Faculty and students in the Department of Politics combine a deep theoretical framework of political ideas with real-world implications and applications on the personal, national, and global scales.
Below are listed recent faculty publications. For PhD student work, please see Recent Dissertation Titles.
Recent Faculty Books
Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
Sandipto Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of Politics
Cambridge University Press, 2024
States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New
Quentin Bruneau, Assistant Professor of Politics
Columbia University Press, 2022
Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Nancy Fraser, Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science
Verso, 2022
Staging Democracy: Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond
Jessica Pisano, Professor of Politics
Cornell University Press, 2022
Interspecies Politics: Nature, States, Borders
Rafi Youatt, Associate Professor of Politics
University of Michigan Press, 2020
Feminism for the 99%
Nancy Fraser, Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science (co-author)
Verso, 2019
The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay
Mark W. Frazier, Professor of Politics
Cambridge University Press, 2019
Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
Nancy Fraser, Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science (co-author)
Polity, 2018
Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea, From Ancient Athens to Today
James Miller, Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
James Miller, Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies (editor)
Oxford University Press, 2018
The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance
Deva Woodly, Associate Professor of Politics
Oxford University Press, 2015
Counting Species: Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics
Rafi Youatt, Associate Professor of Politics
University of Minnesota Press, 2015