Fall 2022
- Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Remedies between Magic and Science (Jason Sion Mokhtarian)
- Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern (Masha Raskolnikov)
- Building Soils for Better Crops: Ecological Management for Healthy Soils (Harold Van Es)
- State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (María Cristina García)
- Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation (Chris Barrett, Rebecca Nelson, Mario Herrero, Daniel Mason-D’Croz)
- Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism (Julia Chang)
- You Have More Influence Than You Think (Vanessa Bohns)
- Geometry, Prejudice, Tensegrities (Robert Connelly)
Spring 2022
- Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society (Carol J. Pierce Colfer)
- The Queer Nuyorican (Karen Jaime)
- Synder & Champness Molecular Genetics of Bacteria (Joseph Peters, Tina Henkin)
- Stories from an Ancient land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture (Magnus Fiskejö)
- The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium (Barry Strauss)
- Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington D.C. (Kaushik Basu)
- Building Bad: How Architectural Utility is Constrained by Politics and Damaged by Expression (Jonathan Ochshorn)
Fall 2021
- On José Montoya (Ella Maria Diaz) Video
- The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance (Eswar Prasad) Video
- Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres (Athena Kirk) Video
- Emancipation’s Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Riché Richardson) Video
- Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Philip McMichael) Video
- Remembering and Forgetting Early Childhood (Qi Wang, Sami Gülgöz) Video
- Innovation from Emerging Markets: From Copycats to Leaders (Lourdes Casanova, Anne Miroux) Video
- Fashion and Cultural Studies (Denise Green, Susan B. Kaiser) Video
Spring 2021
- Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them (Karl Pillemer) Video
- Islam and Asia: A History (Chiara Formichi) Video
- Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen (Samantha N. Sheppard)
- How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor (Michael Fontaine) Video
- The Constants of the Motion (Roald Hoffman) Video
- Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need (Michael Hoffmann) Video
- Celestial Mirror: The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II (Barry Perlus) Video
Fall 2020
- Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health (Don Rakow) Video
- The Comstocks of Cornell: The Definitive Autobiography (Karen Penders St. Clair) Video
- The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States (Derrick R. Spires) Video
- Free Enterprise: An American History (Lawrence B. Glickman) Video
- Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program (Verónica Martínez-Matsuda) Video
- Designing Public Spaces for Young People: Processes, Practices, and Policies for Youth Inclusion (Janet Loebach) Video
Spring 2020
- The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America (Gustavo Flores-Macínas) Video
- The Era of Chinese Multinationals: Competing for Global Dominance (Lourdes Casanova) Video
- Framing Roberto Bolaño: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics (Jonathan Monroe) Video
- The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honeybee in the Wild (Tom Seeley) Video
- Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (Caitlín Barrett)
Fall 2019
- Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine (Barry Strauss) Video
- Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics (Jamila Michener) Video
- The Solitary Bees: Biology, Evolution, Conservation (Bryan Danforth) Video
- Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe (Steven Strogatz) Video
- Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disaster (Drew Harvell) Video
- Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British (Suman Seth) Video
- Poetry and Mind: Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus (Laurent Dubreuil) Video
- Gorges History: Landscapes and Geology of the Finger Lakes Region (Matthew Pritchard) Video
- Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography (Janet McCue) Video
Spring 2019
- Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators (Anne K. Armstrong) Video
- What Schools Fail to Recognize: Creativity, Common Sense, Critical Thinking, and Wisdom Trump Knowledge and IQ (Robert Sternberg)
- You’ve Always Been There for Me: Understanding the Lives of Children Raised by Grandparents (Rachel E. Dunifon)
- The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (Saida Hodžić) Video
- The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual (Andrew Moisey) – Video available for viewing at Rare and Manuscript Collections
- Grassroots to Global: Broader Impacts of Civil Ecology (Marianne E. Krasny) Video
- Reading the Modern European Novel Since 1900 (Daniel R. Schwarz) Video
- The Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement (Sidney Tarrow) Video
Fall 2018
- Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato’s Republic (Jill Frank)
- Natural Enemies: An Introduction to Biological Control (Ann E. Hajek) Video
- Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheism in American Public Life (Isaac Kramnick, Larry Moore) Video
- Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America (Julilly Kohler-Hausman) Video
- The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life (Lee Humphreys) Video
- Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution (Stephen Hilgartner) Video
