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American Studies Association 2026

October 22, 2026 / Chicago, IL

American Studies Association 2026

Editors Ken Wissoker, Courtney Berger, and Elizabeth Ault and Assistant Editor Ben Kossak are joining you in person in Chicago. Come find us in the exhibit hall at booth 18/19. Check out highlights of new and forthcoming American studies titles below, or browse our complete list in the field here.

Use coupon code ASA26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through November 19, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from Mare Nostrum Group.

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Speculative Relations

Indigenous Worlding and Repair

Joseph M. Pierce

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Winner of the 2026 Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, NAISA Honorable Mention, 2026 John Hope Franklin Prize, ASA

Cover of Care at the End of the World is bright yellow. It features painting by Tommi Parrish of a human figure in orange, wearing a yellow hard hat, holding on to a burst pipe which spills water all over.
Care at the End of the World

Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

Kim, Jina B.

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Lora Romero Prize for a First Publication, ASA

Cover of The Borders of America features a red tinted photograph taken from ground level of people walking from behind with light shining through. Layered over the feet of one individual on the left is a red and yellow gradient that the title appears
The Borders of America

Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean

Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, and Eduardo Domenech, editors

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Cover of Homeplaces shows a person dressed warmly swinging an axe overhead while in the process of chopping wood. There is a building with boarded up windows and wooden housing debris laying around.
Homeplaces

Dwelling and Habitability in Critical Times

João Biehl and Federico Neiburg, editors

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Cover of Kicking by Jules Boykoff. At the top of the cover the word Practices is centered in a handwritten script. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's hand printed name is at the bottom.
Kicking

Jules Boykoff

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Cover of Puto: Plays features white fabric with two faces sketched on it in navy blue. The two faces have their eyes closed, noses touching, and tongues entangled as they kiss open mouthed.
Puto

Plays

Ricardo A. Bracho

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Cover of The Future of Totality is a solid grey teal with a photograph of Fredric Jameson standing at a lectern in front of a chalkboard that says ‘IDEOLOGY’.
The Future of Totality

Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory

Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally, editors

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Cover of Doing Nothing by James Currie. Cover is light gray. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's signature is at the bottom.
Doing Nothing

James Currie

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Cover of Toward Border Abolition shows three silhouetted figures climbing over a tall wired fence at dusk against a gradient blue sky.
Toward Border Abolition

Migrant Struggles and the Law

Nicholas De Genova and Daniel I. Morales, editors

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The cover is a coral to sage gradient with a grainy texture featuring a white fine line illustration. The illustration is abstract featuring plant-like objects and scissors.
unrest in the nebulae

Gitan Djeli

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Cover of Imperial Entanglements of Policing. The bright red cover features a black chain-link fence with a section of the wire bent and tangled on the left. The text is in white.
Imperial Entanglements of Policing

Julian Go and Stuart Schrader, editors

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Cover of Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing is white with a light pink spray-painted area at the top. Below are five hands in different art styles all reaching towards a central heart sculpture that is made from cut out hands.
Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing

Experiments in Philosophy

Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma, editors

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Cover of The Problem of Passing features a shadowed humans silhouette against a beige background with abstract line drawings composed of human hands.
The Problem of Passing

Sandra Harvey

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Enter the Lion

The 1966 State Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean

John P. Homiak, Giulia Bonacci, and Jahlani A. Niaah

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Cover of Protein is black featuring a jar at the bottom with a golden brown powder exploding from it. The powder extends from the top of the cover down to the jar. There is a measuring scoop filled with powder that rests on the bottle’s opening
Protein

The Making of a Nutritional Superstar

Samantha King and Gavin Weedon

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Cover of Climbing is a grayish purple color. At the top of the cover the word Practices is centered in a handwritten script. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's hand printed name is at the bottom.
Climbing

Hil Malatino

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Cover of Star Charting by Bess Matassa. Cover is sky blue. The main title is in the middle in the same script (a star replaces the dot in the i in "Charting") and the author's signature is at the bottom.
Star Charting

Bess Matassa

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The cover of Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom.
Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies

Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, editors

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Cover of The Gloria Wekker Reader has a sepia photograph of Gloria Wekker. The title appears to the left of Wekker's face in a cream sans-serif font. A dotted line is under the title.
The Gloria Wekker Reader

Gloria Wekker

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Cover of Melodrama as Provocateur is black with three red triangles creating a geometric design. The title is written at an upwards diagonal in a cream all lowercase sans serif font.
Melodrama as Provocateur

Linda Williams

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Agricultural History

Drew Swanson, editor

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American Literature

Priscilla Wald and Matthew Taylor, editors

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Cultural Politics

Ryan Bishop, Mark Featherstone, Eva Haifa Giraud, and Tania Roy, editors

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Demography

Hedwig (Hedy) Lee, M. Giovanna Merli, and Marcos A. Rangel, editors

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Environmental Humanities

Marianna R. Dudley and Colin Hoag, editors

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Ethnohistory

Denise I. Bossy and Robert C. Schwaller, editors

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Recent special issue: "Indigenous Responses to Disease: Ethnohistory inspired by COVID"

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Federal Sentencing Reporter

Douglas Berman, Steven Chanenson, and Jonathan J. Wroblewski, editors

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GLQ

A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Chandan Reddy and Juana Maria Rodriguez, editors

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Hispanic American Historical Review

Lauren H. Derby, Katherine M. Marino, Elizabeth O′Brien, Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, Alexandra Minna Stern, William Summerhill, and Kevin Terraciano, editors

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History of the Present

A Journal of Critical History

Joan Wallach Scott and Brian Connolly, editors

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Sarah E. Gollust, editor

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Labor

Studies in Working-Class History

Julie Greene, editor

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Cover of <I>New Political Science: A Journal of Politics &amp; Culture</I>, Volume 47, Number 1, March 2025. The background is a solid maroon color with the journal title in large, bold, light orange text aligned top-left. The subtitle and issue info
New Political Science

A Journal of Politics and Culture

Andy Scerri and Gregory P. Williams, editors

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Public Culture

Brian T. Edwards and Vyjayanthi Rao, editors

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Radical History Review

RHR Editorial Collective, editor

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South Atlantic Quarterly

Michael Hardt, editor

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Social Text

Jonathan Beller and Amber Jamilla Musser, editors

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TSQ cover with bull-like sculpture and text on trans studies in nineteenth century Americas
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

Dylan McCarthy Blackston, micha cardenás, PJ DiPietro, Cole Rizki, and Jeanne Vaccaro, editors

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