Book MS Workshops Alumni and Publications

2023-24

• Dore Bowen, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
• Justin Leroy, History
• Kevin Richardson, Philosophy
• Emily Yun Wang, Music
• Eric Lewis Williams, Divinity School

2022-23

• Denise Comer, Thompson Writing Program
• Kata Gellen, German Studies
• J. Lorand Matory, Cultural Anthropology
• Wylin Wilson, Divinity School

2021-22

• Erdağ Göknar, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies  * Special Project: Edited Collection *

2020-21

• Nima Bassiri, Literature
• Taylor Black, English
• Cecilia Márquez, History
• Ellen McLarney, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
• Adam Mestyan, History
• Cate Reilly, Literature
• Erika Weiberg, Classical Studies
• Katya Wesolowski, Cultural Anthropology

2019-20

• Frances Hasso, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
• Evan Hepler-Smith, History
• William A. Johnson, Classical Studies * Special Project: Edited Collection *
• Harris Solomon, Cultural Anthropology
• Sarah Wilbur, Dance

2018-19

• Samuel Fury Childs Daly, African & African American Studies
• Martin Eisner, Romance Studies
• Alicia Jiménez, Classical Studies
• Anna Krylova, History

2017-18

• Gunther Peck, History and Public Policy

2016-17

• Christine Folch, Cultural Anthropology
• Jessica Nammakal, International Comparative Studies

2015-16

• Nicole Barnes, History
• Gustavo Furtado, Romance Studies
• Bradley Rogers, Theater Studies (now at Goldsmiths, University of London)

2014-15

• J. Kameron Carter, Divinity School (now at Indiana University)
• James Chappel, History
• Laurent Dubois, History / Romance Studies (now at University of Virginia) - Special Project: Translation
• Toril Moi, Literature / Romance Studies / English / Philosophy / Theater Studies
• Jeanne Moskal, English & Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill  * UNC Institute of Arts & Humanities Collaboration *
• Jocelyn Olcott, History
• Aarthi Vadde, English

2013-14

• Lamonte Aidoo, Romance Studies
• John French, History / African & African American Studies
• Erdağ Göknar, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
• Mona Hassan, Religious Studies / History
• Kathy A. Psomiades, English
• Sumathi Ramaswamy, History  * Special Project: Digital *
• Robyn Wiegman, Literature * Special Project: Collaboration *

2012-13

• N. Katherine Hayles, Literature - Special Project: Digital
• Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
• Kimberly Lamm, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
• Priscilla Layne, Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures, UNC Chapel Hill  * UNC Institute of Arts & Humanities Collaboration *
• Louise Meintjes, Music & Cultural Anthropology
• Mark Olson, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
• José María Rodríguez García, Romance Studies * Special Project: Translation *

2011-12

• Martin Eisner, Romance Studies
• Fredric Jameson, Literature
• Andrew Janiak, Philosophy * Special Project: Collaboration *
• M. Michelle Robinson, American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill * UNC Institute of Arts & Humanities Collaboration *
• Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Romance Studies
• Ara Wilson, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies

2010-11

• Daniel H. Foster, Theater Studies (now at University of East Anglia)
• Sean Metzger, English (now at UCLA)

2009-10

• Guo-Juin Hong, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
• Fiona Somerset, English (now at University of Connecticut)
• Philip Stern, History

2008-09

• Anna Krylova, History
• Charles Piot, Cultural Anthropology

Alphabetical by author

Aidoo, Lamonte. Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History. Duke UP, 2018.
Winner, Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award, Caribbean Philosophical Association

Barnes, Nicole. Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945. University of California Press, 2018.
Winner, 2019 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for Women's History and/or Feminist Theory, American Historical Association; Winner, 2020 William H. Welch Award, American Association for the History of Medicine

Bassiri, Nima. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value. Chicago UP, 2024.

Black, Taylor. Style: A Queer Cosmology. NYU Press, 2023.

Chappel, James. Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church. Harvard UP, 2018.
Winner, 2018 Charles Smith Award, European History Section, Southern Historical Association

Daly, Samuel Fury Childs (now at University of Chicago). A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War. Cambridge UP, 2020.
Winner, 2021 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association; Honorable Mention, 2021 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History; Winner, 2022 Fage and Oliver Monograph Prize, African Studies Association of the United Kingdom

Dubois, Laurent, trans. Achille Mbembe. Critique of Black Reason. Duke UP, 2017. * Special Project: Translation *

Eisner, Martin. Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular. Cambridge UP, 2013.

Eisner, Martin. Dante's New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature. Oxford UP, 2021.
Winner, 2021 Howard R. Marraro Prize, Modern Language Association

Folch, Christine. Hydropolitics: The Itaipú Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America. Princeton UP, 2019.

French, John. Lula's Politics of Cunning: From Metal Worker to President of Brazil. University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Winner, 2021 Sergio Buarque de Holanda Prize for Best Book in Social Sciences, Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association; Winner, 2021 Warren Dean Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American History

Furtado, Gustavo. Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present. Oxford UP, 2018.
Winner, 2020 Antonio Candido Prize for the Best Book in the Humanities, Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association

Hassan, Mona. Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History. Princeton UP, 2017.
Winner, 2017 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion

Hasso, Frances. Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine. Cambridge UP, 2021.
Winner, 2023 Best Book Award, Interdisciplinary Studies Section, International Studies Association

Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Think: A Digital Companion. 2014. * Special Project: Digital *

Hong, Guo-Juin. Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Jameson, Fredric. The Antinomies of Realism. Verso, 2013.

Janiak, Andrew, ed. Space: A History. Oxford UP, 2020. * Special Project: Collaboration *

Krylova, Anna. Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge UP, 2010.
Winner, 2011 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History, American Historical Association

Kwon, Nayoung Aimee. Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan. Duke UP, 2015.

Lamm, Kimberly. Addressing the Other Woman: Textual Correspondences in Feminist Art & Writing. Manchester UP, 2018.

Layne, Priscilla. White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture, University of Michigan Press, 2018 * UNC Faculty Workshop - Collaboration with the Institute for Arts & Humanities *

Márquez, Cecilia. Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation. UNC Press, 2023.
Honorable Mention, 2024 Theodore Saloutos Book Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society; Honorable Mention, 2024 Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards; Finalist, 2024 Best Academic Themed Book College Level, International Latino Book Awards

Meintjes, Louise. Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid. Duke UP, 2017.
Winner, 2018 Gregory Bateson Prize, presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology; Co-Winner, 2018 Alan Merriam Prize, presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology

Mestyan, Adam. Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East. Princeton UP, 2023.

Metzger, Sean (now at UCLA). Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race. Indiana UP, 2014.

Moi, Toril. Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Namakkal, Jessica. Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India. Columbia UP, 2021.

Olcott, Jocelyn. International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History. Oxford UP, 2017.
Co-winner, 2020 Ida Blom-Karen Offen Prize in Transnational Women’s and Gender History, International Federation for Research in Women’s History; Honorable Mention, 2018 Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association

Peck, Gunther. Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819. UNC Press, 2024.

Piot, Charles. Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa After the Cold War. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Winner, Best Book on African Politics, African Politics Conference Group/London School of Economics and Political Science

Psomiades, Kathy A. Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, The Novel, and Sexual Modernity. Oxford UP, 2023.
Winner, 2024 Best Subsequent Book, North American Victorian Studies Association (i.e. not first book)

Reilly, Cate I. Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical State. Columbia UP, 2024.

Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Going Global in Mughal India: A Digital Muraqqa. * Special Project: Digital *

Robinson, M. Michelle. Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction. University of Michigan Press, 2016. * UNC IAH collaboration *

Rogers, Bradley (now at Goldsmiths, University of London). The Song Is You: Musical Theatre and the Politics of Bursting into Song and Dance. Iowa UP, 2020.

Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle. The Drowned Muse: Casting the Unknown Woman of the Seine Across the Tides of Modernity. Oxford UP, 2015.

Solomon, Harris. Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma. Duke UP, 2022.

Somerset, Fiona (now at University of Connecticut). Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Writings After Wyclif. Cornell UP, 2014.

Stern, Philip. The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. Oxford UP, 2011.
2011 Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association; 2010-12 Trevor Reese Memorial Prize of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies; Honorable mention, 2012 Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference

Wesolowski, Katya. Capoeira Connections: A Memoir in Motion. U of Florida Press, 2022.

Vadde, Aarthi. Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016. Columbia UP, 2016.
Winner, 2018 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association

Weiberg, Erika. Demanding Witness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy. Oxford UP, 2024.

Wiegman, Robyn, et al. Queer Theory without Anti-Normativity, a special issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (May 2015). * Special Project: Collaboration *

Wilbur, Sarah. Funding Bodies: Five Decades of Dance Making at the National Endowment for the Arts. Wesleyan UP, 2021.
Short Listed, 2022 de la Torre Bueno© First Book Award, Dance Studies Association; Short Listed, 2022 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research, Dance Studies Association; Finalist, 2022 George Freedly Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association

Wilson, Wylin. Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health. NYU Press, 2025.