- The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America (María Cristina García) Video
- Pipeline Politics: Assessing the Benefits and Harms of Energy Policy (Madelon L. Finkel) Video
Spring 2018
- Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition (Sandra E. Greene) Video
- Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Markets (Lourdes Casanova, Peter Klaus Cornelius)
- Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education (Noliwe Rooks) Video
- Urban Environmental Education Review (Alex Kudryavtsev, Marianne E. Krasny)
- Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States (Sabrina Karim)
- Work-Life Fusion: A Guide to Freedom and Autonomy at Work (Donna L. Haeger) Video
- Cotton: Companies, Fashion and the Fabric of our Lives (Tasha Lewis) Video
Fall 2017
- Himalayan Mobilities: An Exploration of the Impact of Expanding Rural Road Networks on Social and Ecological Systems in the Nepalese Himalaya (Robert E. Beazley, James P. Lassoie) Video
- Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos (Andrew Hicks)
- Something for Nothing: Arbitrage and Ethics on Wall Street (Maureen O’Hara) Video
- The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life (Timothy Campbell)
- (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work (Brooke Erin Duffy) Video
- Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships (Sharon Sassler) Video
- The Economy of Hope (Hirokazu Miyazaki, Richard Swedberg)
- Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art (Benjamin Anderson)
- Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities (Prabhu Pingali) Video
Spring 2017
- The Future of Rural Studies as an Interdisciplinary Enterprise (David L. Brown, David Kay, Kai Schafft, Ann Tickamyer, Leland Glenna)
- Disability and Employer Practices: Research Across the Disciplines (Susanne M. Bruyère)
- The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany (Patrizia C. McBride) Video
- Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi (Eswar Prasad) Video
- Becoming Who I Am: Young Men on Being Gay (Rich Savin-Williams) Video
- Heaven, Hell, and Everything In Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (Amanda Cohen-Aponte)
- Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution (Anurag Agrawal) Video
- Governing the North American Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and Institutions (Dawn Alexandrea Berry)
- The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile (Raymond B. Craib)
Fall 2016
- Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting (Thomas D. Seeley) Video
- Succeeding in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning (Daniel Schwarz)
- Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World (Peter K. Enns) Video
- The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life (Rodney Dietert)
- Women’s Identity and Rethinking the Hadith (Nimat Hafez Barazangi)
- Ghostly Landscapes: Film, Photography, and the Aesthetics of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture (Patricia M. Keller)
- A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas’ Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk (Drew Harvell) Video
- Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Mary Jacobus)
- Emotion, Aging and Health (Corinna Loeckenhoff)
- Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America (Bill Goldsmith)
Spring 2016
- An Economist in the Real World: The Art of Policymaking in India (Kaushik Basu) Video
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Edward E. Baptist) Video
- Genetic Modification and Food Quality: A Down to Earth Analysis (Joe Regenstein)
- Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel (Elisha J. Cohn)
- Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion (Lucinda Ramberg)
- Bird Families of the World: A Guide to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds (David W. Winkler) Video
- Book (Carl Ostendarp)
- China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (Eli Friedman)
- The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron (Marilyn Migiel)
- The Holy Earth: The Birth of a New Land Ethic, by Liberty Hyde Bailey (Scott Peters, Jim Tantillo, John Linstrom)
- Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) (Marion Nestle) Video
Fall 2015
- Studies in Structural Sociology (Frank W. Young)
- American Insecurity: Why our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction (Adam Seth Levine)
- Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability (Per Pinstrup-Andersen)
- Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships Between Architecture and Site (Caroline O’Donnell)
- Theory of the Lyric (Jonathan Culler)
- It’s Not Like I’m Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World (Laura Tach)
- Bases of Adult Attachment: Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior (Cindy Hazan and Vivian Zayas)
- Shi’ism in South East Asia: ‘Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions (Chiara Formichi)
- The Economics of Biofuel Policies: Impacts on Price Volatility in Grain and Oilseed Markets (Harry de Gorter)
Spring 2015
- The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power: In Search of the Brazil Dream (Lourdes Casanova)
- Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 (Andy Mertha)
- The Modern Land-Grant University (Robert Sternberg)
- 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships and Marriage (Karl Pillemer)
- Archi.Pop: Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture (D. Medina Lasansky)
