UCLA College faculty, students, alumni and staff publish award-winning books spanning the liberal arts and sciences, from poetry to philosophy, history to politics and beyond. Click the menu below to explore selected College Bruin publications.
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2025
Ananda Marin (American Indian Studies)
Across Lands and Waters: Storying the Future of Indigenous Education
New Press 2025
Eric Min (Political Science)
Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict
Cornell University Press 2025
Harryette Mullen (English)
Regaining Unconsciousness
Graywolf Press 2025
Jason Tanamor (English)
The Legend of Sensei Tsinelas
Ooligan Press 2025
2024
Amir Alexander (History)
Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America
The University of Chicago Press 2024
Edward Alpers (History)
A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles
Duke University Press 2024
Arushi Avachat (English and Political Science)
Arya Khanna’s Bollywood Moment
Wednesday Books 2024
Tracy Badua (Sociology and Political Science) (Alumni)
Thea and the Mischief Makers
HarperCollins 2024
Stephanie Balkwill (Asian Languages & Cultures)
The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century
University of California Press 2024
Graeme Blair (Political Science)
Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building Trust
Cambridge University Press 2024
Albert M. Camarillo (History) (Alumni)
Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality
Stanford University Press 2024
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno (César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies)
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
Harvard Education Press 2024
Teddi Chichester (Writing Programs)
Wildlife Crossings of Hope: Connecting Creatures Around the Globe
Holiday House 2024
Learn more about Chichester’s book in this article.
David Colgan (Institute of the Environment & Sustainability) (Staff)
Chester’s Way
independently published 2024
Jason De León (Anthropology) (Alumni)
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Viking 2024
Lee Goldberg (Communication Studies) (Alumni)
Dream Town
Thomas & Mercer 2024
Joshua Javier Guzman (Joshua Javier Guzman)
Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style
NYU Press 2024
Erinn Keala (Sociology) (Alumni)
I Promise to Be Better
independently published 2024
David D. Kim (European languages and transcultural studies)
Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World
Stanford University Press 2024
Javier Patiño Loira (Spanish and Portuguese)
The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe
University of Delaware Press 2024
Christopher P. Hanscom (Asian Languages and Cultures) (Alumni)
Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film
Columbia University Press 2024
Ursula K. Heise (English and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability)
Environment and Narrative in Vietnam
Palgrave Macmillan Cham 2024
Robert A. Hill (History)
The Essential Writings of Robert A. Hill
University Press of Florida 2024
Qamar-ul Huda (History) (Alumni)
Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers 2024
Marcus Anthony Hunter (Sociology & African American Studies)
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
Amistad 2024
Vinay Lal (History)
India and Its Intellectual Traditions: Of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things
Oxford University Press 2024
Ananda Lima (Linguistics) (Alumni)
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
Tor Books 2024
Stacey Lee (Psychology) (Alumni)
Kill Her Twice
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers 2024
Roberta Morosini (European Languages and Transcultural Studies)
Dante, Moses and the Book of Islam: Visualizing the Qur’an, from Byzantium to Filippino Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf
L’Erma di Bretschneider 2024
Harryette Mullen (English)
Her Silver-Tongued Companion: Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen
Edinburgh University Press 2024
Shaina Potts (Geography)
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire
Duke University Press 2024
Todd Presner (European Languages and Transcultural Studies)
Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory
Princeton University Press 2024
Ashley Sanders (European Languages and Transcultural Studies and Program in Digital Humanities)
Visualizing History’s Fragments: A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research
Palgrave Macmillan Cham 2024
William Schniedewind (Near Eastern Languages & Cultures)
Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes
Princeton University Press 2024
Kathleen Sheldon (History)
The Mackerel Years: A Memoir of War, Hunger, and Women’s History in 1980s Mozambique
Africa World Press 2024
Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature and European Languages & Transcultural Studies)
Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature
University of Chicago Press 2024
Sarah Stein (History)
Salonique juive et ottomane: Les mémoires de Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
Lior éditions 2024
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History)
Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
University of Texas Press 2024
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History)
Imperios entrelazados: En los orígenes del mundo moderno
Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona 2024
Stefan Timmermans (Sociology)
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
Crown 2024
Robert N. Watson (English and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability)
The Museum of Craven Life
independently published 2024
2023
H. Samy Alim (Anthropology)
Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures
University of California Press 2023
Sebouh Aslanian (History)
Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800
Yale University Press 2023
Eric Avila (History)
Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas
Harvard University Press 2023
George Baker (Art History)
Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography
University of Chicago Press 2023
Peter Baldwin (History)
Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All
MIT Press 2023
Peter Baldwin (History)
Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History
MIT Press 2023
Michael Berry (Asian Languages & Cultures)
Exorcism (translation)
Amazon Crossing 2023
Michael Berry (Asian Languages & Cultures)
Hospital (translation)
Amazon Crossing 2023
Graeme Blair (Political Science)
Research Design in the Social Sciences: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign
Princeton University Press 2023
Kate Bolton Bonnici (English)
A True & Just Record
Boiler House Press 2023
Aomar Boum (Anthropology)
Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa
Stanford University Press 2023
Jennie Brand (Sociology and Statistics)
Overcoming the Odds: The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates
Russell Sage Foundation 2023
Joseph Bristow (English)
Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
University of Toronto Press 2023
Diane Marie Brown (Sociology)
Black Candle Women
Graydon House 2023
Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasber, eds. (European Languages and Transcultural Studies)
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean
University of California Press 2023
Stacie Cassarino (English) (Alumni)
Each Luminous Thing
Persea Books 2023
Tananarive Due (African American Studies)
The Reformatory: A Novel
Gallery/Saga Press 2023
Paul Falcone (Germanic Languages) (Alumni)
The First-Time Manager: Leading Through Crisis
HarperCollins Leadership 2023
Daniel Fittante (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) (Alumni)
Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders inside Armenian Los Angeles
Cornell University Press 2023
Alice Grace Fulmer (English) (Alumni)
Faunalia
Gods & Radicals/Ritona Press 2023
Dina Gachman (English) (Alumni)
So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grace Concerns
Union Square & Co. 2023
Nouri Gana (Comparative Literature)
Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
Fordham University Press 2023
Thomas Ray Garcia (English) (Alumni)
El Curso de la Raza: The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor
Texas A&M University Press 2023
Thomas Ray Garcia (English) (Alumni)
The River Runs: Stories
Prickly Pear Publishing 2023
Mishuana Goeman (Gender Studies & American Indian Studies)
Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in The New World
University of Nebraska Press 2023
Joan M. Griffin (Psychobiology) (Alumni)
Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle the John Muir Trail
Black Rose Writing 2023
Nicola Harrison (English) (Alumni)
Hotel Laguna: A Novel
St. Martin’s Press 2023
Jamie Jo Hoang (English) (Alumni)
My Father, the Panda Killer
Crown Books for Young Readers 2023
Tara Ison (English) (Alumni)
At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Ig Publishing 2023
Margaret Jacob (History)
Freemasonry and Civil Society: Europe and the Americas (North and South)
Peter Lang Group 2023
Henry Ansgar Kelly (English)
Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Courts: From the Middle Ages to the Reformation
Catholic University of America Press 2023
David Kipen (Writing Programs)
Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters
Stanford University Press 2023
Gina Konstantopoulos (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia
Brill 2023
Arthur L. Little, Jr. (English)
White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite
Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
Christopher Looby (English)
For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told
University of Pennsylvania Press 2023
Kimberly Mack (English) (Alumni)
Living Colour’s Time’s Up
Bloomsbury 2023
William Marotti (History)
Art and Street Politics in the Global 1960s: Yoshio Nakajima and the Global Avant-Garde
Routledge 2023
Eric Martin (Center for the Study of Religion)
The Writing on the Wall: Signs of Faith against Freedom
Wipf and Stock Publishers 2023
Nedda Mehdiadeh (Writing Programs)
Anti-Racist Shakespeare
Cambridge University Press 2023
Sarah Morris and John Papadopoulos (Classics and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology)
Ancient Methone, 2003-2013
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2023
Harryette Mullen (English)
Open Leaves / poems from earth
Black Sunflowers Poetry Press 2023
Laure Murat (European Languages & Transcultural Studies)
Proust, Roman Familial
Robert Laffont 2023
Nathan Myhrvold (Geophysics/Space Physics) (Mathematics) (Alumni)
Food & Drink: Modernist Cuisine Photography
The Cooking Lab 2023
Elizabeth O’Brien (History)
Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
The University of North Carolina Press 2023
Adriana Palomares (English) (Alumni)
Brava: A Latina Lawyer’s Path to Empowerment
Joy Revolution 2023
Danielle Parker (English) (Alumni)
You Bet Your Heart
Balboa Press 2023
Shawn Patt (Pyschology)
Mind Your Own Money – A Young Adult’s Guide to Personal Finance
independently published 2023
Shawn Patt (Pyschology)
The Wealth Compass – Your Guide to Financial Prosperity
independently published 2023
David Warren Sabean (History)
A Delicate Choreography: Kinship Practices and Incest Discourses in the West since the Renaissance
De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023
Barney A. Schlinger (Integrative Biology and Physiology)
The Wingsnappers: Lessons from an Exuberant Tropical Bird
Yale University Press 2023
Mona Simpson (English)
Commitment: A Novel
Knopf 2023
Monica L. Smith (Anthropology)
The Power of Nature: Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics
University Press of Colorado 2023
Danny Snelson and students (English)
Prompt into Comics
Lulu 2023
Malina Stefanovska (European Languages and Transcultural Studies)
Sevdah: Elegy for a South Imagined
University Press of the South 2023
Brian Kim Stefans (English)
For Trapped Things
Roof Books 2023
Brenda E. Stevenson (History)
What Sorrows Labour in my Parent’s Breast: A History of the Enslaved Black Family
Rowman & Littlefield 2023
Daniel Swain (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability)
Extreme Weather Page-A-Day Calendar 2024: A Year of Fire Tornadoes, Atmospheric Rivers, and Other Wild Weather Events
Workman Publishing Company 2023
Stephen C. Tobin (Spanish and Portuguese)
Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2023
Justin Torres (English)
Blackouts: A Novel
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023
Sixiang Wang (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China
Columbia University Press 2023
Greg Woolf (History)
Gendering Roman Imperialism
Brill 2023
2022
John Agnew (Geography)
Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World
Rowman and Littlefield 2022
Jacquelyn Ardam (Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences)
Avidly Reads Poetry
NYU Press 2022
Stephen Aron (English)
Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West
Oxford University Press 2022
Bryonn Rolly Bain (African American Studies)
Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape
University of California Press 2022
Joseph Bristow (English)
Oscar Wilde on Trial
Yale University Press 2022
Learn more about Bristow’s continued Oscar Wilde research in this 2024 article.
Daniel James Brown (English) (Alumni)
Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of the Japanese American Patriots of World War II
Penguin Books 2022
Alex Budak (Geography & Political Science)
Becoming a Changemaker
Hachette (Grand Central Publishing Balance) 2022
Tyler Burge (Philosophy)
Perception: First Form of Mind
Oxford University Press 2022
Ramona Cruz-Peters (Sociology) (Alumni)
30-Minute Instant Pot Cookbook
Rockridge Press 2022
Boris Dralyuk (Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures & Comparative Literature) (Alumni)
My Hollywood and Other Poems
Paul Dry Books 2022
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (Asian American Studies)
Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine
University of California Press 2022
Learn more about Gandhi’s research in this 2023 article.
Dara Goldberg (Classics) (Alumni)
Awaken Your Inner Goddess: A Journal
Rockridge Press 2022
Sander Goldberg (Classics)
Terence: Andria
Cambridge University Press 2022
Greg Graffin (Anthropology & Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences) (Alumni)
Punk Paradox: A Memoir
Hatchet Books 2022
Nile Green (History and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures)
How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding
Yale University Press 2022
Juan Felipe Herrera (Social Anthropology) (Alumni)
Every Day We Get More Illegal
City Lights Books 2022
In 2017, Herrera received the UCLA Medal for his achievements as an artist and activist. Learn more.
Bryant Kirkland (Classics)
Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception
Oxford University Press 2022
Vinay Lal (History)
The Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge: The British in India
Primus Books 2022
Vinay Lal (History)
Insurgency and the Artist: The Art of the Freedom Struggle in India
Roli Books 2022
Kelly Lytle Hernández (History)
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
W. W. Norton & Company 2022
Nylsa Martínez (Spanish and Portuguese)
Por Si Un Día Todo Falla
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma De Puebla 2022 (Mexico)
David N. Myers (History)
American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
Princeton University Press 2022
Glenn Penny (History)
German History Unbound: From 1750 to the Present
Cambridge University Press 2022
Carla Gardina Pestana (History)
The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500–1820
Cambridge University Press 2022
Jay Phelan (Biology) (Alumni)
The Secret Syllabus: A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of College Success
Princeton University Press 2022
Natasha Quadlin (Sociology)
Who Should Pay?: Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public
Russell Sage Foundation 2022
Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear (Sociology and American Indian Studies)
Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy
Routledge 2022
Debora K. Shuger (English)
Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611
Oxford University Press 2022
Oriel María Siu (Spanish and Portuguese) (Alumni)
Rebeldita the Fearless in Ogreland
Rebeldita the Fearless 2022
Sarah Stein and Aomar Boum (History and Anthropology)
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950
Stanford Press 2022
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History)
Connected History: Essays and Arguments
Verso 2022
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History)
Les Peuples de l’Orient au milieu du XVIe siècle
Éditions Chandeigne 2022
Chris Tausanovitch and Lynn Vavreck (Political Science)
The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy
Princeton University Press 2022
Donna Tetreault (English) (Alumni)
The C.A.S.T.L.E. Method: Building a Family Foundation on Compassion, Acceptance, Security, Trust, Love, Expectations plus Education
Familius 2022
Patricia A. Turner (African American Studies)
Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century
University of California Press 2022
2021
Peter Baldwin (History)
Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe
Cambridge University Press 2021
Kara Cooney (Near Eastern Languages & Cultures)
The Good Kings
Penguin Random House 2021
Learn more about ‘The Good Kings’ in this 2021 Q&A.
