Hot off the Press
Explore six books published by Trinity faculty from September to February
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Welcome to the space dedicated to celebrating books authored, edited, or translated by Trinity University faculty. The selections for this issue were published between September 2025 and February 2026.

A book cover with the text: Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time Essays and Selected Poems Edited by Victoria Aarons, Holli Levitsky, and Hilene Flanzbaum. The cover's image is a black-and-white profile of a man.

co-edited by Victoria Aarons, Ph.D. 

English 

Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time: Essays and Selected Poems 

Academic Studies Press

A bookcover with the text: Winning It Back Restoration Presidents and the Cycle of American Politics David A. Crockett. The cover's image is an illustration of a roller coaster on a white backdrop.

David Crockett, Ph.D. 

Political Science 

Winning It Back: Restoration Presidents and the Cycle of American Politics

Cornell University Press

A book cover with the text: The Positive Intent Mindset Exceptional Leadership Through Trust and Accountability, Amer Kaissi. The cover's image is a navy blue background with a small location marker icon. The cover also has a blurb at the top that reads: "This book will change how you interpret others—and transform how you lead." Dorie Clark, executive education faculty at Columbia Business School and bestselling author of The Long Game

Amer Kaissi, Ph.D. 

Health Care Administration 

The Positive Intent Mindset: Exceptional Leadership Through Trust and Accountability 

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A book cover with the text: Artifical Fiction Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond the Human David P. Rando. The cover's image is an illustration of a bird in a tree near a brick house.

David Rando, Ph.D. 

English 

Artificial Fiction: Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond the Human 

Edinburgh University Press

Indigenous Rights to Land-RGB

Tamara Wattnem, Ph.D. 

Political Science 

Indigenous Rights to Land Versus Extractivism: The Promise and Limits of ILO Convention No. 169 in Mexico 

Cambridge University Press

A book cover with the text: Time Tunnel Eileen Chang Translated by Karen S. Kingsbury Jie Zhang. The cover's image is an abstract illustration of a collage of shapes in different shades of orange and purple.

co-translated by Jie Zhang, Ph.D. 

Modern Languages and Literatures 

Time Tunnel: Stories and Essays by Eileen Chang 

New York Review Books

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