Miranda is a prolific volunteer host for the New Books Network podcast, interviewing hundreds of authors per year!
Miranda has interviewed over 1,300 authors as a volunteer host on the New Books Network, one of the largest podcast networks in the world (and been interviewed about her own book as well). Miranda’s interviews can all be listened to on any podcast player at New Books with Miranda Melcher.
She tends to interview authors of non-fiction books that seek to interrogate and subvert preconceptions about elements of history that have either been neglected in scholarship, or are being analysed through a niche, novel lens.
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Dr. Angela Wanhalla, Dr. Sarah Christie, Dr. Lachy Paterson, Dr. Ross Webb, and Dr. Erica Newman, Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front during the Second World War (Auckland University Press, 2024)
Dr. Michael P.M. Finch, Dr. Aimée Fox and Dr. David G. Morgan-Owen, Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict (University Press of Kansas, 2025)
Dr. Marc Sommers, We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone (University of Georgia Press, 2023)
Dr. Muhammad A. Kavesh, Spies and Other Pigeons: Hospitality and Hostility in Multispecies Pakistan (University of Washington, 2026)
Dr. Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2025)
Dr. Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2025)
Dr. Elliot Dolan-Evans, Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine (Bristol University Press, 2025)
Dr. Matthieu Grandpierron, Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024)
Dr. Lorenza B. Fontana, Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Megan Stewart, Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Dr. Kate Dannies, Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War (Edinburgh University Press, 2026)
Dr. Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Quagmire in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard, Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Arthur der Weduwen, The Last Invasion of England: 1688 and the Dutch Armada (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Dr. Mariya Grinberg, Trade in War: Economic Cooperation across Enemy Lines (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Thomas Richardson, Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa, 1899–1902 (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek, Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Dr. Erica Gaston, Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Dr. Anita Gohdes, Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Martina Baradel, 21st Century Yakuza: Death of Japanese Organised Crime (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Thomas Smith, The Fifth Crusade: A History of the Epic Campaign to Conquer Egypt (Yale University Press, 2026)
Alistair Moffat, Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 (Birlinn, 2026)
Dr. Christina Jerne, Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2025)
Dr. Aggie Hirst, Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Mirca Madianou, Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful (Polity, 2024)
Dr. Eric Min, Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Kevin Passmore, The Maginot Line: A New History (Yale University Press, 2025)
Dr. Steve Tibble, Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood (Yale University Press, 2025)
Dr. Nick Higham, Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Nathan Finney, Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War (Cornell University Press, 2026)
Dr. Biancamaria Fontana, Desk Revolutionaries: The Men of the French Directory, 1795–9 (Reaktion, 2026)
Dr. Roger Moorhouse, Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War (William Collins, 2025)
Dr. James D Brown, Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge (Hurst, 2025)
Dr. Friederike Baer, Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Leila Norako, Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500 (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Dr. Selena Daly, Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Sarah Jones Weicksel, A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2025)
Dr. Clare Morelon, Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Zara Anishanslin, The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2025)
Dr. Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Peter Mauch, Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General (Harvard University Press, 2026)
Dr. Greta Lynn Uehling, Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
Dr. Jennifer Greenburg, At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War (Cornell University Press, 2023)
Dr. Filip Kovacevic, KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2025)
Dr. Charlie English, The CIA Book Club: The Best Kept Secret of the Cold War (HarperCollins, 2025)
Dr. Amy Helen Bell, Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London (Yale University Press, 2024)
Dr. Andreas Feldmann, Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil War (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Dr. Austin Knuppe, Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Dr. Stephen Morillo, War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022)
Dr. Lucy Noakes, Dying for the nation: Death, grief and bereavement in Second World War Britain (Manchester University Press, 2020)
Dr. Margaret Peacock, Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East (University of California Press, 2025)
Jack Margolin, The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Steve Tibble, Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land (Yale University Press, 2024)
Dr. Thomas Smith, Rewriting the First Crusade: Epistolary Culture in the Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Dr. Daniel Silverman, Seeing is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Jack Levin & Dr. Julie B. Wiest, Covert Violence: The Secret Weapon of the Powerless (Bristol University Press, 2023)
Dr. Julia Zulver, High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts (Rutgers University Press, 2022)
Dr. David Ucko, The Insurgent’s Dilemma: A Struggle to Prevail (Hurst, 2022)’ Dr. Carol Berger, The Child Soldiers of Africa's Red Army: The Role of Social Process and Routinised Violence in South Sudan's Military (Routledge, 2022)
Dr. Emma Bridges, Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Charlotte Al-Khalili, Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian displacement, time and subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
Dr. Anne-Linda Amira Augustin, South Yemen’s Independence Struggle: Generations Of Resistance (American University of Cairo Press, 2021)
Dr. Mohamed Adhikari, Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples (Hackett, 2022)
Dr. Janet I. Lewis, How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East (University Press of Colorado, 2025)
Dr. Kimberley Mair, The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dr. G.H. Bennett, The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (Pen & Sword, 2023)
Dr. Jérémy Filet, The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational travel and small-states' diplomacy (Manchester University Press, 2025)
Jan Cress Dondi, The Navigator's Letter: The True Story of Two WWII Airmen, a Doomed Mission, and the Woman Who Bound Them Together (Union Square & Co., 2026)
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Dr. Daniel Druckman, Negotiation, Identity and Justice: Pathways to Agreement (Routledge, 2023)
Dr. Sophie Haspeslagh, Proscribing Peace: How listing armed groups as terrorists hurts negotiations (Manchester University Press, 2021)
Dr. Marika Sosnowski, Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Isabel Bramsen, The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Gabriel Erstgaard, A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Carter Johnson, Partition and Peace in Civil Wars: Dividing Lands and Peoples to End Ethnic Conflict (Routledge, 2022)
Dr. Lior Lehrs, Unofficial peace diplomacy: Private peace entrepreneurs in conflict resolution processes (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. Aarie Glas, Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Andrew Fialka, Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War (University of Georgia Press, 2025)
Dr. Andrew Thomas Park, Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
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Dr. Hilary Matfess, After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions (Stanford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Gideon Reuveni, The Great Repair: Emotions, Memory, and the German–Jewish Settlement after the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2026)
Professor David Nasaw, The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II (Penguin, 2025)
Dr. Philip Martin, Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Elliot Short, Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dr. Vindhya Buthpitiya, A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka (University of Washington Press, 2026)
Dr. Shelley X. Liu, Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford Universitu Press, 2024)
Dr. Adam Lerner, From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Robin Moser, Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Drew Flanagan, From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955 (LSU Press, 2026)
Dr. Caroline Sharples, The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History (Yale University Press, 2026)
Dr. Jonathan S. Jones, Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 2025)
Dr. Susanne Vees-Gulani, Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token (University of Michigan Press, 2026)
Dr. Claudia Gastrow, The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda (University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Dr. Gina Vale, The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Haley Cohen Gilliland, A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Dr. Oksana Sarkisova and Dr. Olga Shevchenko, In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos (MIT Press, 2023)
Dr. Claire Pierson, Women's Troubles: Gender and feminist politics in post-Agreement Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2025)
Dr. Tom Scott-Smith, Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter (Stanford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker, Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State Press, 2024)
Dr. Alexis Lerner, Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (University of Toronto Press, 2025)
Dr. Mhoze Chikowero, The Military Entertainment Complex: Chimurenga Afrosonic Making of Zimbabwe (MIT Press, 2026)
Dr. Hannah Pollin-Galay, Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Dr. Jennifer Lynn Gross, Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South (LSU Press, 2025)
James Holland, The Visionaries: Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan, and the Making of the Post-World War II Order (Penguin, 2026)
Dr. David Oakeshott, Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific: Becoming Enemy Friends (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Jehanne Dubrow, Civilians (LSU Press, 2025)
Terrence Petty, Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies (University of Nebraska Press, 2024)
Dr. Shakirah Hudani, Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Nadine Sinno, A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Dan Archer, Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism (University of Toronto Press, 2024)
Dr. Lea David, A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Dr. Alex Mayhew, Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Elizabeth Campbell, Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. David Cowan, Politics of the Past: Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Zana Gul, The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Political Factions and the Ruling Elite (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dr. Linda Kinstler, Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends (Public Affairs, 2023)
Dr. Monika Nalepa, After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Antonia Witt, Undoing Coups: The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dr. Sarah Zuckerman Daly, Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections (Princeton University Press, 2022).
