Past Series

2010 – 11

Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France
Christine Haynes
Bizarre Botanicals: How to Grow String-of-Hearts, Jack-in-the-Pulpit,
Panda Ginger, and Other Weird and Wonderful Plants
Larry Mellichamp & Paula Gross
The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction
Tony Jackson
Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies
Sean McCloud

2011 – 12

Resistance and Survival: Children’s Narrative From Central America
and the Caribbean

Ann González
The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music
Robin James
Talk With You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice,
and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
Cheryl Hicks
Death: The Beginning of a Relationship
Christine Davis

2012 – 13

The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama
Richard Leeman
Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain As Redemptive Figure
Kent Brintnall
Unsettling Gaza: Secular Liberalism, Radical Religion and the
Israeli Settlement Project
Joyce Dalsheim
The Beauty I Have Seen: A Trilogy
Tanure Ojaide

2013 – 14

Why I am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
Jonathan Marks
The Innocent Party
Aimee Parkison
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715: Seditious Frivolity
Allison Stedman
Helping America Vote: The Limits of Election Reform
Martha Kropf

2014 – 15

Middle Class Meltdown in America: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies
Scott Fitzgerald
Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity
James Tabor
Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops
John David Smith
Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010
Paula Connolly

2015 – 16

Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the
Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
Jürgen Buchenau
Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
Shannon Sullivan
Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas
Jeffrey B. Leak
Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control
Eric S. Heberlig

2016 – 17

Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice
Lawrence G. Calhoun & Richard G. Tedeschi
Dolphin
Alan Rauch
Race, Religion and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit
Julia Marie Robinson
Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain during the Second World War
Peter Thorsheim

2017 – 18

Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes
Thomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature
Paula Gallant Eckard
To Kill A People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century
John Cox
To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts
and the Making of the Antislavery Movement
Christopher Cameron