The book “Still Lives: Physical Disability and Late Style in Romantic-era Women’s Writing" will reveal how a set of female authors who experienced chronic illness and physical disability render palpable that experience as stillness, an acute awareness of debility both in time and past the time for a cure.

“A Grammar of 'Onk Akimel O'odham.” The ’Onk Akimel O’odham language, or simply O'odham, is one of the two languages (along with Piipaash/Maricopa) spoken by the Native American people of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC), one of several tribes neighboring ASU. O'odham is an endangered language. The community has undertaken intensive action to revitalize O'odham, with the aim of providing a rich set of learning tools for the next generation of speakers. This book project describes the grammatical structure of the O'odham language.

 “‘We’ve Got Black Power and That’s Gonna Go a Long Way:’ Ruth Jefferson and the National Welfare Rights Organization in Dallas.” This journal article will tell the story of black welfare rights activist Ruth Jefferson of the National Welfare Rights Organization in Dallas, who successfully altered welfare practices in Texas when she filed suit against the Department of Public Welfare for violating federal law when the state lowered welfare benefits for Aid to Families with Dependent Children beneficiaries.

“Apologia and Redemption. Representations of Ordinary Germans in Contemporary Films on World War II and the Holocaust.” A painful aspect of coming to terms with the Nazi past is the realization that ordinary Germans — for many Germans, their parents or grandparents — were complicit in war crimes and genocide. Reaching massive audiences, contemporary German TV productions tackle this uncomfortable truth by featuring protagonists who become murderers. Yet, for today’s viewers to embrace these flawed characters as their kin, these productions wrap their crimes into apologetic narratives.

From the Eastern bloc to Latin America, a wide range of dissenting artists, intellectuals and human-rights activists experimented with a new concept in the 1970s and '80s: a set of ideas and practices known as “antipolitics.” “The Antipolitical Imagination: Literature, Dissent, and Human Rights" is the first book project to provide a literary history of the cultural turn to antipolitics, from its earliest theorists and practitioners up through the end of the global Cold War.

“Probability on Trial: Making Sense of Arguments and Stories” is the first book-length philosophical examination of legal probabilism, an interdisciplinary research program that aims to harness the powers of probability to analyze, model and improve the evaluation of evidence and the process of decision-making in trial proceedings. The book examines, from a probabilistic perspective, how arguments and stories guide the interpretation of the evidence presented at trial.