The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Traces the development of bal tashḥit, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, from its biblical origins to the contemporary environmental movement.

Proposes an innovative, holistic understanding of technology.

Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.

Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

A collection of plays by American Indian playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr.

Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.

Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China’s northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.

Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance.

Tells the forgotten but surprising stories of the many handsome and significant buildings in downtown Troy, New York.