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Faculty Publications

A guide to the books published by Wayne State University faculty.

Recent Faculty Publications

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

portrait of Dr. Kidada WilliamsBook 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.

 

The Adams Spectral Sequence for Topological Modular Forms (2021)

Robert Bruner, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood (2021)

Jessica C. Robbins, Ph.D. Anthropology, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

AutoCAD for Theatrical Drafting (2021)

John Kiesling, MFA, Assistant Professor and Faculty Technical Director, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts

Beyond Interdisciplinarity (2021)

Julie Thompson Klein, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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The Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England (2021)

Arthur F. Marotti, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus and Director, WSU Emeritus Academy

The Circus Is in Town (2021)

Lisa Doris Alexander, Ph.D., Professor, Department of African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

COVID-19 Policy Playbook II: Legal Recommendations for a More Equitable Future (2021)

Chapters: "Summary of Findings"; "Distancing, Movement and Gathering Restrictions, and Business and Activity Control Measures"; "Allocating Medical Resources During Times of Scarcity"; Lance Gable, Professor of Law

A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (2021)

Anne E. Duggan, Ph.D., Professor of French in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Detroit in 50 Maps (2021)

Alex Hill, Ph.D., GIS Director, Adjunct Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Public Health, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research (2021)

Chapter 6: “Thin-Slice Methods and Contextualized Norming: Innovative Assessment Methodologies for Austere Times.” Written with Ellen Barton, Jeff Pruchnic, Ruth Boeder, Jared Grogan, Sarah Primeau, Joseph Torok, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Tanina Foster, WSU School of Medicine and Karmonos Cancer Institute. 

A Field Guide to White Supremacy (2021)

Chapter: "The Arc of American Islamophobia: From Early History through the Present", Khaled Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law; Associate Director of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights

Getting to the Heart of the Matter (2021)

Carl Levin, J.D. Chair of the Levin Center at Wayne Law and Law School's distinguished legislator in residence.

International Law and Peace Settlements (2021)

Chapter: "Advancing Peaceful Settlement and Democratisation", Brad R. Roth, Professor of Law and Political Science

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Millennial Expats in China (2021)

John Brender, Ph.D., Director of Special Initiatives, Office of International Programs

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Narrative Art and the Politics of Health (2021)

Aaron Martin, Ph.D. Political Science, Senior Lecturer in the Irvin D. Reid Honors College.

Chapter 6 "The Cultural Production of Commodifying Under Resourced Bodies."

The Political Soul: Plato on Thumos, spirited motivation, and the city (2021)

Joshua Wilburn, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Print Culture, Agency, and Regional Identity in the Hand Press Period (2021)

Lisa Maruca, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Chapter 11 "Afterword"

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Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics (2021)

Ronald Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
R. Khari Brown, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Reflections on Feminist Communication and Media Scholarship (2021)

Stine Eckert, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Communication, College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts

The Right to Difference: Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature (2021)

Nicole Coleman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, German, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Director of Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience : Manufacturing a Television Personality (2021)

Francis Shor, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Through Words and Deeds (2021)

John Bukowczyk, Ph.D., Professor, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences

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The UAW: An Iconic Union Falls Into Scandal (2021)

Frank Goeddeke, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Teaching), Management, Mike Ilitch School of Business
Marick F. Masters, Ph.D., Chair, Finance and Accounting; Professor of Management, Mike Ilitch School of Business

Underneath My American Face (2021)

Michael Lynn Liebler, M.A.T., Associate Professor (Teaching), Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Urban Emergency (Mis)Management and the Crisis of Neoliberalism (2021)

Chapter: "Afterword The Flint Water Crisis, KWA, and Strategic Structural Racism", Peter J. Hammer, Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, Professor of Law, A.Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair

Women Writing Wonder (2021)

Anne E. Duggan, Ph.D., Professor of French in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Writing and Unrecognized Academic Labor (2021)

James Salvo, Ph.D. Lecturer of Education Evaluation & Research, College of Education.

