Books

The U.S. process for granting asylum is complex, exhausting, and often degrading for women who are escaping untenable situations. It needs to change.

Since 1989, more than 3,000 people have been exonerated after being wrongly convicted. In his new book, The Politics of Innocence: How Wrongful Convictions Shape Public Opinion (New York University Press, September 2023), Robert J. Norris, associate professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, and his coauthors explore the political dynamics that shape the innocence movement.

Are we meta yet? A book about AI is cowritten by AI, along with Schar School associate professor Alan R. Shark, who teaches technology policy in government. AI created that intimidating cover, too.

Mason Creative Writing Professor Tania James is having an amazing year. Since her novel Loot was released by Knopf in June 2023, the accolades haven’t stopped.

Karen Trister Grace, assistant professor in the School of Nursing, discusses the emphasis of person-centered care in latest release on “Prenatal and Postnatal Care: A Person-Centered Approach, 3rd Edition” textbook. 

Nationalism you know about. But “economic nationalism” cements the ideology in wide-ranging policy. Schar School Professor Kenneth Reinert’s new book examines the topic from all angles.

If popular movies are to be believed, penitentiaries are run by ruthless dictators with little concern for those they govern. A new Schar School book by Christopher Berk shows the reasons behind it—and what might be done to change it in the future.

Lobbying for nonprofit organizations has always been a political balancing act. But a new study indicates that when advocacy is limited, so is influence. The solution may be in educating those who make decisions for nonprofits.

In her new book, Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death (Cornell University Press, January 2023), Mason anthropology professor Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons.

Alumna Sandra Cauffman and her work in NASA is featured in the children's book Women in Engineering, which is the fourth book in the Science Wide Open: Women in STEM series.