Books

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, and Samuel Lézé have edited Moral Anthropology: A Critical Reader (Routledge, 2014). This is the first anthology to cover the growing field of moral anthropology and will...

The American Mathematical Society and the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences have co-published Hodge Theory, Complex Geometry, and Representation Theory (2013) by Phillip Griffiths, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, Mark Green...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has authored Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (Polity Press, 2013). The book, which is based on a fifteen month ethnographic study carried out by Fassin...

Rational Homotopy Theory and Differential Forms (2013) by Phillip Griffiths, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, and John Morgan, has been published by Springer New York. This revised and corrected version of the well-known Florence...

Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions (Zone, 2013), edited by Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the Social Sciences, examines historical antecedents as well as...

Volume III of Visible Spirit: The Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini (Pindar Press, 2013) by Irving Lavin, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has been published. This final volume completes a collection of Lavin's papers on Baroque...

Brill Academic Publishers has published Manufacturing Middle Ages: Entangled History of Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2014) edited by Patrick Geary, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and Gábor Klaniczay. These essays focus...

University of Chicago Press has published Education, Justice, and Democracy (2013), edited by Danielle S. Allen, UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science, and Rob Reich, Associate Professor at Stanford University and former Member...

Brandeis University Press has published Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages (2013) by Patrick Geary, Professor in the School of Historical Studies. The book, which is based on Geary’s Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures to the Historical...

Oxford University Press has published The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (2013), by Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies. Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century A.D., southern...