About the HI Director Publication Library
The Humanities Institute Director Publication Library is an effort envisioned by our current director, Ryan Skinner. The goal of this initiative was to acquire a collection of monographs from each current and past director of the Humanities Institute, including those of our five centers and three programs.
All are welcome to stop in to 455 Hagerty Hall to browse the collection, or view the library catalog below.
Catalog
Humanities Institute Director Publications
Ryan Skinner (2025-Current)
Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country
(2022)
Bamako Sounds: The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music
(2015)
Barry Shank (2022-2025)
The Political Force of Musical Beauty
(2014)
Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas
(1994)
Jared Gardner (2021-2022)
Projections Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling
(2012)
The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture
(2012)
David Staley (2017-2020)
Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education
(2024)
(2020)
Brain, Mind and Internet: A Deep History and Future
(2014)
(2014)
History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future
(2010)
Paul Reitter (2012-2017)
(2020)
Bambi's Jewish Roots and Other Essays on German-Jewish Culture
(2015)
On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred
(2012)
Christian Zacher (1998-2011)
(2012)
Curiosity and Pilgrimage: The Literature of Discovery in Fourteenth-Century England
(1976)
Center for Ethnic Studies Director and Program Director Publications
Ethnic Studies | American Indian Studies | Asian American Studies | Latinx Studies
Namiko Kunimoto (2019-Current)
The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art
(2017)
Theresa Delgadillo (2018-2019)
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas
(2024)
Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative
(2011)
American Indian Studies Program Director Publications
Elissa Washuta (2022-Current)
(2022)
(2014)
Asian American Studies Program Director Publications
Martin Joe Ponce (2025-Current)
Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
(2012)
Latinx Studies Program Director Publications
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández (2025-Current)
Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien”
(2024)
Crimmigration Law, Second Edition
(2021)
Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking up Immigrants
(2019)
Paloma Martinez-Cruz (2022-2025)
Miranda Martinez (2021-2022)
Inés Valdez (2019-2021)
Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism
(2025)
Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft
(2020)
Center for Folklore Studies Director Publications
Merrill Kaplan (2024-Current)
The Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi
(2024)
Thou Fearful Guest: Addressing the Past in Four Tales in Flateyjarbók
(2011)
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth (2023-2024)
(2023)
Katey (Katherine) Borland (2014-2023)
Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival
(2023)
Creating Community: Hispanic Migration to Rural Delaware
(2001)
Gabriella (Galey) Modan (Interim, 2019)
Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place
(2007)
Dorothy (Dorry) Noyes (2005-2014)
Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life
(2016)
Fire in the Placa: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco
(2003)
Amy Shuman (1995-2005)
Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy
(2010)
Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents
(1986)
Patrick (Pat) Mullen (1990-1995)
Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music
(2018)
The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore
(2008)
Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly
(1991)
Lake Erie Fishermen: Work, Identity, and Tradition
(1990)
I Heard the Old Fishermen Say: Folklore of the Texas Gulf Coast
(1978)
Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Director Publications
Chris Highley (2017-2018, 2019-Current)
Blackfriars in Early Modern London: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood
(2022)
Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland
(1998)
Leslie Lockett (Interim, 2019)
Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions
(2017)
Graeme Boone (2013-2017)
(2023)
Patterns in Play: A Model for Text Setting in the Early French Songs of Guillaume Dufay
(1999)
Richard Firth Green (2005-2013)
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
(2016)
A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England
(1998)
Barabara Hanawalt (2003-2005)
Ceremony and Civility: Civic Culture in Late Medieval London
(2017)
The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London
(2007)
(2005)
Of Good and Ill Repute': Gender and Social Control in Medieval England
(1998)
Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History
(1993)
The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
(1986)
Sarah Iles Johnston (2002-2003)
See Sarah Iles Johnston's publications under the Center for Study of Religion tab.
Anna Grotans (Interim, 1999-2000)
(2006)
Nicholas Howe (1995-2002)
Across an Inland Sea: Writing in Place from Buffalo to Berlin
(2021)
Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Cultural Geography
(2007)
Eve Levin (1992-1995)
Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs 900–1700
(1995)
Christian Zacher (1984-1992)
See Christian Zacher's publications under the Humanities Institute tab.
Joseph H. Lynch (1978-1983)
Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe
(2019)
Christianizing Kinship: Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England
(1998)
The Medieval Church: A Brief History
(1992)
Center for the Study of Religion Director Publications
Isaac Weiner (2022-Current)
Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism (North American Religions)
(2013)
Hugh Urban (2015-2022)
The Path of Desire: Living Tantra in Northeast India
(2024)
Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion
(2024)
Secrecy: Silence, Power, and Religion
(2021)
Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement
(2016)
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
(2015)
The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion
(2011)
The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies
(2009)
The Secrets of the Kingdom: Religion and Concealment in the Bush Administration
(2007)
Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism
(2006)
Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal
(2001)
The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal
(2001)
Tom Kasulis (2013-2015)
Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History
(2017)
Shinto: The Way Home (Dimensions of Asian Spirituality)
(2004)
Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural Difference
(2002)
(1981)
Lindsay Jones (2010-2013)
Twin City Tales: A Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula
(1995)
Sarah Iles Johnston (2006-2010)
Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers
(2023)
(2018)
(2008)
Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
(1999)
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature
(1990)
Melton Center for Jewish Studies Director Publications
Hannah Kosstrin (2023-Current)
Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations
(2026)
Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow
(2017)
Tamar Rudavsky (1989-2005, 2006-2007, 2016-2023)
(2024)
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Science, Rationalism, and Religion
(2021)
(2010)
Matt Goldish (2007-2016)
(2024)
Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton
(2009)
Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period
(2008)
(2004)
Daniel Frank (2005-2006)
(2004)
Jeremy Cohen (1985-1986, 1988)
The Salvation of Israel: Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans
(2022)
A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, "Shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter
(2016)
Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade
(2013)
Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen
(2007)
Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity
(1999)
The friars and the Jews: The evolution of medieval anti-Judaism
(1982)
Marc Lee Raphael (1984-1985,1987-1988)
The Synagogue in America: A Short History
(2011)
Diary of a Los Angeles Jew, 1947-1973: Autobiography As Autofiction
(2008)
Towards a "National Shrine": A Centennial History of Washington Hebrew Congregation 1855-1955
(2005)
Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism
(1989)
(1984)
Yehiel Hayon (1980-1984)
Relativization in Hebrew: A Transformational Approach
(1973)
Robert Chazan (1976-1980)
Medieval Jewry in Northern France: A Political and Social History
(2019)
Refugees or Migrants: Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement
(2019)
From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism: Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History
(2016)
Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe
(2010)
The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000-1500
(2007)
Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom
(2004)
God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Chronicles
(2000)
Jewish Suffering: The Interplay of Medieval Christian and Jewish Perspectives
(1998)
Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism
(1997)
In the Year 1096: The First Crusade and the Jews
(1996)
European Jewry and the First Crusade
(1996)
Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath
(1992)
Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response
(1989)