Faculty Publications
We are proud of our faculty and their publications. This page contains a list chronological, then alphabetical list of CHASS faculty authors, the names of their publications, and the publishers. Many of these books are available at the UCR Campus Store.
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2009:
- Susan Antebi, Department of Hispanic Studies. Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability. Palgrave-Macmillan.
- Reza Aslan, Department of Creative Writing. How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization and the End of the War on Terror. Random House.
- Benjamin Bishin, Department of Political Science. Tyranny of the Minority: The Subconstituency Politics Theory of Representation. Temple University Press.
- Scott Brooks, Department of Sociology, Black Men Can't Shoot. University of Chicago.
- Amalia Cabezas, Department of Women's Studies. Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Temple University Press.
- Joseph Childers, Department of English and Stephen Cullenberg, Department of Economics with Jack Amariglio (eds.). Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics. Routledge.
- Derick Fay, Department of Anthropology with Deborah James (eds.). The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution : 'Restoring What was Ours'. Routledge-Cavendish.
- John Fischer, Department of Philosophy. Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will. Oxford University Press.
- Paul Hoffman, Department of Philosophy. Essays on Descartes. Oxford University Press.
- Erith Jaffe-Berg, Department of Theatre. The Multilingual Art of Commedia dell'Arte. Legas Publishing
- Dale Kent, Department of History. Friendship, Love and Trust in Renaissance Florence. Harvard University Press.
- David B. Kronenfeld, Department of Anthropology. Fanti Kinship and the Analysis of Kinship Terminologies. University of Illinois Press.
- Laila Lalami, Department of Creative Writing. Secret Son. Algonquin Books.
- Perry Link, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages (ed.) The Scholar's Mind: Essays
in Honor of F.W. Mote. Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. - Juliet McMullin, Department of Anthropology with Diane Weiner. Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology. School for Advanced Research Press.
- John Medearis, Department of Political Science. Joseph A. Schumpeter. Continuum Press.
- Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Department of Economics with Paul Anand and Clemens Puppe (eds.). The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice. Oxford University Press.
- Thomas Patterson, Department of Anthropology Karl Mark. Anthropologist. Berg Publishing.
- Victoria Patterson, Department of Creative Writing. Drift: Stories. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Freya Schiwy, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Indianizing Film. Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology. Rutgers University Press.
- Christina Schwenkel, Department of Anthropology. The American War in Contemporary Vietnam. Indiana University Press.
- Sterling Stuckey, Department of History. African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick. Oxford University Press.
- Jonathan Walton, Department of Religious Studies. Watch This: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism. New York University Press.
2008:
- Edna Bonacich, Department of Sociology with Jake B. Wilson, Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor and the Logistics Revolution. Cornell University Press.
- Jayna Brown, Department of Ethnic Studies. Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern. Duke University Press.
- Christopher Buckley, Department of Creative Writing with Gary Young (eds.), Bear Flag Republic:†Prose Poems and Poetics from California. Alcatraz Editions.
- Derek A. Burrill, Department of Dance, Die Tryin’: Videogames, Masculinity, Culture. Peter Lang.
- Stefan Chrissanthos, Department of History. Warfare in the Ancient World: From the Bronze Age to the Fall of Rome. Praeger Publishers.
- Alba Cruz-Hacker, Department of Creative Writing. No Honey for Wild Beasts. Plain View Press.
- Howard S. Friedman, Department of Psychology with M.W. Schustack, The Personality Reader, Allyn & Bacon.
- John M. Ganim, Department of English, Medievalism and Orientalism, Palgrave MacMillan.
- Nancy G. Guerra, Department of Psychology with Robert D. Hugo and Paul Boxer, Treating the Juvenile Offender. Guilford Publications.
- Heidi Brayman Hackel, Department of English, with Catherine E. Kelly, (eds.) Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Randolph Head, Department of History. Jenatsch's Axe: Social Boundaries, Identity, and Myth in the Era of the Thirty Years' War. University of Rochester Press.
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Department of Creative Writing. Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems. University of Arizona Press. Co-winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
- Tofigh Heidarzadeh, Department of History. A History of Physical Theories of Comets, from Aristotle to Whipple. Springer Verlag.
- Anthea Kraut, Department of Dance. Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston. University of Minnesota Press.
