Celebrating Faculty Scholarship
The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Emory Libraries, and the Emory Barnes and Noble Bookstore host The Feast of Words, an annual event to celebrate the Emory faculty who have written or edited books in the prior year. In the 20 years of the event, we have celebrated more than 2100 titles.
Celebrating Emory Faculty Books Published Between September 1, 2024, and August 31, 2025
This year’s list totals 87 titles.
A total of 66 authors are represented.
A total of 18 edited or co-edited volumes are on the list.
3 faculty either served as translators of works or had their own works translated.
12 individual faculty members had multiple titles published.
There are 48 single-author books.
There are 20 multi-author books.
Arts & Sciences faculty are represented on the list 51 times.
Candler School of Theology faculty are represented 15 times.
School of Law faculty – 5 times.
School of Medicine faculty – 6 times
Goizueta Business School faculty – 7 times
Oxford College faculty – 6 times
Emeriti faculty - 1 time
School of Nursing faculty – 1 time
School of Public Health faculty – 1 time
Center for Ethics – 1 time
Four of these titles were brought into publication with help from the CFDE’s Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund, which provides small grants to faculty to hire an editor to help take a manuscript from one stage to the next. Those books are noted by an asterisk (*) next to the entry.
Two of these projects were supported by the CFDE’s Public Scholarship Advancement Fund. Those books are noted by a plus sign (+) next to the entry.
Adkins-Jones, Amey Victoria (Theology). Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology. Oxford UP.
Albertson Fineman, Martha (Law). Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures: Institutionalizing the Individual. Bristol UP.
Albertson Fineman, Martha (Law) and Graham Ferris, eds. Vulnerability and the Organization of Academic Labour. Routledge.
Bagley, Margo (Law) and Rochelle C. Dreyfuss. Advanced Introduction to International Patent Law. Edward Elgar.
Beard, Brady Alan (Theology) and Frederick David Carr, eds. Reading Scripture in Wesleyan Ways. Abingdon Press.
Bergquist, Sharon (Internal Medicine). The Stress Paradox: Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier. Harper Collins.
Benardot, Dan (Center for the Study of Human Health). ACSM’s Nutrition for Exercise Science, 2nd ed. Wolters Kluwer
Bennington, Geoffrey (French, Comparative Literature) and Kas Saghafi, eds. Thinking What Comes I: Essays, Interviews and Interventions. Edinburgh UP.
Bennington, Geoffrey (French, Comparative Literature) and Kas Saghafi, eds. Thinking What Comes II: Institutions, Inventions, and Inscriptions. Edinburgh UP.
Blake, Christopher D. (Economics, Oxford), Bradley Schiller and Karen Gebhardt. Essentials of Economics. McGraw Hill Education.
Blakeley, Cynthia (Institute for the Liberal Arts). The Innermost House: A Memoir. U of Massachusetts P.
Brody, Jed (Physics). The Joy of Quantum Computing: A Concise Introduction. Princeton UP.
Broyde, Michael (Law) and Yehonatan Elazar-De Mota (Law). Jewish Law and International Law Sovereignty and Exogenous Authority in a Transnational World. Oxford UP.
Broyde, Michael (Law). Jewish Law and the American Thanksgiving Celebration: Secular or Religious Holiday? The Institute for Jewish Research & Publications.
Boettcher, Stefan (Physics), Ralph Chamberlin, and Gregory Kenning. Current Research on Spin Glasses. Frontiers.
Borthwick, David (Mathematics). A Primer for Mathematical Analysis (Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics & Statistics). Springer.
Brown, Karida L. (Sociology), Aldon D. Morris, Michael Schwartz, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Walter R. Allen, Marcus Anthony Hunter, and Dan S. Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois. Oxford UP.
Calvillo, Jonathan (Theology). In the Time of Sky-Rhyming: How Hip Hop Resonated in Brown Los Angeles. Oxford UP.
Calvillo, Jonathan (Theology). When the Spirit is Your Inheritance: Reflections on Borderlands Pentecostalism. Fortress.
Christle, Heather (Creative Writing). In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf. Algonquin.
Christle, Heather (Creative Writing). Paper Crown: Poems. Wesleyan UP.
Crane, Jonathan (Center for Ethics), Mira Wasserman, and Emily Filler, eds. Modern Jewish Ethics Since 1970: Writings on Methods, Source, and Issues. Brandeis UP.
Crespino, Joseph (History) David Shi, Amy Murrell Taylor, and Daina Berry. America: A Narrative History, Vol. 1, 13th ed. W.W. Norton.
De Roode, Jaap (Biology). Doctors By Nature: How Ants, Apes and Other Animals Heal Themselves. Princeton UP.
Dillman, Lisa (Spanish & Portuguese), trans. Season of the Swamp (by Yuri Herrera). Graywolf.
Dube, Musa W. (Theology) Mutale M. Kaunda, Linda W. Naicker, Dorcas J. Chebet, Marthe M. Kondemo, and Georgina Boateng, eds. Mothering African Women Theologies: Pioneers of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. U of South Africa P.
Dube, Musa W. (Theology) Ezra Chitando, Beatrice Okyere-Manu, and Sophia Chirongoma, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Ineduality and Sustainable Development. Palgrave.
Dudgeon, Matthew Ryan (Medicine), George J. Armelagos (Anthropology), Ron Barrett, and Molly Zuckerman. Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present, 2nd Ed. Oxford UP.
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong (History) and Candace Buford. Ida B. Wells: Journalist, Advocate & Crusader for Justice. Simon & Schuster.
El Younssi, Anouar (Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford). The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989. Routledge.
Elliott, Thomas (Theology) and Anne Burkholder (Theology, emeritus). Quick and Easy Guide to United Methodist Polity, 2nd ed. Abingdon.
Emmery, Laura (Music). Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 1: Myths, Narratives, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy. Cambridge UP.
+Glynn, Adam (Data and Decision Sciences), Michael Leo Owens (Political Science), and Tom S. Clark. Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America. Princeton UP.
Goh, Irving (Comparative Literature). Living On After Failure: Affective Structures of Modern Life. Duke UP.
*Goodman, Geoff (Theology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences). Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God, 1st Edition. Routledge.
*Goodman, Geoff (Theology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences). Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God, 1st Edition. Routledge.
Gouzoules, Harold (Psychology) and Alexander Gouzoules. The Hundred Years' Trial Law, Evolution, and the Long Shadow of Scopes v. Tennessee. Johns Hopkins UP.
Gowler, David B. (Religion, Oxford). Howard Thurman and the Quest for Community: From Prodigals to Compassionate Samaritans. Paulist.
Gowler, David B. (Religion, Oxford), ed. Speaking of God in an Inhumane World, Volume 2: Essays on Müntzer, Winstanley, Blake, Stringfellow, and Radical Christianity. Wipf and Stock.
Gowler, David B. (Religion, Oxford). Teacher’s Guide: Howard Thurman and the Quest for Community: From Prodigals to Compassionate Samaritans. Paulist.
Gross, Kali (African American Studies). Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times. Seal.
Hamilton, Ryan (Business) and Annie Wilson. The Growth Dilemma: Managing Your Brand When Different Customers Want Different Things. Harvard Business Review Press.
Hargons, Candice Nicole (Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences). Good Sex: Stories, Science, and Strategies for Sexual Liberation. Simon and Schuster.
Harmon, Jacki (Radiology and Imaging Sciences), Heather Aldrich, Sherry Mitchell, Cindy Lacey, Denise Craymer, Rachel McFarland, Karen Kimsey, Billie Sue Martin, Hannah Garrett, and Tiffani Scheel. Parables from the Parlor. LAD Books.
Hegtvedt, Karen A. (Sociology), Long Doan, and Jan E. Stets, eds. Handbook of Social Psychology: Vol. 2: Meso and Macro Perspectives, 3rd ed. Springer.
Hegtvedt, Karen A. (Sociology) and Cathryn J. Johnson (Sociology). Social Psychology: Individuals, Interactions, and Inequality, 2nd ed. Sage.
Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro (Spanish and Portuguese). La condición colombiana. Violencia y consumo cultural global. Editorial Universidad de los Andes.
Huffer, Lynne (Philosophy). These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction. Duke UP.
Hylen, Susan (Theology). Gender Mobility: 7 Ideas about Gender in the New Testament World. Oxford UP.
Jiang, Wei (Business), Thierry Foucault, Leonardo Gambacorta, and Xavier Vives. Artificial Intelligence in Finance. Banking Initiative at IESE.
Jung, Danielle Fitzpatrick (Political Science), Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Leonardo Gentil Fernandes, Elisabeth Anne Gilmore, Reyko Huang, and Cyanne Elizabeth Loyle. Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change. Cambridge UP.
Kemp, Melissa (Biomedical Engineering) and Eberhard O. Voit. A First Course in Systems Biology, 3rd ed. Taylor & Francis.
Kratz, Corinne (Anthropology, African Studies). Rhetorics of Value: Exhibition Design and Communication in Museums and Beyond. Duke UP.
Lal, Ruby (Middle East and South Asian Studies). Tiger Slayer: The Extraordinary Story of Nur Jahan, Empress of India. Norton Young Readers.
Laderman, Gary (Religion). Sacred Drugs: How Psychoactive Substances Mix with Religious Life. Routledge.
Lartey, Emmanuel Y. (Theology), Pamela Cooper-White, Claudia Kohli Reichenbach, and Ivone Gebara, eds. What Is Spiritual Care? Perspective from Different Professions and Religious Traditions. Pickwick.
LeMon, Joel (Theology), Thomas Römer, Jens Schröter, Constance M. Furey, Peter Gemeinhardt, and Eric Ziolkowski, eds. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 23 Parable, Parables – Pesha. De Gruyter.
Lee, Jieun (Theater Studies). Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption. Ohio State UP.
Lee, Lisa (Art History). Thomas Hirschhorn: From Graphic Design to Art. MIT Press.
Lesser, Jeffrey (History). Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil. Duke UP.
Lesser, Jeffrey (History). Viver e morrer em São Paulo Imigração, saúde e infraestrutura urbana (século XIX até o presente). Editora UNESP.
Lewis, Michael (Business). Fandom Analytics: Creating and Harnessing Consumer and Cultural Passion. Springer.
Martin, Anthony (Environmental Sciences). 雕刻地球的生命 [Life Sculpted], Chinese translation. Shanghai Scientific & Technological Education Publishing.
McFarland, Ian A. (Theology). The Hope of Glory: A Theology of Redemption. Westminster John Knox.
Melion, Walter S. (Art History), Cristoph Pieper, Paul J. Smith, and Anita Traninger, eds. Reading Images from the Past: In Honour of Karl A.E. Enenkel. Intersections.
Michael, Charlie (Film and Media). Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Youth, Race, and the Hyptertext. Routledge.
Nam, Roger (Theology). The Theology of the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Cambridge UP.
Nyord, Rune (Art History). Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptain Afterlife. U of Chicago P.
Pandey, Gyanendra (History). Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Duke UP.
Reiter, Dan (Political Science). Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars, Kindle Edition. Cambridge UP.
Rilling, James K. (Psychology). Father Nature: The Science of Paternal Potential. MIT Press.
Rodríguez-Vilá, Omar (Business). Good Growth: How Brands Win with Social Impact. Routledge.
Schaumann, Caroline (German Studies), Kamaal Haque, and Christian Quendler, eds. Global Mountain Cinema. Edinburgh UP.
*Shannon, Deric (Sociology, Oxford), ed. Inequality around the World Understanding the Rich-Poor Divide from America to Zimbabwe, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Bloomsbury.
Sheth, Jagdish N. (Business), and Suresh K. Sharma. Digital Shock: Seven Shocks that are Shaping the Future. Vibrant.
Sheth, Jagdish N. (Business) and Can Uslay. Navigating Brand Activism. Routledge.
Sheth, Jagdish N. (Business) and Samik Shome. Handbook of Vocational Education and Training: Foundations for Transforming the Nation, Kindle Edition. Routledge.
Smith, Kylie (Nursing) and Courtney E. Thompson, eds. Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians. Johns Hopkins UP.
Smith-Shomade, Beretta E. (Film and Media). Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture. Rutgers UP.
Stewart, Dianne (Religion) and Theophus H. Smith (Religion), eds. Art as Sanctuary: Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic. Duke UP.
Sutherland, Joe (Data and Decision Science) and Tim Wilson. Analytics the Right Way: A Business Leader’s Guide to Using Data Effectively. Wiley.
Toda, Alexis Akira (Economics). Essential Mathematics for Economics. Chapman and Hall/CRC.
+Udel, Miriam (German Studies, Jewish Studies). Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature. Princeton UP.
Varner, Eric (History). Golden Excess: Art and the Aesthetics of the Incredible in Neronian Rome. Brill.
*Womack, Deanna Ferree (Theology). Re-Inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia. Oxford UP.
Yancy, George (Philosophy). Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America, 3rd ed. Bloomsbury.
Yancey, George (Philosophy) and A. Todd Franklin, eds. Open Casket: Philosophical Meditations on the Lynching of Emmett Till. Bloomsbury.
We have endeavored to identify all books written or edited by Emory faculty that were published between September 1, 2024, and August 31, 2025, but inevitably we miss a few. If you know of a book that should be on this list, please contact Wes Longhofer at wesley.longhofer@emory.edu, so that we may include it on the website. Thank you!