Jasmin Darznik (English) (Alumni)
The Bohemians: A Novel
Ballantine Books 2021
Barbara Fuchs (English)
Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic
Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
Carribean Fragoza (Chicana and Chicano Studies and Comparative Literature) (Alumni)
Eat the Mouth that Feeds You
Penguin Random House 2021
Read Fragoza’s feature story in UCLA Magazine’s 2024 winter issue.
James L. Gelvin (History)
The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval
Stanford University Press 2021
James L. Gelvin (History)
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History
Cambridge University Press 2021
Stella Ghervas (History)
Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union
Harvard University Press 2021
Learn more about Ghervas’ work in this 2023 Q&A.
Sanford M. Jacoby (History)
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank
Princeton University Press 2021
Ezra Klein (Political Science) (Alumni)
Why We’re Polarized
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster 2021
Learn more about Klein’s work in this 2020 Q&A.
Stacey Lee (Psychology) (Alumni)
The Downstairs Girl
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers 2021
Katherine M. Marino (History)
Feminismo para América Latina: Un movimiento internacional por los derechos humanos
Grano de Sal 2021
Anahid Nersessian (English)
Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse
The University of Chicago Press 2021
In February 2024, Nersessian was named poetry editor for the prestigious literary quarterly, Granta. Learn more.
Oriel María Siu (Spanish and Portuguese) (Alumni)
Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It’s Over!
Rebeldita the Fearless 2021
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History)
Keşifler Çağında Hint-İran Seyahatleri, 1400-1800
Albaraka Yayınları 2021
Kevin Terraciano (History)
Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico
The University of Oklahoma Press 2021
Daniel Treisman (Political Science)
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Princeton University Press 2021
In 2022, Treisman was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Learn more.
Stefania Tutino (History)
A Fake Saint and the True Church: The Story of a Forgery in Seventeenth-Century Naples
Albaraka Yayınları 2021
Bharat Jayram Venkat (Institute for Society & Genetics, History, and Anthropology)
At the Limits of Cure
Duke University Press 2021
2020
Cesar J. Ayala (Sociology)
Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940
Cambridge University Press 2020
Santiago Bernal Melendez and Alfred Herrera (Center for Community College Partnerships) (Alumni) (Staff)
Power to the Transfer: Critical Race Theory and a Transfer Receptive Culture
Michigan State University Press 2020
Learn more about Herrera’s 42-year career at UCLA.
Daniel T. Blumstein (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
The Nature of Fear: Survival Lessons from the Wild
Harvard University Press 2020
Learn more about Blumstein’s research in this 2021 article.
Soraya de Chadarevian (History)
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome
The University of Chicago Press 2020
Ramona Cruz-Peters (Sociology) (Alumni)
Pressure Cooker Cookbook for Beginners
Rockridge Press 2020
Ellen Carol DuBois (History)
Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote
Simon and Schuster 2020
Dara Goldberg (Philosophy) (Alumni)
Awaken Your Inner Goddess, Awaken Your Inner Goddess
Rockridge Press 2020
Pamela Hieronymi (Philosophy)
Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals
Princeton University Press 2020
Learn about Hieronymi’s role in the hit NBC sitcom, ‘The Good Place’ in this 2018 article.
Margaret C. Jacob (History)
Clandestine Philosophy: New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620–1823
University of Toronto Press 2020
Miloš Jovanović (History)
Sharpening the Haze: Visual Essays on Imperial History and Memory
Ubiquity Press 2020
Vinay Lal (History)
The Fury of Covid-19: The Politics, Histories and Unrequitted Love of the Coronavirus
Pan Macmillan India 2020
Norma Mendoza-Denton (Anthropology)
Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies
Cambridge University Press 2020
Park Nobel (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology
Academic Press 2020
Carla Gardina Pestana (History)
The World of Plymouth Plantation
Harvard University Press 2020
Abigail C. Saguy (Sociology)
Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are
Oxford University Press 2020
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History)
Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800
State University of New York Press 2020
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (English) (Alumni)
Faut-il universaliser l’histoire? Entre dérives nationalistes et identitaires
CNRS Éditions 2020
Christopher Zyda (English) (Alumni)
The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation
Rare Bird 2020
Learn more about Zyda in this 2021 article.
