Recent Faculty Publications

Forthcoming “Personhood in African Philosophy and the Possibility of Social, Psychological, and Cognitive Science” in Paul Hackett, Mirian Ngozi Alike, Husein Inusah, and Ava Gordely-Smith, eds., African Philosophical Perspectives on Qualitative Psychological and Social Science Research. Routledge.

Forthcoming “Thad Metz, Meaning as Fundamentality, and African Philosophy” in Motsamai Molefe et al eds., Thaddeus Metz.

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“Orality as Philosophical Performance” in Anke Graness, ed., Orality and Philosophy.

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Salter, Anastasia. Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? University of Chicago Press (In Production, October 2025).

Johnson, Emily Kuzneski. "What Video Games Can Tell Us About Interactive Technical Communication." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (2025): https://doi.org/10.1177/00472816251371625 

Scot A. French, “A ‘Forceful and Effective’ Leader: Reginald D. Butler’s Intellectual Legacy as Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute, 1996–2005,” in Reginald D. Butler, The Evolution of a Free Black Community, ed. Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press (August 2025): 189-216.

Watson, Keri. “Barefoot Boys and Smiling Girls: Re-Reading Eudora Welty’s Photographs of Childhood." Eudora Welty Review 17 (2025): 101–150.

Lewandowsky, Stephan, et al. The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding. 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15510834

Watson, Keri. “A Vital National Expression? The Covering of New Deal-Era Post Office Murals.” Source: Notes in the History of Art 44, no. 3 (2025): 206–215.

Stanfill, Mel. 2025. “Against ‘Toxic Fandom’: Fans, Harassment, and the Culture Wars.” In Participatory Culture Wars: Controversy, Conflict and Complicity in Fandom, edited by Simone Driessen, Bethan Jones and Benjamin Litherland. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Sullivan, Anne, Mel Stanfill, Anastasia Salter, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. 2025. “Form and Function: Toward a Better Understanding of Design-Based Games.” In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 1–16. FDG ’25. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3723498.3723814. 

Johnson, Emily K., and Anastasia Salter. Critical Making in the Age of AI. Amherst College Press, 2025. ISBN 978-1-943208-96-8 (Open Access). https://services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/C/Critical-Making-in-the-Age-of-AI3

Johnson, Emily, and Anastasia Salter. Critical Making in the Age of AI. Amherst College Press (In Production, April 2025).

“Agents of Modernity in Late Imperial France and Africa,” introduction with W. Brian Newsome of “Forum on Modernization in France and Africa,” Historical Reflections, 50.1 (2025), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2025.510101. Served as guest editor of the forum. 

“Expertise in the Age of Development: Gender, Race, and French Social Programs in Newly Independent Francophone West Africa,” Historical Reflections, 50.1 (2025), 48-67. https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2025.510104.

Nikolaidis, A., Beever, J., Kissel, J., Kuebler, S.M., Pinkert, L.A.. (Feb 2025).  “The Moral Limits of Professional Ethics Enculturation” International Journal of Ethics Education.

Matteson, David, Keri Watson and Gisela Carbonell. “Curating for Peace and Justice in Times of Crisis.” Art Education 78, no. 1 (2025): 47–53.

Beever, J. & Morar, N. (Jan 2025). “The Moral Status of Mark Bernstein.” Animal Thinkers: Celebrating the Pioneers of Animal Ethics (ed. C. Linzey)

Salter, Anastasia. “Tame, Suggestive, and Lewd: Early Erotic Play Encoded in Leather Goddesses of Phobos.” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies, edited by Matthew Wysocki and Steffi Shook. Bloomsbury, forthcoming January 2025.

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Hi Vi Mitz Mak a Be o Ta, Honoring the Historic Footprints of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Warriors at Fort Marion, 1875–1878 (ISBN: 978-0-9863466-3-7), 2024.

Beever, J. & Morar, N. (Nov 2024). “When the Outside Becomes Inside: Causal and Constitutive Environmental Relations in Bioethics.” Oxford Handbook of Environmental Bioethics. (Ed. C. Richie)

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Hi Vi Mitz Mak a Be o Ta, Honoring the Historic Footprints of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Warriors at Fort Marion, 1875–1878 (ISBN: 978-0-9863466-3-7), 2024. Editorial Manager and contributor.