Portfolio

To date, I have completed indexes for over 225 titles. To view the book covers and publication information in more detail, please select the links to my Pinterest board and Amazon list. You can also browse a title list by subject below.

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TITLE LIST BY SUBJECT

ANIMALS

The Animals’ Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age. Beacon Press, 2017
Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do. University of Chicago Press, 2018
The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System. Beacon Press, 2018
For the Birds: Protecting Wildlife through the Naturalist Gaze. Rutgers University Press, 2019
Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes: The Science of Animal Personalities. Beacon Press, 2017
Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets. University of Chicago Press, 2016

ARCHITECTURE

Macao’s Church and College of St. Joseph: Splendour of the Baroque in China. Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. Government, 2017
Santa Barbara: A Guide to El Pueblo Viejo, 2nd ed. Santa Barbara Conservancy, 2016

ART

The Best of Proctor’s West: An In-depth Study of Eleven of Proctor’s Bronzes. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2017
Eanger Irving Couse: The Life and Times of an American Artist, 1866-1936. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
Gendered Bodies: Toward a Women’s Visual Art in Contemporary China. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015
The Great Tradition of Hopi Katsina Carvers, 1880 to present. Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2019
The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2019
Made to Order: Painted Ceramics of Ancient Teotihuacan. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
Painting Culture, Painting Nature: Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma Press, 2019
Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives. University of Oklahoma Press, 2016

— Instruction

The Art of Basic Oil Painting. Walter Foster Publishing, 2013
The Art of Painting Animals. Walter Foster Publishing, 2015
The Art of Painting Flowers in Oil & Acrylic. Walter Foster Publishing, 2015
The Art of Painting in Acrylic. Walter Foster Publishing, 2014
The Fine Artist’s Guide to Tools and Materials. Walter Foster Publishing, 2013
The Fundamentals of Drawing. Walter Foster Publishing, 2014
Visual Guide to Patchwork & Quilting. C & T Publishing, 2017

BIOGRAPHY and MEMOIR

— Diplomats and Diplomacy Series (ADST-DACOR)

The Man in the Arena: The Life and Times of U.S. Senator Gale McGee. University of Nebraska Press, 2018
Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist. New Academia Publishing, 2013
The Mind of the African Strongman: Conversations with Dictators, Statesmen, and Father Figures. New Academia Publishing, 2015
Paying Calls in Shangri-La: Scenes from a Woman’s Life in American Diplomacy. Ohio University Press, 2016
Strangers When We Met: A Century of American Community in Kuwait. New Academia Publishing, 2016

— Political Figures

Coded Letters, Concealed Love: The Larger Lives of Harriet Freeman and Edward Everett Hale. New Academia Publishing, 2013
Emory Upton: Misunderstood Reformer. University of Oklahoma Press, 2017
A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal and Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794-1796. University of Nebraska Press, 2017
Hasan al-Turabi: The Last of the Islamists: The Man and His Times 1932-2016. Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield Group), 2018
In Haste with Aloha: Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma, 1881-1885. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017
Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist. Harvard University Press, 2018

— Music

Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer. University of California Press, 2018
Ghost Riders in the Sky: The Life of Stan Jones, the Singing Ranger. Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2014
Hearing the Future: The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015

— Self-Published

Bell Bottom Trousers: Life Aboard an Attack Transport in the Pacific During World War Two. CreateSpace, 2016
Below Tranquility Base: An Apollo 11 Memoir. CreateSpace, 2013
Bringing Sundance Home: The Real Sundance Kid, My Great Grandfather. CreateSpace, 2014

BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, LABOR, MANAGEMENT

Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class. University of California Press, 2019
From Miracle to Maturity: The Growth of the Korean Economy. Harvard Asia, 2015
How to Get Your Self-Published Book Into Bookstores. Alliance of Independent Authors, 2017
Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont. University of California Press, 2019
Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage. Prentice Hall, 2018
Public Assembly Venue Management: Sports, Entertainment, Meeting, and Convention Venues. Brown Books Group, 2015
Rich as a King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing. Morgan James Publishing, 2014
Systems Leadership: Creating Positive Organisations. Routledge, 2018
Sensible Tax Reform: Simple, Just and Effective. Morgan James Publishing, 2014
Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work. University of California Press, 2018

