Reading Suggestions from Frontlist Books

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Danielle Allen is a Professor in the Department of Classical Language and Literatures, the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and the Department of Political Science. She is most recently the author of World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens. Her forthcoming Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004.

Karl Ameriks is McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and is most recently the author of The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism.

Wayne Booth is the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the co-author of The Craft of Research: Second Edition and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals.

Paul Bové is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and editor of boundary 2. He is most recently the editor of Edward Said & The Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power.

Michael Suk-Young Chwe is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is most recently the author of Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge.

James Conant is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the co-editor of Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism & Realism

Christoph Cox is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College. He is most recently the author of Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation and the co-editor of Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum, forthcoming).

James Elkins is Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is most recently the author of Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction and What Happened to Art Criticism.

Judith Kegan Gardiner is Professor English and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is most recently the editor of Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions

Sander Gilman is the Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is most recently the author of Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities.

W. Clark Gilpin is the Margaret E. Burton Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is most recently the author of A Preface to Theology

Gerald Graff is Professor of English and Dean of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is most recently the author of Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind

Miriam Hansen is the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and teaches in the Department of English and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies. She is the author of Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film

Gregory Hays is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and translator of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Amy Hollywood is Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is most recently the author of Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

Dwight Hopkins is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago's Divinity School. He is most recently the author of Heart & Head: Black Theology -- Past, Present & Future

Christine Hume is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of Musca Domestica. Her forthcoming book Alaskaphrenia won the Green Rose Award and is published by New Issues Press.

Dennis J. Hutchinson is the William Rainey Harper Professor in the College and senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the author of The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White and the editor of The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington.

Adrian Johns is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the author of The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making.

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. He is most recently the author of Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust.

Hans-Josef Klauck is Professor in the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is most recently the author of Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity: The World of the Acts of the Apostles

Eric Klinenberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.

Dorinne Kondo is Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Her most recent work is About Face: Performing "Race" in Fashion and Theater and her play, But Can He Dance opened the 2003-4 season at Asian American Repertory Theatre in San Diego.

David J. Levin is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and Theater & Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the author of Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal.

Omar McRoberts is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the author of Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood.

Douglas Mitchell is Executive Editor for Sociology, Sexuality Studies, and History at The University of Chicago Press.

Michael Morgan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Indiana. He is most recently the author of Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America and the editor of Spinoza: Complete Works

Richard Neer is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the author of Style & Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, ca. 530-460 bce.

Peter O’Leary is most recently the author of Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan & The Poetry of Illness and of the poetry collection, Watchfulness.

Margaret Olin is Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is most recently the author of The Nation Without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art and co-editor of Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade.

Eric Posner is Kirland & Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the author of Law & Social Norms and the co-editor of Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives.

Vijay Prashad is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Trinity College. His latest book is Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Stocks, Prisons, Workfare.

Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the author of Culture in Practice: Collected Essays.

Haun Saussy is Professor of Asian Languages and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is most recently the author of Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China.

Julie Saville is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. She is most recently the author of The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870

Geoffrey Stone is the Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He is most recently the co-editor of Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era

Cass Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Professor Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is most recently the author of Why Societies Need Dissent.

Richard Taub is Professor of Sociology and Chairman of The Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Community Capitalism: The South Shore Bank’s Strategy for Neighborhood Revitalization.

Linda Waite is Lucy Flower Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is most recently the author of The Case for Marriage Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier and Better off Financially

Lindsay Waters is Executive Editor for the Humanities at Harvard University Press.

Alexander Weheliye is Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies at Northwestern University.

Eliot Weinberger is most recently the author of 9/12, the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, and the translator of Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor.