Emory Faculty Books Published in 2016


The Feast of Words Celebration of Emory Faculty Authors and Editors of Books, held on February 6, 2017, honored 118 book titles published in 2016. A few highlights:

  • A total of 113 faculty authors and/or volume editors are represented.
  • Twelve faculty members are listed more than once, for multiple titles published in 2016.
  • Arts & Sciences faculty are represented on the list 57 times.
  • The School of Medicine faculty are represented 28.
  • The School of Law faculty – 16 times.
  • Candler School of Theology faculty – 12 times.
  • Oxford College and Public Health faculty – 6 times each.
  • Goizueta Business School faculty– 5 times
  • Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing – 1 time, as is Campus Life.
  • Emeriti faculty are on the list 9 times.

At least three titles on the list have received national honors:

  • Carol Anderson’s White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide has been short-listed for a National Book Award.
  • Valerie Biousse and Nancy J. Newman’s book Neuro-Ophthalmology Illustrated won the British Medical Association 1st Prize Award in the international category of Neurology.
  • Miriam Udel’s book Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque won the National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience.

Three titles were brought into publication with help from the CFDE’s Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund, which provides small grants to faculty to hire an editor to help take a manuscript from one stage to the next. They are

  • Paula Frew’s  Poverty in the United States: Women’s Voices.
  • Karen Scheib’s Pastoral Care: Telling the Stories of Our Lives.
  • Jonathan Master’s Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Instability in the Histories of Tacitus.

Emory Faculty Books Published in 2016

  • Frank Alexander (Law), Sarah B. Mancini, and Sara J. Toering, Georgia Real Estate Finance and Foreclosure Law 2016-17. (Thomson-Reuters).
  • Carol Anderson (African American Studies), White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide. (Bloomsbury).
  • Tonio Andrade (History),The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. (Princeton UP).
  • Tonio Andrade (History) and Xing Hang, eds.,  Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History. (U of Hawaii P.).
  • Bruce J. Barron (Radiology) and Bital Savir-Baruch, RadTool Nuclear Medicine Flash Facts. (Springer).
  • Eve-Marie Becker (Theology), Morten Horning Jensen, and Jacob Mortenson, eds., Collected Studies on Philo and Josephus (V&R Academic)
  • Eve-Marie Becker (Theology), Der Bergriff der Demut bei Paulus, (Mohr Siebeck).
  • Eve-Marie Becker (Theology), and Oda Wischmeyer, eds., Handbuch der Bibelhermeneutiken. (Walter de Gruyter).
  • Frank E. Berkowitz (Pediatrics) and Robert C. Jerris (Pathology), Practical Medical Microbiology for Clinicians. (Wiley-Blackwell).
  • Valerie Biousse (Ophthalmology and Neurology) and Nancy J. Newman (Ophthalmology and Neurology), Neuro-Ophthalmology Illustrated, 2nd edition. (Thieme).
  • Wendell Bird (Law), Press and Speech Under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign Against Dissent (Oxford UP)
  • Laurie Blank (Law) and Gregory P. Noone. International Law and Armed Conflict: Fundamental Principles and Contemporary Challenges in the Law of Armed Conflict. Concise Edition. (Wolters Kluwer).
  • David Blumenthal (Jewish Studies and Religion). Keeping God at the Center: Contemplating and Using the Prayerbook. (Hamilton).
  • David Borthwick (Mathematics and Computer Science), Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. (Springer Verlag).
  • J. Douglas Bremner (Psychiatry), ed., Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: From Neurobiology to Treatment. (Wiley-Blackwell).
  • Ken Brigham (Medicine). The Life and Deaths of Blanche Nero. (Secant Publishing).
  • William J. Carney (Law, emeritus). Mergers and Acquisitions: Cases and Materials, 4th edition. (Foundation).
  • Lucas Carpenter (English, Oxford, emeritus). Mind and Body: And Other Stories. (Anaphora).
  • Nikhil K.K. Chanani (Pediatrics) and Shannon E.G. Hamrick (Pediatrics), eds. Cardiovascular Disease, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology. (Elsevier).
  • Sam Cherribi (Sociology), Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam. (Oxford UP).
  • David Cook (Film and Media Studies, emeritus), A History of Narrative Film, 5th edition. (W.W. Norton & Company).
  • Alicia Ory DeNicola (Anthropology, Oxford) and Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber, eds., Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, Capitalism. (Bloomsbury).
  • Frans de Waal (Psychology), Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (W.W. Norton & Company).
  • Lisa Dillman (Spanish and Portuguese), trans., The Heart Tastes Bitter, by Victor de Árbol. (Scribe).
  • Lisa Dillman (Spanish and Portuguese), trans., The Transmigration of Bodies, by Yuri Herrera. (And Other Stories).
  • Rafael Domingo (Law), God and the Secular Legal System. (Cambridge UP).
  • Daniel Dressler (Internal Medicine), Daniel J. Brotman, Jeffrey S. Ginsberg, Sylvia C. McKean, and John J. Ross, eds., Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, 2nd edition .(McGraw-Hill).
  • Bassel El-Rayes (Hematology and Medical Oncology) and Nabil F. Saba (Hematology and Medical Oncology), eds., Esophageal Cancer: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy. (Springer).
  • Mikhail Epstein (Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures). Ot sovka k bobku. Politika na grani groteska (From Homo Soveticus to the Bobok Character. Politics on the Edge of Grotesque). (Dukh i Litera).
  • Mikhail Epstein (Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures). Ot znania k tvorchestvu. Kak gumanitarnye nauki mogut izmeniat’mir (From Knowledge to Creativity: How the Humanities Can Change the World). (Tsentr gumanitarnykh initsiativ).
  • Mikhail Epstein (Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures). Poeziia I sverkhpoeziia: O mnogoobrazii tvorcheskikh mirov (Poetry and Superpoetry: On the Variety of Creative Worlds). (Azbuka).
  • Alton Brad Farris III (Pathology), Stephen M. Bonsib, Anthony Chang, Robert B. Colvin, Lynn D. Cornell, Joseph P. Gaut, Sanjay Jain, Neeraja Kahmbham, Christopher P. Larsen, Helen Liapis, Shane M. Meehan, and Surya V. Seshan. Diagnostic Pathology: Kidney Diseases, 2nd edition. (Amirsys Elsevier).
  • Martha Albertson Fineman (Law), Ulrika Andersson, and Titti Mattsson, eds., Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility: A Comparative Perspective. (Routledge).
  • *Paula M. Frew (Medicine) and Ann O’Leary, eds., Poverty in the United States: Women’s Voices. (Springer).
  • Eugene Gangarosa (Global Health, emeritus), with Rachel M. Burke, But Now They Are Angels: Reflections on My Life in Service to Public Health. (BookBaby).
  • Sander Gilman (Institute of the Liberal Arts), Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity. (NYU P).
  • Jonathan Goldberg (English, emeritus), Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility. (Duke UP).
  • Jonathan Goldberg (English, emeritus), Marcie Frank, and Karen Newman, eds., This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature. (Fordham UP).
  • Elizabeth Goodstein (English), Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary. (Stanford UP).
  • David B. Gowler (Religion, Oxford) and Vernon K. Robbins (Religion), eds., Exploring Second Corinthians: Death and Life, Hardship and Rivalry, by B.J. Oropeza. (Society for Biblical Literature).
  • David B. Gowler (Religion, Oxford) and Vernon K. Robbins (Religion), eds., Lydia as a Rhetorical Construct in Acts, by Alexandra Gruca-Macauley. (Society for Biblical Literature).
  • David B. Gowler (Religion, Oxford) and Byung-Mo Kim, trans., What Are They Saying About the Parables? Korean Translation. (CLC).
  • M. Patrick Graham (Theology), ed., The Implementation of the Lord’s Supper, by Huldrych and Ulrich Zwingli, translated by Jim West. (Pitts Theology Library).
  • Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat (Spanish and Portuguese). Understanding Roberto Bolaño. (U of South Carolina P) (published posthumously).
  • Lisa Haddad (Gynecology and Obstetrics), Eva Lathrop (Gynecology and Obstetrics), Robert A. Hatcher (Gynecology and Obstetrics, emeritus), Ariel Z. Allen, and Mimi Zieman. Managing Contraception 2016. (Bridging the Gap Foundation).
  • Ryan Hamilton (Marketing) and Colin Shaw. The Intuitive Customer: 7 Imperatives for Moving Your Customer Experience to the Next Level. (Palgrave Macmillan).
  • Peter Hay (Law), Law of the United States: An Introduction, 4th edition. (C.H. Beck Verlag).
  • Sheryl L. Heron (Emergency Medicine), Anna Walker Jones, Marcus L. Martin, and Lisa Moreno-Walton, eds., Diversity and Inclusion in Quality Patient Care. (Springer).
  • Wan-Li Ho (Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ecofamilism: Women, Religion, and Environmental Protection in Taiwan. (Three Pines).
  • Carl R. Holladay (Theology), Acts: A Commentary. (Westminster John Knox).
  • James M. Hughes (Medicine), W. Michael Scheld, and Richard J. Whitley, eds., Emerging Infections 10. (ASM).
  • Sandy Jap (Marketing) and Anne T. Coughlin, A Field Guide to Channel Management: Building Strategic Routes to Market. (CreateSpace).
  • Bruce Knauft (Anthropology), The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World, 4th edition. (Waveland).
  • Scott Kugle (Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies), When Sun Meets Moon: Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry. (U of North Carolina P).
  • Daniel LaChance (History), Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States. (U of Chicago P).
  • Barbara Ladd (English) and Fred Hobson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South (Oxford UP).
  • Emily Leithauser (English and Creative Writing), The Borrowed World. (Able Muse).
  • Jeffrey Lesser (History) and Matthew Gutmann, eds., Global Latin America: Into the Twenty-First Century. (U of California P).
  • Scott O. Lillienfeld (Psychology) and Irwin D. Waldman (Psychology), eds., Psychological Science Under Scrutiny: Recent Challenges and Proposed Remedies. (Wiley-Blackwell).
  • Ellen Ott Marshall (Theology), ed., Conflict Transformation and Religion: Essays on Faith, Power, and Relationship. (Palgrave Macmillan).
  • Richard C. Martin (Religion), ed., Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd edition. (Macmillan Reference USA).
  • *Jonathan Master (Classics), Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Instability in the Histories of Tacitus. (U of Michigan P).
  • Steven W. May (English) and Alan Bryson. Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland, (Oxford UP).
  • William T. Mayton (Law, emeritus), The Sustainers. (Twelve Tables).
  • Matthew J. McCoyd (Law), Paul J. Zwier (Law), Alexander G. Barney, and Reuben Guttman, United States ex rel. Rodriguez v. Hughes, et al., Faculty Version. (National Institute for Trial Advocacy).
  • Frank McDonald (Chemistry), Finding the Right Partner, Volume 1: Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reactions. (Amazon Digital Services LLC).
  • Scott J.N. McNabb (Public Health), J. Mark Conde (Public Health), Lisa Ferland, William MacWright, Ziad A. Memish, Stacy Okutani, Meeyoung M. Park, Paige Ryland, Affan T. Shaikh, and Vivek Singh, eds., Transforming Public Health Surveillance: Proactive Measures for Prevention, Detection, and Response. (Elsevier).
  • Sean Meighoo (Comparative Literature), The End of the West and Other Cautionary Tales. (Columbia UP).
  • Michael Moon (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies),  Arabian Nights: A Queer Film Classic. (Arsenal Pulp).
  • Brigitte “Bee” Nahmias (Internal Medicine), Shrapnel in the Piano: A Family in Germany Before, During, and After World War II. (BookLogix).
  • Stephen Nowicki (Psychology, emeritus), Choice or Chance: Understanding Your Locus of Control and Why It Matters. (Prometheus).
  • Jane Airey O’Connor (English as a Second Language Program) and Sheila MacKechnie Murtha, College the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to English Language and Campus Life in the U.S. (Research and Education Association).
  • Ken Ono (Mathematics) and Amir D. Aczel, My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count. (Springer).
  • Lois More Overbeck (Laney Graduate School), George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, and Dan Gunn, eds., The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume IV: 1966-1989. (Cambridge UP).
  • Lois More Overbeck (Laney Graduate School), George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, and Dan Gunn, eds., Samuel Beckett, Lettres III: 1957-1965, trans. Gérard Kahn. (Gallimard).
  • Lois More Overbeck (Laney Graduate School), George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, and Dan Gunn, eds., Wünsch Dir nicht, daß ich mich ändere - Briefe 1957–1965, trans. Chris Hirte. (Suhrkamp Verlag).
  • Emad Qayed (Medicine), Nikrad Shahnavaz (Medicine), and Shanthi Srinivasan (Medicine), Sleisenger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Review and Assessment, 10th edition. (Elsevier).
  • William Ransom (Music), Listening to Memories. (ACA/Albany Records). 
  • Philip Lyndon Reynolds (Theology), How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments: The Sacramental Theology of Marriage from its Medieval Origins to the Council of Trent. (Cambridge UP).
