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Jazz Tales from Jazz Legends – a distillation of more than 325 interviews recorded over two decades with jazz greats, their band members and critics– has just been released by Couper Press. Written by Director of the Fillius Jazz Archive Monk Rowe, the book includes interviews with Dave Brubeck, Steve Allen, Marian McPartland, Joe Williams, Bela Fleck, among many others, as well as with former members of bands led by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Stan Kenton. 

The fifth edition of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, co-authored by Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, was recently published by Oxford University Press.

The Los Angeles Review of Books described Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America as “an important work” in an Oct. 8 review titled “Locked Up in America: The Essay in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Edited by Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences Doran Larson, Fourth City is a collection of 71 essays by current and former prisoners on a wide range of topics about prison life, solicited over approximately five years.

Peter Cannavò, associate professor of government and director of the environmental studies program, discussed the views of political theorist Hannah Arendt, author of The Human Condition, as well as his own perspectives on the politics of place on KPFA’s Against the Grain radio program on Oct. 7. During the hour-long broadcast, Cannavò stressed the importance of democratic deliberation and pointed to an overemphasis on development to the detriment of preservation.

An article titled “Good Tidings, Strenuous Life” by Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman appeared in the fall 2015 issue of the Alpinist magazine. The piece is a precursor to the release of Continental Divide – A History of American Mountaineering in April 2016 (W.W. Norton & Company) by Isserman.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald has published a nonfiction novel, Binghamton Babylon, (Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema)  which documents one of the crucial creative adventures in the history of the academic study of cinema.

A favorable review of Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang’s book Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema, 1951-1979 recently appeared in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, a scholarly journal devoted to the culture of modern and contemporary China. The book was published in 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, a book co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Teaching Literature Book Award.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus recently published his first book, Autonomy Platonism and the Indispensability Argument. In it, Marcus examined autonomy platonism and indispensability platonism and then defended a third view – intuition-based autonomy platonism.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman read from her recently published novella-in-verse, The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes from the Opera, during a June book tour that took her to Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.