A selection of recently released works by our esteemed educators.
Across the Horizon
Professor of Guitar Nicholas Goluses’s 10th album—recorded entirely at the Eastman School of Music—features a rich collection of mostly solo works by 20th- and 21st-century composers from around the globe, including Bill Dobbins, a professor emeritus of jazz studies and contemporary media at Eastman. (PARMA Recordings)
Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz
Assistant Professor of Black Studies Karma Frierson examines how Veracruzanos both internalize and externalize the centrality of Blackness in a place where it is an integral and celebrated part of local culture and history, but not of the individual self. (University of California Press)
New Story of the Stone
Liz Evans Weber, an assistant professor of instruction in Chinese who teaches Chinese literature, presents a full English translation of one of China’s first works of science fiction, written by late Qing author Wu Jianren. (Columbia University Press)
Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain
Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics Christine Slobogin shows the key role that drawings and photographs had in shaping the material, professional, emotional, and aesthetic parameters of plastic surgery. (University of Rochester Press/Boydell & Brewer)
A Romantic Symphony: The Autobiography of Howard Hanson
Compiled and edited by Eastman School historian and Professor Emeritus of Piano Vincent Lenti ’60E, ’62E (MA) from manuscript sources, the book provides valuable insight into the life and work of an important American composer, conductor, and educator. (Meliora Press)
The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political Family
The Arthur R. Miller Professor Emeritus of History Thomas P. Slaughter unveils the inner lives of one of the most important political families of the 19th century. The book, centered on William Henry Seward, draws from recently discovered correspondence as well as research by generations of URochester students. (Three Hills)
Steering the Senate: The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789–2024
Shedding new light on the invention of Senate floor leadership, Professor of Political Science and of History Gerald Gamm has coauthored the first-ever study to examine the development of the chamber’s main governing institutions. This includes how the position of floor leader was invented in 1890 and strengthened over time. (Cambridge University Press)
Understanding Time and Space
Subtitled “an invitation to the theory of relativity for anyone who is now, or has ever been, an inquisitive high school student,” economics professor Steven Landsburg’s latest book illuminates and demystifies the theory through repeated analogies with familiar everyday experience. (World Scientific)
This story appears in the fall 2025 issue of Rochester Review, the magazine of the University of Rochester.
