Book Launch Series

The Fox Center book launch series celebrates the publication of new monographs by Emory faculty in the humanities. If you have a book coming out soon, we’d love to hear from you! Priority will be given to first books.

Each of our launches puts an author in conversation with 1-2 faculty members from other disciplines. We envisage these events not only as opportunities to celebrate the exciting new research produced by our faculty, but also as a means of building connections and friendships across fields and departments. 

Depending on the author’s preferences, our team will partner with the author's home department to confirm the venue, organize catering, help coordinate appropriate respondents, and strategize promotions to the author's desired audience. All book launches are photographed by a member of our team and will be recapped on Fox Center social media channels. 

If you have a forthcoming book and would like us to organize a book launch for your work, please send an email to Director Carla Freeman and Associate Director Mae Velloso-Lyons. 

• Clifton Crais, History - The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World (The University of Chicago Press, 2025)
• Gyanendra Pandey, History - Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Duke University Press, 2025)
• Lynne Huffer, Philosophy - These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction (Duke University Press, 2025)
• Celia Campbell, Classics - Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024)
• Rune Nyord, Art History - Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025)
• Cynthia Blakeley, Institute for the Liberal Arts: The Innermost House, A Memoir (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024) [Cosponsorship]
• Maria Montalvo, History – Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past (JHU Press, 2024) Read open access edition here
• Ruby Lal, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies – Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan(Yale University Press, 2024)
• Geoffrey Levin, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies – Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 (Yale University Press, 2023) 
• Jo Guldi, Quantitative Theory and Methods – The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
• Dan Sinykin, English – Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature (Columbia University Press, 2023)