- Religious Culture & the (Re)Makings of Ethnic Identity in the African Diaspora (under contract)
- An Introduction to Black Psychology (1st edition) (San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing, 2019).
Books written by College of Liberal Arts faculty offer invaluable insights into the complexities of human culture, society, and thought. Drawing on years of research, teaching, and scholarly engagement, these works bridge academic rigor with accessible narratives, making them essential reading for both specialists and general audiences. Whether exploring historical events, philosophical debates, social structures, or cultural phenomena, these books reflect the depth and diversity of intellectual inquiry within these vital academic fields.
Check out some of the incredible published works by our faculty!
Africology and African American Studies
Anthropology
- Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity in the Middle Atlantic Region. (Lexington Books, Lanham, 2022)
Europe Un-Imagined: Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel (Anthropological Horizons) (University of Toronto Press, 2017)
Creative Writing
- You Never Get It Back (University of Iowa Press, 2021)
- wifthing. (Apogee Press, 2021)
- The God of the Woods. (Riverhead Books, 2024)
- Long Bright River. (Riverhead Books, 2020)
- A Very Large Array, Selected Poems ((DABA Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2023; collection of poems, 408 pages)
- Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019)
Criminal Justice
- On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins. (University of California Press, 2024, Gender and Justice Series (ed. Claire Renzetti)
- Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood Among Urban Youth. (Rutgers University Press, 2013)
- 2016 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award, American Society of Criminology
- 2016 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences
- 2014 Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book
Award, Race, Gender, and Class Section, American Sociological
Association
- 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title*
Economics
- The Economics of Sports (7th edition) (Routledge, 2022)
Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy (Temple University Press, 2023)
English
- Start A Riot! Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry (U of Mississippi Press, 2022)
- Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fictions and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire (Lexington Press, 2020)
- Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain (Cornell University Press, 2018)
- The Partition (Akashic Books, 2022, fiction)
- Haiti and the Revolution Unseen: The Persistence of the Decolonial Imagination. Nashville (Vanderbilt University Press, August 2025)
Miles Orvell
- Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction, Oxford University Press, 2021.
- A Very Large Array: Selected Poems (DABA Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2023; collection of poems, 408 pages)
- Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019)
- The Queer Coming of Age Film Genre, (Lexington Books, 2025)
- The Intersection, (Black Rose Writing, 2016)
Geography, Environment and Urban Studies
- Colossus: The Anatomy of Delhi. South Asia in the Social Sciences Series (15), (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Seeking Middle Ground: Land, Markets, and Public Policy. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019)
- The Truth About Us: The Politics of Information from Manu to Modi. (New Delhi: Hachette, 2019)
- Winner of the Muzaffar Ahmad Memorial Prize (Aug, 2019)
- Reviews in The Hindu, The Week, Financial Express, Biblio, Business Standard, etc.
- Paperback edition in 2021 - The Other One Percent: Indians in America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
- New and updated paperback edition published in 2019 with an additional epilogue.
- Included in the Choice list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017 by the American Library Association.
- Many reviews, including in The Economist, The Financial Times, The Indian Express, The Hindu, The Caravan. Mentioned or listed in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall St. Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, wired.com, Foreign Policy, SPAN, Inside Higher Education and several other outlets.
- Growing a Sustainable City? The Question of Urban Agriculture. (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
- Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities. (Bristol University Press. Bristol, UK, 2023)
- Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies Subversive Mobility. (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2015)
- Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants. (New York: W. W. Norton Publishers, 2019)
Greek and Roman Classics
- A Cultural History of Marriage: Antiquity (Bloomsbury Press, 2020)
History
- Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, 2025) [reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and elsewhere; named New York Times editor’s Choice]
*Lila Corwin Berman
- The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion Dollar Institution (Princeton, 2020)
- Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022)
- Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022)
- The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016)
- Nobody Men: Neutrality, Loyalty, and Family in the American Revolution (Yale University Press 2025)
- International History: A Cultural Approach (Bloomsbury, 2022)
†Peter Gran
- The Persistence of Orientalism: Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt (Syracuse University Press, 2020)
- Dragonslayer: The Legend of Eric Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich (Cornell University Press, 2021)
- The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy (University of North Carolina Press, 2025)
- Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna 1894-1934 (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
- American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent (NYU Press, 2024)
- Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters of the Twentieth Century (NYU Press, 2016)
*Has left Temple in December 2024
†Retired in December 2024
Political Science
- Marked Men: Black Politicians and the Racialization of Scandal, (NYU Press, 2024)
The Fundamentals of Campaign Finance in the U.S.: Why We Have the System We Have (University of Michigan Press, 2024)
Psychology
- Making Schools Work (Teachers College Press, 2022)
- Flexibility within Fidelity: Breathing Life into a Psychological Treatment Manual (NY: Oxford University Press, 2022)
- The Resilience Recipe: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Fearless Kids in the Age of Anxiety (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2021).
- CBT for Anxiety Treatment in Schools (CATS) Implementer manual. (Ardmore, PA: Workbook Publishing, 2025)
- CBT for Anxiety Treatment in Schools (CATS) Student Workbook. (Ardmore, PA: Workbook Publishing, 2025)
- APA Handbook of Depression (American Psychological Association, 2025)
- Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature, 2025 (forthcoming)
- Adolescence (McGraw-Hill, 2025)
- You and Your Adult Child: How to Grow Together in Challenging Times (Simon & Schuster, 2023)