Dr. Mareike Schomerus, Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Alessandra Montalbano, Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence (University of Toronto Press, 2024)
Dr. Obert Bernard Mlambo, Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dr. Vytautas Jankauskas and Dr. Steffen Eckhard, The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Sarah Parry Myers, Earning Their Wings: The WASPS of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition (UNC Press, 2023)
Dr. Angela Wanhalla, Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II (University of Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dr. Louis-Alexandre Berg, Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Sonja Pieck, Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain (MIT Press, 2023)
Dr. Melissa Gatter, Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-To-Five Emergency (American University of Cairo Press, 2023)
Dr. Kevin Blackburn, The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory (National University of Singapore Press, 2022)
Dr. Alice Wilson, Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman (Stanford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Keren Winterford, Deborah Rhodes, and Christopher Dureau, Reframing Aid: A strengths-based approach for international development (Practical Action Publishing, 2023)
Dr. Michael Roper, Afterlives of War: A descendants' history (Manchester University Press, 2023)
Dr. Tom Buitelaar, Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Oxford University Press, 2023)
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Dr. Boyd van Dijk Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Bree Akesson & Dr. Andrew Basso, From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home (Rutgers University Press, 2022)
Dr. Tamar Mitts, Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Mark Somos, Dr. Matthew Cleary, Dr. Edward Jones Corredera, and Dr. Emanuele Salerno, The Unseen History of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. David Petruccelli, A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Meredith Roman, The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Daanika Kamal, Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Anna Brinkman, Balancing Strategy: Seapower, Neutrality, and Prize-Law in the Seven Years' War (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Amanda Madden, Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Charles Thomas, Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964–1979 (Ohio State University Press, 2024)
Dr. Rachel M. Scott, Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Cornell University Press, 2021)
Dr. Maria Sanchez, Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts (Cornell University Press, 2026)
Dr. Matias Margulis, Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security (Stanford University Press, 2026)
Malcolm D. Evans, Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice (Bristol University Press, 2023)
Dr. Egor Lazarev, State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Courtney Hillebrecht, Saving the International Justice Regimes: Beyond Backlash against International Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Dr. Dana Burchart, The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Yuliya Zabyelina, Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Anna Sergi, How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad: Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility (Bristol University Press, 2025)
Dr. Patryk I. Labuda, International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability: In the Court's Shadow (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Karen Robert, Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina (University of New Mexico Press, 2025)
Dr. Marie-France Fortin, The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability (Oxford University Pres, 2024)
Dr. Shaun Yates, Over-Efficiency in the Lower Criminal Courts: Understanding a Key Problem and How to Fix it (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Dr. Nicole Nguyen, Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dr. Wouter Werner, Repetition and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Sofia Stolk, The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror (Routledge, 2021)
Dr. Réne Provost, Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Dr. Lisa Hajjar, The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture (University of California Press, 2023)
Dr. Kerstin Bree Carlson, The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Dr. Jenny Benham, International law in Europe, 700-1200 (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. Simon Devereaux, Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
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Dr. Monalisa Adhikari, A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management (Cornell University Press, 2026)
Dr. Stanislava P. Mladenova, When Rambo Meets the Red Cross: Civil Military Engagement in Fragile States (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Dr. Margot Tudor, Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971 (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Nicole Wenger, Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
Dr. Silvia Danielak, Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability (MIT Press, 2026)
Dr. Marion Laurence, Intrusive Impartiality; Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Nina Wilen, Securitizing the Sahel: Analysing External Interventions and their Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Katarina Kušic, Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
Dr. Daniel Cowling, Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 (Apollo, 2023)
Dr. Paul F. Diehl, Dr. Daniel Druckman, and Dr. Grace B. Mueller, When Peacekeeping Missions Collide: Balancing Multiple Roles in Peace Operations (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Erin Graham, Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at The United Nations (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Jonathan Fisher & Dr. Nina Wilén, African Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Emizet Kisangani & Dr. Jeffrey Pickering, African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Troels Burchall Henningsen, Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms (Routledge, 2021)
Dr. Adam Day, States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance: Complexity Theory Applied to UN Statebuilding in the DRC and South Sudan (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Noah Nathan, The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Melissa Johnston, Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Benjamin Meiches, Nonhuman Humanitarians: Animal Interventions in Global Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint (Yale University Press, 2021)
Dr. Gretchen Heefner, Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. Chiara Libiseller, Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Martin Moore & Dr. Thomas Colley, Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News (Columbia University Press, 2025)
Dr. Nathaniel Greenberg, The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11 (Columbia University Press, 2026)
Dr. Lewis Sage-Passant, Beyond States and Spies: The Security Intelligence Services of the Private Sector (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Dr. Reena Goldthree, Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Dr. Peder Anker, For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering (Anthem Press, 2025)
Dr. Sidra Hamidi, After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Isaac Blacksin, Conflicted: Making News from Global War (Stanford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Robert Trager & Dr. Joslyn Barnhart, The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Chrisanthi Giotis, Borderland: Decolonising the Words of War (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Dominic Davies & Dr. Candida Rifkind, Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2025)
Dr. Killian Clarke, Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Tycho van der Hoog, Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa (Hurst, 2025)
Dr. Samuel Helfont, The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Gregg A. Brazinsky, Cold War Comrades: An Emotional History of the Sino-North Korean Alliance (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Dr. James Grehan, Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Reid B. C. Pauly, The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Gustav Meibauer, The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy: The Curious Persistence of a Flawed Instrument (Bristol University Press, 2025)
Dr. Lieba Faier, The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight against Human Trafficking (Duke University Press, 2024)
Dr. Barbie Zelizer, How the Cold War Broke the News: The Surprising Roots of Journalism's Decline (Polity, 2025)
Dr. Galina Bogatova, Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Dr. Swapna Kona Nayudu, The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Lisa Blaydes and Dr. Samuel Helfont, Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities (Stanford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Marek Kohn, The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe (Yale University Press, 2023)
Dr. Samar Al-Bulushi, War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror (Stanford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Laura Murphy, Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt (Columbia Global Reports, 2021)
Dr. Mitchel Roth, Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Emma Ashford, Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates (Georgetown University Press, 2022)
Dr. Michael Tondre, Oil (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Sally Hayden, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route (Melville House Press, 2022)
Carla Power, Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism (One World, 2021)
Dr. Jenn Hobbs, Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Dr. John Jennings & Dr. Chuck Steele, The Worst Military Leaders in History (Reaktion, 2023)
This page lists all the authors she has interviewed about her books, organised thematically. On her NBN channel page, you can find links to all episodes, listed from most recent.
As Miranda discusses further here, each in-depth interview introduces the main arguments and examples and peeks behind the scenes to learn about the author’s research and writing processes.
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Dr. James Belich, The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe (Princeton University Press, 2022)
Patrick Wyman, Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World (HarperCollins, 2026)
Dr. Emily Mendenhall, Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. Susan Erikson, Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance (MIT Press, 2025)
Professor John Blair, Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Professor Christos Lynteris, How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026)
Dr. Brent Z. Kaup & Dr Kelly F. Austin, The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease (University of California Press, 2025)
Dr. Richard Ivan Jobs & Dr. Steven Van Wolputte, In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2026)
Dr. Laleh Khalili, Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy (Profile, 2025)
Dr. Jacqueline Kennelly, Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life (University of Toronto Press, 2023)
Dr. Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Liveright, 2024)
Dr. Johanna Drucker, Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Dr. Amanda Podany, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Alexander Cooley and Dr. Alexander Dukalskis, Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. R. Joseph Parrott, Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Dr. Tyler Girard, Financial Inclusion: How an Idea Became a Global Agenda (Stanford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Edward McPherson, Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View (Penguin, 2025)
Dr. David C. Engerman, Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Violet Moller, Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe (OneWorld, 2025)
Dr. Bruno J. Strasser and Dr. Thomas Schlich, The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air (Yale University Press, 2025)
Dr. Vanessa Rampton, Making Medical Progress: History of a Contested Idea (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Theresa Bejan, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism (Harvard University Press, 2026)
Dr. Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Kim Pernell, Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Jerry Brotton, The Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction (Penguin, 2024)
Dr. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Sea Level: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Maria Kaika & Dr. Luca Ruggiero, Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Rebecca Charbbonneau, Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain (Polity, 2024)
Dr. Nicolas Guilhot, Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession (Harvard University Press, 2026)
Dr. Helen Cowie, Animals in World History (Routledge, 2024)
Dr. Angela Geck, The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2024)
Victoria Flexner & Jay Reifel, A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes (Rizzoli, 2023)
Marijam Did, Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World (Verso, 2024)
Dr. Dariusz Wójcik, Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money (Yale University Press, 2024)
Dr. Raffaele Danna, The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600 (Harvard University Press, 2026)
Dr. Michael de Groot, Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Dr. Liliana Doganova, Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Carol Heimer, Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. Jerry Moore, Cat Tales: A History (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
Dr. Negar Mansouri & Dr. Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Eleanor Paynter, Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Alan Chong, The International Politics of Communication: Representing Community in a Globalizing World (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
Paige Towers, What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption (University of Iowa Press, 2026)
Dr. Surekha Davies, Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California Press, 2025)
Dr. Michael Bresalier, Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890—1950 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Daniel Oberhaus, The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum (MIT Press, 2025)
