Seventeen faculty members across various departments in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences wrote or edited 19 books last year.
The College continued to uphold its long-standing tradition of celebrating all faculty authors from the previous year at an event at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts on April 13, 2026. Congratulations to the following faculty members for writing or editing a book in 2025:
Paulina Banas, Department of Art and Art History, Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century
Trygve Tollefsbol, Department of Biology, Epigenetics Methods, Second Edition
Samantha J. Shebib, Department of Communication Studies, Why Communication Is Important and How to Be Good at It (First Edition)
Ahmet Atay, Department of Communication Studies, Critical Approaches to Crisis Communication in the Classroom and Higher Education Contexts
Ahmet Atay, Department of Communication Studies, Queer(ing) Communication Studies: Disruptions, Discussion and Pathways
Jeffery T. Walker, J. Frank Barefield, Jr., Department of Criminal Justice, Briefs of Leading Cases in Law Enforcement, Eleventh Edition
Jaclyn Wells, Department of English, Faculty Writing Support: Emerging Research from Rhetoric and Composition Studies
Kerry Madden-Lunsford, Department of English, Werewolf Hamlet
Amy Watson, Department of History, Patriots Before Revolution: The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1714-1763
Steve Miller, Department of History, The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France: Primitive Accumulation and Markets from the Old Regime to the post-WWII Era (paperback edition)
David Chan, Department of Philosophy, Ending Wars Justly: Theory and Applications
Kevin McCain, Department of Philosophy, Evidentialism at 40: New Arguments, New Angles
Kevin McCain, Department of Philosophy, Explanatory Solutions to Skeptical Problems
Gregory Pence, Department of Philosophy, What Went Wrong: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the Future
Brynn Welch, Department of Philosophy, Innovations in Teaching Philosophy: A Toolkit for the 21st Century Classroom
Angela K. Lewis-Maddox, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline
Laurel Iverson Hitchcock, Department of Social Work, 101 Things to Do with a Social Work Degree: Career Pathways Across Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Practice.
Kun Wang, Department of Social Work, ICT use and healthy longevity: Empirical data and perspectives
María Antonia Anderson de la Torre, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Hispanic Pop Culture in Translation
