Books
In addition to editing and co-editing numerous journal issues and books, President Roth has authored seven scholarly books:
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The Student: A Short History
Yale University Press, 2023
President Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students in The Student: A Short History, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present.
The Student: A Short History was published September 12, 2023.
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Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses
Yale University Press, 2019
President Michael S. Roth's seventh book, Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses addresses some of the most contentious issues in American higher education, including affirmative action, safe spaces, and questions of free speech.
Read more information and media coverage about Safe Enough Spaces.
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Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
Yale University Press, 2014
In January 2016, President Michael S. Roth's sixth book, Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, won the Association of American Colleges & Universities' Frederick W. Ness award for a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education.
Read more information and media coverage about Beyond the University.
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Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past
Columbia University Press, 2011
About Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past
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Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed, with Clare Lyons and Charles Merewether
Getty Research Institute, 1997
About Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed, with Clare Lyons and Charles Merewether
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The Ironist’s Cage: Trauma, Memory and the Construction of History
Columbia University Press, 1995
About The Ironist’s Cage: Trauma, Memory and the Construction of History
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Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth Century France
NCROL, 1988
About Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth Century France
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Psycho-Analysis as History: Negation and Freedom in Freud
Cornell University Press, 1987, 1995
About Psycho-Analysis as History: Negation and Freedom in Freud