Faculty Bookshelf
The faculty bookshelf showcases the published book-length works authored and edited by our faculty members.
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The Accused
How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes
Advanced Creative Nonfiction
A Writer's Guide and Anthology
Africa's Social Cleavages and Democratization
Colonial, Postcolonial, and Multiparty Era
Aiding and Abetting
U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence
Almost Dead
Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807
Amid the Clouds and Mist
China’s Colonization of Guizhou, 1200–1700
The Bad Corset
A Feminist Reimagining
Between Here and There
Creating the Political Economy of Mexican Migration, 1900-1942
The Big Picture
The Cold War on the Small Screen
Born Again in Brazil
The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty
Charles A. Willoughby and the Anti-Communist Crusade
Forging the Geopolitics of the American Old Right
The Cherokee Diaspora
An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
Cinema of Crushing Motherhood
A New Feminist Cinema
Competitive Spirits
Latin America's New Religious Economy
Confronting Totalitarian Minds
Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence
The Corseted Skeleton
A Bioarchaeology of Binding
The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
An Annotated Selection
The Crown's Silence
The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas
Cyborgs, Ethics, and the Matrix
Simulations of Sex and Gender
A Dark Inheritance
Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
Death and Rebirth in a Southern City
Richmond’s Historic Cemeteries
A Decolonizing Ear
Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
Deconstructing Privilege
Teaching and Learning as Allies in the Classroom
Deprived of Sense and Intellect
Insanity, Possession, and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe
Desire in the Age of Robots and AI
An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact
Devoted to Death
Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (3rd Ed.)
Earth System Law
Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene
Education and the State in Modern Peru
Primary Schooling in Lima, 1821–c. 1921
Entitled Opinions
Doxa After Digitality
Every Home a Distillery
Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake
Freedom Beyond Confinement
Travel and Imagination in African American Cultural History and Letters
From My Cold, Dead Hands
Charlton Heston and American Politics
Fulfilling the Promise
Virginia Commonwealth University and the City of Richmond, 1968–2009
Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminallity of Death
Monstrous Males/Fatal Females
Gerrymandering in America
The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty
Gerrymandering the States
Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism
Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural
From Animus to Zombi
Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses
Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century
Governing Climate Induced Migration and Displacement
IGO Expansion and Global Policy Implications
Imagining Selves
Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks
Included in English Studies
Learning Climates That Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Insurgent Women
Female Combatants in Civil Wars
Intersectional Pedagogy
Complicating Identity and Social Justice
Inventing Chemistry
Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
Inventing Laziness
The Culture of productivity in Late Ottoman Society
Isolation and Engagement
Presidential Decision Making on China from Kennedy to Nixon
The “Jewish Threat”
Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army
Keep On Keeping On
The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia
La Santa Muerte
Enquête sur la sainte patronne des marginaux latino-américains et des narcotrafiquants mexicains
Leagues of Laughter
War, Comedy and the Soviet Legacy in Russia and Ukraine
Life on Display
Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century
A Little Child Shall Lead Them
A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Luminous Pursuit
Jellyfish, GFP, and the Unforeseen Path to the Nobel Prize
Making Mice
Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans
Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924
Managing National Security Policy
The President and the Process
Mathematical Modeling for Women’s Health
Collaborative Workshop for Women in Mathematical Biology
The Most Intentional City
St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great
Mr. Potato Head vs Freud
Lessons on the Craft of Writing Fiction
A Nation of Speechifiers
Making an American Public after the Revolution
Nature's Civil War
Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
No Collusion!
Catherine the Great and American Independence
Pipeline Populism
Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century
The Price of Truth
The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany
Prismatics
Larry Levis & Contemporary American Poetry
Racism in American Popular Media
From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito
Reclaiming Two-Spirits
Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
Republicans and Race
The GOP's Frayed Relationship with African Americans, 1945-1974
Robert Morris's Folly
The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder
The Robotic Imaginary
The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor
Russia’s Torn Safety Nets
Health and Social Welfare during the Transition
Santa Muerte
I Sette Volti Della Mietitrice
Santa Muerte
La Segadora Segura
Santa Muerte
Święta Śmierć
Secrecy in the Sunshine Era
The Promise and Failures of U.S. Open Government Laws
Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great
Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt
Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs
Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946
Stars for Freedom
Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement
The Strange Genius of Mr. O
The World of the United States’ First Forgotten Celebrity
Sugar, Slavery, and Society
Perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes, and the United States
Theatre of Anger
Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
Thorns in the Flesh
Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity
Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism
Radical Aesthetics, Radical Politics
Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation
Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story
Uncertain Threats
The FBI, the New Left, and Cold War Intelligence
Using Mathematics to Understand Biological Complexity
From Cells to Populations
Wandering Women and Holy Matrons
Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages
Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks
From Snowden to Samizdat
With All Deliberate Speed
Implementing Brown v. Board of Education
Women as War Criminals
Gender, Agency, and Justice
World of Echo
Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England