Graduate Center faculty are noted scholars and prolific authors. Their books range from award-winning academic treatises to best-sellers. Find a selection of their books here.
For books by discipline, please visit the academic program pages.
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
(Haymarket Books, 2022)
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Nayma Qayum and the cover of her book, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh"
“Women’s lives are embedded in social norms and their social relationships,” alumna Nayma Qayum says. “They are governed not just by the rules that exist on paper, the laws that are visible and written down, but by these social norms.” Read more
Michael Rawson
The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future
(Yale University Press, 2021)
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Paul Julian Smith
Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media
(Modern Humanities Research Association, 2021)
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Anna Lucille Boozer
At Home in Roman Egypt: A Social Archaeology
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
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"Jurisdictional Breech" by Linda Vigdor (2021)
Many Graduate Center professors and administrators devote time to artistic pursuits that fall, or seem to fall, far outside the realm of their academic work. Read more
Jessie Daniels
Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It
(Seal Press, 2021)
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Unknown, Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called “Sappho"), c. 55–79, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples.
Professor Ronnie Ancona and her former student Georgia Tsouvala have co-edited a book in honor of Professor Emerita Sarah Pomeroy and her landmark study, "Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves." Read more
Gita Martohardjono and Suzanne Flynn (editors)
Language in Development: A Crosslinguistic Perspective
(The MIT Press, 2021)
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Glenn Petersen (Photo courtesy of Petersen)
Professor Glenn Petersen also shares advice to veterans of today's wars. Read more