Dr. Gerald Sim, Screening Big Data: Films that Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy (Routledge, 2024)
Dr. Isaac Nakhimovsky, The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Monika Krause, Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Dr. Laura Spinney, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (HarperCollins, 2025)
Dr. Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
Dr. Zrinka Stahuljak, Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Gary Mucciaroni, Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945 (University of Toronto Press, 2024)
Dr. Ebony Nilsson, Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Philip Kadish, The Great White Hoax: Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America (The New Press, 2025)
Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield, Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It (HarperCollins, 2023)
Dr. Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen, Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent (University of Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dr. Jaume Aurell, What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Nancy Lindisfarne and Dr. Jonathan Neale, Why Men? A Human History of Violence and Inequality (Hurst, 2023)
Dr. Devin Kennedy, Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy (Columbia University Press, 2026)
Dr. Manuela Moschella, Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Dr. Erica Benner, Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power (Penguin, 2024)
Dr. Nicholas Terpstra, Senses of Space in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Dr. Anelise Shrout, Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy (NYU Press, 2024)
Dr. T. Corey Brennan, The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Marc Edelman, Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Dr. Catherine Boone, Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Selena Wisnom, The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History (Penguin, 2025)
Dr. Ed Simon, Relic, (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper (Profile Press, 2023)
Dr. Randall Hansen, War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Alka Menon, Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards (University of California Press, 2023)
Dr. Naoíse Mac Sweeney, The West: A New History of an Old Idea (Penguin, 2023)
Dr. Maxim Samson, Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World (Profile, 2023)
Dr. Rebecca Simon, The Pirate's Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship (Reaktion, 2023)
Dr. Nicholas Dames, The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2023)
Dr. Alan K. Chen & Dr. Justin Marceau, Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Sarah Kunz, Expatriate: Following a Migration Category (Manchester University Press, 2023)
Dr. Penny von Eschen, Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (Duke University Pres, 2022)
Dr. Louis Porter, Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Zoe Adams, The Legal Concept of Work (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. John Pavlik, Journalism and the Metaverse (Anthem Press, 2024)
Dr. Roma Agrawal, Nuts & Bolts: Seven Small Inventions that Changed the World (in a big way) (Hodder & Staughton, 2023)
Dr. Tanya Evans, Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Jeff Jarvis, The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Daniel Juette, Transparency: the Material History of an Idea (Yale University Press, 2023)
Dr. Maurizio Isabella, Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions (Princeton University Press, 2023)
Dr. Paul Dover, The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Dr. Ngaire Naffine, Criminal Law and the Man Problem (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dr. Sandra Destradi, Reluctance in World Politics: Why States Fail to Act Decisively (Bristol University Press, 2023)
James Hannam, The Globe: How the Earth Became Round (Reaktion, 2023)
Dr. Charlotte Gray, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Suns: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Dr. Kristin Surak, The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires (Harvard University Press, 2023)
Dr. Caroline Dodds Pennock, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Knopf, 2023)
Dr. Charles Maier, The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Harvard University Press, 2023)
Dr. Dirk van Laak, Lifelines of our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure (MIT Press, 2023)
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Professor Maxine Berg & Professor Pat Hudson, Slavery, Capitalism, and the Industrial Revolution (Polity, 2023)
Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia (HarperCollins, 2025)
Dr. Riley Linebaugh, Curating the Colonial Past: The ‘Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Professor Manuel Barcia, Pirate Imperialism: Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding, 1825–1870 (Yale University Press, 2026)
Dr. Patrick Chung, Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Dr. Edmond Smith, Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800 (Yale University Press, 2025)
Dr. Corey Ross, Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Robert Aldrich & Dr. Andreas Stucki, The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Stuart Ward, Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861 (LSU Press, 2026)
Dr. Toby Green, The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. Michelle Bigenho and Dr. Henry Stobart, Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Éléna Choquette, Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion (UBC Press, 2024)
Dr. Michael Ortiz, Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Andrew Denning, Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Dr. Itohan Oseyimwese, Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Dr. Judith Hill, Gothic: Building Castles in post-Union Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2026)
Dr. Sumita Mukherjee, Imperial Footprints: A History of South Asian Child Migrants in Britain (Hurst, 2026)
Professor Catherine Macdonald, Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)
Dr. Adrian Tinniswood, Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House (Penguin, 2023)
Dr. Jane Ohlmeyer, Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Sarah Bilston, The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession (Harvard University Press, 2025)
Dr. Allison Powers, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Ignacio Galán, Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy (University of Minnesota Press, 2025)
Dr. Tom Trier, Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner: The South Caucasus and Scandinavia, 1880s–1920s (Cornell University Press, 2026)
Dr. Anne Rodrick, Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Mattie Armstrong-Price, Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. Jenny Shaw, The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Dr. Keja Valens, Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence (Rutgers University Press, 2024)
Dr. George Baylon Radics, Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the "Lazy Native" and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines (University of Georgia Press, 2026)
Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Betto van Waarden, Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Wendy Wolford, The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique (University of CaIifornia Press, 2025)
Dr. Lindsay O’Neill, The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Dr. Vivian Kong, Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45 (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Timothy Mason Roberts, After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Rebecca Zorach, Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America’s Racial Enterprise (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Sarah Griswold, Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Brian Groom, Made in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world (HarperNorth, 2024)
Dr. Miranda Spieler, Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories (Harvard University Press, 2025)
Dr. Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Aaron M. Hyman, Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Getty Press, 2021)
Dr. Tessa Winkelmann, Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946 (Cornell University Press, 2023)
Dr. Michelle Henning, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. Angela Tozer, The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73 (UBC Press, 2025)
Dr. David Saunders, Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965 (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Dr. Sara Pennell & Dr. Jon Stobart, Auctions and the Consumption of Second-Hand Goods in Georgian England (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Sam Klug, The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. Kathleen Wilson, Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Emilie Connolly, Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Dr. Phillip Harling, Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840–1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Waiyee Loh, Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy (SUNY, 2024)
Dr. Rick López, Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570–1914 (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
Dr. Asa Mittman, Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England (Penn State University Press, 2024)
Dr. Steven Veerapen, Overlord: The Life and Reign of Henry VIII (Birlinn, 2026)
Dr. Andrew Canessa & Dr. Manuela Lavinas Picq, Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
Martyn Whittock, Vikings in the East From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin – The Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine (BiteBack Publishing, 2025)
Dr. Amanda Lagji, Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
Dr. Wan-Chuan Kao, White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Susan Gaunt Stearns, Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade (University of Virginia Press, 2024)
Dr. Alfred Flores, Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023)
Dr. Fae Dussart, In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dr. Emily Conroy-Krutz, Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Dr. Naosuke Mukoyama, Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Emily Mitchell-Eaton, New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States (University of Georgia Press, 2024)
Dr. Rhys Kaminski-Jones, Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707-1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires (Boydell & Brewer, 2025)
Dr. Alison Griffiths, Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film (Columbia University Press, 2025)
Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique, The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World (Yale University Press, 2024)
Dr. Aaron Cayer, Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire (University of California Press, 2025)
Dr. Julia McClure, Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Maggie Cao, Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. María de los Ángeles Picone, Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina (University of North Carolina Press, 2025)
Dr. Stephanie Schmidt, Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives (University of Texas Press, 2025)
Dr. Stuart Anderson, Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain’s Imperial World, 1618–1968 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024)
Dr. David Chanoff, Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist (University of Georgia Press, 2025)
Dr. Martyn Percy, The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England (Hurst, 2025)
Dr. Lynn Tesser, Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics (Stanford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Sarah Craze, Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
Dr. Chelsea Berry, Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Dr. Eva Payne, Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Kristie Flannery, Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Dr. Catherine Dunlop, The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Masha Kirasirova, The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Marisa Karyl Franz, Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026)
Dr. Jamie Goodall, Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean (The History Press, 2023)
Dr. Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World (University of California Press, 2022)
Dr. Kira Huju, Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Emily Wilbourne, Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Meredith McKittrick, Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Oliver Volckart, The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Michael J. Alarid, Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 (University of New Mexico Press, 2023)
Dr. Tadashi Ishikawa, Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Brooke Larson, The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2024)
Dr. Paula DeVos, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Dr. Matthew Goldmark, Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America (University of Virginia, 2023)
Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Dr. Manuel Lucena Giraldo, How the Spanish Empire Was Built: a 400-year history (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Rachel Stephens, Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture (University of Arkansas Press, 2023)
Dr. Yan Slobodkin, The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023)
Dr. Alex Tipei, Unintended Nations: France’s Empire of Civilization, Southeast Europe, and the Post-Napoleonic World (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025)
Dr. Stephanie Chasin, British Jews and Imperial Service: Nationalism, Pan-Islamism and Zionism in Mandate Palestine and Colonial India (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Anna Reid, A Nasty Little War: The Western Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution (John Murray, 2023)
Dr. Diego Javier Luis, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History (Harvard University Press, 2024)
Dr. Julia Ornelas-Higdon, The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dr. Wendy Ugolini, Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Cassander Smith, Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic (LSU Press, 2023)
Dr. Marcia Stephenson, Llamas Beyond the Andes: the Untold History of Camelids in the Modern World (University of Texas Press, 2023)