- David B. Kronenfeld, Department of Anthropology. Culture, Society, and Cognition: Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge. Mouton Series in Pragmatics: Mouton de Gruyter [Walter de Gruyter].
- Judy Kronenfeld, Department of Creative Writing, Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths. Litchfield Review Press.
- Tim Labor, Department of Music. Escape from Ga-'Tyr. Outlaw Press.
- Anthony Macias, Department of Ethnic Studies. Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968. Duke University Press.
- Justin McDaniel, Department of Religious Studies. Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words. University of Washington Press.
- Molly McGarry, Department of History, Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America. University of California Press.
- Toby Miller, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention. Ohio State University Press.
- Armando Navarro, Department of Ethnic Studies. The Immigration Crisis: Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement. Altamira Press.
- Sally Ann Ness, Department of Anthropology with Carrie Noland (eds.), Migrations of Gesture. University of Minnesota Press.
- Robert Nash Parker, Department of Sociology with Emily K. Asencio. GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences: Coding, Mapping, and Modeling. Routledge Press.
- Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Department of Economics with Koichi Tadenuma. Yongsheng Xu, and Naoki Yoshihara (eds.), Rational Choice and Social Welfare. Springer.
- Kim Dzung Phan, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages. Vietnamese: an Introductory Reader. Institute of Vietnamese Studies and UC Riverside SEATRiP.
- S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Department of Political Science with Irene Bloemraad (eds.). Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations and Political Engagement. Russell Sage.
- Robert Rosenthal, Department of Psychology with R.L. Rosnow, Essentials of behavioral research: Methods and data analysis (3rd ed.) McGraw-Hill.
- Robert Rosenthal, Department of Psychology with R.L. Rosnow, Beginning behavioral research: a conceptual primer (6th ed.) Pearson Prentice Hall.
- Maurya Simon, Department of Creative Writing, Cartographies, Red Hen Press.
- Tyler Stallings, Gabriela LeÛn: Sunday Walk to the ZÛcalo of Oaxaca, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery publication.
- Ivan Strenski, Department of Religious Studies. Louis Dumont and the Study of Religion: Difference, Comparison, Transgression. Equinox Press.
- David Swanson, Department of Sociology with Steve Murdock, (eds.) 2008. Applied Demography in the 21st Century. Springer.
- Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, Department of Sociology. On The Origins of Societies by Natural Selection. Paradigm Press.
- Jane Ward, Department of Women's Studies. Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations. Vanderbilt University Press.
- Yenna Wu, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, with Qian He and Ying Petersen, Me and China. McGraw-Hill.
- Susan Zieger, Department of English. Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature. University of Massachusetts Press.
2007:
- Chris Abani, Department of Creative Writing. Song for Night published by Akashic, NY.
- Chris Abani, Department of Creative Writing. The Virgin of Flames. Penguin.
- Byron Adams, Department of Music (ed.) Edward Elgar and His World. Princeton University Press.
- Gayle Brandeis, Department of Creative Writing, Self Storage. Ballantine (paperback edition, 2008).
- Amalia Cabezas, Department of Women’s Studies, Ellen Reese, Department of Sociology and Marguerite Waller, Departments of Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies (eds.) The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty. Paradigm Publishers.
- Christopher Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology, Ellen Reese, Department of Sociology with others, Global Democracy and World Social Forums. Paradigm Publishers.
- Joseph Childers, Department of English, with James Buzard and Eileen Gillooly (eds.) Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace. University of Virginia Press.
- Andrea Denny-Brown, Department of English, with Lisa H. Cooper (eds.) Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Emory Elliott, Department of English with Jasmine Payne and Patricia Ploesch (eds.) Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation. Palgrave, MacMillan.
- Charles Evered, Department of Theatre, Adopt a Sailor. Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
- John Martin Fischer, Department of Philosophy, My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility. Oxford University Press.
- John Martin Fischer, Department of Philosophy with John Perry and Michael Bratman, (eds). Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings (4th edition) Oxford University Press.
- John Martin Fischer, Department of Philosophy with Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vargas, Four Views on Free Will, Blackwell Publishers.
- Françoise Forster-Hahn, Department of Art History, Max Beckmann in Kalifornien. Exil, Erinnerung und Erneuerung. Deutscher Kunstverlag.
- Howard S. Friedman, Department of Psychology with R.C. Silver, (eds.), Foundations of Health Psychology Oxford University Press.
- Mason Gaffney, Department of Economics, New Life in Old Cities, The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.
- George E. Haggerty, Department of English and Molly McGarry (eds.), A Companion to LGBT/Q Studies. Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Department of Creative Writing, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border, City Lights.
- Liz Kotz, Department of the History of Art, Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art, MIT Press.
- Rebecca (Monte) Kugel, Department of History with Lucy Elderveld Murphy (eds.). Native Women’s History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing, University of Nebraska Press.
- John Christian Laursen, Department of Political Science with Hans Blom and Luisa Simonutti (eds.), Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment: Liberty, Patriotism, and the Common Good. University of Toronto Press.
- Sonya Lyubomirsky, Department of Psychology. The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. The Penguin Press.
- Toby Miller, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in†a Neoliberal Age. Temple University Press.
- Yolanda Moses, Department of Anthropology with Carol C. Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary Henze, How Real is Race: A Sourcebook on Race, Culture and Biology. Rowman and Littlefield.
- Susan Ossman, Department of Anthropology, The Places We Share: Migration, Subjectivity and Global Mobility. Lexington Press.
- Jonathan Ritter, Department of Music with J. Martin Daughtry (eds.) Music in the Post-9/11 World, Routledge.
- Eric Schwitzgebel, Department of Philosophy with Russell T. Hurlburt, Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic, MIT Press.
- Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Department of Dance, “The People Have Never Stopped Dancing”: Native American Modern Dance Histories. University of Minnesota Press.
- Susan Straight, Department of Creative Writing, The Friskative Dog. Knopf.
- Jonathan H. Turner, Department of Sociology, Human Emotions: A Sociological Theory. Routledge.
- Georgia Warnke, Department of Philosophy, After Identity: Rethinking Race, sex and Gender, Cambridge University Press.
- Raymond Williams, Department of Hispanic Studies, The Latin American Novel, 1945-Present, Columbia University Press.
2006:
- Chris Abani, Department of Creative Writing. Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani. New York: Akashic Books.
- Chris Abani, Department of Creative Writing. Hands Washing Water, Copper Canyon Press.
- Adalberto Aguirre Jr., Jonathan H. Turner, American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination, 5th Edition.
- Catherine Allgor, Department of History, A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation, Henry Holt and Co.
- Richard Arnott, Department of Economics with D. McMillen (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Urban Economics. Blackwell Press.
- Alicia Arrizon, Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance, University of Michigan Press.
- Reza Aslan, Department of Creative Writing, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Random House.
- Peter J. Burke, Department of Sociology, Contemporary Social Psychological Theories.
- Christopher Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology. Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Walter Aaron Clark, Department of Music. Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Carl F Cranor. Toxic Torts Science, Law and The Possibility Of Justice Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Stephen Cullenberg, Department of Economics and James K. Boyce, et al. Human Development in the Era of Globalization. Northhampton, MA: Edward Edgar Publishing.
- Stephen Cullenberg, Department of Economics and Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Department of Economics, with James K. Boyce and Robert Pollin (eds.) Human Development in the Era of Globalization: Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin, Edward Elgin Publishing.
- John Divola, Professor of Art, with an essay by David Campany and interview by Jan Tamir: Three Acts. New York: Aperture.
- Jennifer Doyle, Department of English, Sex Objects - Art and the Dialectics of Desire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- John Martin Fischer, Department of Philosophy. My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Howard S. Friedman, Department of Psychology with M.W. Schustack, M. W., Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research, Allyn & Bacon.
- Juan Herrera, Department of Creative Writing. Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
- Laila Lalami, Department of Creative Writing, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Harvest Books.
- John C. Laursen, Department of Political Science, Denis Veixas, and Cyrus Masroori. The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian Novel. Albany: State University of New York Press.
- David Pion-Berlin, Department of Political Science and Edward Epstein. Broken Promises?: The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
- S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Department of Political Science. Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
- Andrews Reath, Department of Philosophy. Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Dylan Rodriguez. Forced Passages: Imprisioned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime. Minneapolis, MN: University Press.
- Conrad Rudolph, Department of the History of Art. A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Pashaura Singh. Life and Work of Guru Arjan. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
- Jan E. Stets, Jonathan H. Turner, Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions.
- Susan Straight, Department of Creative Writing. A Million Nightingales. New York: Pantheon Books.
- Stanley Stewart. Caped Crusaders 101, Composition through Comic Books.
- Ben Stoltzfus. The Target. Cranbury, NJ.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
- Richard Sutch, Department of Economics and Susan B. Carter Department of Economics, (eds.) Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Cambridge University Press.
- Anne H. Sutherland. The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the Making of Texas. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
- Kiril Tomoff. Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1959, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- Richard Sutch, Department of Economics and Susan B. Carter Department of Economics, (eds.) Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Cambridge University Press.
- Jonathan H. Turner, Leonard Beeghley, and Charles Powers, The Emergence of Sociological Theory, 6th Edition.
- John B. Vickery. The Modern Elegiac Temper. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
- Yenna Wu, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, with Philip F. Williams (eds.). Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camps: Disciplined and Published. New York: Routledge.
- Dwight Yates. Bring Everybody: Stories. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press.
2005:
- Steven Gould Axelrod, Department of English, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Vol. II.
- Richard Arnott, Department of Economics, with T. Rave, and R. Schob, Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion. MIT Press.
- Edgar W. Butler. Savannah Tempest: The Hidden Savannah. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2005.
- Christopher Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology, E.N. Anderson, Department of Anthropology, The Historical Evolution of World-Systems.
- Christopher Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology, Jonathan Friedman, Hegemonic Declines: Present and Past by Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Sociology.
- John Martin Fischer, Department of Philosophy (ed.) Free Will: Critical Concepts in Philosophy: Determinism. New York: Routledge.
- John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza. "Responsibility for Actions: Moderate Reasons-Responsiveness," In Free Will: Critical Concepts in Philosophy: Libertarianism, Alternative Possibilities, and Moral Responsibility. Ed. Fischer, John Mar-tin. New York: Routledge.
- John M. Ganim, Department of English. Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- John C. Laursen, Ian Hunter, and Cary J. Nedennan. Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
- Victor Lippit, Department of Economics, Capitalism, Routledge.
- Toby Miller, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. "Media Production and Consumption." In International Cultural Studies: An Antholog, Ed. Ackbar Abbas and John Nguyet Emi, pp. 227-3 1. Malden, Oxford, and Carlton: Blackwell.
- Toby Miller, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Nitin Govil, John McMurria, Richard Maxwell, El Nuevo Hollywood: Del Imperialismo Cultural a las Leyes del Marketing.
- Toby Miller, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Nitin Govil, John McMurria, Richard Maxwell, Ting Wang, Global Hollywood 2. London: BFI Publishing.
- Alfredo M. Mirandé, Department of Ethnic Studies, The Stanford Law Chronicles.
- Armando Navarro, Department of Ethnic Studies, Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlán.
- James A. Parr, Department of Hispanic Studies. 'Don Quixote': A Touchstone for Literaiy Criticism. Kassel, Germany: Reichenberger.
- David Pion-Berlin and Craig Arceneaux. Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Department of Political Science. Democracy in Immigrant America: Changing Demographics and Political Participation, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
- Roger Ransom, The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been. New York: W.W. Norton.
- Ellen Reese, Department of Sociology, Backlash against Welfare Mothers, Past and Present, University of California Press.
- Robert Rosenthal, Department of Psychology and Ralph Rosnow. Beginning Behavioral Research: A Conceptual Primer. 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
- Robert Rosenthal, Jinni Harrigan, and Klaus Scherer. The New Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Conrad Rudolph (ed.) Department of the History of Art. First I Find the Center Point: Reading the Text of Saint Victor’s The Sacred Ark. American Philosophical Society, 2005.
- Maurya Simon, Department of Creative Writing. Weavers. Upland, CA: Blackbird Press.
- George Slusser. The Centenarian: Or, The Two Beromghelds. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.
- Jonathan Turner and Alexandra Maryanski. Incest: origins of the taboo. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
- Marguerite Waller, Departments of Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies, and Anikó Imre. East European Cinemas. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Marguerite Waller, Departments of Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies, Sylvia Marco. Dialogue and Difference: Feminists Challenge Globalization.
- Ellen Wartella, Department of Psychology and D. Charles Whitney, Department of Creative Writing and Lawrence Grossberg. MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Dwight Yates. Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones: Stories. Snake Nation Press. Valdosta, GA.
- Haibo Yu, Department of Theatre. From 2D to 3D: A Collection of Haibo Yu's Art & Stage Designs. Beijing, China: Foreign Language Press.
