Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures
Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures

IHGC – Book Celebration

April 16, 2025
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Wilson 142
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Poster with event details and list of authors
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. 
 
Guests are asked to register in advance (although walk-ins will be accepted).  Upon checking in, guests will receive one bookmark that they can use to "claim" a FREE COPY of any available book AND a raffle ticket they can use to enter a drawing for another free copy!  

Refreshments will be served throughout the event and we hope you will join us for a day of fellowship and community as we celebrate our faculty members' recent publications!  REGISTER HERE by Monday, April 14th. 
 
Represented Authors:
  • 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
  • Emily Burrill (Department of History)
    • Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Human Rights, Society, and the State
  • Francesca Calamita (Department of Spanish)
    • Visibili e Influenti/Le donne Italiane ci sono
  • Francesca Calamita (with Claudia Bernardi and Daniel De Feo) (Italian Studies Program)
    • Eve's Sinful Bite: Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society
  • Sumita Chakraborty (Department of English)
    • Arrow
  • Jack Chen et al (Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
    • Literary History in and Beyond China: Reading Text and World
  • Jack Chen et al (Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
    • Literary Information in China: A History
  • Matthew Chin (Department of Women, German & Sexuality)
    • Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
  • 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.
  • Robin Means Coleman (and Mark Harris) (Department of African American and African Studies)
    • The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
  • Anthony Corbeill (Department of Classics)
    • Cicero, “De haruspicum responsis”: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
  • Chad Diehl (Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
    • Shadows of Nagasaki: Trauma, Religion, and Memory after the Atomic Bombing
  • 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
  • Laurent Dubois (and Millery Polyné, Nadève Ménard, Chantalle F. Verna, Kaiama L. Glover) (Department of History)
    • The Haiti Reader
  • Laurent Dubois (and Richard Turtis) (Department of History)
    • Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean
  • Laurent Dubois (translation of book by Jean Casimir) (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
  • Tessa Farmer (Department of Anthropology)
    • Well Connected. Everyday Water Practices in Cairo
  • Rita Felski (Department of English)
    • Love, Etc.: Essays on Contemporary Literature and Culture
  • Elizabeth Fowler (Department of English)
    • Poetry and the Built Environment: A Theory of the Flesh of Art
  • Brian B. Foster (with photographer Richard Frishman and writer Imani Perry) (Department of Sociology)
    • Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight
  • 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
  • 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
  • Caroline E. Janney (Editor, with Peter S. Carmichael, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean) (Department of History)
    • The War That Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher
  • 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
  • PJE Kershaw (Department of History)
    • Cities, Saints, and Communities in Early Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Alan Thacker
  • Michelle Kisliuk (co-editor) (Department of Music)
    • Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance: Race, Gender, Vulnerability
  • 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
  • Kunakhovich, Kyrill (co-edited with Piotr Kosicki)
    • The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution
  • 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
  • Erik Linstrum (Department of History)
    • Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire
  • James "Jeb" Livingood (Department of English)
    • Best New Poets 2019
  • James "Jeb" Livingood (Department of English)
    • Best New Poets 2020
  • James "Jeb" Livingood (Department of English)
    • ​​​​​​​Best New Poets 2022
  • James "Jeb" Livingood (Department of English)
    • ​​​​​​​Best New Poets 2023
  • James "Jeb" Livingood (Department of English)
    • ​​​​​​​Best New Poets 2024
  • John Lyons (Emeritus) (Department of English)
    • ​​​​​​​Women and Irony in Molière's Comedies of Marriage
  • Micheline Aharonian Marcom (Department of English)
    • ​​​​​​​Small Pieces
  • 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
  • Joshua Miller (Department of English)
    • Cambridge Companion to 21st-Century American Fiction
  • Erin Moriarty (with Annelies Kusters, Amandile le Maire, Sanchayeeta Lyer, and Steven Emery) (Department of Anthropology)
    • Deaf Mobility Studies. Exploring International Networks, Touruism, and Migration
  • Sara K. 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
  • Neeti Nair (co-edited with Michael Kugelman and Bijan Omrani) (Department of History)
    • ​​​​​​​Ghosts from the Past? Assessing Recent Developments in Religious Freedom 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
  • Fernando Operé (Italian Studies Program)
    • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​In the Name of the Father: Chronicle of Franco's Spain to Trump's America
  • 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
  • Phillip B. K. Potter (Department of Politics)
    • Zero Tolerance: Repression and Poltical Violence on China's New Silk Road
  • 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
  • Henry Skerrit (co-editor) (Department of Art)
    • Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together): Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists
  • 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
  • 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 Velázquez-Mendoza (Department of Spanish)
    • ​​​​​​​El Siglo VIII luso-hispanorromanico y su tipologia sinctatica: Correlatos clausales y extraclausales​​​​​​​​​​​
  • 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 (Department of German)
    • Charisma and Disenchantment : The Vocation Lectures
  • 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​​​​​​​
  • Dorothy Wong (editor) (Department of Art)
    • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Dynamics of Interregional Exchange in East Asian Buddhist Art
  • 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
  • Cong Ellen Zhang (co-edited with Patricia Ebrey, Ping Yao) (Department of History)
    • ​​​​​​​Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives
  • Cong Ellen Zhang (co-edited with Patricia Ebrey, Ping Yao) (Department of History)
    • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts
  • Jarrett Zigon (Department of Anthropology)
    • ​​​​​​​How Is It Between Us? Relational Ethics and Care for the World​​​​​​​​​​​​​​