Dr. Vikram Visana, Uncivil liberties: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Harvard University Press, 2024)
Dr. Samiparna Samanta, Meat, Mercy, and Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Dr. Christian R. Burset, An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy (Yale University Press, 2023)
Dr. Byron Ellsworth Hamann, The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844 (Getty Press, 2022)
Dr. Charles Read, Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Dr. Elizabeth Elbourne, Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Kevin Thomson, Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune (Little, Brown, 2022)
Dr. Boyd Cothran & Dr. Adrian Shubert, The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850–1914 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
Lucy Fulford, The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus (Hodder & Staughton, 2023)
Dr. John Callow, The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dr. Trevor Jackson, Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Kate Mulry, An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic (NYU Press, 2021)
Dr. Carl Griffin, The politics of hunger: Protest, poverty and policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. Charles Read, The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain’s Financial Crisis (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
Nick Higham, The Mercenary River (Headline, 2022)
Dr. Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire (Harvard University Press, 2020)
Dr. Wm Matthew Kennedy, The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the project of empire, 1867-1914 (Manchester University Press, 2023)
Dr. Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2021)
Dr. Elena Jackson Albarran, Good Neighbor Empires: Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas (Brill, 2025)
Dr. David Brown, Empire and enterprise: Money, power and the Adventurers for Irish land during the British Civil Wars (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Vivienne Sanders, Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America (University of Wales Press, 2021)
Dr. Huw J. Davies, The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War (Yale University Press, 2022)
Dr. Elizabeth T. Hurren, Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Dr. Kate Strasdin, The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe (Penguin, 2023)
Dr. Saskia Coenen Snyder, A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Adrian Masters, We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Vera Keller, The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins Press, 2023)
Dr. Christina Carroll, The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900 (Cornell University Press, 2022)
Paddy Docherty, Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin (Hurst, 2021)
Dr. Blake Whitaker, Built on the Ruins of Empire: British Military Assistance and African Independence (University Press of Kansas, 2022)
Dr. Megan Brown, The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022)
Dr. Finola O’Kane, Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815 (Yale University Press, 2023)
Dr. Tom Young, Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 (Yale University Press, 2023)
Dr. Stephanie Barczewski, How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)
Dr. Oscar Webber, Negotiating relief and freedom: Responses to disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907 (Manchester University Press, 2023)
Dr. Levi Roach, Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia (John Murray, 2022)
Dr. Alessandra Russo, A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600 (Penn State University Press, 2024)
Dr. Kellen Hoxworth, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance (Northwestern University Press, 2024)
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Dr. Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez, An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play (Berghann, 2022)
Dr. Joshua Castellino, Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Debra Bruno, A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Dr. Matthew Scobie & Dr. Anna Sturman, The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)
Renay Richardson & Arisa Loomba, Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain – in 39 Institutions, People, Places and Things (Profile, 2025)
Dr. Jamie Martin, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard University Press, 2022)
Dr. Georgia Ennis, Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon (University of Arizona Press, 2026)
Adèle Oliver, Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill (404 Ink, 2023)
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Dr. Cornelia Woll, Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets (Princeton University Press, 2023)
Dr. Max Fraser, Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class (Princeton University Press, 2023)
Dr. Fumilayo Showers, Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care (Rutgers University Press, 2023)
Dr. Jennifer Ott, Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle's Waterfront (University of Washington Press, 2025)
Dr. Stephanie L Canizales, Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. James R. Fichter, Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776 (Cornell University Press, 2023)
Dr. Damon Scott, The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Dr. James Tejani, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America (WW Norton, 2024)
Dr. Sandra Fox, The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America (Stanford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Matthew C Ward, Making the Frontier Man: Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
Dr. John H. Cable, Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi (University Press of Kansas, 2023)
Dr. Diane Winston, Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Julian Schmid, Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)
Dr. Heather Murray, Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Dr. Rachel Gordan, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Tariq Khan, The Republic Will Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (University of Illinois Press, 2023)
Dr. Thomas Blake Earle, The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press, 2023)
Dr. Peter Moore, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776) (Penguin, 2023)
Dr. Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back (Beacon, 2022)
Dr. Bridget Crawford & Dr. Emily Gold Waldman, Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods (NYU Press, 2022)
Dr. Stephanie Larson, What it feels like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture (Penn State Press, 2021)
Dr. Sarah Diefendorf, The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals (University of California Press, 2023)
Dr. Elizabeth Ellcessor, In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality (NYU Press, 2022)
Dr. Miguel Montalva Barba, White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Dr. Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society (Cornell University Press, 2023)
Dr. Samuel Helfont, Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Danielle N. Boaz, Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Steve Brady, Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 (Cornell University Press, 2022)
Dr. Margaret K. Nelson, Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s (NYU Press, 2023)
Dr. Melinda Ritchie, Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Andrew Poe, Political enthusiasm: Partisan feeling and democracy's enchantments (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. Paul Gowder, The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation (Hart, 2021)
Dr. Mario Daniels & Dr. John Krige, Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Dr. Randy Barnett & Dr. Evan Bernick, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit (Harvard University Press 2022)
Dr. Joseph Fishkin & Dr. William Forbath, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2022)
Dr. Lauren Everett, Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land: At Home in Santa Monica’s Rent-Controlled Housing (Temple University Press, 2025)
Mark Anderson, Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians' First Battles in the Revolution (Oklahoma University Press, 2021)
Ricardo Herrera, Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 (University of North Carolina Press, 2022)
Dr. Michael Verney, A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Dr. John E. McDonough, America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026)
Dr. Bradley P. Clampitt, Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (LSU Press, 2022)
David Dworak, War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean (University Press of Kentucky, 2022)
Dr. Simon Topping, Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War (Bloomsury, 2022)
Dr. Jeffers Lennox, North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2022)
Dr. Laura Feller, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Dr. Josef Benson & Dr. Doug Singsen, Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels (University of Mississippi Press, 2022)\
Dr. Diana Rickard, The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence (NYU Press, 2023)
Dr. Paul Stob, Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026)
Dr. Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán, Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings (NYU Press, 2026)
Dr. Andrew Monteith, Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs (NYU Press, 2023)
Shaunna Edwards & Alyson Richman, The Thread Collectors (Graydon House, 2022)
Samuel Marquis, Empire and Frontier: Colonel Peter Schuyler and the Valiant Iroquois in King William's War: 1689-1701 (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
Dr. Terry Anderson, Why the Nineties Matter (Oxford University Press, 2024)
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Dr. Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard University Press, 2024)
Dr. Eileen Otis, Walmart: Made in China (Stanford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Zheng Liu, Cultural Mavericks: The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in China (Columbia University Press, 2026)
Dr. Neil Diamant, Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society (Cornell University Press, 2022)
Dr. Jean Yen-chun Lin, A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities (Columbia University Press, 2023
Dr. Adam Liu, Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China's Banking Explosion (Cornell University Press, 2026)
Dr. Xuelei Huang, Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Charlie Qiuli Xue and Dr. Arwen Yingting Chen, American-Designed Shopping Malls in China (Hong Kong University Press, 2026)
Dr. Xian Aubin Wang, Islam and Maoism in Southern Yunnan: State Violence and Resistance, 1949–2024 (Cornell University Press, 2026)
Professor Michael Dillon, Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic City (Yale University Press, 2026)
Dr. Zev Handel, Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese (University of Washington Press, 2025)
Dr. Yanshuo Zhang, Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China (University of Michigan Press, 2026)
Dr. James St Andre, Conceptualising China through translation (Manchester University Press, 2023)
Dr. Eric Reinders, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Sheila Miyoshi Jager, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Harvard University Press, 2023)
Megan Walsh, The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
Dr. Micah Muscolino, Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China (University of Washington, 2025)
Annelise Finegan, translator of My Sister's Red Shirt (Sinoist, 2025)
Ian Williams, Vampire State:The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
Dr. John Keane and Dr. Baogang He, China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Shellen Xiao Wu, Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China (Stanford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Joseph Fewsmith, Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Ariane Knüsel, China's European Headquarters: Switzerland and China during the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Christopher Marquis & Dr. Kunyuan Qiao, Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise (Yale University Press, 2022)
Dr. Erin Baggott Carter & Dr. Brett L. Carter, Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Clive Hamilton, Hidden Hand: Exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World (Oneworld, 2021)
Jianglin Li, When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet (Stanford University Press, 2022)
Dr. James Cummings, The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Dr. Michael Hathaway, What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make (Princeton University Press, 2022)
Dr. John Delury, Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China (Cornell University Press, 2022)
Dr. Chris Alden & Dr. Alvaro Mendez, China and Latin America: Development, Agency, Geopolitics (Bloomsbury, 2022)
James Trapp, translator, Property of the People (Sinoist, 2025)
Dr. Evan Dawley, Taiwan: A People’s History (Reaktion, 2026)
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Dr. William Whyte, The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood (Harvard University Press, 2026)
Dr. Samuel Rutherford, Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939 (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Jack Ashby, Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums (Penguin, 2025)
Dr. Janet Hinson Shope and Dr. Richard Pringle, Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors (Rutgers University Press, 2026)
Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard University Press, 2024)
Dr. Sheila Bock, Claiming Space: Performing the Personal through Decorated Mortarboards (Utah State Press, 2023)
Dr. John Barr, 1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture (Lund Humphries, 2025)
Dr. Patrick Wallis, The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Dr. Beyhan Farhadi, Online Learning and the Politics of Access in Public Education (University of Toronto Press, 2026)
Dr. Jessca Abrahams, Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Dr. Andrew Herscher, Under the Campus, the Land: Anishinaabe Futuring, Colonial Non-Memory, and the Origin of the University of Michigan (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
Dr. Rachel Grace Newman, The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. April-Louise Pennant, Babygirl, You've Got This! Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Matthew Daniel Eddy, Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
