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Anita Casavantes-Bradford

Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States
Book by Anita Casavantes Bradford, UCI Chicano/Latino studies and history professor, examines history of U.S. policy toward unaccompanied children from around the globe

Jeanett Castellanos

Riding the Academic Freedom Train: A Culturally Responsive, Multigenerational Mentoring Model
Book by Jeanett Castellanos, UCI social sciences professor of teaching, presents framework to help students - particularly underrepresented and first-generation undergrads - thrive

Sara Goodman

Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID
Book by Sara Wallace Goodman, UCI political science professor, examines role, consequences of politics in America's pandemic response

Edwin Amenta

Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News
Book by UCI sociologist Edwin Amenta analyzes more than a century of digitized news to highlight how journalists reported on hundreds of causes, and the consequences of their coverage

Eleana Kim

Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ
Book by Eleana Kim, UCI anthropology professor, explores how nature has flourished where human diplomacy has failed
 

Charles Anthony Smith

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses
Book coauthored by UCI political science professor Charles Anthony Smith centers women's rights as critical piece in policy solutions aimed at combatting global issue
 

Jeffrey Kopstein

Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust
Book coauthored by UCI political science professor Jeffrey Kopstein examines key questions of the Holocaust using tools, methods from political science, sociology, demography and public health

Yang Su

Deadly Decision in Beijing
Book by UCI sociologist Yang Su dives into succession politics, protest repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre from a new perspective
 
 
 
 
 

David Snow

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
Five-volume reference work co-edited by UCI sociologist David Snow updated to include more than 200 new cultural and political developments of the past decade

Damien Sojoyner

Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums
Book by UCI anthropologist Damien Sojoyner is a poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future

Michael McBride

Coaching Youth Baseball and Softball with Sabermetrics
Book by UCI economics professor Michael McBride breaks down applied sabermetrics in an easy-to-use, no-math-required guide for assessing, developing and advancing youth players and teams