Our faculty members have published a wide-ranging selection of books.

Earth Gods: Writings from Before the War: Translated by Mark Andryczyk (Associate Research Scholar, Ukrainian Studies Program), Ali Kinsella (MARS-REERS ’14), and Uilleam Blacker. Introduced by Mark Andryczyk

This book presents the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine’s most prominent contemporary writers. Collected for the first time in one book, these works span various genres yet form a single chronicle.

Harvard University Press, 2025

ISBN: 9780674291164

Hitler’s Twilights of the Gods: Music and Orchestration of War and Genocide in Europe by Alexandra Birch (Mellon Teaching Fellow at the Harriman Institute; Lecturer in History)

This book, as described by the publisher, “demonstrates the integral role music played in Nazi statecraft and ideology, from the personal obsessions of the Nazi leadership to the harrowing use of musical sadism in the Holocaust.”

University of Toronto Press, 2025

ISBN: 9781487549190

Nothing (:) Made in Yugoslavia by Aleksandar Bošković (Senior Lecturer in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian)

As described by the publisher, ‘this text deals specifically with Yugoslav experimental art practices. It investigates the relationship between negation practices across different art forms and media—literature, film, visual arts, radio—in Yugoslavia (1918–2006), as well as the notion of artistic, economic, and symbolic values.”

Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade; Regional Center for Advanced Studies of Humanities, Rijeka, 2024

ISBN: 9788682324744

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by Alexander Cooley (Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College) and Alexander Dukalskis

This book, as described by the publisher, “is a story not just of the limits of liberal influence across the world, but of how authoritarian governments came to dictate the global agenda by repurposing the very actors, tools, and norms that once afforded US-backed liberalism such global prominence.”

Oxford University Press, 2025

ISBN: 9780197776360

Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections by Timothy M. Frye (Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy), Ora John Reuter (Harriman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010–11) and David Szakonyi (Ph.D., Political Science, GSAS, 2016)

This book, as described by the publisher, “draws on unique surveys of firm managers and employees in eight countries, as well as a wealth of fine-grained observational data and qualitative interviews from Russia to demonstrate that workplace mobilization is common, often coercive, and unpopular with many voters.”

Oxford University Press, 2025,

ISBN: 9780197802007

All the World on a Page: A Critical Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry by Mark Lipovetsky (Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages) and Andrew Kahn

This volume traces the rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of 34 poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria Stepanova.

Princeton University Press, 2025

ISBN: 9780691207162

The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy: Edited by Khatchig Mouradian (Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) and Hans-Lukas Kieser

This comprehensive 768-page volume provides an interdisciplinary examination of the late Ottoman Empire and its legacies.

London: Bloomsbury, 2025

ISBN: 9780755644506

The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It by Katharina Pistor (Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School)

This book is described by the publisher as “a fascinating study of the legal underpinnings of capitalism, reasons why the system must be transformed, and actions we can take.”

Yale University Press, 2025

ISBN: 9780300282801

Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart (Professor of Writing, Columbia School of the Arts)

This novel follows the story of the Bradford-Shmulkin family, with young daughter Vera at the center.

Random House, 2025

ISBN: 9780593595091

Time in Education Policy Transfer: The Seven Temporalities of Global School Reform by Gita Steiner-Khamsi (Professor of Comparative and International Education, Teachers College)

As described by the publisher, “this open access book investigates a topic underexplored in policy transfer: time. Drawing on well-known theories from comparative education, public policy studies, political science, and sociology, the author discusses seven temporalities of policy transfer: historical period, future, sequence, timing, lifespan, age, and tempo.”

Springer Nature, 2025

ISBN: 9783031825262

Szklany sufit języka. Trzynaście rozmów (The Glass Ceiling of Language: 13 Conversations) by Anna Frajlich-Zajac (Senior Lecturer Emerita, Department of Slavic Languges) and Sławomir Jacek Żurek

This book is comprised of 13 dialogues between Frajlich and Professor Sławomir Jacek Żurek (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin), which provide a detailed and richly-illustrated chronicle of Frajlich’s life and work.

Wydawnictwo Austeria, 2025

ISBN: 9788378666622◆