Dr. Martín Alberto Gonzalez, Why you always so political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education (Oxnard, 2023)
Dr. Hester Barron, The social world of the school: Education and community in interwar London (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. Andrew Fiss, Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom (Rutgers University Press, 2020)
Dr. Clarissa Ceglio, A Cultural Arsenal For Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Dr. Emily Levine, Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Dr. Sara Farhan, Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869-1959 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)
Dr. Vera Keller, Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Anna Nilsson Hammar & Dr. Svante Norrhem, Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community (Routledge, 2025)
Dr. Antero Garcia, All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dr. CJ Pascoe, Nice is not enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High (University of California Press, 2023)
Dr. Dominik Berrens, Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: The Case of Natural History (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Dr. Yang Va Lor, Unequal Choices: How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College (Rutgers University Press, 2023)
David Allen Richards, I Give These Books: The History of the Yale University Library, 1656-2022 (Oak Knoll, 2022)
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Dr. Anne Higonnet, Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution (WW Norton, 2024)
Dr. Trish FitzSimons & Dr. Madelyn Shaw, Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Sarah Gold McBride, Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America (Harvard University Press, 2025)
Dr. Isabelle Held, Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies (Duke University Press, 2026)
Dr. Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Dr. John Miller, The Philosophy of Tattoos (British Library, 2021)
Dr. Jordan Frith, Barcode (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Jeff Jarvis, Magazine (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Jane Hamlett & Julie-Marie Strange (Reaktion, 2023)
Dr. Oliver Wunsch, A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France (Penn State University Press, 2024)
Dr. Hannah Carlson, Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close (Hachette, 2023)
Dr. Maggie Messitt, Newspaper (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Tara Ward, Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Susan Curruthers, Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Katie Beisel Hollenbach, The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Molly-Claire Gillett, Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Margaret Graves, Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Dr. Thomas Doherty, How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America (Columbia University Press, 2026)
Dr. Sharrona Pearl, Mask (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Gary Cross, Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal (NYU Press, 2024)
Ross Perlin, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York (Grove, 2024)
Dr. David Dunaway, A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Mayu Fujikawa, Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe (Penn State University Press, 2025)
Dr. José Blanco F. & Dr. Raúl J. Vázquez-López, Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico: Taínos to Beauty Queens (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Tamara Kay, Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Nancy Micklewright, Fashion in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Photography and Identity in a Global City (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Eileen S’Gell, Lipstick (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Rob Drew, Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke University Press, 2024)
Dr. Mark Gallagher, Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal (University of Texas Press, 2025)
Dr. Fatima Rajina, British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The changing landscape of dress and language (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Neil Fox, Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Lewis Ryder, Connoisseurs and conmen: The contest for cultural authority in early twentieth-century Britain (Manchester University Press, 2026)
Dr. Frederick Reese, Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Canon (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Barbara Klinger, Immortal Films: "Casablanca" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic (University of California Press, 2022)
Dr. Liz Tragenza, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Vincent Haddad, Next Time on Dragon Ball: Playing with a Manga and Anime Franchise (University of Minnesota, 2026)
Dr. Sarah Bendall, Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dr. Prudence Peiffer, The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever (HarperCollins, 2023)
Dr. David Seitz, A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine (University of Nebraska Press, 2023)
Dr. Marjolijn Bol, The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500 (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
Dr. Deirdre Loughridge & Dr. Thomas Patteson, The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion, 2026)
Dr. Cleo Nisse, Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Dr. Peter Kunze, Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance (Rutgers University Press, 2023)
Dr. Rochelle Gurstein, Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art (Yale University Press, 2024)
Dr. Holly Black, The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art (Yale University Press, 2026)
Dr. Hsuan Hsu, Olfactory Worldmaking (University of Minnesota Press, 2026)
Dr. Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira, Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France (MIT Press, 2025)
Dr. Katie Milestone & Dr. Simon A. Morrison, Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Shane Breaux, Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns (University of North Carolina Press, 2026)
Dr. Martha Bayless, Entertainment, Pleasure, and Meaning in Early England (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Chiara Faggella, Becoming couture: The Italian fashion industry after the Second World War (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Graeme Brooker, The Story of the Interior: How We Have Shaped Rooms and How They Shape Us (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
Dr. Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Videotape (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Dan Hassler-Forest, Fast and Furious Franchising: How the Serialized Blockbuster Remade Hollywood (University of Minnesota Press, 2026)
Dr. Ben Jackson, Material masculinities: Men and goods in eighteenth-century England (Manchester University Press, 2025)
Dr. Laura Horak, Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. Daniel Horowitz, Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America (Duke University Press, 2025)
Dr. Scott Anthony, The Story of British Propaganda Film (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Matthew McCormack, Shoes and the Georgian Man (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Peter Richardson, Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. Ipek A. Celik, Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Nina Edwards, The Virtues of Underwear: Modesty, Flamboyance and Filth (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Heather Akou, On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. John Soluri, Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia (University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Dr. Matt Lodder, Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art (Yale University Press, 2024)
Dr. Justine De Young, The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards (Brepols, 2025)
Dr. Elizabeth Currie, Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Kate Hext, Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Julia Wagner, Hester Street (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Harry McCarthy, Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Polina Dimova, At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism (Penn State University Press, 2026)
Dr. Julia Havas, Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television (Wayne State University Press, 2022)
Dr. Roland Betancourt, Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology Created the Happiest Place on Earth (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Dr. Magdalena Buchczyk, Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Professor Martha Feldman, Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Dr. Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, Icelandic Pop: Then, Today, Tomorrow, Next Week (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Jonathan Conlin, The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Dr. Fiona Handyside, Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)
Dr. Kristina Kolbe, The sound of difference: Race, class and the politics of 'diversity' in classical music (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Serena Dyer, Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Eric Hoyt, Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press (University of California Press, 2022)
Dr. Chloe Wigston Smith, Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2024)
Dr. Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Dr. Vivian Asimos, Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Kathryn Hughes, Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)
Dr. Kerry Meakin, The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939 (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Kirstie Macleod, The Red Dress: Conversations In Stitch (Quickthorn, 2025)
Dr. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Movies under the Influence (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)
Pamela Hutchinson, The Red Shoes (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Sarah Milton, Ageing and new intimacies: Gender, sexuality and temporality in an English salsa scene (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Amanda Wunder, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV (Yale University Press, 2024)
Mark Archuleta, The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again (Texas A&M University Press, 2025)
Dr. Richard Schoch, How Sondheim Can Change Your Life (Penguin, 2024)
Dr. Sinem Arcak Casale, Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639 (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
Dr. Victoria Sparey, Shakespeare's adolescents: Age, gender and the body in Shakespearean performance and early modern culture (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Yiman Wang, To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World (University of California Press, 2024)
Nathan Charles, No Dice: Gambling and Risk in Modern Culture (404 Ink, 2022)
Dr. Slava Greenberg, Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship (Indiana University Press, 2023)
Dr. Elizabeth Coggeshall, On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2023)
Dr. Theresa Flanigan, The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence (Brepols, 2024)
Dr. John Powers, Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Nan Turner, Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II (Intellect, 2022)
Dr. Nicole Seymour, Glitter (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Naomi Westerman, Happy Death Club (404 Ink, 2024)
Dr. Christopher Schaberg, editor of the Object Lessons series (Bloomsbury)
Dr. Kate Annett-Hitchcock, The Intersection of Fashion and Disability: A Historical Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Helen Louise Cowie, Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Liz Williams, Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain (Reaktion, 2025)
Carol Beggy, Pencil (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Elisabeth Gernerd, The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic World (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Virginia Chieffo Raguin, The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Times (Reaktion, 2023)
Dr. Joshua Paul Dale, Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World (Profile Press, 2023)
Dr. Hilary French, Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing (Reaktion, 2022)
Dr. Jenna Ng, The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie (University of Amsterdam Press, 2021)
Dr. Gillian Weiss & Dr. Meredith Martin, The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France (Getty Research Institute, 2022)
Dr. Ben Jacobsen & Dr. David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past (Bristol University Press, 2021)
Howie Singer & Bill Rosenblatt, Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Jieun Kiaer, Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Kate Guthrie, The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain (University of California Press, 2021)
Dr. Hilary Davidson, A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins (Yale University Press, 2025)
Dr. Nicholas Baer, Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Piotr Florczyk, Swimming Pool (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Randall Patnode, The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet (Rutgers University Press, 2023)
Sofi Thanhauser, Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Penguin, 2022)
Dr. Christin Essin, Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor (University of Michigan Press, 2021)
Dr. Richard Thompson Ford, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Dr. Andew Shortland & Dr. Patrick Degryse, When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation (Leuven University Press, 2022)
Dr. Jane Tynan, Trench Coat (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dr Michelle McSweeney, Ok (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Brigitte Buettner, The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture (Penn State University Press, 2022)
Dr. Allison C. Meier, Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Rosie Harte, The Royal Wardrobe: Peek Into the Wardrobes of History's Most Fashionable Royals (Headline, 2023)
Celia Fisher, The Story of Follies: Architectures of Eccentricity (Reaktion, 2023)
Dr. Vera Tiesler, Ancient Maya Teeth: Dental Modification, Cosmology, and Social Identity in Mesoamerica (University of Texas Press, 2025)
Dr. Pablo Zavala, Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968 (University of Arizona Press, 2026)
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Joshua Glenn, on the Radium Age series, MIT Press, 2022-2024
