Books by Faculty

Camping Grounds rediscovers unexpected and interwoven histories of sleeping outside.

During a difficult time, Karen Auvinen flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer. What she found was a community.

In Nan Goodman’s book, “The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination,” she traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England.

Brian A. Catlos’ book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (2018, Basic Books), explores the history of Islamic Spain and displays a complex portrait of how Muslims, Christians and Jews built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world.

Craig Jones's book The Mountains That Remade America (2017, University of California Press) reflects on the Sierra Nevada range and how the mountains have changed the way Americans live.

By Jennifer Fluri

By Masano Yamashita

By Paul Chinowsky

By Juan Dabove

By James D. Meiss