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In A Prescription for Change, Michael Kinch, associate vice chancellor and director of the Center for Research Innovation in Biotechnology, tells about the looming crisis in the pharmaceutical industry.

Sowande’ M. Mustakeem takes the Middle Passage — the terrifying boat trip that African slaves took to the Americas — as her topic in Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage.

Kedron Thomas, assistant professor of anthropology, studies how the fashion industry is regulated, particularly for the Maya people of Guatemala who make fashion knockoffs of name-brand styles.

Alexander Stefaniak examines previously unexplored archival sources to explore the diverse approach to virtuosity of one of the greatest composers – and music critics – of the Romantic era.

“No contemporary poetry quite seduces like the work of the inimitable Carl Phillips,” writes Lisa Russ Spaar in the Los Angeles Review of Books about Reconnaissance, a collection of poems by Carl Phillips, professor of English in Arts & Sciences.

Being located close to the geographical center of the United States carries with it the burden of balancing the theoretical investigations of the East Coast with the formal sculpturalism of the West Coast. The radical experiments in education that Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim carry out at Washington University in Saint Louis express the […]

Roy Sorensen, professor of philosophy, brings logic problems, riddles, puzzles and paradoxes to life in this book full of anecdotes and puzzles.

Craig A. Monson, ­emeritus professor in music in Arts & Sciences, sifted through more than 4,000 pages of primary texts in order to tell the tale of two nuns who fled Bologna’s convent for reformed prostitutes in 1644. The ensuing scandal touched priests, nobles, cardinals, a king and even the pope.

In prose that blends personal narrative and historical research with folklore and myth, Edward McPherson, the assistant professor of creative writing, takes a new look at America in a series of essays that point to our need for a moral imperative of preservation if we want to have any future at all.

William Paul, professor of film and media studies in Arts & Sciences, discusses how changing technologies have changed how we consume and understand films.