Fellows’ Recently Published Works: 2023
December 15, 2023 | Kristen Chavez
The Fellows Celebration, hosted every January, recognizes the major artistic and scholarly achievements produced by IAH Faculty Fellows in 2023.
Fitz Brundage (FFP ’04; ALP ’06), History
A New History of the American South, editor, UNC Press. Read a story about Brundage and the book.
Sarah Dempsey (FFP ’09, ’23), Communication
Organizing Eating: Communicating for Equity in U.S. Food Systems, editor, Routledge. Dempsey received the Best Book Award – Outstanding Edited Volume from the National Communication Association for Organizing Eating.
Bart Ehrman (FFP ’89, ’92), Religious Studies
Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition (paperback), Yale University Press.
Elizabeth Engelhardt (FFP ’16, ALP ’18), American Studies
Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows and Runaways Shaped Modern America, UNC Press. Received Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction by the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Read about the book from Chapelboro.
Carl Ernst (FFP ’01, ’14; ALP ’09), Religious Studies
I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said’s America, co-author, UNC Press. Recipient of the American Academy of Religion’s 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies
Oswaldo Estrada (FFP ’11, ’16, ’21), Romance Studies
Tus Pequeñas Huellas, Suburbano Ediciones, 2023.
Thomas Hofweber (FFP ’15), Philosophy
Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality, Oxford University Press.
Scott Kirsch (FFP ’07), Geography
American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire, Routledge.
Wayne Lee (FFP ’08), History
The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800, UNC Press. Read a review in the New York Times.
Alice Marwick (FFP ’19), Communication
The Private is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media, Yale University Press. Read a Q&A with Marwick about the book.
Joseph Megel (FFP ’11), Communication
Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green, director, The Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles.
Hugo Méndez (FFP ’22), Religious Studies
The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem: Inventing a Patron Martyr, Oxford University Press.
Bobbi Owen (FFP ’90, ’01; ALP ’05), Dramatic Art
The Wondrous Willa Kim: Costume Designs for Actors and Dancers, exhibition at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Playbill and BroadwayWorld previewed the exhibition before it opened in February.
Louis Pérez (FFP ’00), History
Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, Duke University Press. Read an interview with Pérez about the book.
William Race (FFP ’98, ’07), Classics
Maximus of Tyre: Philosophical Orations, editor and translation, Harvard University Press.
C.D.C Reeve (FFP ’10), Philosophy
Aristotle’s Chemistry: On Coming to Be and Passing Away & Meteorology 1.1–3, 4.1–12, translation, Hackett Publishing Company.
Plato: Republic, second edition.
Charlene Regester (FFP ’05), African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representation of Blackness, co-editor, University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Katherine Turk (FFP ’21), History
The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America, MacMillan. The Women of NOW was named one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023.
Listen to Turk discuss her book on the Institute’s podcast:
Robin Visser (FFP ’16), Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan, Columbia University Press.
Daniel Wallace (FFP ’18), English and Comparative Literature
This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew, Algonquin Books. Read a Q&A with Wallace about the book.
Southern Lights: 75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly, co-editor, UNC Press.
Lee Weisert (FFP ’19), Music
Recesses, New Focus Recording. Read a story about Weisert’s album. Awarded the Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical.
Claudia Yaghoobi (FFP ’21), Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora, Edinburgh University Press. Nominated for the Society of Armenian Studies Der Mugrdechian Book Award, The René Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Book Award.
The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment, editor, Bloomsbury.
Nadia Yaqub (FFP ’04, ’14; ALP ’13), Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Gaza on Screen, editor, Duke University Press.
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