Celebration of Books
The Glasscock Center is delighted to share recent book publications by faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center’s affiliated departments. Congratulations to these scholars on their achievement!
Books supported by Glasscock Center Grants (2019-Current)

Adam Seipp, History | Internal Faculty Residential Fellow, 2020-2021
Fulda Gap: A board game, West German society, and a battle that never happened, 1975–85 (War and Society, 2022)

Alain Lawo-Sukam, Hispanic Studies | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2019
La Poesia Guineoecuatoriana en Su Contexto Colonial y (Trans)nacional (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2019)

Brian Rouleau, History | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2021
Empire's Nursery Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century (NYU Press, 2021)

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Sociology & Vanita Reddy, English | Three-Year Seminar Grant Recipients, (2019-2022)
#MeToo and Transnational Gender Justice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Sociology | Faculty Research Fellowship Recipient
Legalizing Sex: Sexual Minorities, AIDS and Citizenship in India (NYU Press, 2020)

Claire Katz, Philosophy | Grant Recipient
Philosophy Camps for Youth (Big Ideas for Young Thinkers) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

Damon Bach, History | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2020
The American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural Dissidents (University Press of Kansas, 2020)

Emily Johansen, English | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2021
Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and the Neoliberal Contemporary (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

Evan Haefeli, History | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2020
Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion (Chicago University Press, 2021)

Felipe Hinojosa, History | Faculty Research Fellowship Recipient
Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (University of Texas Press, 2021)

Harland Prechel, Sociology | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2020
Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-regulated Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality (Stanford University Press, 2020)

Jennifer Mercieca, Communication | Internal Faculty Residential Fellowship Recipient
Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. United States (Texas A&M University Press, 2020)

John Cullen Gruesser, Glasscock Center Visiting Fellow | Sr. Research Fellow, Sam Houston State University
A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press, 2022)

John Cullen Gruesser, Glasscock Center Visiting Fellow | Sr. Research Fellow, Sam Houston State University
Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction (Texas A&M University Press, 2022)

L. Brett Cooke, International Studies | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2021
Human Nature in Utopia: Zamyatin's 'We': Russian Translation(Academic Studies Press, 2022)

L. Brett Cooke, International Studies | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Fall 2019
Tolstoy's Family Prototypes in "War and Peace" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)

Livia Stonescu, Visualization | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2018
Pictorial Art of El Greco: Temporalities, Transmaterialities, and Media (Amsterdam University Press, 2019)


Marian Eide, English | Faculty Research Fellowship
Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature (University of Virginia, 2019)


Sonia Hernandez, History | Publication Support Grant Recipient, Spring 2021
For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (University of Illinois Press, 2021)

Sonia Hernandez, History | Symposium and Small Conference Grant Recipient, 2019
Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border (University of Texas Press 2021)
Other Recent Publications (2019-Current)

Anne Morey and Claudia Nelson, English
Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals (Oxford 2019)

Britt Mize and Bruce Gilchrist
Beowulf as Children's Literature (Toronto, 2021)

Craig Kallendorf, International Studies
Early Printed Virgil Editions from 1500-1800: A Bibliography of the Craig Kallendorf Collection (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2021)

Craig Kallendorf, International Studies
Printing Virgil: The Transformation of the Classics in the Renaissance (Brill, 2020)

Craig Kallendorf, International Studies
The Virgilian Tradition Vol. 2: Books and Their Readers in the Renaissance, Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS2003 (Milton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2021)

Evan Haefeli, History
Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism (University of Virginia Press, 2020)

Heidi Campbell, Communication
Digital Creatives and the Rethinking of Religious Authority (Routledge, 2020)

Joe Feagin, Sociology
George Yancy: A Critical Introduction (edited with K. Ducey and C. Headley) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

Joe Feagin, Sociology
The White Racial Frame. Third Edition (Routledge, 2020)

Joe Feagin, Sociology
Revealing Britain’s Systemic Racism: The Case of Meghan Markle and the Royal Family (with Kimberly Ducey) (Routledge, 2021)

Joe Feagin, Sociology
Who Killed Higher Education? Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era. (with Edna Chun) (Routledge, 2021)

Joshua DiCaglio, English
Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry (Minnesota, 2021)

Linda Radzik, Philosophy
The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Lorien Foote, History
Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts (with Daniel Krebs) (University Press of Kansas, 2021)

Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Political Science
Reimagining the Judiciary: Women's Representation on High Courts Worldwide (Oxford University Press 2021)

Maura Ives, Ann Hawkins, Erin Bistline and Catherine Blackwell, eds.
Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (SUNY, 2021)

Mikko Tuhkanen, English
Leo Bersani: A Speculative Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Nancy Warren, English
Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (U of Notre Dame, 2019)

Patrick Burkart, Communication
Spotification of Popular Culture in The Field of Popular Communication (Routledge, 2020)

Portia Owusu, English
Spectres from the Past: Slavery and the Politics of History in West African and African-American Literature (Routledge, 2020)

Robert F. Carley, International Studies
Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

Sam Cohn, Sociology
All Societies Die: How To Keep Hope Alive (Cornell University Press, 2021)

Shawna Ross, English
Charlotte Bronte at the Anthropocene (SUNY Press, 2020)

Shawna Ross and Andrew Pilsch, English, eds.
Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor (Routledge, 2919)

Stephen H. Daniel, Philosophy
George Berkeley and Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Stephen Brdalyan Reigg, History
Russia's Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914 (Cornell University Press. 2020)

Editors: Steven M. Oberhelman, Giancarlo Abbamonte, and Patrick Baker
Habent sua fata libelli: Studies in Book History, the Classical Tradition, and Humanism in Honor of Craig Kallendorf (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 2021)

Theodore George, Philosophy
The Gadamerian Mind (Routledge, 2021)

Theodore George, Philosophy
The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

Troy Bickham, History
Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (The University of Chicago Press, 2020)