Faculty Publications
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West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (November 2016). Finalist for Albert J. Raboteau Prize in Africana Religions.
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Winner of the American Academy of Religion Award, "Best First Book in the History of Religions," 2000.
The First Pariah State: How the Proslavery Confederacy Menaced the World (Princeton University Press, 2026).
Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).
Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Peoples, and the Birth of the Nation (2018)
The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity, co-edited with Charles Stocking, London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019 (Chinese translation, Beijing United Publishing Company, 2019); Turkish translation forthcoming.
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Making Sister Julie: The Origins of World War I French Nursing Heroines in Franco-Prussian War Stories in Alison Fell and Christine Hallett, eds., First World War Nursing: Visions and Revisions , forthcoming from Routledge.
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Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus (Rutgers Uinversity Press 1987).
"Antitrust in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952: Complicating the 'Reverse Course' View," Journal of American-East Asian Relations, vol. 33, no. 1 (2026), pp. 1-30.
“Ritual, Space and Authority in Seventeenth-century English Cathedral Cities,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History , 32:4 (Spring 2002).
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Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2024). [E-book access for those with library/institutional subscriptions.]
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"Louis IX's letter to the French of August 1250 (Part 1): a new edition and translation." Crusades 25 (2026).
"Louis IX's letter to the French of August 1250 (Part 2): its context and historiographical impact." Crusades 25 (2026).
With Jonathan Phillips, Andrew Jotischky, and Thomas Madden. Cambridge History of the Crusades. 3 volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
"An Unholly Alliace," Aeon Magazine (2025)
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Small-Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
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- “Death and the Spanish Habsburgs,” paper presented at the Monarchies Symposium, (October 1990)
- The Trial of Charles I. A Documentary History , edited with C. T. Wood, (1989).
- ATLAS (a graphics management program) co-developed with L. Spitzer and the Courseware Development Group, (1986).
- “Furió Ceriol y la ‘Pragmática de las cortesías’,” Estudis, 8 (1979-1980) 87-104.
- “Furió Ceriol y sus ‘Avisos acerca de los Estados Bajos’,” Bulletin Hispanique, 80 (1978) 88-107.
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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance, (2008).
"The Warner Experiment: A Hybrid Commonwealth in the Lesser Antillean Sugar Frontier," in The Carib, Kalinago, and Garifuna Peoples: Indigeneity, Hybridization, and Mobility in the Americas. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2026.
EDITED VOLUME: Edward Miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, eds. The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War. Volume I: Origins (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.
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"Law's Afterlife: Fiscal Jurisprudence in Eighth-Century Iraq." In Contending with Modernity: Approaches to Wael Hallaq's Project, ed. Omar Farahat. Oneworld Academic (forthcoming)
"Land in Medias Res: Environmental History and Fiqh." Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists (forthcoming)
"The Political as Method: Toward a Postcolonial Political Theology of Islam." In Political Theology Reimagined, ed. Alex Dubilet and Vincent Lloyd, 128-141. Duke University Press, 2025.
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BOOKS:
Rethinking American Women's Activism (Routledge, 2014).
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The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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“Family and History Mix during a Fulbright Year: A personal and intellectual Journey in Ghana,” Perspectives Daily, (September 2021) in Perspectives on History, Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association
“Connecting decolonization in Africa and the US Civil Rights Movement,” World History Project, Bill Gates Foundation, (Summer 2020)
“Reframing Yaa Asantewaa through the Shifting Paradigms of African Historiography,” in The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories, ed. Janell C. Hobson, (Routledge, 2021), 236-244.
"Women’s International Alliances in an Emergent Ghana." Journal of West African History, 4:1 (2018), 27-56.
“The Ghana Trades Union Congress and the Politics of International Labor Alliances, 1957–1971.” International Review of Social History, 62:2 (2017), 191-213.
“Decolonization, Cold War Dynamics and Nation Building in Ghana-Asia Relations: 1957- 1966.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 49:1 (2016), 235-253.
The Politics of Chieftaincy: Authority and Property in Colonial Ghana, 1920-1950 (University of Rochester Press, Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Series, 2014).
“The Politics of Land and Urban Space in Colonial Accra,” History in Africa, 39 (2012): 293-329.
"Persecuted by the Unknowing: The Swesteren and Lollards of the Low Countries and Lower Rhine, c. 1290 – c. 1350. Part One: The Clementine Decretals Against Lay Religious." Oliviana: Mouvements et dissidences spirituels XIIIe – XIVe siècles, 7 (2023) [online, URL: http://journals.openedition.org/oliviana/1548].
"Persecuted by the Unknowing: The Swesteren and Lollards of the Low Countries and Lower Rhine, c. 1290 – c. 1350. Part Two: The Ecclesiastical Campaign Against the Swesteren and Lollards." Oliviana: Mouvements et dissidences spirituels XIIIe – XIVe siècles, 7 (2023) [online, URL: http://journals.openedition.org/oliviana/1563].
