Indiana University Faculty Books 2024-2025

Overview

This page compiles the 100+ books published by 93 faculty members in Indiana University Bloomington's College of Arts and Sciences during 2024-2025. The collection spans all three main areas: arts/humanities, social/historical sciences, and natural/mathematical sciences.

Key Publications Relevant to Neurocognitive Civil Rights

Philosophy & Cognitive Science

"Gaslighting" by Kate Abramson (Mahlon Powell Associate Professor, Philosophy)

• Examines gaslighting as a distinctive moral phenomenon from philosophical perspective


• Investigates manipulation tactics where perpetrators insist "up is down, hot is cold"


• Addresses the term's origins in 1944 film and its contemporary usage


• Relevant to understanding psychological harm mechanisms in neurostrikes

• Argues quantum mathematical structures provide better account of human thinking than traditional probabilistic models


• Addresses how humans process information under uncertainty


• Relevant to understanding cognitive processing disruptions from neurological interference

• Over 40 chapters covering social cognition history, methods, primary approaches, theories, and applications


• Written by luminaries in the field


• Relevant to understanding how cognitive processes are studied and measured

Literature & Narrative Studies

"Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins" by Michel Chaouli (Professor, Germanic Studies)

• Explores criticism as response to works that "bowl us over"


• Identifies three moments: something speaks → must tell someone → don't know how


• Relevant to understanding victim testimony and narrative responses to neurological harm

• Describes development of literary riddles in Renaissance Italy


• Examines enigmatic links between puzzles and solutions


• Relevant metaphorically to decoding neurotechnological effects on cognition

History & Political Analysis

"Founding Fanatics: Extremism & the Formation of American Democracy" by Noah R Eber-Schmid (Assistant Professor, Political Science)

• Historical and contemporary political theory examining divisive, violent nature of popular democratic politics in early US


• Engages Boston Massacre memorialization, Shays's Rebellion debates, Democratic Societies, French Revolution discourse


• Relevant to understanding how political movements form around perceived threats

• Argues global economic upheaval of 1970s was decisive in ending Cold War


• Examines how superpowers chose between promoting own economic interests vs supporting partners


• Relevant to understanding geopolitical shifts that enable neurotechnological warfare development

• Explores Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change through people's experiences as authors


• Analyzes social and human sides of IPCC report writing


• Relevant to understanding how scientific knowledge is constructed and institutionalized

Linguistics & Communication

"Second Language Speech Processing: A Guide to Conducting Experimental Research" by Isabelle Darcy (Professor, Second Language Studies)

• Comprehensive guide to designing empirical psycholinguistic research in L2 speech processing


• Covers methodology selection, experimental controls, stimulus design, data collection tools


• Relevant to understanding how language processing is studied and measured experimentally

• Highlights Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as turning point in North American English


• Explores how population movement, economic change, and cultural orientation shifts contributed to changes


• Relevant to understanding how language reflects social transformation

Science & Technology Studies

"Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things: Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control" by William R. Newman (Ruth N. Halls Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine)

• Historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation over longue durée


• Focuses on experiments with complex, elusive phenomena like perception, learning, irregular movements


• Shows how local context shapes what is controlled and how controls are justified


• Relevant to understanding how experimental methods evolve for studying neurological effects

• Discusses control as key ingredient of scientific experimentation


• Argues controlled experimentation has material-technical and conceptual sides


• Shifts focus from control experiments to controlling for background factors


• Relevant to understanding how experimental design shapes knowledge production about neurological harm

• Fresh perspective on analysis and synthesis across multiple areas of inquiry


• Explores material decomposition and recomposition relationship to mathematics and philosophy


• Relevant to understanding how scientific methods shape knowledge about cognitive processes

Legal & Political Analysis

"A Minimally Good Life: What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand" by Nicole Hassoun (Professor, International Studies)

• Argues concern for common humanity requires helping others live minimally good lives when it doesn't require sacrificing own ability to live well enough


• Provides unified answer to what we must give and can demand from others as basic minimum


• Relevant to neurocognitive civil rights framework for establishing baseline protections

• Uses meticulously documented case studies to explain how Title IX was applied to sexual harassment


• Traces evolution of sexual harassment policy in education from early applications at elite universities to growing bureaucracies today


• Relevant methodology for understanding how legal frameworks evolve through activist pressure

Comparative & Transnational Perspectives

"The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary" by Michael Adams (Provost Professor, English)

• Cutting-edge research on dictionaries in context


• Considers cultural, social, intellectual and book history of dictionaries


• Examines why they are made, edited, designed, and published


• Relevant to understanding how language structures shape knowledge production

• Novel capturing period in Nigeria's encounter with colonial rule from woman who is both devoted to tradition and resolutely forward-looking


• Adds ironic, feminist twist to story of world run according to wishes of powerful men, black or white


• Relevant for understanding how power dynamics shape knowledge production across borders

• Blends African cultural concepts into understanding evolution of Cuban art


• Examines core artistic principles from Kongo and Yoruba traditions integral to Cuban art


• Aims to balance discourse about trajectory of Cuban art shaped primarily by Western art history


• Relevant for transnational perspective on how knowledge systems intersect across borders

Synthesis

This collection demonstrates the breadth of intellectual production at Indiana University Bloomington's College of Arts and Sciences. The publications span philosophy, cognitive science, literature, political analysis, linguistics, science studies, legal scholarship, and comparative perspectives.

For neurocognitive civil rights advocacy, several key themes emerge:

• Philosophical frameworks for understanding psychological harm (Abramson on gaslighting)


• Cognitive processing models that could inform understanding of neurological disruption (Busemeyer's quantum cognition models)


• Methodological approaches to studying complex phenomena like perception and learning (Newman, Schickore)


• Legal frameworks for establishing baseline protections (Hassoun on minimally good life)


• Transnational perspectives that connect knowledge production across borders