department of Politics)
- The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order
Giulia Paoletti (Department of Art)
- Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960
Richard B. Frishman, Brian Foster, and Imani Perry (Department of Sociology)
- Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight
Andrea Press (Department of Media Studies)
- Cinema and Feminism: A Quick Immersion
Isaac Ariail Reed (Department of Sociology)
- Sociology as a Human Science: Essays on Interpretation and Causal Pluralism
Kurtis R. Schaeffer (Department of Religious Studies)
- Buddhist Meditation: Classic Teachings from Tibet
Joseph A. Seeley (Department of History)
- Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria
Sandhya Shukla (Department of English)
- Cross-Cultural Harlem: Imagining Race and Place
Andrew Stauffer (Department of English)
- Byron: A Life In Ten Letters
Robert Stolz (translation) (Department of History)
- The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Facism
Brian Teare (Department of English)
- Poem Bitten By a Man
Jennifer Tsien (Department of French)
- Rumors of Revolution: Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial Louisiana
Laurent Dubois & Richard Turits (Department of History)
- Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean
Elizabeth Varon (Department of History)
- Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
Elizabeth Varon (Department of History)
- Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
Omar Velazquez-Mendoza (Department of Spanish)
- El Siglo VIII luso-hispanorromanico y su tipologia sinctatica: Correlatos clausales y extraclausales
Philip B.K. Potter & Chen Wang (Department of Politics)
- Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China's New Silk Road
Ashleigh Greene Wade (Department of African American and African Studies)
- Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice
Yingyao Wang (Department of Sociology)
- Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State
Chad Wellmon (with Paul Reitter) (Department of German)
- Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
Stephen White (Department of Politics)
- The Two Faces of Democracy
Brad Wilcox (Department of Sociology)
- Get Married
Brantly Womack (Department of Politics)
- Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order
William Wylie (Department of Art)
- A Prairie Season
Anri Yasuda (Department of East Asian Languages)
- Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics
Jarrett Zigon (Department of Anthropology)
- How Is It Between Us? Relational Ethics and Care for the World