Professor Catherine Clarke, A History of England in 25 Poems (Penguin, 2025)
Dr. Emmy Waldman, Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau, The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024)
Dr. Ed Simon, Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain (Penguin, 2024)
Dr. Alexander B. Joy, Flaxman Low: Occult Detective (MIT Press, 2026)
Dr. Bohdisattva Chattopadhyay, The Inhumans and Other Stories (MIT Press, 2024)
Dr. Vanessa Warne, By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
Kalpana Raina (translator), For Now, It Is Night (Archipelago Books, 2024)
Dr. Amy Paeth, The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023)
Dr. Christine Larson, Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Nao Tomabechi, Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics (Rutgers University Press, 2025)
Dr. Jessica Campbell, The Brontës and the Fairy Tale (Ohio State University Press, 2024)
Theresa Muñoz, Archivum (Liverpool University Press, 2025)
Dr. Ronnie Grinberg, Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Paul March-Russell, The People of the Ruins (MIT Press, 2024)
Dr. Liliana Naydan, Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America (University of Georgia Press, 2021)
Dr. Tabea Alexa Linhard, Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2023)
Zhang Ling, Aftershock (Amazon Crossng, 2024)
Dr. Pardis Mahdavi, Hyphen (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dr. Andrew Pettegree, The Book At War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict (Profile, 2023)
Professor Patrick Nunn, Whispers from Celtic Seas: The True Meanings of Ancient Stories from Northwest Europe (Reaktion, 2026)
Dr. Ayelet Brinn, A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press (NYU Press, 2023)
Dr. Marissa Nicosia, Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Nat Reeve, Earlyfate (Cipher Press, 2024)
Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth, The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Rebecca Rego Barry, The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author (PostHill Press, 2024)
Dr. Juwen Zhang, The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales (Princeton University Press, 2022)
Nicholas Jubber, The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales (John Murray, 2022)
Dr. Nancy Bradbury, Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales (Penn State University Press, 2024)
Dr. Sladja Blažan, Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America (University of Virginia Press, 2024)
Dr. Adam Kotsko, Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era (University of Minnesota Press, 2025)
Dr. Marcel Elias, English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291–1453 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Yasmine Motawy, Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society (AUC Press, 2025)
Dr. Dan Sperrin, State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Dr. Kathryn Harkup, Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dr. Richard Schoch, Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey, Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness (Johns Hopkins Press, 2024)
Ra Page, The Cuckoo Cage (Comma Press, 2022)
Dr. Adam Hanna, Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland (Syracuse University Press, 2022)
Dr. Natalie Goodison, Introducing the Medieval Swan (University of Wales Press, 2022)
Dr. Emma Hinds, The Knowing (Bedford Square Publishing, 2024)
Dr. Simon Rowberry, Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform (MIT Press, 2022)
Dr. Gary Saul Morson, Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter (Harvard University Press, 2023)
Dr. Katherine Giuffre, Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Lisa Yaszek, The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories (MIT Press, 2024)
Dr. Jacqueline M Burek, Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century (Boydell & Brewer, 2023)
Dr. Paul Crystal, Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Edlie L. Wong, Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Dr. Clive Bloom, London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Harry Turtledove, Wages of Sin (Arc Manor Publishing, 2024)
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Dr. Diane Purkiss, English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)
Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food (Penguin, 2023)
Dr. Rachel Hope Cleves, Lustful Appetites: an Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex (Polity, 2024)
Dr. Samantha Iyer, Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States (Columbia University Press, 2026)
Dr. Anny Gaul, Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato (University of California Press, 2025)
Jenny Linford, Repast: The Story of Food (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
Dr. Karima Moyer-Nocchi, The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese: From Ancient Rome to Modern America (Columbia University Press, 2026)
Dr. David Singerman, Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. Marisa Nicosia, Shakespeare in the Kitchen (Routledge, 2026)
Dr. Mark Johnson, American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon (University of Georgia Press, 2026)
Dr. Helen Veit, Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History (St Martin’s Press, 2026)
Andrew Coe, American Bread: A History (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. Po-Yi Hung, Routes of Taiwan Tea: Mobility, Borders, and Territoriality (University of Washington Press, 2026)
Dr. Andrew Smith, Make cheese not war: Transnational resistance and the Larzac in modern France (Manchester University Press, 2026)
Dr. Gaoheng Zhang, Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities (Fordham University Press, 2025)
Dr. Nora Rubel, Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of The Settlement Cook Book (Columbia University Press, 2026)
Dr. Sara Byala, Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Patrick Dixon, Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet (University of Georgia Press, 2024)
Dr. Eric Jennings, Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean (Yale University Press, 2025)
Patrick McGuigan and Dr. Carlos Yescas, One Cheese to Rule Them All: In Search of the World's 100 Best Cheeses (Murdoch Books, 2025)
Dr. Paul Stangl, San Francisco Seafood: A History from Ocean to Table (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Danielle Alesi, Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Consuming Empire, 1492-1700 (Amsterdam University Press, 2025)
Dr. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Taco (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Ashley Rose Young, Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Graeme Rigby, Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring: Adventures with the King of Fishes (Hurst, 2025)
Eurie Dahn, Snack (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Sasha Gora, Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2025)
Tami Parr, Goats in America: A Cultural History (Oregon State University Press, 2025)
Dr. Enrique C. Ochoa, México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
Dr. Nathalie Cooke, Tastes and Traditions: A Journey through Menu History (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Kelly Spring, Spam: A Global History (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Peter Ross, Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London (Bodleian, 2026)
Dr. Philip Howell, Pub (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Travis A. Weisse, Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Christopher Beckman, A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine (Hurst, 2024)
Dr. Paul Geary, Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants (Intellect, 2022)
Dr. Joanna Crosby, Apples and Orchards since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Matthew Allen, Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025)
Professor Allan Greer, Canada in the Age of Rum (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2026)
Dr. Fernando Collantes, Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change: The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption since 1950 (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Russell Thomas, Tofu: A Culinary History (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Q. Edward Wang, Staple to Superfood: A Global History of the Sweet Potato (Columbia University Press, 2025)
Henry H. Work, Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels (Reaktion, 2014)
Kris Butler, Drink Maps in Victorian Britain (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024)
Dr. Lynn Z. Bloom, Recipe, (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dr. Kathryn Dolan, Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023)
William Alexander, Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
Dr. Malcolm Purinton, Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Alan Warde, Dr. Jessica Paddock, and Dr. Jennifer Whillans, The social significance of dining out: A study of continuity and change (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. Jonatan Leer & Dr, Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age (Bristol University Press, 2026)
Dr. Sara Rich, Mushroom (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. David Sutton, Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples (Berghahn, 2021)
Sally Coulthard, The Apple: a Delicious History (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Lisa Jacobson, Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Dayne Riley, Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751 (Bucknell University Press, 2024)
Jill Norman, The English Table: Our Food through the Ages (Reaktion, 2024)
Meg Bernhard, Wine (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Francesco Buscemi, Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV (Intellect, 2022)
Dr. Carl A. Brasseaux & Dr. Donald W. Davis, Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou (University of Mississippi Press, 2022)
Ian MacAllen, Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Dr. Susanne Wengle, Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Dr. Constance L. Kirker and Dr. Mary Newman, Mango: A Global History (Reaktion, 2024)
Brian Duff Restaurant (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Dr. Patricia Owens, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Lisa Nakamura, The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2026)
Dr. Jill Hasday, We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Katherine Parkin, The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Dr. Rosa Campbell, The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Shere Hite and The Hite Report (UNSW Press, 2026)
Dr. Victoria Bateman, Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power (Headline, 2025)
Dr. Tara Mulder, A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. Gemma Hollman, Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens (Abbeville Press, 2024)
Dr. Debra Michals, She's the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II (Rutgers University Press, 2025)
Dr. Shelly Lundberg, How Economics Discovered Women: Bringing Gender Economics into the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, 2026)
Professor Elisabeth van Houts, Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English (Yale University Press, 2025)
Dr. Valena Beety, Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity (The New Press, 2026)
Dr. Megan Peiser, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026)
Dr. Meena Khandelwal, Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women’s Technology in India (University of Arizona Press, 2024)
Dr. Zoe McGee, Courting Disaster: Reading between the lines of the Regency novel (Manchester University Press, 2025)
Dr. Lucy Curzon, Art and citizenship in conflict: British women war artists, 1939-45 (Manchester University Press, 2026)
Dr. Sarah Hoiland, Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club (Temple University Press, 2025)
Dr. Anna Shadrina, The Babushka Phenomenon: Older women and the political sociology of ageing in Russia (UCL Press, 2025)
Naomi McDougall Jones, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood (Beacon, 2020)
Dr. Kate Morgan, The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History (HarperCollins, 2024)
Dr. Victoria Bateman, Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty (Wiley, 2023)
Dr. Leah Phillips, Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr. Fiona Rogers, Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage (Thames & Hudson, 2026)
Dr. Sarah Clegg, Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents, and Succubi (Apollo, 2023)
Dr. Robyn Muir, The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis (Bristol University Press, 2023)
Dr. Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2021)
Mary Lisa Gavenas, Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay (Penguin, 2026)
Dr. Amy Farrell, Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA (University of North Carolina Press, 2025)
Dr. Min Joo Lee, Finding Mr. Perfect: K-Drama, Pop Culture, Romance, and Race (Rutgers University Press, 2025)
Dr. Jennifer Brinkley, Justice Was Her Calling: The Fierce and Fascinating Life of Dorothy Kenyon (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. Lorraine Grimes, Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Eleanor Fitzsimons, Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde (Liverpool University Press, 2025)
Dr. Margaret Andersen, Fertile expectations: The politics of involuntary childlessness in twentieth-century France (Manchester University Press, 2025)
Dr. Sally King, Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female (Bristol University Press, 2025)
Dr. Park Jeong-Mi, The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Hallie Franks, Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Katya Motyl, Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934 (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Jennifer Barry, Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination (University of California Press, 2025)
Dr. Jessica A. Brockmole, Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way into the Driver's Seat (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025)
Dr. Elyse Ona Singer, Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Holly. Grout, Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France (LSU Press, 2024)
Becky Aikman, Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Emily Hauser, Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Dr. Gwyneth Lonergan, Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK (Bristol University Press, 2025)
Dr. Julia Meszaros, Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor (Rugers University Press, 2025)