  • Zakiya Rice (Dermatology), Specialty Board Review: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. (McGraw-Hill).
  • James L. Roark (History), Patricia Cline Cohen, Susan M. Hartmann, Michael P. Johnson, and Sarah Stage, The American Promise: A History of the United States, 7th edition. (Bedford/St. Martin’s).
  • Vernon K. Robbins (Religion), Bart B. Bruehler, and Robert H. von Thaden, Jr. Edited by Vernon K. Robbins, David B. Gowler (Religion, Oxford), and Duane F. Watson, Foundations for Sociorhetorical Exploration: A Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity Reader. (Society for Biblical Literature).
  • James Roland (Campus Life), Karyl A. Davis, Melissa Maxcy Wade, and M. Leslie Wade Zorwick, eds., Using Debate in the Classroom: Encouraging Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration. (Routledge).
  • Connie B. Roth (Physics), Polymer Glasses. (CRC, Taylor & Francis Group).
  • Celine Saulnier (Pediatrics), Domenic V. Cicchetti, and Sara S. Sparrow, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, 3rd edition. (Pearson).
  • Ellie Schainker (History and Jewish Studies), Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906. (Stanford UP).
  • *Karen D. Scheib (Theology), Pastoral Care: Telling the Stories of Our Lives. (Abingdon).
  • Michele Schreiber (Film and Media Studies), Linda Badley, and Claire Perkins, eds., Indie Reframed: Women’s Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema. (Edinburgh UP).
  • Pamela Scully (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Studies), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. (Ohio UP).
  • Charles A. Shanor (Law), American Constitutional Law: Structure and Reconstruction, 6th edition. (Thomson West).
  • Jagdish Sheth (Marketing), Reshman Shah (Marketing), and Mona Sinha, Breakout Strategies for Emerging Markets: Business and Marketing Tactics for Achieving Growth. (Pearson Education).
  • Jagdish Sheth (Marketing) and Suhas Apte, The Sustainability Edge: How to Drive Top-Line Growth with Triple-Bottom-Line Thinking. (Rotman-UTP).
  • Joseph Skibell (English and Creative Writing), Six Memos from the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud. (U of Texas P).
  • Niall Slater (Classics), Voice and Voices in Antiquity: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Volume 11. (Brill).
  • James Smith (Environmental Health), Silent Source. (Braveship Books and Stealth Books).
  • Kylie M. Smith (Nursing), Sandra B. Lewenson, and Annemarie McAllister, eds., Nursing History for Contemporary Role Development. (Springer).
  • Luther E. Smith, Jr. (Theology), ed., Understanding What We Believe: A Commentary on the Articles of Religion, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (Revised). (CME Publishing).
  • Ted A. Smith (Theology), Scott Black Johnston, and Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, eds., Questions Preachers Ask: Essays in Honor of Thomas G. Long. (Westminster John Knox).
  • Jana A. Stockwell (Pediatrics) and Martha C. Kutko, eds., Comprehensive Critical Care: Pediatric, 2nd edition. (Society of Critical Care Medicine).
  • Brent A. Strawn (Theology) and Bill T. Arnold, eds., The World Around the Old Testament: The People and Places of the Ancient Near East. (Baker Academic).
  • Andrew T. Taylor, Jr. (Radiology), The Taylors, The Scots-Irish, and the Settling of America. (CreateSpace).
  • Timothy Terrell (Law), The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning: Developing Analytical Acuity from Law School to Law Practice. (Carolina Academic).
  • Miriam Udel (German Studies and Jewish Studies), Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque. (U of Michigan P).
  • Rebecca L. Upton (Behavioral Sciences and Health Education), Negotiating Work, Family, and Identity Among Long-Haul Christian Truckers: What Would Jesus Haul? (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield).
  • Donald Phillip Verene (Philosophy), James Joyce and the Philosophers and Finnegans Wake. (Northwestern UP).
  • Donald Phillip Verene (Philosophy), Metaphysics and the Modern World. (Cascade).
  • Eberhard O. Voit (Biomedical Engineering), The Inner Workings of Life: Vignettes in Systems Biology. (Cambridge UP).
  • Rachel Waford (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) and Carina A. Iati, The Psychosis Response Guide: How to Help Young People in Psychiatric Crises. (Springer).
  • Kristin Wendland (Music) and Kacy Link, Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music. (Oxford UP).
  • Brandon Wicks (English), American Fallout. (Santa Fe Writers Project).
  • Wynnetta Wimberley (Theology), Depression in African American Clergy. (Palgrave Macmillan).
  • Michael Windle (Behavioral Sciences and Health Education), Statistical Approaches to Gene X Environment Interactions for Complex Phenotypes. (MIT).
  • John Witte, Jr. (Law) and Joel A. Nichols, Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 4th edition. (Oxford UP).
  • John Witte, Jr. (Law), Anna di Robilant, and Sara McDougall, eds., Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue. (The Robbins Collection).
  • Subha Xavier (French and Italian), The Migrant Text: Making and Marketing a Global French Literature. (McGill-Queen’s UP).
  • Kevin Young (English and Creative Writing), Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015. (Knopf).
  • Paul J. Zwier (Law) and Thomas F. Guernsey, Advanced Negotiation and Mediation Theory and Practice. (LexisNexis/National Institute for Trial Advocacy).
  • Paul J. Zwier (Law), John H. Bauman, Andrew R. Klein, Edward C. Martin, and Russell L. Weaver, Mastering Tort Law, 2nd edition. (Carolina Academic).

*Supported by the Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund of the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence

Names in boldface indicate Emory faculty in cases of multiple authors or editors.

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