Books by our faculty
Hinterlands to Cities: The Archaeology of Northwest Mexico and Its Vecinos
M. C. Pailes and Michael T. Searcy (Society for American Archaeology Press)
Pailes and Searcy examine relationships that evolved over 14,000 years between societies on the Sea of Cortez coast, in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts, and in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Home-Centered Gospel Learning and Living: Seeking Greater Personal Revelation
Loren D. Marks and David C. Dollahite (BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book)
By weaving experiences of everyday Latter-day Saints with social science research, Marks and Dollahite offer guidance for those seeking to maximize the power of gospel study in the home.
Aztec and Maya Apocalypses: Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting
Mark Z. Christensen (University of Oklahoma Press)
Christensen explores how European, Aztec, and Mayan perspectives influenced apocalyptic texts written by Spanish and Indigenous writers in the 16th to 19th centuries.
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War
Aaron Herald Skabelund (Cornell University Press)
Skabelund conveys how Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force achieved legitimacy and developed a long-lasting identity following World War II.
Sienese Hospitals Within and Beyond the City Walls: Charity and the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala, 1400–1600
Sarah Loose Guerrero (Arc Humanities Press)
Using an Italian hospital and its farms as a case study, Guerrero examines the power dynamics between urban entities and rural properties from the late medieval to early modern era.
The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory
Jeffrey S. Hardy (Bloomsbury)
Hardy shines a light on the history of the Soviet Union’s Gulag, from conception to collapse. The book explores the system’s descent into violence and addresses resulting current debates.
Achieving the 26th Amendment: A History with Primary Sources
Rebecca de Schweinitz and J. Frost (Routledge)
De Schweinitz and Frost provide an analysis of primary sources—government documents, campus newspapers, and personal collections—on the movement for youth suffrage.
Hubbing for Tourists: Airports, Hotels, and Tourism Development in the Indo-Pacific, 1934–2019
Evan R. Ward (De Gruyter Oldenbourg)
Ward examines the strategies implemented by major cities of the Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia, and East Asia in their efforts to promote tourism through hotels and air travel.
Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried
Amy Harris (Oxford University Press)
Harris dives into the lives of the Sharps, an abolitionist family of the 18th century, to illuminate the experiences and contributions of single or childless individuals in household dynamics.
Great Plains Forts
Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes (University of Nebraska Press)
Buckley and Nokes tell the history of fortifications on the Great Plains: cities of Indigenous peoples, Spanish presidios, French and British outputs, and modern military presences.
Contingent Loyalties: State Agents in the Yunnan Borderlands (1856–1911)
Diana Duan (Amsterdam University Press)
Duan explores the history of the Yunnan region of the People’s Republic of China, which was marked by rebellion, revolution, and state consolidation.
Should You Stay Away from Strangers?
Ethan Busby (Cambridge University Press)
Using data from existing studies, Busby considers how types of intergroup contact promote or detract from harmony in democracies.
The Partisan Next Door
Ethan C. Busby, A. J. Howat, J. E. Rothschild, R. M. Shafranek (Cambridge University Press)
The elimination of partisanship in the United States may not be necessary to heal divides; rather, shifting from trait-based stereotypes to issue-based stereotypes may do the trick.
Revolutionary Contagion and International Politics
Chad E. Nelson (Oxford University Press)
Nelson considers what happens when leaders fear that a revolution abroad will spread to their own country and how that fear affects international relations.
The Dead Hand’s Grip: How Long Constitutions Bind States
Adam R. Brown (Oxford University Press)
Using comparative analysis, Brown argues that state constitutions with higher specificity (measured as constitution length in words) can restrict state governments in harmful ways.
The Domestic Sources of International Institutions: Making Up the Rules
Kendall Stiles (Routledge)
Schools of thought, periods in time, and areas of study intersect as Stiles argues that international affairs are shaped by the domestic institutions of international actors.
Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State
Jane Lilly López (Stanford University Press)
López analyzes the myriad challenges that US family reunification law poses for married couples with mixed citizenship.
Particles of Truth: A Story of Discovery, Controversy, and the Fight for Healthy Air
C. Arden Pope III and Douglas W. Dockery (MIT Press)
Pope and Dockery utilize firsthand accounts and scientific research to address the controversy surrounding air pollution and its contribution to disease and death.
Early Childhood and Digital Media
Rachel Barr, Heather Kirkorian, Sarah Coyne, and Jenny Radesky (Cambridge University Press)
The authors set aside the current focus on imprecise estimates of young children’s screen time to study family media ecology using a new framework.
The Science of Virtue: A Framework for Research
Blaine J. Fowers, Bradford Cokelet, and Nathan D. Leonhardt (Cambridge University Press)
The authors present an empirically tested model and interdisciplinary approach to study the science of virtue and moral development.
Atlantic Crossroads in Lisbon’s New Golden Age: 1668–1750
Cacey B. Farnsworth (Pennsylvania State University Press)
Farnsworth investigates the Atlanticization of Lisbon between 1668 and 1750 as colonial and international developments led to the capital’s transformation.
Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison’s America
Tyson Reeder (Oxford University Press)
Reeder explores the partisan politics and foreign involvement of the early United States through a look at the James Madison’s career from the American Revolution through the War of 1812.
Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good
Samuel Arnold, Jason F. Brennan, Richard Yetter Chappell, and Ryan W. Davis (Routledge)
Four philosophers engage in a roundtable discussion on Effective Altruism, a movement that applies microeconomic principles to beneficent action.
Finding God in the Gulag: A History of Christianity in the Soviet Penal System
Jeffrey S. Hardy (Oxford University Press)
Hardy tells the story of how Christianity flourished in the gulag system as inmates found ways to worship despite the anti-religion efforts and ideologies of the Soviet Communist Party.