CHILD and FAMILY STUDIES

Border Brokers: Children of Mexican Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws, and Politics. University of Arizona Press, 2019
China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy. University of Chicago Press, 2016
Early Childhood Studies, 2nd ed. Routledge, 2018
Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families: Culturally Responsive Practice. Columbia University Press, 2016
Invisible Children: Reimagining International Development at the Grassroots. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
School-Linked Services: Promoting Equity for Children, Families, and Communities. Columbia University Press, 2016
The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016
Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017

CHILDREN’S NONFICTION

1,000 Facts about Ancient Egypt. National Geographic Kids, 2018
1,000 Facts about Insects. National Geographic Kids, 2017
1,000 Facts about the White House. National Geographic Kids, 2017
5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) 3. National Geographic Kids, 2016
The Ultimate Adventure Atlas of Earth. National Geographic Kids, 2015
The Ultimate Globetrotting World Atlas. National Geographic Kids, 2014
The Ultimate Space Atlas. National Geographic Kids, 2016

CULINARY

Drink It In: Wine Guide of Western Colorado. Grand Junction Media, 2013
Momma’s Treasures. Brown Books, 2015
Sweet Noshings: New Twists on Traditional Jewish Baking. Rock Point, 2016.

CULTURAL STUDIES

— Americas

Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa. Lexington Books, 2018
Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance. University of Oklahoma Press, 2019
Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture. Harvard University Press, 2015
Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project. University of North Carolina Press, 2015
Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela. Northwestern University Press, 2018
Revelation in Aztlán: Scriptures, Utopias, and the Chicano Movement. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity.University of Arizona Press, 2019

— Asia

The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016
Chinese History and Culture: Sixth Century B.C.E. to Twentieth Century, Volumes 1 & 2. Columbia University Press, 2016
Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2018
Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene. Harvard University Press, 2015

— Europe/Russia

An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018

— Pacific

Making the Modern Primitive: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016.
The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration. University of Minnesota Press, 2016

ENVIRONMENT

Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics. Lexington Books, 2015
Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age. Beacon Press, 2018
Isles of Amnesia: The History, Geography, and Restoration of America’s Forgotten Pacific Islands (A Latitude 20 Book). University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015.
Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution. Beacon Press, 2017
As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. Beacon Press, 2019
Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation.Harvard University Press, 2016
What Really Causes Global Warming?: Greenhouse Gases or Ozone Depletion. Morgan James Publishing, 2015
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century. Beacon Press, 2018

GENDER STUDIES

— Body Politics

Abuses of the Erotic: Militarizing Sexuality in the Post-Cold War United States. University of California Press, 2019
Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative. University of Arizona Press, 2019
Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016
Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017
The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017
Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice. Beacon Press, 2018

— Equal Rights

Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016. University of Nebraska Press, 2018
Defining and Measuring Women’s Global Political Empowerment. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan. Rutgers University Press, 2019

— Work

Out to Work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015
Perspectives of Five Kuwaiti Women in Leadership Roles: Feminism, Islam, and Politics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019
Soap Suds Row: Bold Lives of Army Laundresses, 1802-1876. High Plains Press, 2016.
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. University of Nebraska Press, 2019
Women Warriors: An Unexpected History. Beacon Press, 2019

GENEALOGY

Lycoming Lineage. Lycoming County Genealogical Society, 2002-2017
Purcell Family of America Genealogical Association (PFA), 2017

HEALTH and MEDICINE

Brain Rules for Aging Well. Pear Press, 2017
The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems. Cambridge University Press, 2018
Caring for the People of the Clouds: Aging and Dementia in Oaxaca. University of Oklahoma Press, 2019
Culture and Occupation: Effectiveness for Occupational Therapy Practice, Education, and Research, 3rd edition. American Occupational Therapy Association, 2016.
Reference Guide to the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics. American Occupational Therapy Association, 2016
The Urban Herbalist: A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Midwest Cities. StoryBridge Books, 2019

LAND POLITICS

Becoming Landowners: Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016
Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán. University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016
The Pacific Basin: An Introduction. Routledge, 2017
Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A tale at the crossroads of commons and closure, of love and terror, of race and class, and of Kate and Ned Despard. University of California Press, 2019
Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959. Harvard University Press, 2016
Voices from Bears Ears: Seeking Common Ground on Sacred Land. University of Arizona, 2018
Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017

LEGAL STUDIES

Back from the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016
The Continent of International Law: Explaining Agreement Design. Cambridge University Press, 2016
Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform. Duke University Press, 2018
The Jurisprudence of Style: A Structuralist History of American Pragmatism and Liberal Legal Thought. Cambridge University Press, 2018
Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core. Cambridge University Press, 2019
Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction. Beacon Press, 2018
Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent. Cambridge University Press, 2017

