UCR College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
 

Faculty Books

Welcome to CHASS Faculty Books page. Here you will find a small sample of books authored by our faculty.

2008:

  • Howard S. Friedman, Department of Psychology with M.W. Schustack, The Personality Reader, Allyn & Bacon.
  • John M. Ganim, Department of English, Medievalism and Orientalism, Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Robert Rosenthal, Department of Psychology with R.L. Rosnow, Essentials of behavioral research: Methods and data analysis (3rd ed.) McGraw-Hill.
  • Robert Rosenthal, Department of Psychology, with R.L. Rosnow, Beginning behavioral research: a conceptual primer (6th ed.) Pearson Prentice Hall.
  • Yenna Wu, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, with Qian He and Ying Petersen, Me and China.  McGraw-Hill.

2007:

  • Chris Abani, Department of Creative Writing. Song for Night published by Akashic, NY.
  • Chris Abani, Department of Creative Writing. The Virgin of Flames. Penguin.
  • Byron Adams, Department of Music (ed.) Edward Elgar and His World. Princeton University Press.
  • Amalia Cabezas, Department of Women’s Studies, Ellen Reese, Department of Sociology and Marguerite Waller, Departments of Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies (eds.) The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty. Paradigm Publishers.
  • Christopher Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology, Ellen Reese, Department of Sociology with others, Global Democracy and World Social Forums. Paradigm Publishers.
  • Andrea Denny-Brown, Department of English, with Lisa H. Cooper (eds.) Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Emory Elliott, Department of English with Jasmine Payne and  Patricia Ploesch (eds.) Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation. Palgrave, MacMillan.
  • John Martin Fischer, Department of Philosophy with John Perry and Michael Bratman, (eds). Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings (4th edition) Oxford University Press.
  • John Martin Fischer, Department of Philosophy with Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vargas, Four Views on Free Will, Blackwell Publishers.
  • Howard S. Friedman, Department of Psychology with R.C. Silver, (eds.), Foundations of Health Psychology  Oxford University Press.
  • Mason Gaffney, Department of Economics, New Life in Old Cities, The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.
  • Juan Felipe Herrera, Department of Creative Writing, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border, City Lights. 
  • Liz Kotz, Department of the History of Art, Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art, MIT Press.
  • Rebecca (Monte) Kugel, Department of History with Lucy Elderveld Murphy (eds.). Native Women’s History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing, University of Nebraska Press.
  • Sonya Lyubomirsky, Department of Psychology. The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. The Penguin Press.
  • Jonathan Ritter, Department of Music with J. Martin Daughtry (eds.) Music in the Post-9/11 World, Routledge.
  • Maurya Simon, Department of Creative Writing, Cartographies, Red Hen Press, Fall 2007.
  • Georgia Warnke, Department of Philosophy, After Identity: Rethinking Race, sex and Gender, Cambridge University Press.
  • Raymond Williams, Department of Hispanic Studies, The Latin American Novel, 1945-Present, Columbia University Press.

2006:

  • Chris Abani, Department of Creative Writing. Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani. New York: Akashic Books.
  • Chris Abani, Department of Creative Writing. Hands Washing Water, Copper Canyon Press.
  • Adalberto Aguirre Jr., Jonathan H. Turner, American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination, 5th Edition.
  • Catherine Allgor, Department of History, A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation, Henry Holt and Co.
  • Richard Arnott, Department of Economics with D. McMillen (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Urban Economics. Blackwell Press.
  • Alicia Arrizon, Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance, University of Michigan Press.
  • Reza Aslan, Department of Creative Writing, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Random House.
  • Peter J. Burke, Department of Sociology, Contemporary Social Psychological Theories.
  • Christopher Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology. Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Walter Aaron Clark, Department of Music. Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Carl F Cranor. Toxic Torts Science, Law and The Possibility Of Justice Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Stephen Cullenberg, Department of Economics and James K. Boyce, et al. Human Development in the Era of Globalization. Northhampton, MA: Edward Edgar Publishing.
  • Stephen Cullenberg, Department of Economics and Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Department of Economics, with James K. Boyce and Robert Pollin (eds.) Human Development in the Era of Globalization: Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin, Edward Elgin Publishing.
  • John Divola, Professor of Art, with an essay by David Campany and interview by Jan Tamir: Three Acts. New York: Aperture.
  • Jennifer Doyle, Department of English, Sex Objects - Art and the Dialectics of Desire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • John Martin Fischer, Department of Philosophy. My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Howard S. Friedman, Department of Psychology with M.W. Schustack, M. W., Personality: Classic Theories and Modern Research, Allyn & Bacon.
  • Juan Herrera, Department of Creative Writing. Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
  • Laila Lalami, Department of Creative Writing, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Harvest Books.
  • John C. Laursen, Department of Political Science, Denis Veixas, and Cyrus Masroori. The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian Novel. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • David Pion-Berlin, Department of Political Science and Edward Epstein. Broken Promises?: The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Department of Political Science. Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
  • Andrews Reath, Department of Philosophy. Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Dylan Rodriguez. Forced Passages: Imprisioned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime. Minneapolis, MN: University Press.
  • Conrad Rudolph, Department of the History of Art. A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • Pashaura Singh. Life and Work of Guru Arjan. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
  • Jan E. Stets, Jonathan H. Turner, Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions.
  • Susan Straight, Department of Creative Writing. A Million Nightingales. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Stanley Stewart. Caped Crusaders 101, Composition through Comic Books.
  • Ben Stoltzfus. The Target. Cranbury, NJ.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
  • Richard Sutch, Department of Economics and Susan B. Carter Department of Economics, (eds.) Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition,  Cambridge University Press.
  • Anne H. Sutherland. The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the Making of Texas. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
  • Kiril Tomoff. Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1959, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
  • Richard Sutch, Department of Economics and Susan B. Carter Department of Economics, (eds.) Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Cambridge University Press.
  • Jonathan H. Turner, Leonard Beeghley, and Charles Powers, The Emergence of Sociological Theory, 6th Edition.
  • John B. Vickery. The Modern Elegiac Temper. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
  • Yenna Wu, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, with Philip F. Williams (eds.). Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camps: Disciplined and Published. New York: Routledge.
  • Dwight Yates. Bring Everybody: Stories. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press.

