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2023 Faculty Book List

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Faculty Books of 2023
Cover image for Interpreting Contentious Memory
Interpreting Contentious Memory
Edited by Thomas DeGloma (Sociology) and Janet Jacobs

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past.

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Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era
Yasha Klotz (Classical & Oriental Studies)

This book offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West.

Available through the Hunter Library

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Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna
Mònica Calabritto (Romance Languages)

In 1588, Paolo Barbieri murdered his wife, Isabella Caccianemici. Later, Paolo would claim to have acted in a fit of madness-but was he criminally insane or merely pretending to be? This riveting book addresses this controversy by reconstructing Paolo's life, prosecution, and medical diagnosis.

Available through the Hunter Library

Praise for Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna
“A brilliant and sobering reconstruction of the emotional cost of mental illness in the late Renaissance.”
Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto
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Camp TV of the 1960s: Reassessing the Vast Wasteland
Edited by Isabel Pinedo (Film & Media Studies) and W. D. Phillips

This is the first cohesive text to study camp on television that considers various forms it took during that critical decade. It reconsiders American prime-time programs that drew significantly on aspects of camps, such as Batman, The Monkees, The Addams Family, Bewitched, F Troop, British programs including The Avengers, and programs not often associated with camp like Snagglepuss.

Available through the Hunter Library: Link #1 | Link #2

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Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects Volume I
Edited by Claudia Orenstein and Tim Cusack (Theater)

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

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Moral Minefields
Sam Stabler (Sociology)and Shai Dromi

This book considers five recent controversial topics in sociology—race and genetics, secularization theory, methodological nationalism, the culture of poverty, and parenting practices—to reveal how moral debates affect the field. Sociologists, they show, tend to respond to moral criticism of scholarly work in one of three ways.

Available through the Hunter Library

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Rethinking social work education in light of the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from social work scholars and leaders
Edited by Liat Shklarski (Social Work) and Yael Latzer

Featuring chapters written by a diverse group of social work professionals, this book explores the profound effects of the pandemic on social work education

Available through the Hunter Library

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From Migrants to Refugees
Jill Rosenthal (History)

This book tells the history of how Rwandan migrants in a Tanzanian border district became considered either citizens or refugees as nation-state boundaries solidified in the wake of decolonization.

Available through the Hunter Library

Praise for From Migrants to Refugees
“[This book] is a compelling and important contribution to our understanding not only of the cross-border consequences of the Rwandan quagmire but also of the relationship in an unequal world between international organizations, African people, and an African state.”
Frederick Cooper, author of Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present
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Data Analytics and Adaptive Learning: Research Perspectives
Edited By Patsy D. Moskal, Charles D. Dzuiban, and Anthony G. Picciano (Educational Leadership)

In recent years, both analytics and adaptive learning have helped educators become more responsive to learners in virtual, blended, and personalized environments. This text offers new insights into the use of emerging data analysis and adaptive techniques in multiple learning settings.

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The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism
Thomas DeGloma (Sociology)

In this book, contributors present original research in various established and emerging areas of concern while outlining key theoretical and methodological foundations of this multifaceted and broadly relevant perspective in the field of sociology.

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Motor Control: Translating Research into Clinical Practice, 6th Edition
Anne Shumway-Cook, Marjorie H. Woollacott, Jaya Rachwani (Physical Therapy), and Victor Santamaria

Bridging the gap between current motor control research and its applications to clinical practice, this text gives a full arsenal of best-evidence tools and information to examine, diagnose, and treat those with balance, mobility, and upper extremity function problems.

Cover image for Urban Energy and Climate: Prospects for A Sustainable Transition (World Scientific Series In Current Energy Issues
Urban Energy and Climate: Prospects for A Sustainable Transition (World Scientific Series In Current Energy Issues
Edited by Peter Marcotullio (Geography & Environmental Science), Joshua Sperling, and Andrea L. Pierce

This volume brings together leading experts on the prospects and challenges of urban energy innovation and on related-economic, social and environmental sustainability transitions with a focus on addressing rapid urbanization and changes across a diverse typology of global cities.

Available through the Hunter Library

Cover image for Transforming Early Years Policy in the US: A Call to Action. Teachers College Press
Transforming Early Years Policy in the US: A Call to Action. Teachers College Press
Mark Nagasawa, Lacey Peters (Early Childhood), L., Marianne N. Bloch, & Beth Blue Swadener.

This timely collection provides an accessible discussion and analysis of some of the most urgent policy issues facing early childhood care and education in the United States.