"Persecuted by the Unknowing: The Swesteren and Lollards of the Low Countries and Lower Rhine, c. 1290 – c. 1350. Part Three: The Doctrine of the Swesteren and Lollards, and the Relationship to Meister Eckhart's Thought." Oliviana: Mouvements et dissidences spirituels XIIIe – XIVe siècles, 7 (2023) [online, URL: http://journals.openedition.org/oliviana/1568].
"Persecuted by the Unknowing: The Swesteren and Lollards of the Low Countries and Lower Rhine, c. 1290 – c. 1350. Part Four: Catalogue of Houses (Swesteren, Lollards, Beghards)." Oliviana: Mouvements et dissidences spirituels XIIIe – XIVe siècles, 7 (2023) [online, URL: http://journals.openedition.org/oliviana/1573].
Forthcoming. "Witnessing and Poetic Receptions of the Experience of War: Homer, Doug Anderson, and Jehanne Dubrow," In Just Classics. Edited by E. Perry and D. Machado, University of Michigan Press.
2024. "Gender, Class, and Slavery in Plautus' Rudens in 1884 St. Louis," CJ 119: 413-438.
2023. "Seeing Fotis: Slavery and Gender in Apuleius' Metamorphoses," CA 42: 195–228.
2019. with Dominic Machado, "Progress and Precarity: 150 Years of TAPA," TAPA 149
Supplement: 39-60.
2019. "Seeing Caesar's Symbols: Religious Implements on the Coins of Julius Caesar and His
Successors," in Concordia Disciplinarum: Essays on Coinage, Ancient History, and Archaeology in Honor of William E. Metcalf. Edited by N. Elkins and J. DeRose Evans (American Numismatic Society publications) 107-119.
2015. "Ancient Narratives and Modern War Stories: Reading Homer with Combat Veterans," Amphora 12.1: 1-3, 20-21.
Monographs:
Crafted in Stone: A History of the Worshipful Company of Masons of the City of London (London, 2023)
The Book of Arnold fitz Thedmar. Under contract with Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
A History of the British Leather Industry, forthcoming.
Peer reviewed articles:
'The Leathersellers' College, Bermondsey: A National Centre for Technical Education in Leather Manufacturing', The London Journal (2027).
'Huguenots, Whigs and the Remodelling of the Masons' Company, 1680-1740', Huguenot Society Journal, 35 (2022), 34-51.
'Connections and Collaborations Between Centres of Historical Writing in Thirteenth-Century London and Southwark', Mediaeval Studies, 79 (2017), 205-47.
'Arnold fitz Thedmar: Identity, Politics and the City of London in the Thirteenth Century', The London Journal, vol. 40, No. 2 (Jul., 2015), 106-122.
'The Rebel Barons of 1264 and the Commune of London: An Oath of Mutual Aid', English Historical Review, vol. 129, No. 536 (Feb., 2014), 1-18.
Peer-reviewed chapters:
'Writing Civic History in London, Cologne and Genoa', in Thirteenth-Century England XVII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference 2017, eds. A.M. Spencer & C.S. Watkins (Woodbridge, 2021), 181-210.
Resources:
'Arnold fitz Thedmar', Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.
'Southwark Annals', Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.
'Thomas and Edward Strong, master masons', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
'Walter Hervey, mayor of London', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
'Andrew Bukerel, merchant and mayor of London', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Book reviews:
Huffman, J.P., The Imperial City of Cologne: From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis (19 B.C.-1125 A.D.), (Amsterdam, 2018), Urban History, vol. 47, No. 1 (Feb., 2020), 173-74.
Liddy, C.D., Contesting the City: The Politics of Citizenship in English Towns, 1250–1530 (Oxford, 2017), Speculum, vol. 94, No. 3 (Jul., 2019), 856-57.
Biebrach, R., Church Monuments in South Wales, c.1200-1547 (Woodbridge, 2017), Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, vol. XX, (2019), 93-95.
Soyoung Suh, Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017) Harvard East Asian Monograph Series, 404.
"Modeling Man, Discounting Humanity," Isis 117, no. 1 (2026): 131-137.
With Gregg Mitman, eds. "Introduction -- Trading in Primates: Post/colonial Ecologies of Extraction, Conservation, and Care," Focus Section, Isis 117, no. 1 (2026): 120-122.
"Between Simians and Cell Lines: Rhesus Monkeys, Polio Research, and the Geopolitics of Tissue Culture (1934–1954)," Journal of the History of Biology 55, no. 1 (2022): 115-146.
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"Introduction Into the Works of the Sociologist, L G Ionina," in Russian Metamorphoses: Cultural Transformation and Social Changes , L G Ionin Lewiston, (1999) iii-xii.