Supported Publications
The Digital Publishing in the Humanities program supports the broad dissemination of new scholarship by faculty at Emory University and other metro-Atlanta institutions through subventions for open access made directly to publishers. All of the books on this page were supported by our subvention program and can be read online for free.
Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture
Sin miedo a las ruinas: Anarquismo, vanguardias artísticas y la crisis de representación en España (1930-1937)
Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past
In this gripping meditation on the power and limitations of the archive, MARIA MONTALVO uncovers how American enslavers used legal practices to control the stories that could be told about the people they enslaved.
The Power of Practice: How Music and Yoga Transformed the Life and Work of Yehudi Menuhin
In this highly readable work, KRISTIN WENDLAND situates yoga practice within a musical context in the life and work of famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
The Problem of Literary Value
Literary value has been a topic of debate since Plato. In this innovative work, ROBERT MEYER-LEE offers a new theory of literary valuing and explores the problem in respect to editing, canonicity and interpretation.
Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
In Since Time Immemorial, YANNA YANNAKAKIS argues that Indigenous claims to custom, which on the surface aimed to conserve the past, provided a means to contend with historical change and produce new rights for the future.
Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico
Seeing the Unseen: Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural "Frontier"
Art historian SUSAN ELIZABETH GAGLIARDI examines tensions between the seen and unseen that makers, patrons, and audiences of arts in western West Africa negotiate through objects, assemblages, and performances.
Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting
Karel van Mander's Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (1604) was the first systematic treatise on painting published in Dutch. WALTER S. MELION's English-language edition provides unprecedented access to Van Mander’s crucially important art treatise.
Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires
In Genres of Listening XOCHITL MARSILLI-VARGAS explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires, the city that has the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world.
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trindad, Vol. II, Orisa: African Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination
In Volume II of this expansive examination of Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa social imaginaries, DIANNE STEWART explores the meaning-making traditions of Yoruba-Orisa devotees.
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age
In The White Indians of Mexican Cinema MÓNICA GARCÍA BLIZZARD theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1930s to 1950s).
Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union
In Spatial Revolution CHRISTINA CRAWFORD offers the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning, weaving a narrative arc across a vast geography and revealing how outside experts participated in the construction of the Soviet industrial complex.
Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean
Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico
The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea
The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an “epistolary revolution” in the following century. HWISANG CHO's The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of these changes.
A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory
War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States
Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth
Placing theorists in conversation with comedians, Uproarious, by CYNTHIA WILLETT and JULIE WILLETT, offers a full-frontal approach to the very foundation of comedy and its profound political impact.
Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab
In Molecular Feminisms, DEBOLEENA ROY investigates science as feminism at the lab bench, engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation between molecular biology, Deleuzian philosophies, posthumanism, and postcolonial and decolonial studies.
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
In this offering from Duke University Press, CALVIN L. WARREN intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being.
Forthcoming
Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, the Health State, and the Built Environment
by Jeffrey Lesser
Duke University Press, 2025
Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
by Rune Nyord
Chicago University Press, 2025
The Worlds of Dried Gardens in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Education, Science, Empire
by María Carrión and Violeta Ruiz Espigares
Amsterdam University Press, 2025
Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
by Kylie M. Smith
University of North Carolina Press, 2025