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Blemished Kings: Suitors in the Odyssey, Blame Poetics, and Irish Satire
Andrea Kouklanakis (Classical and Oriental Studies)

In this book, the author interprets the language Penelope’s suitors use in the Odyssey―their fighting words―as Homeric expressions of reproach and critique against unsuitable kings.

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Reading the Puppet Stage, Reflections on the Dramaturgy of Performing Objects
Claudia Orenstein (Theater)

Drawing on the author’s two decades of seeing, writing on, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this book offers a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry.

Available through the Hunter Library

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Purgatory Citizenship
Calvin John Smiley (Sociology)

Making use of the life-history interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork with low-income urban residents of color, primarily Black men, the author finds that reentry after incarceration requires the recently released to negotiate a web of disjointed and often contradictory systems that serve as an extension of the carceral system.

Available through the Hunter Library

Praise for Purgatory Citizenship
“This is ethnography at its finest. Smiley offers a critical, abolitionist perspective on reentry that is birthed in and through his revealing interviews with formerly incarcerated men and women as they navigate a system, they know is designed to entrap them.”
Jill McCorkel, author of Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment
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Semiotics of Rape
Rupal Oza (Women and Gender Studies)

This book follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues—including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice—are contested.

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The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States
Michaela Soyer (Sociology)

Seeking to shed light on how we might end mass incarceration, this book compares the histories and goals of the American and German justice systems.

Available through the Hunter Library

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Sentence Strategies for Multilingual Learners 1st Edition
Nell Scharff Panero (Curriculum & Teaching) and Joanna Yip

This book presents Combinations as a set of high-yield instructional strategies for advancing academic literacy for multilingual learners and all students.

Available through the Hunter Library

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Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities
Thomas DeGloma (Sociology)

This book draws on a fascinating set of contemporary and historical cases to build a sociological theory that accounts for the many faces of anonymity. He asks a number of pressing questions about the social conditions and effects of anonymity.

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6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching 1st Edition
Nicora Placa (Mathematics Education)

This text lays out a clear path to help you become a trusted and effective math coach. The “6 Tools” are flexible structures that coaches can use to learn together.

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Mahler's Nietzsche: Politics and Philosophy in the Wunderhorn Symphonies
Leah Batstone (Music)

This book draws on a variety of primary sources to answer two key questions. What do Mahler’s allusions to Nietzsche mean? And How can Mahler’s characterization of Nietzsche as an “epoch-making influence” be identified in his compositional techniques?

Available through the Hunter Library

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From Grad School to Private Practice: A Roadmap for Mental Health Clinicians
Liat Shklarski (Social Work) and Maria Veronica Laguna

This is an essential guidebook for anyone looking to succeed in the mental health profession. Featuring contributed chapters from experts in the field, this comprehensive resource equips readers with the necessary skills and resources to transition from academia to real-world practice.

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The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become
Margaret Chin (Sociology) and Syed Ali

This text takes readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace.

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On Music Theory: Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
Phillip Ewell (Music)

This book brings together autobiography, music theory and history, and theory and history of race in the United States to offer a black perspective on the state of music theory and to confront the field’s white supremacist roots.

Available through the Hunter Library

Praise for On Music Theory: Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
“This book may represent the cusp of a radical reckoning for music theory in the US. Everyone – students and faculty – involved in music theory should read it… Essential.”
B. J. Murray, Miami University
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History of Ash: A Novel
Written by Khadija Marouazi and Translated by Alexander E. Elinson (Arabic)

This book is a fictional prison account narrated by Mouline and Leila, who have been imprisoned for their political activities during the so-called Lead Years of the 1970s and 1980s in Morocco, a period that was characterized by heavy state repression.

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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Manu Baghavan (History)

ased on eight years of research and using material in five languages from seven countries and over forty archives, Manu Bhagavan has written the definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

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Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
Stefan Al (Urban Policy and Planning)

This fascinating work reveals the marvelous, underappreciated feats of engineering that make today’s supertalls a reality, from double-decker elevators that silently move up to 50 miles per hour to the sophisticated blend of polymers and steel fibers that enables concrete to withstand 8,000 tons of pressure per square meter.

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Unanswered letters: A civil war nurse's love story
Mary F. Bellmont (Nursing)

Reconstructed from actual letters and diaries, this is the story of four young people living in Philadelphia whose lives become intertwined when the American Civil War begins in 1861.

Cover image for The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
Nicholas Dagen Bloom (Urban Policy and Planning)

Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny.

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New York
Jill Gross (Urban Policy and Planning) & H. V. Savitch

This book examines the New York metropolis through the lens of a series of twenty-first century pressures related to demography, economic growth, urban development, governance, immigration, leadership and globalization.

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