Writing Habits (2021)

Julie Goodrich, Ph.D., Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences

45 Conversations about Behavioral Economics (2022)

Li Way Lee, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Beyond Equity and Inclusion Conflict Resolution; Recentering the Profession (2022)

Chapter 22: "We teach to change the world" (Barbara L. Jones & Mary Adams Trujillo)
Barbara L. Jones, M.A., Community Dispute Resolution Specialist and Faculty Instructor, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The Cambridge Handbook of Labor in Competition Law (2022)

Sanjukta Paul, Assistant Professor of Law, Romano Stancroff Research Scholar

Clinical Audiology (2022)

Brad Stach, Ph.D., Clinical Director of Audiology and Director of the Division of Audiology, Henry Ford Hospital, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice (2022)

Chapter 1: "In Conversation: Co-Creation and Equity - Five Media Makers of Color Speak Out "
Juanita Anderson, M.A., Senior Lecturer and Area Head, Media Arts and Studies, Department of Communication, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Contracts in Context (2022)

Eric A. Zacks, J.D., Professor of Law

Control of Breathing During Sleep (2022)

Susmita Chowdhuri, M.D., Professor, Pulmonary & Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, School of Medicine

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Convex Analysis and Beyond, Volume I: Basic Theory (2022)

Boris Mordukhovich, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Cultivating Professional Identity in Design (2022)

Monica W. Tracey, Ph.D., Professor of Learning Design and Technology, College of Education

Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses (18th ed.) (2022)

April Hazard Vallerand, Ph.D. Nursing, Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychosocial Oncology. Director of the PhD Program, College of Nursing Alumni Endowed Professor

Detroit Remains (2022)

Krysta Ryzewski, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Archaeology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Detroit's Wayne State University Law School (2022)

Alan Schenk, Distinguished Professor of Law

Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice, Sixth Edition (2022)

Sharon Gee-Mascarello, B.S., Professor Emerita, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Essential Genes and Genomes (2022)

Ren Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, School of Medicine

Essentials of Sleep Medicine (2022)

M. Safwan Badr, M.D., M.B.A, Department Chair, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine

Marx Matters (2022)

David Fasenfest, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don't) Dance (2022)

Doug Risner, Ph.D., Professor of Dance, Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Director of Dance Teaching Artistry program, Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts

"No Equal Justice": The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr. (2022)

Edward J. Littlejohn, Professor of Law Emeritus
Peter J. Hammer, Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights; Professor of Law; A. Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair

Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing (2022)

Charisse Burden-Stelly, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2022)

Beth Fowler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Teaching, Irvin D. Reid Honors College

Totality Inside Out (2022)

Sarika Chandra, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Tribal Administration Handbook (2022)

Kirsten Matoy Carlson, M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science

Up to Date: Communication and Technology in Romantic Relationships (2022)

Stephanie Tong, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Communication, College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts

Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning (2022)

Cynthera McNeill, DNP, APRN, AGPCNP-C, FAANP, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing & Umeika Stephens, DNP, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing & Tara Walker, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing

Research Handbook on Secession (2022)

Chapter: Self Determination Short of Secession
Brad R. Roth, Professor of Law and Political Science

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

Corpse Crusaders (2024)

Chera Kee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Employment Law, Cases and Materials (2024)

Susan Cancelosi, Associate Professor of Law

Health Literacy and Libraries (2024)

Deborah Charbonneau, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of MLIS Program, School of Information Science

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

Intraosseous Vascular Access (2024)

James Paxton, M.D., Director of Resident Research and Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine

Kin: Practically True Stories (2024)

V. Efua Prince, Ph.D., Professor, Department of African American Studies, 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

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

Quality in the Era of Industry 4.0 (2024)

Kai Yang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering

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

Toxic Dynamics: Disrupting, Dismantling, and Transforming Academic Library Culture (2024)

Jon Cawthorn, Librarian IV, Public Services, Wayne State University Library System

When Detroit Played the Numbers (2024)

Felicia George, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences