Publications by Members & Former Members
School of Historical Studies, Members & Former Members -
Recent books resulting from research carried out at the Institute
2026
Arzhanov, Yury (Member 2025). Divisions and Definitions: Syriac School Manuals on Aristotle’s Logic (6th–9th C.). De Gruyter Brill, 2026.
Bahmany, Leila Rahimi (Visitor 2022-23). Azeri Turkish Narratives in Twentieth-Century Iran: Resisting Monolingualism. Edinburgh University Press, 2026.
Bennett, Joshua (Member 2025). The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time. Little, Brown and Company, 2026.
Bonura, Christopher J. (Member 2022-23). A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination. University of California Press, 2026.
Bruce, Scott (Member 2024-25). Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe: Studies in Cluniac History, c. 900–1200. Cornell University Press, 2026.
Ghobrial, John-Paul (Member 2026), Michael A. Reynolds, Christian C. Sahner, and Jack Tannous, eds. Christians in Middle Eastern History: Strangers No More. Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity. Edinburgh University Press, 2026
Glauthier, Patrick, and Jeffrey P. Ulrich (Member 2023), eds. The Sublime under Empire. Vol. 48, Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition. Brill, 2026.
Graves, Margaret S. (Member 2015-16, 2026). Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics. New Books Network, 2026.
Keegan, Matthew L. (Member 2024-25). Before World Literature The Trickster Tales of al-Ḥarīrī in an Age of Commentary. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026
Krueger, Derek (Member 2022-23). Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople. Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Laemmli, Whitney E. (Member 2021-22). Making Movement: Modern Science, Politics, and the Body in Motion. The University of Chicago Press, 2026.
Liew, Han Hsien (Member 2024). Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Jawzi's Political Thought. Edinburgh University Press, 2026.
Lucas, Scott C. (Member 2018-19). The Form and Function of Legal Qurʾān Commentaries: Insights from a Yemeni Zaydī Tafsīr. Brill, 2026.
Palazzo, Éric. (Member 2018-2019). Lou Reed: Rock et poésie. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2026.
Pucci, Molly (Member 2023-24). Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams: Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia and the Idea of Central Europe. Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford University Press, 2026.
Sánchez Natalías, Celia (Member 2024). The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in the Graeco-Roman World: Studies in Honour of Richard Gordon. Vol. 89. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2026.
Sharafi, Mitra (Member 2011-12). Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia. Cornell University Press, 2026.
Stirr, Anna Marie, et al. (Member 2025). Music and Dances from Central Nepal: The Works of Subi Shah. Open Book Publishers, 2026.
Verellen, Franciscus (Member 2009-10). The Fall of the Tang: Gao Pian’s Trials of Allegiance. Cambridge University Press, 2026.
2025
Barash, Jeffrey Andrew (Member 2015-16, Visitor 2019). The Politics of Historical Interpretation: Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2025.
Bearden, Elizabeth (Member 2022-23). Crip Authority: Disability and the Art of Consolation in the Renaissance. University of Michigan Press, 2025.
Chen, Huaiyu (Member 2011-12). Seeking Monotheism in Chinese Religions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Chen, Huaiyu (Member 2011-12). Religious Encounters along the Silk Road: Connections, Competitions, and Comparisons. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2025.
Connolly, Emilie (Member 2024-25). Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Ellis, Abbey (Visitor and Research Associate 2021-22). Ancient Plaster: Casting Light on a Forgotten Sculptural Material. Liverpool University Press, 2025.
Lester, Anne E. (Member 2012, Visitor 2014 and 2024-25), and Laura K. Morreale. A Crusader’s Death and Life in Acre: The 1266 Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers. Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures. Cornell University Press, 2025.
Ng, Morgan (Member 2023-24). Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy. Yale University Press, 2025.
Otaño Gracia, Nahir I. (Member 2020-21). The Other Faces of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North Atlantic. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.
Osei-Opare, Nana (Member 2022-23). Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Palazzo, Éric (Member 2018-19). L'art médiéval comme théologie. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025.
Potter, David (Member 2021-22). Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Sherman, Daniel J. (Member 2016). Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890–1940. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
2024
Choudhury, Rishad (Member 2020-21). Hajj across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857 . Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Christensen, Peter H. (Member 2022). Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture. MIT Press, 2024.
