Recent Faculty Publications

2020

Dyan Elliott

The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

Michael S. Sherry (emeritus)

The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)

Carl Smith (emeritus)

Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020)

Amy Stanley

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (Scribner, 2020)

 Lina Britto

Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise (University of California Press, 2020)

Jacob Lassner (emeritus)

Middle Eastern Politics and Historical Memory: Martyrdom, Revolution, National Identities (I.B. Tauris/ Bloomsbury, 2020)

2019

Lydia Barnett

After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)

T.H. Breen (emeritus)

The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America (Harvard University Press, 2019)

Haydon Cherry

Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019)

Hollis Clayson

Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019)

Peter Hayes (with Christopher Browning and Raul Hilberg)

German Trains, Jewish Souls: The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019)

Daniel Immerwahr

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)

Robert E. LERNER (emeritus) with Pavlina Rychterova

John of Rupescissa: Vade mecum in tribulatione. Translated into Medieval Vernaculars (Vita e Pensiero, 2019)

2018

Laura Hein

Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

Kate Masur (new edition of John E. Washington)

They Knew Lincoln (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

Paul Ramírez

Enlightened Immunity: Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018).

Keith Woodhouse

The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

2017

John Bushnell

Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017).

Dyan Elliott

A Hole in the Heavens (Tempe: Bagwyn Books, 2017).

Paul Gillingham (translation of Óscar Xavier Altamirano)

Poe: The Trauma of an Era (Oxford; New York: Peter Lang, 2017).

Peter Hayes

Why? Explaining the Holocaust (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2017).

Jacob Lassner (emeritus)

Medieval Jerusalem: Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017).

Robert Lerner (emeritus)

Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).

Sarah Maza

Thinking About History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).

David Shyovitz

A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

2016

Caitlin Fitz

Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions (Norton, 2016).

Prof. Fitz was interviewed about the book for Dissent, June 2016

Winner of 2017 PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, U.S. History

Joel Mokyr

A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (with Paul Robert Magocsi)

Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016).