- The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination (Barry Strauss)
- Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance (Alejandro L. Madrid)
- Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up (Marianne Krasny)
- Ergonomics in the Postwar Home: Collaborations between Cornell’s College of Home Economics and Center for Housing and Environmental Studies (Barbara Penner)
- Reading the European Novel to 1900 (Daniel R. Schwarz)
- Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests (Steve Gabriel and Ken Mudge) Video
Fall 2014
- Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China (Eli Friedman)
- Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening (Keith Tidball)
- Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire (Amy Villarejo)
- The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance (Eswar S. Prasad) Video
- The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector: Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring (Steven A. Wolf)
- A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III’s England (Rachel Judith Weil)
- Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes our Fortunes (Tom Hirschl)
- Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Cynthia Robinson)
- The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis and the Family in France (Camille Robcis)
Spring 2014
- The Neuroscience of Risky Decision Making (Valerie Reyna) Video
- Cellular Convergence and the Death of Privacy (Stephen B. Wicker)
- Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art (Harry Greene) Video
- Toward Engaged Anthropology (Sam Beck)
- The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord: Nabokov and His Father (Gavriel Shapiro)
- International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (Ravi Kanbur)
- The Language of Contention: Revolutions in Words, 1688-2012 (Sidney Tarrow)
Fall 2013
- Fictions of Dignity (Elizabeth S. Anker)
- The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture (Qi Wang)
- Hospitality Branding (Chekitan S. Dev)
- The People’s Colleges (Helene Dillard, Scott Peters, and Jane Mount Pleasant)
- We Modern People (Anindita Banerjee)
- Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure (Sara Warner)
- The Insects–Structure and Function (Angela E. Douglas)
- Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability (Chris Barrett, Wendy Wolford, Joanna Upton, and Samuel Crowell) Video
- Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (Aaron Sachs)
Spring 2013
- Pay: Why People Earn What They Earn and What You Can Do Now To Make More (Kevin Hallock)
- Marx and Freud in Latin America:Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror (Bruno Bosteels)
- VIVO–A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery (Jon Corson-Rikert, Brian Lowe, and Dean Krafft)
- Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Fredrik Logevall)
- The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (Shirley Samuels)
- Rural Aging In 21st Century America (Nina Glasgow, David L. Brown, and Douglas T. Gurak) Video
- Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (Deborah Starr)
- Service-Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries (Paula Horrigan)
- Crocheting Adventures with Hyperboic Planes (Daina Taimina)
Fall 2012
- Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics (Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim) Video
- Capitalism from Below:Markets and Institutional Change in China (Victor Nee)
- Earth: A Tenant’s Manual (Frank H. T. Rhodes) Video
- Research for the Public Good: Applying the Methods of Translational Research to Improve Human Health and Well-Being (Elaine Wethington) Video
- Plant Physics (Karl J. Niklas) Video
- The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity (Kim Haines-Eitzen)
- Miller’s Anatomy of the Dog (Howard E. Evans) Video
- Social Zooarchaeology:Humans and Animals in Prehistory (Nerissa Russell)
Spring 2012
- Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Jeff Cowie)
- 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans (Karl Pillemer)
- The Adolescent Brain: Learning, Reasoning, and Decision Making (Valerie Reyna)
- Food Policy for Developing Countries: The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems (Per Pinstrup-Andersen) Video
- Collecting as Modernist Practice (Hopkins Studies in Modernism) (Jeremy Braddock)
- Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life (Shelley Feldman)
- Borrow: The American Way of Debt (Louis Hyman)
- Lions of the West (Robert Morgan)
- Endtimes?: Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009 (Daniel R. Schwarz)
- Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd (Mary Jordan and Joyce Hatch)
- Interspecific Competition in Birds (André Dhondt)
- Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership (Barry Strauss)
Fall 2011
- Public Garden Management: Why We Need Public Gardens More Than Ever (Don Rakow)
- Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation Through Popular Culture (Ziad Fahmy)
- The Complete Book of Potatoes: What Every Grower and Gardener Needs to Know (Walter De Jong) Video
- The Road to Renewal: Private Investment in U.S. Transportation Infrastructure (R. Richard Geddes)
- The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity (John Cawley)
- Craving Earth: Understanding Pica, The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice and Chalk (Sera L. Young) Video
- Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World (Mary Beth Norton)
- United in Differences: Multicultural Lessons for the New Labor Movement (Dan Katz)