Dr. Jessica Lake, Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law (Stanford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Angela Byrne, Finding Mary: The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844 (Four Courts Press, 2025)
Dr. Phil Tiemeyer, Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Samira Mehta, God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion (University of North Carolina Press, 2026)
Sandra Hempel, Controlling Women: The Untold Story of Britain’s First Female Police Force (Hurst, 2025)
Dr. Mary Anne Hunting and Dr. Kevin D. Murphy, Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Emily Murdoch Perkins, Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been (The History Press, 2024)
Dr. Andrea Pappas, Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770 (Lund Humphries, 2023)
Professor Joanna Bourke, Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker (Reaktion, 2026)
Dr. Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector (Lund Humphries, 2025)
Dr. Lynda Nead, British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain (Yale University Press, 2025)
Juliet Rix, London's Statues of Women (SafeHaven, 2025)
Dr. Yves Rees, Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America (UNSW Press, 2024)
Dr. Loretta Vandi, Eufrasia Burlamacchi (Lund Humphries, 2025)
Dr. Anahit Behrooz, BFFs (404 Ink, 2023)
Dr. Jessica Cox, Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (The History Press, 2023)
Dr. Aimee Louise Middlemiss, Invisible Labour: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England (Berghahn, 2024)
Dr. Erin Lee Mock, Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024)
Dr. Karen Stollznow, Bitch: The Journey of a Word (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Andréa Becker, Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy (NYU Press, 2025)
Virginia Nicholson, All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 (Virago, 2024)
Dr. Alissa Klots, Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Dr. Emily Gee, Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman (Liverpool University Press, 2025)
Dr. Lauren Sawyer, Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture (NYU Press, 2025)
Dr. Blessin Adams, Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain (HarperCollins, 2025)
Dr. Heather Akou, Afterthought: A Family Story (Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing, 2024)
Dr. Sabrina Strings, The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance (Beacon Press, 2024)
Dr. Pamela Aronson & Matthew R. Fleming, Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023)
Dr. Felia Allum, Women of the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Sam Langsdale, Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Dr. Meghana Joshi, Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin (Berghahn, 2024)
Heather Parry, Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism (404 Ink, 2024)
Dr. Diana Leon-Boys, Elena, Princess of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl (Rutgers University Press, 2023)
Dr. Ren Pepitone, Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Maggie Hennefeld, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Dr. Bonnie Yochelson, Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen (Fordham University Press, 2025)
Dr. Mari Takayanagi & Elizabeth Hallam Smith, Necessary Women: the Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women (The History Press, 2023)
Dr. Julie Peakman, Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Jad Adams, Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives (Reaktion, 2023)
Dr. Georgina Hickey, Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States (University of Texas Press, 2023)
Dr. Katharine MIllar, Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Megan MacKenzie, Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Helen Hester & Dr. Nick Srnicek, After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023)
Dr. Anne Duggan, The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales (Reaktion, 2023)
Dr. Kelly Colvin, Charm Offensive: Commodifying Femininity in Postwar France (University of Toronto Press, 2023)
Dr. Patricio Simonetto, A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Dr. Nicola Clark, The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens (W Norton, 2024)
Caitlin Davies, Private Inquiries: The Secret History of Female Sleuths (The History Press, 2023)
Dr. Kenna Neitch, A Praxis of Persistence: Central American Feminist Testimony and Sustainable Activism (SUNY Press, 2026)
Stuart McHardy, The Nine Maidens: Priestesses of the Ancient World (Luath Press, 2023)
Dr. Wesley Bishop & Dr. Bessie Rigakos, Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism (Springer, 2024)
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Dr. Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Dr. Tabitha Stanmore, Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Francis Young, Fairies: A History (Polity, 2026)
Dr. Andrea Maraschi & Dr. Francesca Tasca, Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam University Press, 2024)
Dr. Eleanor Baker, Book Curses (Bodleian, 2024)
Dr. Rochelle Rojas, Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675 (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Michael Bycroft, Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2026)
Dr. Alison Bashford, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Nicholas Jubber, Monsterland: a journey around the world’s dark imagination (Scribe, 2025)
Dr. Brydie Kosmina, Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Dr. Steven Veerapen, Witches: a King’s Obsession (Birlinn, 2025)
Dr. Ceri Houlbrook, ‘Ritual Litter' Redressed (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Dr. Martin Austin Nesvig, The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Joanne Edge, Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
Dr. Matthias Egeler, Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld (Yale University Press, 2025)
Hettie Judah, Lapidarium: The secret lives of stones (Penguin, 2022)
Dr. Elise Vernon Pearlstine, Scent: A Natural History (Yale University Press, 2022)
Dr. Britta Ager, The Scent of Ancient Magic (University of Michigan Press, 2022)
Dr. Megan Nutzman, Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
Poppy Corbett, Anna Kisby-Compton and Dr. William G. Pooley, Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Aviva Briefel, Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Eleanor Conlon & Martin Vaux, The Three Ravens Folk Tales: New tellings of half-forgotten stories from England's 39 Historic Counties (The History Press, 2025)
Shelley Puhak, The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Tracey Norman and Mark Norman, Devon’s Forgotten Witches: 1860–1910 (The History Press, 2025)
Dr. Felix Flicker, The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
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Professor Sadiah Qureshi, Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction (Penguin, 2025)
Dr. Ali Fard, Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data (University of Minnesota Press, 2026)
Erica Gies, Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge (Head of Zeus, 2022)
Brett Bannor, American Sheep: A Cultural History (University of Georgia Press, 2024)
Dr. Robert Suits, The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Dr. James Michael Buckley, City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Ed Cutler, This Beautiful Country: How Italy's Nature Shaped Its Culture and Civilisation (Penguin, 2026)
Dr. Caroline Peyton, Radioactive Dixie: A Nuclear History of the American South (University of Georgia Press, 2025)
Dr. Kenny Cupers, The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Dr. Ann Carlson, Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. Shawn Miller, Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway (University of California Press, 2026)
Dr. Tim Altenhof, Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Dr. Wout Saelens, Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries (Leuven University Press, 2026)
Dr. Nabil Ali, Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Professor Rod Philips, Cats: a History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026)
Dr. Robert M. Rouphail, Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius (Ohio University Press, 2026)
Dr. Tom Bolton, Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations (Strange Attractor, 2025)
Dr. Kim Embrey, Coca and the Victorians: From Botanical Curiosity to Regulated Drug, 1835–1912 (Transcript Publishing, 2026)
Dr. Colin Williamson, Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science (University of Minnesota Press, 2025)
Dr. Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich & Dr. Seth Denizen, Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley (Harvard University Press, 2025)
Dr. Nikita Kaur Simpson, Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas (Duke University Press, 2026)
Amy Bowers Cordalis, The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life (Little, Brown and Company, 2025)
Dr. Susannah Fisher, Sink or Swim: How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Bob Wyss, Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal (University of California Press, 2025)
Tom White, Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster (Repeater, 2025)
Dr. Stephen Hopper, Eucalyptus, (Reaktion, 2025)
Giovanni Aloi, Lawn (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Paul Robichaud, Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany (Reaktion, 2026)
Nancy Castaldo, Squirrel: How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World (Island Press, 2025)
Dr. Kathryn Chelminski, Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Erika Engelhaupt, Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations (National Geographic, 2024)
Dr. Aaron Eddens, Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Dawn Day Biehler, Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History (University of Washington Press, 2024)
Dr. Ruth Morgan, Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023)
Dr. John Schofield, Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Jason Newton, Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest (University of West Virginia Press, 2024)
Dr. Stephanie Rutherford, Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022)
Dr. Gary Griggs, California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Kevin Loughran, Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City (Columbia University Press, 2022)
Dr. John Soluri, Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States (University of Texas Press, 2021)
Dr. Annalisa Marzano, Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Lucy Sante, Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City (The Experiment, 2022)
Barbara Allen, Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Stephen Harris, 50 Plants that Changed the World (Bodleian, 2025)
Dr. Janine Schipper Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest (University of Wyoming Press, 2025)
Dr. Julian Hanna, Island (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Stephen Robert Miller, Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature (Island Press, 2023)
Dr. Fiona Smyth, Pistols in St Paul's: Science, music, and architecture in the twentieth century (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Courtney Humphries, Climate Change and the Future of Boston (Anthem Press, 2026)
Dr. Timothy Morton, Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Dr. Gustav Cederlof, The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba (University of California Press, 2023)
Dr. Michael Gilson, Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Hsuan Hsu, Air Conditioning (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Paul Koudounaris, Faithful unto Death: Pet cemeteries, animal graves, and eternal devotion (Thames Hudson, 2024)
Tony Hall, Great Trees of Britain and Ireland (Read Media, 2022)
Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime And Survival In North America's Woods (Little, Brown, 2022)
Dr. John Miller, The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter (British Library, 2022)
Dr. Nathan Munier, Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The State, Resource Politics and Development (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho & Dr. Halvard Leira (eds), The Sea and International Relations (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. James Fisher, The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Dr. Abbey Stockstill, Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib (Penn State University Press, 2024)
Sally Coulthard, A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects (HarperNorth, 2025)
Nina Edwards, Weeds, (Reaktion, 2015)
Dr. Farshid Emami, Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran (Penn State University Press, 2024)
Vojta Hybl, Rocks: A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They Tell (Frances Lincoln, 2026)
SA McLain, Blood on the Veld (Elevin Books, 2024)
Philip Lymbery, Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Dr. Lisa Uperesa, Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game (Duke University Press, 2022)
Dr. Adam Berg, The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth (University of Texas Press, 2022)
Dr. Georgia Cervin, Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace (University of Illinois Press, 2021)
Dr. Paul Darby, Dr. James Esson and Dr. Christian Ungruhe, African football migration: Aspirations, experiences and trajectories (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. Shameen Black, Flexible India: Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions (Columbia University Press, 2023)
Dr. Dionne Koller, More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport (University of California Press, 2025)
Harrison Browne & Rachel Browne, Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes (Beacon Press, 2025)
Dr. Kieran File, How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dr. Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær, The Sound of Spectators at Football (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Alexis James, Unsung: Not all Heroes Wear Kits (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
Dr. Todd Cleveland, Africa and the Olympics: Winning Away from the Podium (Ohio State University Press, 2024)
Dr. Mia Consalvo, Dr. Marc Lajeunesse and Dr. Andrei Zanescu, Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch (MIT Press, 2025)
Shaul Adar, On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
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Dr. Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World (Profile, 2025)
Professor Mark Crinson, Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape (Yale University Press, 2026)
