Recent Book Releases from the ACLS Community

ACLS is pleased to share news of recent book publications by members of our community. The following list includes 2024 titles by ACLS fellows and grantees, many of which developed from ACLS-supported research, as well as a new title by a member of our Board of Directors.

• Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway by Selda Altan F’22 (Stanford University Press)
• Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020: The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal by Matthew J. Christensen F’17 (Boydell & Brewer)
• A History of Uyghur Buddhism by Johan Elverskog F’21 (Columbia University Press)
• Harmonizing Latina Visions and Voices: Cultural Explorations of Entornos edited by Amarilys Estrella F’20 and Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo and features chapters by Estrella and Meryleen Mena F’19 (Rowman & Littlefield)
• Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities by Paul Fyfe F’18 (Stanford University Press)
• Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough by Prithi Kanakamedala F’21 (New York University Press)
• Look Inside: White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization by Andrew Krinks F’21 (New York University Press)
• Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu F’24 (Columbia University Press)
• Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Sophie Maríñez F’21 (University of Pennsylvania Press)
• Promises, Then the Storm: Notes on Memory, Protest, and the Israel–Gaza War by Melani McAlister, ACLS Board (MACK)
• The In-Between in Javanese Performing Arts: History and Myth, Interculturalism and Interreligiosity by Sumarsam F’16 (Wesleyan University Press)