De Napoli, Olindo (Member 2014-15). Selvaggi criminali: Storia della deportazione penale nell'Italia liberale (1861-1900) . Editori Laterza, 2024.
Palazzo, Éric (Member 2018-19). Broder la splendeur . Les éditions du Cerf, 2024.
Palazzo, Éric (Member 2018-19). De l'autel à la peinture. Éditions du Cerf, 2024.
Siddique, Asheesh Kapur (Member 2021-22) The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. Yale University Press, 2024.
2023
Araujo, Ana Lucia (Member 2021-22). The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Ahl, Diane Cole (Member 2006-07). Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy. This Splendid and Noble Art. Yale University Press, 2023.
Dombrowski, André (Member 2012-13). Monet's Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time. Yale University Press, 2023.
Horodowich, Elizabeth and Alexander Nagel (Member 2017-18). Amerasia. Princeton University Press, 2023.
Loughridge, Deirdre (Member 2019-20). Sounding Human: Music and Machines, 1740/2020. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Poutrin, Isabelle (Member 2021-22). Les Convertis du pape: Une famille de banquiers juifs à Rome au XVIe siècle. Seuil, 2023.
Wood, Christopher S. (Member 2011-12). The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, Angelico. Princeton University Press, 2023.
2022
Baumgarten, Elisheva (Member 2008-09 and 2017-18). Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Gayon, Vincent (Member 2022-23). Epistemocracy: Inquiry on the International Government of Capitalism. Raisons d'Agir, 2022.
Shoemaker, Stephen J. (Member 2013-14). Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study. University of California Press, 2022.
van Putten, Marjin (Member 2021-22). Quranic Arabic: From its Hijazi Origins to its Classical Reading Traditions. Brill, Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 106, 2022.
Vronskaya, Alla (Member 2019-20). Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences. University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
2021
Brandt, Hartwin (Member 2017-18). The Imperial Era: Roman History from Octavian to Diocletian. C.H. Beck, 2021.
Caglioti, Daniela L. (Member 2011-12 and 2015-16). War and Citizenship: Enemy Aliens and National Belonging from the French Revolution to the First World War. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Garz, Detlef (Member 2007-08). Von den Nazis vertrieben: Autobiographische Zeugnisse von Emigrantinnen und Emigranten. Das wissenschaftliche Preisausschreiben der Harvard Universität aus dem Jahr 1939. Verlad Barbara Budrich 2021.
Irani, Ayesha A. (Member 2021-22) The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Kaimal, Padma (Member 2021-22). Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space. University of Washington Press, 2021.
Mauder, Christian (Member 2018-19). In the Sultan’s Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) (2 vols). Brill, 2021
Perchuk, Alison Locke (Member 2018-19) The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone. Brepols, 2021.
Vicedo, Marga (Member 2015-16). The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021, paperback 2022.
2020
Casanova, Julián (Member 2018-19). Una violencia indómita: El siglo XX europeo. Planeta de Libros, 2020.
Stratigakos, Despina (Member 2016-17). Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway. Princeton University Press, 2020.
Gross, Simcha and Aaron Michael Butts (Member 2019-20). Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First Millennium. Mohr Siebeck, 2020.
Betancourt, Roland (Member 2016-17). Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages. Princeton University Press, 2020.
Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (Member 2019-2020). Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. W.W. Norton, 2020.
Palazzo, Éric (Member 2018-19). Le souffle de Dieu: L’énergie de la liturgie et l’art au Moyen Âge. Les éditions du Cerf, 2020
Sinkoff, Nancy (Member 2016-17). From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History. Wayne State University Press, 2020.
Hathaway, Jane (Member 2016-17). The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800, 2nd ed. Routledge, 2020.
2019
Ansari, Hassan (Member 2013-current) and Sabine Schmidtke (Member 2007-08 and 2013-14). The Zaydi Reception of Bahshamite Muʿtazilism. Fascimile Edition of MS Shiraz, Library of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Shiraz (ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī Library), majmūʿa 102. Gorgias Press, 2019.
Bonds, Mark Evan (Member 2015-16). The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Connell, William J. (Member 2002-03) and Giles Constable (Member 1985-2021). Sacrilegio y redención en la Florencia del Renacimiento: El caso de Antonio Rinaldeschi. Universitat de València Publications, 2019.
Gould, Jeffery (Member 2012-13). Solidarity Under Siege: The Salvadoran Labor Movement, 1970-1990. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Ismard, Paulin (Member 2015-16). La cité et ses esclaves : institutions, fictions, expériences (Le Seuil, 2019) by Paulin Ismard, 2015-2016, Member in the School of Historical Studies.
Lentz, Christian C. (Member 2016-17). Contested Territory: Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam. Yale University Press, 2019.
Sheppard, W. Anthony (Member 2011-12). Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination. Oxford University Press, 2019.
2018
Afflerbach, Holger (Member 2014-15). Auf Messers Schneide: Wie das Deutsche Reich den Ersten Weltkrieg verlor. C. H. Beck Publishers, 2018.
Boys-Stones, George (Member 2012-13). Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Chou, Wen-shing (Member 2015-16). Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain. Princeton University Press, 2018.
Clark, Catherine E. (Member 2017-18). Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Cypress, Rebecca and Nancy Sinkoff (Member 2016-17). Sara Levy's World Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin. Boydell and Brewer, 2018.
Dodman, Thomas W. (Member 2016-17). What Nostalgia Was : War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Effros, Bonnie (Member 2013-14). Incidental Archaeologists, French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa. Cornell University Press, 2018.
Hathaway, Jane (Member 2016-17). The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker. Cambridge, 2018.
Heydt, Colin (Member 2013-14). Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: God, Self, and Other. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Jia, Jinhua (Member 2014-15). Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China. Columbia University Press, 2018.
Kutcher, Norman A. (Member 2010-11). Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule. University of California Press, 2018.
Moralee, Jason (Member 2015-2016). Rome's Holy Mountain : The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Nissinen, Martti (Member 2015-16). Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Pergher, Roberta (Member 2013-14). Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922-1943. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Romani, Roberto (Member 2013-14). Sensibilities of the Risorgimento: Reason and Passions in Political Thought. Brill, 2018.
Strang, Cameron (Member 2016-17). Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850. University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Swartz, Wendy (Member 2014-15). Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Swope, Kenneth M. (Member 2015-16). On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger: War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China during the Ming-Qing Transition. University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
van Nierop, Henrk (Member 2013-14). The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708. Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
2017
Barducci, Marco (Member 2014-15). Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution,1613-1718. Oxford UP, 2017.
Bermon, Emmanuel (Member 2011-12). Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. Springer, 2017.
Brooks, Peter (Member 2010-11). Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year. Basic Books; Revised edition, 2017.
Caravale, Giorgio (Member 2013-14). Beyond the Inquisition. Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation. Notre Dame, Notre Dame University Press, 2017.
Cohen, Jeremy (Member 2011-12). A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish - Christian Encounter. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Connell, William (Member 2003). The Routledge History of Italian Americans. Routledge Press, 2017.
Debiais, Vincent (Member 2014-15). La croisée des signes. Les Éditions du Cerf, 2017.
Debie, Muriel Arrebo (Member 2016-17). Le Monde syriaque. Sur les routes d'un christianisme ignoré. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2017.
Delbourgo, James (Member 2011-12). Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum. Harvard University Press and Penguin Random House, 2017.
Fisch, Menachem (Member 2010-11). Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency. The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Goldberg, Chad Alan (Member 2011-12). Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Harrison, Stephen (Member 2014-15). Horace: Odes Book II. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Hegghammer, Thomas (Member 2009-10). Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Körner, Axel (Member 2006-07). America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763–1865. Princeton University Press, 2017.
Krueger, Derek (Member 2012-13) and Nelson, Robert S. The New Testament in Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks Press, 2017.
Lewis, Rhodri (Member 2015-16). Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness. Princeton University Press, 2017.
Mancosu, Paolo (Member 2009-10). Abstraction and Infinity. Oxford University Press, 2017.
McDougall, Sara (Member 2014-15). Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Platt, Verity (Member 2009-10). The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Ramirez-Weaver, Eric (Member 2015-16). A Saving Science: Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts. Penn State University Press, 2017.
Renberg, Gil (Member 2011-12). Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World. Brill, 2017.
Roberts, Priscilla (Member 2016-17). China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives. Palgrave MacMillan, 2017.
Rose, Els (Member 2015-16). The Gothic Missal. Brepols Publishers, 2017.
Saar, Ortal-Paz (Member 2012-13). Jewish Love Magic From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Brill, 2017.
Sabra, Adam (Member 2012-13). Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs. Yale University Press, 2017.
Schickore, Jutta (Member 2007-08). About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically. The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Ubl, Karl (Member 2010-11). Sinnstiftungen eines Rechtsbuchs: Die Lex Salica im Frankenreich. Thorbecke, 2017.
2016
Banaji, Jairus (Member 2006-07). Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Barash, Jeffery Andrew (Member 2015-16). Collective Memory and the Historical Past. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Bello, David (Member 2014-15). Across Forest, Steppe and Mountain: Environment, Identity and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Caravale, Giorgio (Member 2013-14). Preaching and Inquisition in Renaissance Italy. Words on Trial. Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2016.
Clark, Gregory T. (Member 2002-03). Art in a Time of War: The Master of Morgan 453 and Manuscript Illumination in Paris during the English Occupation (1419–1435). Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016.
Eisner, Martin (Member 2007-08). Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
English, Darby (Member 2010-11). 1971: A Year in the Life of Color. The University of Chicago Press, December 2016.
Gerwarth, Robert (Member 2001-12). The Vanquished. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Gitelman, Zvi (Member 2009). The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel and Germany. Rutgers University Press, 2016.
Gould, Jeffery L. (Member 2012-13). Desencuentros y Desafios: Ensayos Sobre la Historia Contemporánea Centroamericana. San José: Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, 2016.
Huebner, Sabine R. (Member 2010-11). Mediterranean Families in Antiquity: Households, Extended Families, and Domestic Space. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
Hughes, Aaron W. and Menachem Fisch (Member 2010-11) and Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava. Menachem Fisch: The Rationality of Religious Dispute. Brill, 2016.
Kulikowski, Michael (Member 2015-16). The Triumph of Empire: The Roman Empire from Hadrian to Constantine. Harvard University Press, 2016.
Lehner, Ulrich (Member 2008-09). The Catholic Enlightenment: The Forgotten History of a Global Movement. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Marlow, Louise (Member 2011-12). Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: The Naṣīḥat al-mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī. Volume I: Contexts and Themes; Volume II: Texts, Sources and Authorities. University of Edinburgh Press, 2016.
O’Brien, David (Member 2007-08). Civilisation and Nineteenth-Century Art: A European Concept in Global Context. Manchester University Press, 2016.
Reinhardt, Nicole (Member 2014-15). Voices of Conscience: Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Rochberg, Francesca (Member 2006-07). Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science. The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Schoolman, Edward M. (Member 2014-15). Rediscovering Sainthood in Italy: Hagiography and the Late Antique Past in Medieval Ravenna. Palgrave, 2016.
Shoemaker, Stephen J. (Member 2013-14). Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion. Yale University Press, 2016.
Smail, Daniel Lord. (Member 2015-16). Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe. Cambridge. Harvard University Press, 2016.
Stavrinaki, Maria (Member 2011-12). Dada Presentism: An Essay on Art and History. Stanford University Press, 2016.
Talbot, Cynthia (Member 2007-08). The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Todeschini, Giacomo (Member 2007-08). La banca e il ghetto. Una storia italiana. Roma, Editori Laterza, 2016.
von Friedeburg, Robert (Member 2001-02). Luther's Legacy: The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of 'State' in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Wallnig, Thomas (Member 2014-15). Josephinismus zwischen den Regimen. De Gruyter, 2016.
Weinryb, Ittai (Member 2012-13). Ex Voto: Votive Giving Across Cultures. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Yakubovych, Mykhaylo (Member 2014-15). Philosophical Thought of the Crimean Khanate. Kyiv: Komora, 2016, (in Ukrainian).
2014
Potts, Daniel Thomas (Member 2008-09). Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 2014.