Category: Books & Publications

Two recent scholarly publications highlighted the musical compositions of UT Dallas professor of music, Dr. Robert Xavier Rodríguez, who also holds an Endowed Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies. 25 Texas Heroes by T.L. Hulsey includes a biographical chapter about Rodríguez along with analytical notes about his music. Redefining America Through Opera: Representations of Latin/o […]

UT Dallas alumna, Dr. LaToya Watkins BA’06, MA’11, PhD’15, has received a two-book deal from New York publisher Viking-Penguin. The first book, a novel called Perish, will be published by Tiny Reparations, an imprint at Plume/Dutton, subsidiary of Viking-Penguin, and will be on the market in the Fall of 2022; Holler, Child will follow in […]

Dr. Janet Johnson, a lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities, has recently released a book that discusses how technology is changing political messaging strategy and public opinion. Political Rhetoric, Social Media, and American Presidential Campaigns discusses media use in American presidential campaigns as well as social media campaigns for Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, […]

Dr. Ben Wright, assistant professor of history in the School of Arts and Humanities, is preparing to release a new book about how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. The book, Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism, will be available December […]

Dr. Natalie Ring, associate professor of history in the School of Arts and Humanities, has released a book that chronicles the history of white antebellum southern dissenters, the immediate consequences of emancipation, and the history of Reconstruction in the years prior to the Compromise of 1877. C. Vann Woodward was one of the most significant […]

Dr. Matthew Brown, professor of philosophy in the School of Arts and Humanities, is holding a conversation about his new book, Science and Moral Imagination, Friday, November 20, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Brown will read an excerpt from the book and Dr. Kevin Elliot from Michigan State University will moderate the conversation about the significance of […]

A Higher Mission is the first book-length publication from Dr. Kimberly Hill, assistant professor of history, in the School of Arts and Humanities. This book explains the transnational influence of American historically black colleges and universities through the careers of alumni who became Presbyterian missionaries to the Belgian Congo. The book is part of the New […]

Matt Brown is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and History of Ideas and the director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on the interrelations between science and human practices, values, and society. Brown’s book Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal […]

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while working as a part of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission — an operation which aimed to support […]

Dr. Stephen Rabe, professor emeritus of history, recently released a new book, Kissinger and Latin America: Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy. In his book, Rabe said Henry Kissinger devoted more time and effort to Latin America than any of his predecessors—or successors—who served as the national security adviser or secretary of state. Rabe served as […]