2005:

  • Steven Gould Axelrod, Department of English, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Vol. II.
  • Richard Arnott, Department of Economics, with T. Rave, and R. Schob,  Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion. MIT Press.
  • Edgar W. Butler. Savannah Tempest: The Hidden Savannah. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2005.
  • Christopher Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology, E.N. Anderson, Department of Anthropology, The Historical Evolution of World-Systems.
  • Christopher Chase-Dunn, Department of Sociology, Jonathan Friedman, Hegemonic Declines: Present and Past by Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Sociology.
  • John Martin Fischer, Department of Philosophy (ed.) Free Will: Critical Concepts in Philosophy: Determinism. New York: Routledge.
  • John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza. "Responsibility for Actions: Moderate Reasons-Responsiveness," In Free Will: Critical Concepts in Philosophy: Libertarianism, Alternative Possibilities, and Moral Responsibility. Ed. Fischer, John Mar-tin. New York: Routledge.
  • John M. Ganim, Department of English. Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • John C. Laursen, Ian Hunter, and Cary J. Nedennan. Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
  • Victor Lippit, Department of Economics, Capitalism, Routledge.
  • Toby Miller. "Media Production and Consumption." In International Cultural Studies: An Antholog, Ed. Ackbar Abbas and John Nguyet Emi, pp. 227-3 1. Malden, Oxford, and Carlton: Blackwell.
  • Toby Miller. Nitin Govil, John McMurria, Richard Maxwell, El Nuevo Hollywood: Del Imperialismo Cultural a las Leyes del Marketing.
  • Toby Miller. Nitin Govil, John McMurria, Richard Maxwell, Ting Wang, Global Hollywood 2. London: BFI Publishing.
  • Alfredo M. Mirandé, Department of Ethnic Studies, The Stanford Law Chronicles.
  • Armando Navarro, Department of Ethnic Studies, Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlán.
  • James A. Parr, Department of Hispanic Studies. 'Don Quixote': A Touchstone for Literaiy Criticism. Kassel, Germany: Reichenberger.
  • David Pion-Berlin and Craig Arceneaux. Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Department of Political Science. Democracy in Immigrant America: Changing Demographics and Political Participation, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Roger Ransom, The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been. New York: W.W. Norton.
  • Ellen Reese, Department of Sociology, Backlash against Welfare Mothers, Past and Present, University of California Press.
  • Robert Rosenthal, Department of Psychology and Ralph Rosnow. Beginning Behavioral Research: A Conceptual Primer. 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
  • Robert Rosenthal, Jinni Harrigan, and Klaus Scherer. The New Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Conrad Rudolph (ed.) Department of the History of Art. First I Find the Center Point: Reading the Text of Saint Victor’s The Sacred Ark. American Philosophical Society, 2005.
  • Maurya Simon, Department of Creative Writing. Weavers. Upland, CA: Blackbird Press.
  • George Slusser. The Centenarian: Or, The Two Beromghelds. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.
  • Jonathan Turner and Alexandra Maryanski. Incest: origins of the taboo. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
  • Marguerite Waller, Departments of Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies, and Anikó Imre. East European Cinemas. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Marguerite Waller, Departments of Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies, Sylvia Marco. Dialogue and Difference: Feminists Challenge Globalization.
  • Ellen Wartella, Department of Psychology and D. Charles Whitney, Department of Creative Writing and Lawrence Grossberg. MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Dwight Yates. Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones: Stories. Snake Nation Press. Valdosta, GA.
  • Haibo Yu, Department of Theatre. From 2D to 3D: A Collection of Haibo Yu's Art & Stage Designs. Beijing, China: Foreign Language Press.

 

 
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