LITERARY STUDIES

— Author and Title Studies

Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit. Rowman and Littlefield, 2019
On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan. University of Michigan Press, 2017
Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood under the Sign of Frankenstein. Northwestern University Press, 2018
The Philosophy of Piers Plowman: The Ethics and Epistemology of Love. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
T. S. Eliot, France, and the Mind of Europe. Cambridge Scholars, 2015
Understanding Louise Erdrich. University of South Carolina, 2015

— ‘Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas’ Series (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)

Monsters of Contact: Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
Tonkawa Texts: A New Linguistic Edition. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
World-Making Stories: Maidu Language and Community Renewal on a Shared California Landscape. University of Nebraska Press, 2017

— Regional – Asia

An Anthology of Traditional Korean Literature.University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017
From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea.Harvard Asia, 2017
“Guiguzi,” China’s First Treatise on Rhetoric: A Critical Translation and Commentary. Southern Illinois University Press, 2016
Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014
Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016
Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015

— Regional – Europe

Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, and the Second World War. Northwestern University Press, 2018
The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire. Harvard University Press, 2016
The Turkic Peoples in Medieval Arabic Writings. Routledge, 2014

— Regional – World

Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures. Harvard University Press, 2015
World Philology. Harvard University Press, 2015

MISC

Creating a Streaming Video Collection for Your Library. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
Southern Elevator & Electric Supply Catalog, 2018

MUSEUMS

The Dukes County Intelligencer (now the MVM Quarterly). Martha’s Vineyard Museum. 1959-2018 (214 issues)
Glory, Trouble and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology. University of Nebraska Press, 2018

PERFORMING ARTS

Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela. Northwestern University Press, 2018

— Music

Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer. University of California Press, 2018
Ghost Riders in the Sky: The Life of Stan Jones, the Singing Ranger. Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2014
Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul: Nation and Community in the Era of Reform. Indiana University Press, 2016
Hearing the Future: The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015
In Their Own Words: Slave Life and the Power of Spirituals. MorningStar Music Publishing, 2016
National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered. Routledge, 2017
Vox Humana: Essays about the World of the Pipe Organ and Those Who Play It. Morningstar Music Publishing, 2017

POLITICS of GOVERNMENT

Building the Nation: Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Potomac Books, An imprint of University of Nebraska Press, 2018
The Evolution and Legitimacy of International Security Institutions. Cambridge University Press, 2016
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016
The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015
James Madison Legacy Project. Center for Civic Education, 2016.
The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality. Cambridge University Press, 2015
Solidarity in Practice: A Moral Protest and the US Security State. Cambridge University Press, 2018

RELIGION and THEOLOGY

— Buddhism

Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014
The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017

— Catholicism

In Service of Two Masters: The Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous Resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru. Stanford University Press, 2018
Our Divine Double. Harvard University Press, 2016
Patriot Priests: French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I. University of Oklahoma Press, 2017
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church. Harvard University Press, 2018

— Islam

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue. Harvard University Press, 2015
The Lives of Muhammad. Harvard University Press, 2014
Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium. University of California Press, 2017
Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies. Harvard University Press, 2015

— Misc.

A Complete History of Methodism as Connected with the Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Volumes III & IV: 1846 -1869. Commission on Archives and History, 2015
Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power. Harvard University Press, 2015
Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. Dancing Chiva Literary Arts, 2013

SPORTS

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018
Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
Football For a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018
One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime. University of Nebraska Press, 2019

URBAN STUDIES

City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang’an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China. University of Hawai‘i
Press, 2015
Firefighting in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741-1917. Perseverance Publishing, 2017
Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis. MIT Press, 2019
Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland. University of North Carolina Press, 2015
Stigma Cities: The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince. University of California Press, 2018

WAR

— Africa

Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North. Yale University Press, 2017
Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions. Ohio University Press, 2017

— Asia

China’s War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance Against Japan. Harvard University Press, 2014
Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World. Harvard University Press, 2014
Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016
In the Year of the Tiger The War for Cochinchina, 1945-1951. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018

— Europe

Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves.University of Washington Press, 2016
Patriot Priests: French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I. University of Oklahoma Press, 2017
Spying for Wellington: British Military Intelligence in the Peninsular War (Campaigns and Commanders Series). University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
Unlikely Heroes: The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching.University of Nebraska Press, 2019

— Middle East

Recognition as Key for Reconciliation: Israel, Palestine, and Beyond. Brill Press, 2018