Our Publications
Desert Humanities develops collaborative interdisciplinary off-beat projects that get people thinking about the desert. Most publications are printed in house using a Risograph printer, featuring contributions from faculty, graduate students, artists, scientists, and humanists.
One book-sized publication is printed once a year. On average, 2-3 zines are produced per year.

Desert Feelz
"Desert Feelz" (2023) is an illustrated field guide that is “designed to help orient you to the desert, like yoga poses for being with the land.” A collection of short essays and accompanying drawings organized by verb pair prompts designed by the editors (Ron Broglio and Marina Zurkow) such as PERISH/FLOURISH, RUN/STOP, HIDE/EXPOSE. Contributors include artists, geographers, scientists, poets and fiction writers, philosophers, and historians.

Strata
Desert Humanities has launched a crafted, limited edition book series called "Strata" with the first issued book the iconic "Saguaro."
"Saguaro" (2022) includes internationally known artists Mark Klett and Andy Brown, the scientists who sequenced the DNA of the Saguaro—Martin Wojciechowski and Alberto Burquez, Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Rios, cultural scholar of the Akimel O’odham nation David Martinez, among other beautiful contributors.

Strata Minis
Accompanying the Strata book series is an ongoing series of small pamphlets about desert animals. The series commissions a wide range of artists and scientists in the production of mini-zines aimed to educate a broad public about the animals and the environment in the desert southwest. The minis currently available are Sonoran Desert Bees, Chuckwalla, Desert Tortoise, The Community of Randolph, AZ, Burrowing Owls, and Plants of Urban Southwest Rivers.

Sonoran Water
"Sonoran Water" (2021) is an art book by David Blakeman and Jason Bruner. The project uses text and photographs to explore life in the modern Salt River Valley through the waterways that have been made to sustain it.

Geophilia
What’s not to love about rocks? Since there’s so much to love, why not express that affection in the style of a ‘90s Italian teen magazine? Edited by Erika Lynne Hanson, associate professor of art at ASU, this book includes art, prose, and even activities that will expand your geophilia in fun and unexpected ways.