Explore monograph and chapter publications authored or edited by Wayne State University faculty and staff over the past 3 years.
View more extensive listings using the Books by Year or Books by School/College sections of this guide.
Faculty Publications in the News
Book by WSU professor, historian Kidada E. William nominated for 2023 National Book Award
Congratulations to Dr. Kidada Williams on being longlisted for the National Book Award for her book I Saw Death Coming: a history of terror and survival in the war against Reconstruction. Read more about the honor at Today@Wayne, linked above.
Browse the full 2023 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction here.
Rethinking chronic absenteeism: Why Schools Can't Solve it Alone (2025)
Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, College of Education
Jeremy Singer, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Education Leadership and Policy Studies, College of Education
Delacroix's Moroccans (2025)
Jennifer Olmsted, PH. D., Professor of Art History and Associate Chair of the Department of Art, Art History and Design, College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts
We Can Do Better (2025)
Stine Eckert, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Communications, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Queer Slashers (2025)
Peter Marra, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of English and Department Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
When Detroit Played the Numbers (2024)
Felicia George, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Toxic Dynamics: Disrupting, Dismantling, and Transforming Academic Library Culture (2024)
Jon Cawthorn, Librarian IV, Public Services, Wayne State University Library System
Social Work and the Arts (2024)
Chapter: “Conducting Online Research in the Era of COVID: Theater-Based Methods to Study HIV Stigma” by Marc Arthur and Rogério M. Pinto
Quality in the Era of Industry 4.0 (2024)
Kai Yang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering
Peace Advocacy in the Shadow of War (2024)
Francis Shor, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Psychoanalysis and Narrative: Literature, Film and Autobiography (2024)
Jorgelina Corbatta-Wing, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of Latin American Literature and Culture, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace (2024)
Michael Oswalt, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Professor of Law
Kin: Practically True Stories (2024)
V. Efua Prince, Ph.D., Professor, Department of African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Intraosseous Vascular Access (2024)
James Paxton, M.D., Director of Resident Research and Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine
Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective: Insights and Consequences for the Theory, Practice, and Design of Innovating (2024)
Julia Gluesing, Ph.D., Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering
Health Literacy and Libraries (2024)
Deborah Charbonneau, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of MLIS Program, School of Information Science
Employment Law, Cases and Materials (2024)
Susan Cancelosi, Associate Professor of Law
Corpse Crusaders (2024)
Chera Kee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Armed Intervention and Consent (2023)
Gregory H. Fox, Director of the Program for International Legal Studies; Professor of Law
Breast Imaging: A Core Review (2023)
Biren A. Shah, M.D., Professor, Department of Radiology, Associate Residency Program Director, School of Medicine
Fanfare for a City (2023)
Jacek Blaszkiewicz, Ph.D.., Assistant Professor of Music History, College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction (2023)
Kidada Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation (2023)
Michelle R. Jacobs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Instrumental Thin-Layer Chromatography (2023)
Colin Poole, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
A Media Framing Approach to Securitization (2023)
Fred Vultee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Communications, College of Fine and Performing Arts
The New Crusades (2023)
Khaled A. Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law; Associate Director of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights
The Oxford Handbook of Human Mating (2023)
Chapter: Sexual Harassment
Kingsley R. Browne, Professor of Law
Plato's Letters: the political challenges of the philosophic life (2023)
Ariel Helfer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Pocket Guide to Serious Adverse Events in Psychopharmacology (2023)
Richard Balon, M.D., Associate Department Chair, Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care Considerations of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Trans (2023)
Ayman Soubani, M.D., Professor, Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Interim Division Chief Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, School of Medicine
The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms (2023)
Steven Shaviro, Ph.D., DeRoy Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy (2023)
Raffaee De Benedictis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Italian, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Trade Union Finance: How Labor Organizations Raise and Spend Money (2023)
Marick F. Masters, Ph.D., Professor of Management, Mike Ilitch School of Business
Transleithanian Paradise (2023)
Howard Lupovitch, Ph.D., Professor, Department of History, and Director, Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences