Saint George Between Empires

Image and Encounter in the Medieval East

Heather A. Badamo

“This panoramic volume follows the images of military saints across Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Crusader, Georgian, Islamic, Syriac, and many other fields of study usually held separate. Badamo ties together the fragmented political map of the later medieval eastern Mediterranean in unexpected ways that cause us to rethink broader questions of global art and history.”—Benjamin Anderson, Cornell University

The Problematic Public

Lippmann, Dewey, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Kristian Bjørkdahl

“Intrinsic to the tradition of democratic politics is debate over the nature of democracy itself, and Bjørkdahl’s volume is a worthy contribution to our perennial deliberations. Its chapters examine the influential democratic theories of two of the most prominent public intellectuals of the twentieth century—philosopher John Dewey and journalist Walter Lippmann—and show how their penetrating analyses can help us navigate the serious challenges facing democracy in the twenty-first century.”—William M. Curtis, author of Defending Rorty: Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue

Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures

The Celebrity Photograph in Gilded Age New York

Erin Pauwels

“Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures persuasively links Sarony's work to a set of major conceptual questions in the history of the photography of the last third of the nineteenth century, offering an archivally intensive and contextually rich account of a major—but understudied—photographer of this period.”—Jordan Bear, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Toronto

Show Me Where It Hurts

Manifesting Illness and Impairment in Graphic Pathography

Monica Chiu

“Monica Chiu demonstrates that the highly personalized rendering of illness experience in graphic pathographies provides readers with an embodied illness perspective that significantly differs from biomedical and clinical accounts, diagnoses, and understandings of illness. Her study on how drawing in graphic pathographies functions to retell and reimagine illness from an ill individual’s perspective is poised to make a foundational contribution to a field of study that is just now reaching maturation.”—Nancy Pedri, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Congratulations Leo Mazow, whose book Storied Strings was shortlisted for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award!

Blackbird by Katie Kapurch and Jon Marc Smith was named one of Library Journal’s Best Books of November!

Prisoners of Congress by Norman E. Donoghue II was featured on the Association of University Presses’ gallery of essential university press titles!

CAA.Reviews says that Mary Ann Calo’s African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs “a vital resource.”

Journals is happy to announce that Leah Noel has accepted the role of Journals Production Manager!

The 50th anniversary issue of Hungarian Studies Review is now live online!

Pennsylvania History has a free article about Pennsylvania’s African American cemeteries and burial grounds, available for the next 3 months.

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research is free to access on the Scholarly Publish Collective! A new issue is available now.

The Southern Wall of the Temple Mount and Its Corners

Past, Present and Future

Edited by Yuval Baruch, Ronny Reich, Moran Hagbi, and Joe Uziel

“The Temple Mount/Haram aš-Šarīf has fascinated scholars since the dawn of modern archaeology, and the pious for millennia before that. The studies assembled here document excavations and conservation at the southern and southwestern retaining walls of the Herodian Temple, with special care for all periods—from the Iron Age to Herod the Great to medieval Islam. This magnificent volume is a monument to decades of dedicated research, a resource for generations to come!”—Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University

Before There Were Kings

A Literary Analysis of the Book of Judges

Elie Assis

“Assis utilizes a close reading of the book of Judges and interacts with the secondary literature while contributing to a reading of the text that explains how the parts produce the whole. Before There Were Kings makes an important contribution, not simply in the method of reading, but in the particular way in which Assis’s perspective contributes to an understanding of the book.”—K. Lawson Younger, Jr., Divinity School, Trinity International University

Good Girls Go to Hell

Tohar Sherman-Friedman

“A delicate coming of age tale illuminating contemporary Israeli society. A powerful graphic novel that masterfully tackles the major conflicts of our time, including religion versus atheism, conservatism versus liberalism, and occupied territories versus the big city. Through her unparalleled talent and mastery of the comics form, Tohar Sherman-Friedman proves herself to be one of the most important voices in graphic literature today.”—Asaf Hanuka, author of The Realist

Escaping Wars and Waves

Encounters with Syrian Refugees

Olivier Kugler

“Artistically masterful. . . . Sketchbooks like Kugler’s make readers feel as if they are sitting beside the artist—watching the refugees climb onto the beach of the Greek island of Kos after crossing the Aegean from Turkey, or smelling the tea sold by a vendor in an Iraqi refugee camp.”—New York Review of Books