American Studies
- Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2021 Fall
- Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion
- Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation Matthew Biro 2022 Spring
- The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media
- Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall
- More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands
- Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring
- How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
- Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
- Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring
- A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world
- People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall
- An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
- Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice
- Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall
- Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
- Winter’s Children A Celebration of Nordic Skiing Ryan Rodgers 2021 Fall
- The story of Nordic skiing in the Midwest—its origins and history, its star athletes and races, and its place in the region’s social fabric and the nation’s winter recreation
- An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall
- An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious
- Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall
- A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it
- Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall
- Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i
- Tolerance and Risk How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims Mitra Rastegar 2021 Fall
- How apparently positive representations in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population
- Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall
- An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
- Brave Enough Jessie Diggins 2021 Fall
- Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter
- Swedish-American Borderlands New Histories of Transatlantic Relations Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén, Editors 2021 Spring
- Reframing Swedish–American relations by focusing on contacts, crossings, and convergences beyond migration
- Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall
- A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest
- Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring
- Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible
- The Black Reproductive Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood Sara Clarke Kaplan 2021 Spring
- How Black women’s reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy—and remains key to their dismantling