Dr. Julia Fawcett, Movable Londons: Performance and the Modern City (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
Dr. Ptolemy Dean, Streetscapes: Historic Routes Through English Towns (Lund Humphries, 2024)
Dr. Erick Guerra, Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction (Island Press, 2025)
Dr. David Alff, The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Lucy Lavers, Dr. Judy Ovens, and Dr. Suzanna Prizeman, Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain (Penguin, 2025)
Dr. Subodhana Wijeyeratne, The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan’s Space Programs (Stanford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Alistair Bonnett, 40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World (Ivy Press, 2024)
Diana Helmuth, Hidden Libraries: The World’s Most Unusual Book Depositories (Lonely Planet, 2024)
Christian Wolmar, The Liberation Line: The Last Untold Story of the Normandy Landings (Atlantic Books, 2024)
Christian Wolmar, British Rail: A New History (Penguin, 2022)
Dr. Coll Thrush, Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific (University of Washington Press, 2025)
Dr. Catherine Merridale, Moscow Underground (HarperCollins, 2025)
Dr. Jennifer Vail, Friction: A Biography (Harvard University Press, 2026)
David Welsh, The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023: Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Wesley Marshall, Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System (Island Press, 2024)
Dr. Jonathan Maskit, Bicycle (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dr. Matthew Hersch, Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle (MIT Press, 2023)
Dr.Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, Space Rover (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jake Berman, The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
Dr. Tom Haines-Doran, Derailed: How to fix Britain's broken railways (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. Mike Duggan, All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Matthew Jordan, Danger Sound Klaxon! The Horn That Changed History (University of Virginia Press, 2023)
Peter Bellerby, The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, Dublin: Mapping the City (Birlinn, 2023)
Caroline Roope, The History of the London Underground Map (Pen & Sword, 2022)
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Dr. Ethan Czuy Levine, Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
Dr. Jana Dambrogio & Dr. Daniel Starza Smith, Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter (MIT Press, 2025)
Dr. Tatiana Seijas, American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Jeff Jarvis, Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Nozomi Naoi, The Land of Happiness: How the Japanese Department Store Visualized Modern Life (MIT Press, 2026)
Dr. Dallas Liddle, News Machines: The Systems of Daily Journalism in Britain, 1785–1885 (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Dr. Elizabeth Darling, Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922-1932 (Lund Humphries, 2026)
Dr. Amélie Junqua & Dr. Geoffrey Day, Amélie Junqua & Geoffrey Day (Bodleian Publishing, 2026)
Dr. Eloise Moss, The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918 (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Adam Geczy, Glasses (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Dr. Peter Soppelsa, Paris After Haussmann: Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914 (University of Pittsburgh, 2026)
Dr. Bjørn Berge, Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense (Reaktion, 2026)
Ralph Jones, Microphone (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Keith Cooper, Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Raiford Guins, King PONG: How Atari Bounced Across Markets to Make Millions (MIT Press, 2026)
Dr. Danny Bate, Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them (Blink Publishing, 2026)
Dr. Abigail Ocobock, Marriage Material: How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Dr. Patrick McCray, README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (MIT Press, 2025)
Dr. Caillan Davenport, Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors (Yale University Press, 2026)
Dr. Mark D. Steinberg, Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay: Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Modern City (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Professor John Waddell, The Celtic World: A History (Four Courts Press, 2026)
Dr. Bram de Maeyer, Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945-2020) (Leuven University Press, 2025)
Dr. Katie Barclay, The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power (Reaktion, 2026)
Dr. Olivia Weisser, The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Dr. Lucia Motolinia, Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influence Parties and Legislative Behavior (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Daniel Roche, Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing (MIT Press, 2025)
Dr. Jacqueline Riding, Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London (Profile, 2026)
Dr. Shiben Banerji, Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy (University of Texas Press, 2025)
Dr. Sharon Sliwinski, An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed (MIT Press, 2025)
Dr. Elizabeth Chika Tippett, The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt the Modern Workplace (University of California Press, 2025)
Paul Chrystal, The Romans: a Peoples’ History (Reaktion, 2026)
Dr. Anna Zhelnina, Private Life, Public Action: How Housing Politics Mobilized Citizens in Moscow (Temple University Press, 2025)
Rebecca van Laer, Cat (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Katherine Maich, Bringing Law Home: Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights (Stanford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Hannah Frydman, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France (Cornell University Press, 2025)
Dr. Helen Epstein, Why Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
Dr. Katrina Navickas, Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Stephen Jones, The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921 (Harvard University Press, 2026)
Dr. Susannah Mintz, Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story (Reaktion, 2026)
Dr. Kevin Tracey, The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes (Penguin, 2025)
Manchán Magan, Thirty-Two Words for Field (Ithaca Press, 2024)
Dr. Kevin Guyan, Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Emily Webber, Mining Men: Britain's Last Kings of the Coalface (Penguin, 2025)
Dr. Jeremy Stolow, Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press, 2025)
Dr. Meegan Kennedy, Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism (Oxford University Press, 2025)
Dr. Ruth Toulson, Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore (University of Washington Press, 2025)
Dr. Terry Baxter & Dr. Libby Coyner-Tsosie, Stories on Skin: A Librarian's Guide to Tattoos as Personal Archives (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Jamie Jelinski, Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024)
Dr. David Woodman, The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom (Princeton University Press, 2025)
Dr. Arvid J. Lukauskas & Dr. Yumiko Shimabukuro, Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2024)
Dr. Kiran Mehta, To Detain or to Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025)
Dr. Daniel Lomas, The Secret History of UK Vetting from 1909 to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Dr. Kate Herrity, Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown (Bristol University Press, 2025)
Michaela Vieser & Isaac Yuen, The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Barbara Rosenwein, Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age (Reaktion, 2025)
Dr. Kristin Olbertson, The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
David Crystal, Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories (Bodleian, 2025)
Dr. Simona Valeriani, The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences (Brepols, 2024)
Dr. Edward Jones Corredera, Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Dr. Erica Borgstrom & Dr. Renske Visser, Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement (Routledge, 2024)
Dr. Steven King, Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024)
Dr. Jonathan Allen, Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin (University of Regina Press, 2024)
Dr. Marco Bastos, Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Dr. Joseph Harley, At home with the poor: Consumer behaviour and material culture in England, c.1650-1850 (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Steven King, In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022)
Dr. Scott Weiner, Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
Andrew Bergin, The Wicked of the Earth (Northodox, 2024)
Dr. Theodore Papakostas, How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator (HarperCollins, 2024)
Dr. Neil Vickers & Dr. Derek Bolton, Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Cheng Beng Huat, Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing (NUS Press, 2024)
Dr. Natalie Wall, Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
Dr. Melissa Teixeira, A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal (Princeton University Press, 2024)
Dr. Elena Borisova, Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the good life (UCL Press, 2024)
Dr. Nat Reeve, Nettleblack (Cipher Press, 2022)
Dr. Adrian Tinniswood, The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War (Penguin, 2024)
Dr. Sean Redmond, The loneliness room: A creative ethnography of loneliness (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Sharrona Pearl, Do I Know You?: From Face Blindness to Super Recognition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023)
Dr. Colin Elliott, Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Princeton University Press, 2024
John Withington, A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day (Reaktion, 2024)
Dr. Catherine Tan, Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Dr. Joan Cho, Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy (University of Michigan Press, 2024)
Dr. Mark Robert Rank, The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us (University of California Press, 2024)
Dr. Jennifer Evans, Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)
Dr. Nick Jones, Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
Dr. Mark Harrison, Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism (Stanford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Mariam Motamedi Fraser, Dog politics: Species stories and the animal sciences (Manchester University Press, 2024)
Dr. Amy Harris, Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. Stéphane Jettot, Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Dr. James Beggan, How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict (Rowan & Littlefield, 2022)
Dr. David Cressy, Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Benjamin Young, Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World (Stanford University Press, 2022)
Dr. Justin Gregg, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022)
Dr. Tirthankar Roy & Dr. Anand Swamy, Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Dr. Colin Copus, In defence of councillors (Manchester University Press, 2022)
Dr. Greg Woolf, The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Dr. Carmen Martínez Novo, Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Dr. Nathaniel Moir, Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Dr. Tommi Koivula & Heljä Ossa, NATO’s Burden-Sharing Disputes: Past, Present and Future Prospects (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Rachael Litherland & Philly Hare, People with Dementia at the Heart of Research: Co-Producing Research through The Dementia Enquirers Model (Jessica Kingsley, 2024)
Dr. Boaventura De Sousa Santos, From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now (Routledge, 2023)
Find out more about the kinds of books Miranda is looking for in this interview conducted when she reached the milestone of completing 1,000 interviews! She elaborates further in this related episode.
If you have a book, author, or topic you’d suggest Miranda consider interviewing, please get in touch!
Please note, I don’t tend to interview edited volumes, biographies or memoirs. I am primarily looking for books of non-fiction history (defined broadly) that are making a novel argument. See more below for some of the specific questions I’m intrigued by.
In addition to the main themes above, there’s (so many) questions I continue to be intrigued by and would love to learn more about. I’m open to book on other topics! But some questions in my mind:
How did X become normal and taken for granted? For instance, the near-global adoption of the Gregorian calendar or passports, or the institution of the conference and the conference keynote?
Plenty of how much did event Y influence event Z questions, including: the extent to which the defeat of Napoleon and subsequent demobilisation of troops increased settler colonialism in places like Australia, or investigating links between the Black Death and the War of the Roses.
Is there any link between how a war is going and when a genocide happens within it? Given that many genocides happen during wars, is it coincidence that a number of recent ones have happened towards the end of the conflict, i.e. is it a tactical decision to achieve one’s political ends before “time runs out”?
How did the People’s Republic of China take over the “China” UN seat from Taiwan? Was this done quietly? Was it an extended campaign? Taiwan was the founding “China” member of the UN, not the PRC, how did this change happen in the 1970s?
I’ve been lucky enough to interview a number of books that discuss it to various degrees, but I’m still fascinated to understand more of the why of the Great Male Renunciation when clothing for men went from flamboyant (think Regency) to grey suits (think Victorians).
Comparative analyses such as: Patrice Lumumba and Alexander Hamilton (both their real biographies and their media portrayals); or the 17th Scottish covenanters and the 1980s Taliban; or the rise and post-WWII fall of Liverpool and San Francisco; or the psychological, social, and political impact of the destruction of 9/11 and the destruction of the monastery at Lindisfarne.
What were the negotiations like with the US military to make both of the Top Gun films? What did the Navy want, what didn’t they get?
Why has Chad been both so intrinsic to a number of ongoing and hugely brutal conflicts (for instance in Sudan over the last few years) and yet receive so little media and high-political attention?